The Platform for Your Next On-Demand Application
SAASGRID TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW
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As enterprise end users increasingly look to on-demand software as a key time and money saver, the burden of
delivering software as a service (SaaS) falls squarely on the shoulders of you, the software vendor.
New non-strategic hosting requirements and revenue model shifts constitute a huge addition to your core competency
of building and selling competitive enterprise software. Technologically, providing SaaS requires functionality such
as multi-tenancy, data partitioning, usage metering, contract and subscriptions management, service provisioning,
hosting infrastructure, security, revenue collection, and more. These requirements introduce technological
and business hurdles that every software vendor must overcome in the evolving software as a service landscape. There's no
doubt, enterprise software users want application on-demand.
Apprenda's SaaSGrid flattens these hurdles. If you're building an
on-demand business application, using SaaSGrid as your foundation will
help you build quickly and inexpensively, ensuring that your customers can access your application's
value sooner rather than later. Furthermore, you’ll then be able to deploy your SaaSGrid application to
SaaSGrid itself, which provides a safe and robust virtual application container and hosting environment for your
delivery needs. SaaSGrid's comprehensiveness ensures that your business and revenue approach will be able to flex
and grow with changing market demands.
SaaSGrid is a starting point for software vendors that includes the necessary mission critical components required of SaaS applications.
A Technological Foundation That Lets Your Business Do The Driving
Because SaaSGrid is built upon industry standard technologies that have been around
for years, there's no notion of proprietary language lock in. You can deploy a new, or port an existing, single tenant service-oriented
application as a scalable, secure, multi-tenant SaaS application with minimal effort. If business dictates, you can continue to
sell a single-tenant application to customers who prefer an on-premise installation using the same codebase.
A Solid Monetization Framework
Your business teams can sell your applications exactly how they want, without being
explicitly tied to the code written by your developers. SaaSGrid includes a web portal that gives your business and marketing
teams the subscription and contract management tools necessary to shape your revenue model and be innovative when monetizing your
services. Once an application is deployed, metadata is constructed through a user-friendly interface and is used to define the terms
of how your application is sold including subscription terms, feature costs, and feature bundling, really leaving the derivation of
configurations for selling your application up to you.
Valuable added APIs and Web Services
SaaSGrid itself is service-oriented. As such it offers common services that you might want to (but don't have to) tap into when engineering
your application. Available services include:
- Task Scheduling
- Event Monitoring and Notifications
- Application Logging
- Access and Role Management
- File Storage
- Application and Service Health Monitoring
- Email Service
All of these valuable services are provided as customer aware, multi-tenant component services of SaaSGrid.