Cloud Computing / SaaS for Partners
A Revolutionary Way to Deliver Value to Your Customers
Progress recognized early on the value and power of the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model and created what is now one of the industry's longest-running SaaS Enablement Partner Programs. One of the key foundations of this new market and method of deploying applications is the service-oriented approach to automating/delivering business processes, thus aligning the basic principles of service delivery with the application architecture.
With the SaaS business model, you can reduce costs, enter new markets as well as launch and run a future-oriented SaaS business in the cloud. Progress offers leading-edge infrastructure technologies, resources, technical enablement, and marketing support to grow your business. Through the Progress Cloud/SaaS Partner Program application partners considering a move to a SaaS delivery model can do so with the tools, the knowledge, and the peace of mind knowing that they are going in with a plan for success.
Cloud / SaaS Enablement
Experience has shown that success with a Software as a Service (SaaS) offering is linked to a thorough understanding and use of fundamental planning techniques covering three critical areas: business planning, market analysis, and technical and application architecture planning. Those areas represent the primary focus of the Progress Cloud Enablement program for application partners considering a SaaS offering for their business.
Developing a Cloud/SaaS Offering
A traditional software vendor is primarily concerned with application functionality and their customers are responsible for operating and managing the respective environments in which they run the software. A cloud vendor, on the other hand, is equally concerned with operating and managing the environment that supports all their customers.
Business and Marketing Empowerment
SaaS Business Empowerment programs are designed to help Progress’ SaaS partners focus on the early-stage fundamentals of market strategy and planning before significant efforts and monies are spent re-architecting applications, building data centers, hiring support staff when deploying in the cloud.
Technical Empowerment
SaaS Technical Empowerment programs are meant to help Progress’ SaaS partners begin to understand what they need to consider before undertaking the effort of potentially re-architecting and then deploying their application in the cloud.
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