Are All SaaS Delivery Platforms Created Equal? SaaS.com Unveils Multi-Application, Multi-Tenant Architecture

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. —June 14, 2007— WebApps, Inc. a.k.a. SaaS.com, a leading software developer and a key player in the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry, announced the availability of its SaaS delivery platform as a development tool to help organizations with client-installed or non multi-tenant native web applications migrate to a true SaaS solution. By offering the underlying SaaS delivery platform without the related Human Resource centric applications for which SaaS.com is primarily known, SaaS.com is allowing its licensees to deliver a broad range of business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications as a service rather than as an installed product. In addition to enterprise users, SaaS.com is experiencing an increase in demand for its SaaS delivery platform from many independent software vendors (ISVs) as a result of inquiries originating at www.saas.com.

Coupled within the framework are placeholders for core functions such as security, business rules, workflow, notifications, and report generation. A licensee’s industry-specific business logic and proprietary data is embedded directly into the SaaS delivery platform to offer a complete SaaS solution. Uniquely positioned, the SaaS delivery platform is not only used to deploy a single application under a multi-tenant (client) environment, but is also used to deploy various non-related applications, all sharing the same set of server resources. This approach creates economies of scale that are much greater than alternative platforms. “Most licensees take advantage of not only our platform, but also our infrastructure capabilities” said Bill Loss, SaaS.com’s CEO. “Licensees’ data, and the data of their customers, is housed in one of the only commercially available data centers built to what is known as the Department of Defense (DoD) standards for a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). In other words, we do everything we can to ensure an application is always available and the data being captured is always protected.”

Utilizing SaaS.com’s delivery platform, both enterprise organizations and independent software vendors (ISVs) have the opportunity to get to market quicker and with less expense, making deployment of most applications more efficient with a lower total cost of ownership over client-server applications. Equally important is that, few, if any technical resources are required to support an application. The traditional days of using SaaS applications for only simple implementations are changing. Under an effective deployment, SaaS applications can incorporate very complex business logic and workflow typically reserved for client-server type solutions. In fact, Gartner predicts that approximately 25% of all software will be consumed as a service by 2011.

About SaaS.com -
Formed in 2001, SaaS.com helps companies deliver both internal and consumer-facing applications as a service that are more intuitive, easier to deploy, and offer lower total cost of ownership. Two distinct business lines include a pre-existing set of Human Resource centric applications that are offered under a private-label model and a pure multi-application, multi-tenant delivery platform that can be coupled with industry-specific business logic or proprietary data to be delivered as a complete SaaS solution - - www.SaaS.com.

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