on-premise application

Definitions

Software that is installed and run on computers on the premises of the person or organization using the software, rather than at a remote facility such as a server farm or cloud.

A computing model where applications are hosted locally on an organization's own physical servers and managed by their internal IT staff.

Examples

The company decided to migrate its legacy on-premise application to a cloud-based infrastructure to improve scalability.

Security protocols require that the sensitive financial data remains within the internal on-premise application.

Maintaining an on-premise application requires a dedicated IT team to handle hardware updates and server maintenance.

Synonyms

on-premises software local installation in-house application self-hosted software private server application on-site software legacy system

Antonyms

cloud-based application SaaS software as a service web-based application hosted application cloud-native software off-premise solution