Hello, we're SaaS visionaries. Here's our story.
Apprenda is the creator of SaaSGrid – the next generation application server purpose-built to solve the architecture, business and operational complexities of delivering software as a service in the cloud. SaaSGrid is truly a new category of platform technology to power SaaS applications in the cloud era. As a new breed of cloud middleware, SaaSGrid is enabling the next generation of applications to embrace and leverage the full power of cloud computing, multi-tenant SaaS architecture and highly efficient grid execution to deliver business critical applications at web scale.
Apprenda was founded by a team of software engineers frustrated with reinventing the wheel after working on a series of projects that took existing on-premises software applications to the SaaS model. They realized that the bulk of their effort was focused on complex tasks un-related to the actual applications functionality or business value, but absolutely critical to the ongoing cost of providing access to the software as a service. These platform issues such as multi-tenancy (for sharing a single instance of the codebase and a single database across multiple clients and many end users); user and role management; metering and billing capabilities; and scaling properties occupied 60%+ of the development time and up to 80% of the codebase.
The founding Apprendans decided to abstract away all of these platform issues by creating a middleware technology that would allow developers to focus on UI and business logic rather than lower level platform issues. This vector of innovation is fundamentally a continuation of the improvements made to software development achieved by the introduction of the operating system for desktop applications and the application server for web applications. SaaSGrid is the modern abstraction layer for SaaS applications in the cloud era.
Today, Apprenda is a fast growing startup company leading the charge in enabling ISV’s and enterprises to embrace the SaaS delivery paradigm and the benefits of cloud infrastructure. Apprenda has raised more than $6.5M in venture capital from early stage investment fund High Peaks Venture Partners and the world’s largest venture fund New Enterprise Associates (NEA), who has funded companies such as SalesForce.com, WebEx and XenSource.
To find out what all the excitement is about, take a closer look at Apprenda’s SaaSGrid today.
