Rapid and Economic Software Development and Delivery for SMEs

The current challenging business environment demands much of organizations. Businesses need to turn out their best in order to merely survive the downturn. IT will be called not just to cut costs, but also enable innovation, and support constantly changing business models to address the dynamic nature of the environment today.

This is a good time for CIOs to look at economic, user-friendly and viable models. SaaS is not new, but SaaS has evolved. Better SLAs, service and access options are available today. SaaS is not limited to being a primary option for the SMB market space. Enterprises today are looking around for ‘behind the firewall’ SaaS deployments. This “hybrid SaaS” model provides best of both worlds, security of an in-house implementation with the costing of a SaaS model.


WHAT DO CIOS NEED TODAY?
Applications that can be built on-demand: SaaS applications are already installed and have a “ready to go” software and hardware environment. All the subscriber has to do is to customize a bit, register the users and start using the application. This is an order of magnitude saving in time over traditional software life cycle. Smart CIOs have been leveraging this to bring in agility.


Lean teams: SaaS platforms make application rollout simple. Business Analysts who collaborate with designers and developers can themselves envision the customization required on the sourced template and implement it .User-designer-developer roles blur, eliminating “pure programmers”.

Code Free customization: SaaS customization is largely code free. Not writing - or touching existing - code reduces dependence on coders and also lowers the possibility of bugs and saves on elaborating testing.

On-the-fly, plug-and-play capabilities: What if you wanted to make changes to the application you have created? Raising a change request, passing it through approvals, getting a team to implement, test and release, takes time and money – neither of which is likely to be in surplus now. A ‘plug and play’ model helps the user / designer make the change and deploy it instantly.

Maintenance free applications: Organizing back ups, checking on server performance, upgrading hardware and software with every new release made by the vendors, protecting systems from virus attacks and other maintenance tasks are manpower intensive and require a dedicated team and finances. (According to a Gartner estimate for every $1 spent on developing a business application, $2.4 is spent on maintaining it over its life-cycle).

A good SaaS provider takes care of all these pain points.

A Quick Rollout: SaaS Applications can be rolled out several times faster than traditional applications.

Lower TCO: It is obvious that today’s CIO would assess application development processes which have a much lower total cost of ownership. The cost is brought down by different dimensions, such as, infrastructure (consolidation), skills sets standardization and low rework. A CIO also needs faster change management cycles which enable much better ROI.

The order of the day – Axiom InstaApp Technology: A solution that provides order of magnitude improvements in cost, quality and time over traditional application development and brings value to the “real world”.