Tools You Can Use to Transition to the Cloud – Apprenda
If you’re a developer, you’ll love Apprenda – the creator of SaaSGrid – the next generation application server purpose-built to solve the architecture, business and operational complexities of delivering software as a service in the cloud.
SaaSGrid is a distributed application server middleware, that eliminates both the technical and business challenges of delivering software as a service. Think of it as the know how and smarts that makes your SaaS applications run.
They’ve eliminated significant technical hurdles like single instance multi-tenancy and grid scalability, while at the same time providing “out of the box” application services like billing and subscriber management,application lifecycle management, and much more, SaaSGrid is helping software companies achieve sustained market leadership through superior software delivery.
There’s two ways to work with Apprenda…
1. New Applications for SaaSGrid
If you’ve ever a non-SaaS web application using Microsoft .NET it will be like old home week using SaaSGrid. What we like about SaaSGrid is that how it was designed with no custom, highly proprietary languages or unhardened, closed technology stacks that prevent you from accessing value and the technology you’ve already built for your own apps or your clients.
SaaSGrid applications are built using Microsoft .NET and the Microsoft family of technologies, so you can easily port your application, utilize off the shelf or open source components, and take advantage of your largest asset – the development knowledge already present in today’s workforce.
2. Deploying Existing Applications on SaaSGrid (And why you may not always need virtualization)
SaaSGrid applications are written using Microsoft technologies like .NET, ASP.NET and SQL Server, giving you the ability to rapidly migrate your existing Microsoft .NET application to a true web native, multi-tenant SaaS application without incurring the penalty of implementing the SaaS specifics.
However, migrating your application code, isn’t enough. Moving to SaaS requires business and operational processes to be in place to support new pricing, revenue and support models. SaaSGrid makes leveraging your codebase easier, and deploys your newly ported application to a SaaS hosting environment that automatically provides you with all the necessary tools to make a successful business migration to SaaS. Don’t be fooled by intermediary solutions like virtualization that give you the ability to deploy dedicated instances for your customers, but don’t offer the power and economics of true single instance multi-tenancy or the necessary operational tools to run your SaaS business.
Virtualization used to be the only way to quickly move to SaaS, but SaaSGrid gives the best of both worlds: get to market fast and have an arsenal of tools to support your transition from an on-premises business to a SaaS business.
SaaSGrid is truly a new category of platform technology to power SaaS applications in the cloud era. As a new breed of cloud middleware, SaaSGrid is enabling the next generation of applications to embrace and leverage the full power of cloud computing, multi-tenant SaaS architecture and highly efficient grid execution to deliver business critical applications at web scale.
Apprenda was founded by a team of software engineers frustrated with reinventing the wheel after working on a series of projects that took existing on-premises software applications to the SaaS model. They realized that the bulk of their effort was focused on complex tasks un-related to the actual applications functionality or business value, but absolutely critical to the ongoing cost of providing access to the software as a service. These platform issues such as multi-tenancy (for sharing a single instance of the codebase and a single database across multiple clients and many end users); user and role management; metering and billing capabilities; and scaling properties occupied 60%+ of the development time and up to 80% of the codebase.
The founding Apprendans decided to abstract away all of these platform issues by creating a middleware technology that would allow developers to focus on UI and business logic rather than lower level platform issues. This vector of innovation is fundamentally a continuation of the improvements made to software development achieved by the introduction of the operating system for desktop applications and the application server for web applications. SaaSGrid is the modern abstraction layer for SaaS applications in the cloud era.
