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Evaluating Platform as service solutions(PAAS) and cloud platforms for your current product

As an Professional Services providing software solutions to niche business, there is always a challenge of upgrading your current platform to a scalable solution which would reduce your hardwar costs and provide a seamless experience to your customers. Most of the customers are now using SAAS solutions and are accustomed to SAAS deployment release patterns and look for the same deployment mechanism in the current product.  The current desktop architecture or a dotnet or J2EE or Lamp based architecuture is no longer scalable and causes tremendous cost on hardware as well as support for upgrades. So how do i leverage the current cloud based platforms with my current product so that i can reduce my costs on support and hardware and provide a scalabe solution like the cloud platforms? What are the criteria to decide which platform would be an ideal fit for my current platform which will make the transition to the cloud quick and easier?

 Thylaksoft specializes in building apps on the cloud platform and help ISV to extend there current solution to the cloud platform quick and easier. Here is a simple framework to evaluate the platforms easily.

a. Check the cloud platform with your current technical architecture and choose a fit

If your current product is a J2EE basd solution, Force.com platform provides an ideal fit which would fit with the current programming language and architecture. J2EE support for  Forice.com platform is now mature enough to build complex apps on the app exchange.  Google platform also provides a natural fit for J2EE apps with there language and nativity support.  If your current product is a dotnet based desktop or web based solution, Microsoft Azure provides an ideal platform for the upgrade. So to evaluate a plaftorm make sure that there is a fit in programming languages, architecture which will make it an easy learning curve for the current development team to transition your app to the cloud platform. Would you be interested in a quick evaluation guide to make the right decision for your product? Please call us at 302-355-0449 or email us at info@thylaksoft.com for further help regarding this.

b. New Market and increased visbility and adoption.

Cloud platforms like App exchange provide tremendous opportunities for ISV to market there product to an entire new industry or segment of customers. Once your app is deployed on the app exchange, it provides the visiblity for the current customers of salesforce to view your product and download and evaluate it for there needs. So if your product is used by sales and marketing departments of B2B , App exchange would be an ideal fit for your needs.

c. Build less and integrate more

Since each paas solution provides it's own programming language and leaning curve, there is no value in building  your entire product on the platform. Define the features which you think would be of value to your leads or customers and come up with a minimal set and build them on the app exchange or azure platform. For those features which need just querying of information back and forth, integrating the PAAS platform with your application using web services would be ideal

 With our experience in building apps on the app exchange, Amazon clouds, we provide clients with a strategic evaluation guide to choose the right platform for your product which will make it scalable, quick and easy to deploy. Please email us at info@thylaksoft.com or call us at 302-355-0449 for further information.

As an Independent software vendor providing software solutions to niche business, there is always a challenge of upgrading your current platform to a scalable solution which would reduce your hardwar costs and provide a seamless experience to your customers. Most of the customers are now using SAAS solutions and are accustomed to SAAS deployment release patterns and look for the same deployment mechanism in the current product.

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