Business Architecture Challenges
Online applications aren't new. Banks have provided online banking software for years, and Hotmail hosted email has been commercially available since 1996.
SaaS spans a wide range of business models. Many consumer implementations like MySpace and Flickr are free to consumers or supported by advertising, while business deployments are often subscription-based; including pay-per-use, concurrent user, sectional, and trial.
Regardless of your market, your success depends on offering applications in a different ways and in a variety locations, and the
Wrapped Apps Service Delivery Platform (
SDP) supports virtually any business model. You want your applications to be customizable, brand-able, on different websites, within a GUI console, or using a client-driven interface. You must extend your applications to distributed channels, and effectively manage billing and payments.
The Wrapped App Service Delivery Platform (SDP):
- enables users to easily define and manage service contracts, and define access policies
- enables customers to easily add and remove subscribers, suspend and renew subscriber accounts, edit subscriber configuration data, and update account policies
- has standard service oriented architecture (SOA) interfaces into any third-party system; facilitating consumer implementations such as eCommerce, back office systems, and custom administration interfaces
- provides seamless and transparent access to the end user; who does not require any knowledge of the underlying technology
- is fully channel aware; easily tracking and reporting on channel sales
Although the
Wrapped Apps Service Delivery Platform (
SDP) can help you address many of the Business challenges, you can draw support from a variety of experienced companies offering value-added services in the SaaS market.
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