Cloud Computing/SaaS Resources
To help you become a successful player in this fast growing business opportunity and launch and run a future-oriented SaaS business in addition to your existing business model, Progress provides a wealth of cloud computing and SaaS resources to support and meet customer needs, grow and sustain a profitable business, and achieve long-term business goals.
As part of the Progress cloud community, we provide you with the following resources to help develop, deliver, and market your solutions.
On-demand Lean Manufacturing: A Whitepaper by The Technology Evaluation Centers
Read this new whitepaper from David Bourque and Sherry Fox of The Technical Evaluation Center that talks about how QAD and Progress are working together to deliver new on-demand, SaaS-based SOA capabilities to mid-sized manufactureres around the world.
Progress Empowering Software as a Service
This whitepaper provides general information on the delivery of Progress-based business applications, as a service. The target audience is ISVs and Application Partners (APs) that are developing, or have developed, an application that is to be delivered as a service.
SaaS Application Tenancy
The concept of ?multi-tenancy? is very often the first thing that is discussed as part of the architectural considerations for SaaS.
SaaS Architecture
Overview of architectural elements to be considered before moving an existing application to SaaS or before developing a new Saas-deployed application.
SaaS Billing & Metering
One of the major differences between a traditional software vendor and a SaaS provider is that the SaaS provider needs to be able to measure the usage of the service, so that they can charge the customer according the to agreed upon subscription service fee. This paper highlights areas to consider when architecting for SaaS Billing capabilities.
SaaS Integration
A SaaS provider is required to provide a full service offering to their customers and because an organization using their service may not have an IT staff, it will be incumbent upon the SaaS provider to offer the necessary APIs and potentially even an integration platform to ensure end to end business processing capabilities. Integration has many varying degrees of implementation and this paper will outline the alternatives to consider, when architecting for SaaS.
SaaS Provisioning
A major difference between traditional on premise software and SaaS deployments is the ability to provision users to gain access to the service. Unlike traditional software providers, a service provider must be able to allow for the users to be given access to different services based on their subscription terms. This paper will discuss the key areas that supporting this ability.
SaaS Scalability
The fundamental SaaS concept of a single application instance supporting multiple tenants calls for scalability. This topic will be discussed in this paper as it applies to each of the tiers of the architecture as they each lend themselves to different approaches.
SaaS Security
One of the most critical elements of delivering a service is to have the necessary security associated with the access to the application as well as the ability to manage the users? identity.
SaaS Usability & Personalization
Under the SaaS model there will potentially be many different customers all accessing the same software. In order to provide for their own custom? look and feel?, the SaaS architecture must accommodate for the ability to personalize the application.
SaaS User Interface
The user interface is one of the most important elements to consider when developing a SaaS application.
SaaS On Demand Delivery - The Right Solution for a Challenging Economy
Recently, Progress conducted an online, global Empowerment Webinar entitled: SaaS On Demand Delivery - The Right Solution for a Challenging Economy. More than 150 Partners from around the world participated in the Live Webinar that featured Colleen Smith -- a noted SaaS speaker and Director of the SaaS Program at Progress Software.
New Empowerment Webinar Archive: Building a Compelling SaaS Story for Your Prospects
This webinar, presented by Colleen Smith, Director of SaaS at Progress, will update you on the latest trends and evolutions in the SaaS market and help you to develop a strategy to launch your SaaS offering into a new or existing market. This session has been designed to help you achieve your objectives by determining the key elements and critical path involved in such growth.
Billing Before Beta - Monetizing Your Offering
SaaS applications have unique billing requirements that exceed the scope of most traditional billing solutions. Careful planning is required to successfully manage subscriptions, payments and billing processes of the recurring business model. View this webinar to learn what the key issues are for SaaS billing,to find out what works and why and to see a demonstration.
Pricing Your SaaS Offering
Pricing has always been a concern for Software providers, view this webinar to learn how to price your SaaS offering.
Virtual Appliance-based SaaS Deployment Model: Is It Right for Your Business?
The webinar discusses how you can easily expand your application deployment options to help you achieve new market opportunities. You will hear how Progress Software partner QAD recently expanded its offerings to include: On Premise, On Appliance and On Demand to its product roadmap to simplify deployment and maintenance for its customers.
Profile of Progress' SaaS Enablement Offering
As companies of all sizes become more comfortable with the idea of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), a growing number of independent software vendors (ISVs) are attempting to enter the SaaS market. For these companies, speed to market and a building a scalable solution are key.
Software as a Service (SaaS) Data Sheet
This document is the first SaaS data sheet, and outlines the areas of impact to the business, and resources offered by Progress to our Application Partners to help best understand the implications of their transition to a SaaS model, and to go in with a solid plan for success.
A Chat with Revevol's Louis Naugès and Laurent Gasser on European SaaS Adoption
While Saugatuck’s general experience is that European adoption of SaaS lags the US by 18-24 months on average – with significant variations by country and industry – they have recently learned that a select group of large enterprises in France may be in the vanguard of adopting and deploying next-generation Web 2.0 office applications from vendors such as Google.
IT Disruptors Bring Management Challenges and Opportunities
User IT organizations are simultaneously being driven to reduce costs and to support increasingly dynamic and agile business processes. As a result, IT organizations are increasingly adopting one or more fundamental changes such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source software, and a virtualized or Utility Computing infrastructure.
OpSource - The SaaS Delivery Experts
OpSource is one of Progress' premier SaaS Delivery partners. They are the SaaS delivery experts, this is an overview brochure that talks about their service delivery offering.
Technical Concerns: Does SaaS Involve Reengineering Your Traditional Applications?Presented By Colleen Smith Progress Software kicks off a three part Q&A podcast series with Colleen Smith, SaaS expert, to address the most frequently asked questions by our application partners as they consider moving their software applications to an On Demand SaaS offering. |
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SaaS vs Traditional On-Premise ImplementationsPresented By Colleen Smith Progress Software kicks off a three part Q&A podcast series with Colleen Smith, SaaS expert, to address the most frequently asked questions by our application partners as they consider moving their software applications to an On Demand SaaS offering. |
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ISVs Winning with SaaSPresented By Colleen Smith Opportunities abound for independent software vendors (ISVs) that comprise what some term "The Long Tail" of the industry. Colleen Smith discusses trends and best practices for Software as a Service (SaaS) with Interarbor Solutions' president and principal analyst Dana Gardner. |
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SaaS Heads Toward Vertical Business NetworksPresented By Colleen Smith Colleen Smith, Vice President of SaaS for Progress Software, recently joined Krissi Danielsson for a discussion on the SaaS trend for vertical business networks. |
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