SaaS Platform

Architect Your SaaS Offering to Provide Maximum Value

Once you have developed a solid business plan committed to developing or re-architecting a traditional business application in support of a SaaS, it’s time for you to make some decisions about how to move forward.

As corporations continue to expand their acceptance of these solutions, as existing software vendors seek to take advantage of this model, and as more new SaaS vendors emerge, it is advantageous for you to develop an architectural model that accounts for all of the issues that your SaaS offering may encounter.

Faster implementations, automatic upgrades, increased software flexibility, and higher customer responsiveness all are essential elements for increasing your software's value. These change the application software cost/benefit equation and enhances the customer ownership experience for the better.

Progress Software's product portfolio is the ideal foundation for you to build, deploy and manage your SaaS offering.

Innovate While Preserving Existing Investments 

Progress offers one of the leading SaaS platforms for the development and deployment of SaaS business applications. Here are some things that make it a truly innovative platform:

  • The Progress OpenEdge SaaS Platform has the fastest path for developing reliable, high performance SaaS business applications.
  • With our efficient data management products, Progress delivers the high availability and scalability demanded by SaaS business applications.
  • As business and application needs become more complex, User Interface flexibility and scalability grow in importance; Progress-based SaaS applications can be delivered via any user interface, including Web browsers, mobile devices, thin-client technologies, and other interface options, such as Java, .NET, and Web services.
  • Progress offers robust and cost-effective application/data management and administration tools.
  • Progress offers the leading enterprise service bus (ESB) in the marketplace, Sonic ESB, which is exploited as part of the OpenEdge SaaS platform to address the process integration needs surrounding SaaS deployments.
  • Progress Actional provides the business visibility that SaaS and business service providers need to guarantee complete end-to-end business transaction assurance.


The OpenEdge SaaS Platform Delivers:

  • Superior development productivity – 73% reduction in TCO
  • Cost-effective operation & management – 40% less expensive
  • Service-oriented architecture – Leading in the industry
  • Deployment flexibility - Write once, deploy anywhere
  • Comprehensive enablement programs – Award winning program

 

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SaaS Marketing Metrics Workbook

Download SaaS Marketing Metrics WorkbookThis workbook is designed to help SaaS companies use three critical types of metrics and offers guidance to assess how your company’s performance compares with industry standards. Download the .zip to access both the workbook and sample spreadsheet templates.

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Forrester Consulting found that developing with OpenEdge yielded 40% more productivity and 30% faster delivery!

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