Workflows
Begin with the tasks your team and customers depend on.
DENTAL IT · A COST-CONSCIOUS CLOUD OPTION
Managed Open Dental Cloud for DSOs
Keep the Open Dental workflows your teams know and explore a lower-cost path to managed cloud hosting—with a private environment designed around your DSO, locations, and remote teams.
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BUILT AROUND YOUR WORK
Technology follows the way your business works.
Connect the everyday experience with the applications, locations and people behind it.
Connections
Map the applications, devices and locations involved.
Ownership
Agree who supports the systems and coordinates changes.
Your starting point · scope and responsibilities
MAKE THE NEXT DECISION CLEARER
Compare the complete operating arrangement.
A managed Open Dental environment should fit your locations, supported clinical workflows and responsibilities—not just a monthly infrastructure figure.
Confirm fit
Review application and hosting permissions, licensing, imaging connections, printing and vendor responsibilities.
Pilot before rollout
Test representative scheduling, billing, imaging and access from the locations that will use the environment.
Compare total scope
Include implementation, support, infrastructure, recovery and provider responsibilities. Measured performance depends on region, connectivity and application behavior.
START WITH THE BUSINESS NEED
Make the technology work for your people.
A growing dental group needs consistent access across practices without multiplying server administration at every site. Network Experts offers a managed cloud implementation designed to control recurring cost while accounting for clinical workflows, imaging, integrations, recovery, and the people who support the environment.
A cost model built for your group
Compare a right-sized managed environment with your current operating costs and vendor-hosted options. Separate implementation, hosting, software licenses, protection, and support so the proposal is easy to evaluate.
Connected practices and remote teams
Give authorized staff a consistent way to reach the environment from approved offices and remote locations, with access controls and connectivity requirements defined in advance.
Performance designed around real workflows
Keep application sessions and database traffic close together where appropriate, then test scheduling, charting, reporting, imaging, and printing from representative locations.
WHAT WE CAN HELP WITH
Practical capabilities. Defined responsibilities.
DSO architecture and workload sizing
Review practice count, concurrent users, database organization, Clinics workflows, imaging storage, and existing integrations. Size a private managed hosting environment to the group’s needs and document growth assumptions, ownership, and support responsibilities.
Open Dental access design
Evaluate supported Open Dental connection patterns, including Middle Tier and remote-session approaches. Confirm the selected software versions, vendor guidance, Windows or remote-access licensing, and integrations before implementation. Keep database and administrative access private.
Location-aware and international access
Assess authorized users across offices, headquarters, and international remote teams. Choose hosting location and session placement around measured connectivity and application dependencies, apply secure access controls, and pilot representative locations. Latency varies with geography, internet quality, and workflow.
Clinical devices, imaging, and integrations
Test imaging bridges, sensors, document scanning, printing, payments, claims, and other required integrations with the relevant vendors. Confirm what must stay local and what can run in the hosted environment before committing to a migration.
Protection, recovery, and ongoing operations
Plan backup, recovery testing, access reviews, monitoring, patching, maintenance windows, and escalation. Document data location and the contractual responsibilities for handling practice information, with recovery objectives agreed for the actual workload.
A transparent monthly-cost comparison
Prepare a like-for-like proposal alongside options such as Open Dental Cloud and Dentrix Ascend. Compare included functions, licenses, integrations, implementation, storage, backup, support, contract terms, and growth. The aim is a lower recurring cost where the scoped comparison supports it; final savings depend on your requirements and current quotes.
FROM DISCOVERY TO DELIVERY
A considered path forward.
Review the group
Map locations, users, databases, workflows, vendor dependencies, current costs, and the outcomes the DSO needs.
Design and price the options
Define the hosting, access, licensing, protection, support, and migration scope, with a clear recurring-cost comparison.
Pilot the clinical workday
Test representative offices and remote users, including imaging, printing, reports, and recovery. Resolve compatibility or performance gaps before rollout.
Migrate and manage
Agree the cutover and data-validation plan, train users, and operate the environment against the approved service responsibilities.
Know what success means.
Before work begins, agree on the scope, responsible owners, acceptance criteria, and handover requirements. We’ll discuss the evidence and documentation relevant to your project during discovery.
TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEXT
Fit the platform to the work.
Platform selection depends on your existing environment, licensing, device and application compatibility, and the agreed scope.
Explore our technology ecosystemA FEW USEFUL ANSWERS
Before we get started.
Is this the Open Dental Cloud product sold by Open Dental?
This is a Network Experts managed hosting and implementation offering for Open Dental. Open Dental’s own hosted Cloud product is a separate option. We confirm application support, licensing, and the selected deployment method with the relevant providers instead of presenting the services as interchangeable.
Will it cost less than Open Dental Cloud or Dentrix Ascend?
The offer is designed to provide a lower-cost managed-cloud option for suitable DSOs. We validate that goal with current quotes and a complete comparison of software, hosting, integrations, protection, implementation, and support. A lower price cannot be promised for every group or configuration.
Can our team use it from different countries?
Authorized international access can be part of the design, subject to connectivity, location policies, applicable agreements, and approved data handling. We select a hosting and access arrangement and test from representative locations. We do not promise identical or lowest-possible latency everywhere.
Will dental sensors, imaging, and printing work through the cloud?
Compatibility needs a practical test. Some components rely on local drivers, peripherals, or vendor-specific bridges. We map those dependencies and pilot the actual imaging, scanning, printing, and clinical workflows before deciding how each component connects to the hosted environment.
What happens if a practice loses internet access?
Remote use depends on connectivity. We assess an appropriate secondary connection and document the interruption procedure for the practice. Hosting resilience does not eliminate a local internet outage, and any offline workflow must be separately supported, approved, and tested.
CONNECTED SERVICES
See the wider picture.
LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS
Bring your next step into focus.
Tell us what needs to work better. We’ll start with your business priorities.