A Turnkey User System for Your Service
Two things can be guaranteed to be native concepts to virtually any SaaS application: customer organizations and users that belong to those organizations. This makes the notion of a 'user' mission critical to a SaaS application. Users represent the finest grain of login credential to a SaaS application, and are also used as meta-data in SaaS applications. Despite being necessary and mission critical, however, a complete user system is not normally of strategic value to your software company and efforts to create one end up prolonging time to market, increasing project costs, and making maintenance more difficult.
The concept of a user is native to the SaaSGrid SaaS platform. As customers sign up for your SaaS application by purchasing subscriptions, they assign those subscriptions to users so that those users can get access to the application. Rather than requiring your application to supply user entities, customers create users at the platform level and grant access and authorization to your application via SaaSGrid. SaaSGrid's authentication gateway is automatically placed in front of your application (at both user interface and web service levels), which ties in to the centralized user system and provides controlled access to all parts of your offering. This centralized user management provides massive value. More importantly, as you expand your product portfolio and add other SaaS offerings, your existing customers already have accounts with a fully defined user base that your new application can tap into, delivering more value to you, and more importantly delivering more value to your customers.
By delegating user needs to SaaSGrid, you can save significant time in getting to market and reduce a huge number of ongoing maintenance problems.
