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Architect Your Cloud/SaaS Offering to Provide Maximum Value

Once a solid business plan has been developed and a commitment to developing or re-architecting a traditional business application in support of a SaaS offering has been made, it’s time to make some decisions about how to move forward.

Options for deploying software solutions is emerging and evolving. 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 helpful to develop an architectural model that encompasses all of the issues a Cloud-based offering may need to address.

Faster implementations, automatic upgrades, increased software flexibility, and higher customer responsiveness all are needed to increase the 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 upon which to build, deploy and manage a Cloud-based offering.

Progress allows for innovation while preserving existing investments

Progress offers one of the leading Cloud platforms for the development and deployment of SaaS business applications, for the following reasons:

• Progress’ OpenEdge Cloud 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 has the leading Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) in the marketplace, and the SONIC ESB is exploited as part of the OpenEdge  Cloud platform, to address the process integration issues surrounding SaaS deployments.
• Progress Actional provides the business visibility needed for SaaS and Business Service Providers to guarantee complete end-to-end business transaction assurance.

The OpenEdge Cloud 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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