SaaS Solutions from IWD

Consider these scenarios:

• Your current software application demands take up time, money and resources in maintenance, upgrades, staff training and infrastructure overheads

• You have a great application that you currently sell and deploy for individual clients, but want to reach a bigger an a broader audience

• Your company is finding it difficult to maintain and cope with legacy software applications. Integration with latest tools is not easy

• You have a great business concept that you'd like to develop as a SAAS / On demand solution

Earlier considered to be a tool used by large enterprises, SAAS (Software as a service) today as revolutionized how businesses of all sizes view and use IT.

So how does SaaS (Software as a service) solutions and services come in to help your business? Also popularly known as on-demand services / solution, from an application-software-specific perspective, SaaS is a unique business model, which allows for the delivery of software functionality without the end user having to pay exorbitant license fees, absorb implementation and support costs and deal with the challenge of an IT budgeting process.

In the purest form of SaaS, users do not need any software installed on a PC except for a Web browser – the browser becomes the vehicle for delivering the function to end users.

With the growth of web 2.0 services and websites, SAAS has taken more importance for companies to adopt this concept. IWD recognizes this need and helps business develop, integrate and deploy SAAS / On – demand solutions.

Benefits of SaaS services for small businesses

Small businesses, especially application providers, often face huge incremental development and maintenance costs. The same goes with organizations operating several different applications. If you are planning to develop a SAAS solution to sell it to a market or adopt it for your own business, there are some direct benefits that you can't miss:

1. No investments need to be made for infrastructure, systems or personnel
   With only a little training, you need to only use your web browser to access the application you need. You don't to install anything on your computer systems. This benefit alone is being used by many SaaS providers as a marketing / selling ploy. Your potential customers or your organization can quickly start the SaaS service as opposed to a traditional web application
   
   
2. Avoid paying exorbitant licensing and maintenance fees.
   One of the biggest cost advantages with on demand applications is that you don't have to pay huge license / ownership fees associated with conventional software / web applications. The pricing is usually on a ‘pay-as-you-use basis', with monthly and quarterly billings.
   
   
3. Upgrades to a SAAS based solution are seamless for end users.
   Unlike on premise software applications where updates have to happen at the place where the application is deployed, in an on-demand application, the upgrade happens only at the server where the SAAS solution is installed. This is useful and cost effective when you have thousands of users using your service.
   
   
4. Shorter Time to implement a SAAS service.
   Based on the nature an scope of the SAAS solution, the time to install, implement and get it to the market is short compared to traditional applications. When you apply this in a ‘many-customer' scenario, the cost savings of implementing a SAAS application is manifold.

Custom SAAS development solutions and services by IWD

Whether you are envisioning a SAAS solution as an extension to your existing services or are planning to web-enable your legacy applications, we can work with you through the analysis, design, development, testing and deployment phases of the SAAS application development lifecycle.

How can IWD help you in SAAS application development?

SAAS application development:

If you are looking to develop a SAAS solution from ground-up or planning to partner with an IT solutions company to assist in your development, here's how we can help:

•  SaaS Consulting: Laying the foundation of a robust architecture for successful SaaS application that is scalable, multi-tenant and configurable to achieve the economy of scale you are aiming by transitioning to SaaS.

•  SaaS Application analysis, prototyping and design: The initial phase of development involves an analysis of the business idea / solution to assess its pros and cons. Later a high level analysis is conducted to come up with business rules and flows that will set the foundation for development. A high level prototype is also created to help you visualize the application – this also acts as a tool to exchange features and business rules that the application needs to have.

•  User Experience / User Interface Design: Employing the best practices for developing a web application, our team will work with you to build visually rich, intuitive SaaS application. We support and employ UI frameworks such as Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flex and ASP.NET Ajax.

•  Development: We adopt conventional as well Agile Methodologies in a distributed environment, thus reduce your time-to-market and shorten release cycles to enhance the value you deliver to your customers.

•  Testing: Our software test engineers prepare several test cases and test the application on a variety of parameters such as performance, security and user experience

SAAS Integration solutions :

SOA Integration: Integrating your SaaS application with your customers' other on-premise and SaaS applications is always a challenge because they reside across the firewall. We have strong capabilities in building Web services-based integration solution to overcome this challenge.

•  Integrating various in house applications into a centralized system online mash up.

•  Integration with third party external web applications using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and Application programming interfaces (API)

What are the technologies you've worked with?

Our core technical strength is Microsoft.NET. However our software development team has a blend of passionate programmers, business analysts, project managers, designers and quality analysts. All our custom web and software development projects are developed using industry standard tools and are validated and tested for browser compatibility. Any custom web application we develop is guaranteed to work with your existing systems.

Here's a list of the technologies that we are good at:

How can I engage with IWD for developing my SAAS solution?

You can either opt to outsource on project basis or you can hire a dedicated team of coders and programmers who will work exclusively on your project.

Hiring a dedicated team of coders would be a good option:

• You have a small project which requires only the skills of a specific type of employees
• If you are planning to outsource a part of your project
• If your project requires constant maintenance and enhancement
• If your project requirements are constantly changing
• If your project demands quick response time
• If you require to develop a core team with a deep insight on your project

Project outsourcing would be a good option:

• If you have a huge project
• If your project needs the skills of a lot of people like coders, programmers, designers, database experts etc
• If you do not have the time for outsourcing project management and want the outsourcing vendor to take the responsibility
• If the prospects of your project is long term

Outsource SAAS solutions development to IWD

Developing any IT application, more so with a SAAS solution requires not just technical expertise but an acute understanding of the business model and objectives. IWD works on this premise and has built successful relationships since 1999.

Contact us today to assist with your SAAS development needs

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