SaaS
SaaS Offers New Model for the Software Industry
As landscape of the global marketplace continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the software industry that supports it is evolving as well. While the development of the Web and Internet gave rise to the ASP as a new model for software sales, the development of service oriented architecture (SOA) is today helping to pave the way for a new industry paradigm: Software as a Service (SaaS). This new approach to software development and sales allows organizations to migrate software from Host and Client/Server-based architecture to an SOA deployment in order to take advantage of the benefits of the highly efficient Internet and Web-based software delivery methods. Instead of creating software products that customers must install themselves, or hosting applications for a monthly service fee, software providers can now create software-powered services and applications for customers to use. SaaS providers deliver services at specific performance levels and are compensated via a service contract instead of a product sale. Popularity of SaaS is growing quickly – sales from are expected to reach $10 billion by 2009. For the tools and platform to effectively build SaaS products, leading software providers everywhere are turning to Progress Software.
Progress Software Provides SaaS Enablement
Progress Software understood the value and potential of the SaaS model early in its development, and has established highly successful SaaS offerings. Progress offers both the technology necessary to develop SaaS offerings as well as the partner relationships that make it easy and profitable to do so. Progress OpenEdge is one of the leading development platforms for creating applications that are service-oriented, standards-based and that need minimal administration. The Progress Service Provider License Agreement gives organizations access to a full range of Progress-based products and services, enabling software providers to easily create, deploy, integrate and manage SaaS-based products. And Progress Business Empowerment and Technical Empowerment programs provide the assistance software providers require to increase sales, speed time to market and transform applications.
Progress Delivers Key SaaS Advantages
Highly efficient data management combined with deployment flexibility and remarkable scalability have made Progress Software a leading choice for SaaS providers. Progress today has more than 150 application partners who are using the Progress platform to deploy more than 700 SaaS offerings to customers around the world. For nearly four years now, Progress OpenEdge has been one of the most reliable and cost-efficient platforms for building and deploying Software as a Service offerings.