SaaS Applications

Virtual Ark is an Expert in Delivering SaaS Applications in the Cloud

Traditionally, the primary thing most ISVs are concerned with is building the best application they can to meet their customer’s needs better than the competition. To do this they develop deep core expertise in areas of software development, database and UI design along with the necessary subject matter expertise related to the applications they are building. Once the application was released into production, they then shipped it off to their customers and it was up to the customer to deploy, maintain and manage it within their SLAs. SaaS adds complexity for the ISV. For the first time they had to be concerned with the actual operation of their applications. Operational expertise requires a very different skillset from software development and most software companies do not have operational delivery as part of their core DNA. Building that core operational expertise is extremely difficult, expensive and time consuming and detracts from the primary focus of the ISV—building great software.

Virtual Ark’s core expertise is migration and delivery of SaaS applications using the cloud.

Scalability, Availability and Efficiency

Virtual Ark’s standards-based architecture, best practices and multi-cloud management allows it to provide SaaS operations in the most effective manner possible. For example, with multi-cloud management, Virtual Ark is able to migrate live environments from one cloud to another to improve availability and avoid the “lock-in” often associated with cloud deployments.

Accelerated Deployment

Virtual Ark is an expert in SaaS-enabling applications. There is typically little if any coding required to successfully migrate a traditional application to the cloud in the SaaS model. Multi-tenancy is not a requirement for Virtual Ark to SaaS-enable core business applications. In fact Virtual Ark’s cloud based NextGen SaaS platform allows multiple instances of an application to run with no loss in efficiency over a multitenant implementation of the application. This allows Virtual Ark to deliver existing applications in a SaaS model rapidly, with all the benefits of the Cloud in with the least amount of risk.

Virtual Ark Expertise

Virtual Ark leverages its global platform for the rapid deployment and ongoing operational management of applications in the cloud. The benefits of globally deployed SaaS applications include:

• International market reach
• In the cloud deployment with infinite capacity on demand
• Ability to scale up and down on demand
• Access to a “pay-as-you-go” consumption model
• Global 24×7 support
• Access to the Virtual Ark cloud ecosystem

Despite all the benefits of a properly implemented and managed cloud based application, the cloud itself is really just a bunch of servers and connectivity with some infrastructure optimization. To realize the promised benefits, service providers must close the gap between what the cloud vendors offer and the complete solution that their customer really needs. If you are an ISV investigating the most successful way to deploy your application with the benefits of an on-demand cloud environment then Virtual Ark offers you the quickest and lowest risk path to your goal.

Virtual Ark delivers value to our customers through three primary elements:

1. A platform for providing security and availability management of cloud applications
2. Migration of enterprise applications to the cloud (for single and multi-tenant applications typically with no code changes)
3. On-going managed services to deliver cloud-based applications based on your required SLA

These elements enable us to deliver SaaS applications from the cloud today with minimum risk and maximum ROI.

Contact us now to learn more about how we deliver SaaS applications and improve the scalability and efficiency of an existing SaaS application.