Developing a Cloud / SaaS Offering
Architect Your 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.
The SaaS approach to 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 SaaS 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 SaaS offering.
Explore the Shared Risk–Shared Reward Cost Model
Something you won’t find offered by any other infrastructure software company is Progress’ unique approach to helping SaaS partners use the technology to build business applications for delivery as a service.
We understand that the ultimate buyer or consumer of a SaaS offering will expect to pay for the service as they use it, and not in the form of a large, upfront license fee and ongoing annual maintenance payments. The shared-risk, shared-reward approach pioneered by Progress allows our partners to acquire the software to develop, deploy, integrate, manage and sell a SaaS offering without a large upfront cost to them.
Furthermore, since SaaS offerings deliver value differently from one offering to another, Progress’ pricing model adapts to each offering. Progress and partners work together to define the metric that best measures the value delivered by their offering and base our price on the actual value to the customers.
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