Building a SaaS App? Apprenda Can Save You Significant Time and Money

Moving to a true software as a service (SaaS) model is an extremely difficult, costly, and time consuming task. So much so that leading SaaS organizations around the globe have individually invested man years of time and millions of dollars in building robust SaaS platforms from the ground up. Become a SaaS provider means that you are moving from a packaged software model, a “product organization” to a “service organization.” Everything from how efficient and scalable your software is to how fundamental workflows such as billing and customer provisioning need to change or be implemented for the first time. This is no easy task and would normally require that you take on a myriad of new competencies.

Luckily, you don’t need to take on the investment and risk that today’s SaaS success stories took on by building SaaS from the ground up. Our Apprenda ISV Solution adds ISV specific capabilities to Apprenda’s standard private PaaS functionality, fine-tuning our offering around operating challenges associated with the SaaS model. Apprenda is a technology created by a team of SaaS architecture experts. As an application server, software delivery fabric, and framework, Apprenda trivializes building SaaS applications by leveraging your expertise and IP in Microsoft’s .NET, SQL Server, ASP.NET & Silverlight.

Deployable on-premises or in the cloud, Apprenda stitches together any number of Windows Server, SQL Server, and IIS instances into a single SaaS platform instance for your .NET web and SOA applications. Your applications live as guests on Apprenda and inherit the standard private PaaS architecture functionality like multi-tenancy, scale-out, release management, and high availability out of the box. Additionally, your applications are seamlessly integrated into ISV specific features that make your transition to an on-demand model as simple as possible. In addition to Apprenda’s normal features, our ISV solution offers:

• Application Multi-tenancy – Apprenda provides your application with true multi-tenancy at all application tiers even though your app wasn’t written to be multi-tenant. This means you can acheive the ultimate in cost efficient delivery without investing the time and money that has cost other companies six or even seven figures to achieve.
• Product Management – One of the pinnacles of SaaS is being able to offer your customers highly customized versions of your product based on what they pay, even if your application is multi-tenant. This means that each customer gets a unique experience including your base product, and any ala carte functionality they elected to buy. The question is, how do you build a product this way? The Apprenda API allows you to quickly define monetizable functionality, and then peice functionality into custom product tiers and pricing packages through a point and click portal that requires no coding.
• Billing & Usage Metering - Signing on new customers is important, but tracking their usage of your app and your apps functionality is critical to properly charging them. Once you know what to charge them, you need to collect their money (either by credit card, bank account transfer, or traditional check). The workflows and components necessary to orchestrate this are vast. Apprenda provides APIs and portals to automatically link your application into usage metering services that are coupled to Apprenda billing capabilities. Once on Apprenda, you need not worry about building out any billing or usage metering capabilities whatsoever.

Is your product and business up to snuff? Can you grow and scale to the level of success you hope for? Can you deliver cost effectively? Can you do all of this without spending thousands of man hours and a seven figure investment to become a SaaS player? We’re here to help you answer all of those questions with yes! Learn about Apprenda’s key benefits below.