Delivery Architecture Challenges

When delivering SaaS, you don’t want to be technologically tied into a particular platform or hardware. You need to enforce Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and that requires guaranteeing 100% uptime and monitoring client consumption. Your applications also have to be safe and secure from unauthorized users.

There are many Delivery Architecture issues that must be addressed in the SaaS model, including:

• Hosting the application

• Providing 100% uptime to customers

• Ensuring data security

The Wrapped Apps Service Delivery Platform (SDP):

• is platform independent, giving you the option of running Windows or Linux

• supports all standard load balancers, giving you the flexibility to choose the appropriate model for any given hosting situation

• is highly adept at SLA enforcement, allocating resources and safeguarding against system resource exhaustion, while metering client consumption of infrastructure, and providing alerts and notifications as required

• provides arbitrary scaling, so that servers can be added “on the fly” as required to meet growing market demand

• has distributed architecture, with graceful recovery from hardware or software failure without service interruption

• protects the Intellectual Property (IP) through access policies, user authentication, role-based administration and subscription and resource usage monitoring

The huge growth in Internet use has produced a sophisticated and mature hosting industry. Although the Wrapped Apps® Service Delivery Platform can help you address many of the Delivery challenges, you can also draw support from our value-add SaaS channel partners that have complete hosting solutions available.

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