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Deliver SaaS Applications to Your Customers
In the future everything is a service. The future is now. Certainly
companies that deliver internet applications realize that the software
subscription model is here to stay. They also realize that building and
maintaining feature-rich multi-tenant applications requires significant
development resources, expense and time. Until now developers haven’t
been able to leverage a complete platform to create and deliver
their SaaS applications. LongJump enables service providers and software
developers to enter the market more quickly, with more customer-valued
features and realize new revenue streams in a fraction of the time.
Help for All ISVs |
The Traditional ISV looks
to evolve from publishing
client-server or desktop
applications towards
delivering SaaS solutions
in an effort to remain
competitive, drive new
revenue, or extend their
applications into the web |
The Transitional ISV may
have some web-based
applications in the form
of customer and partner
portals or single-tenant
replicated servers and
applications, but is looking
for a more interactive
experience that is easier to
manage, enables greater
flexibility and provides
enhanced customer value |
The Entrepreneur ISV has
a business idea, but needs
to accelerate their time
to market, incorporate
serious enterprise-grade
features and functionality,
while still minimizing their
investment and resource
outlay |
The Service Company
ISV's core business is not
selling applications, but
their custom software has
become both an enabler
and a differentiator in their
specific service or product
niche, and SaaS solutions
provide an even greater
level of service to their
customers |
It’s a decision more companies need to make – are they in the technology
creation business or will they use technology to deliver services to
their customers. During this economy business are focusing on their core
business by refining their view of technology as an enabler for great
customer services. This subtle change is very significant because it
frees companies from the cycle of developing new applications, while at
the same time spending organizational resources on developing a
competitive platform. By leveraging the best in class business
application platform, LongJump, in house development resources can focus
on improving customer service and support.
The benefits of offering a suite of software-as-a-service (SaaS)
solutions for your customers are clear. Besides driving additional
revenue, web applications can:
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offer a rich, scalable way of interacting with your customers
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deepen customers' relationships by involving them with your company
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extend your brand by enhancing the value of core products and
services you deliver
SaaS Enablement Challenges
Extending your business with new hosted applications has always been
a challenge. Aside from simple customer portals, the tools you have
traditionally used to build valuable online applications require:
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major development efforts and resources
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additional IT investment to manage
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security and administration considerations
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an unending list of feature requests and maintenance
And rarely are these applications designed to scale or adapt to changing
needs of the individual customer. In fact, the old ways of developing
SaaS solutions take away from your core competencies and don't get your
applications online any faster.
The LongJump Platform for ISVs and Service Providers
To this, we offer you LongJump: a multitenant business application
platform capable of realizing a variety of web applications. LongJump
eliminates the need to completely build a fully-realized multitenant
application architecture yourself, enabling you to:
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focus on your core business
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reduce your time to market
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move quicker to capture customer mindshare with your own SaaS
solutions
LongJump has made creating and hosting these applications for your
business as easy as browsing the web. Not only will LongJump reduce your
development cycle from months to weeks, it will accelerate your time to
market, control the costs and deployment of delivering solutions to your
customers, and position you with a true competitive advantage.
LongJump specializes in transactional, relational, database
applications, tailored to your individual customers. The platform
provides all the technology needed to deliver powerful, adaptable,
integrated solutions including:
Account Control
Perhaps the most important aspect of LongJump's platform is that you own your customers. You control the
service delivery and experience. You have control over the relationship,
the applications, and the data.
Multitenancy
Scalable, streamlined delivery of multiple, customer-specific
applications on a single platform.
Delivery Flexibility
Most departments can start right away by running on LongJump's
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) hosted offering. For businesses and
organizations such as those in government, healthcare, or finance or
have very specific compliance needs, such as CFR 21 Part 11, they can
run the LongJump platform in their own datacenter, with their own
hosting provider, or even in a private cloud with complete control of
the operating environment based on the unique requirements of your
business.
Branded Interface
User interface modifications can be made using simple HTML wrappers or
completely redesign the UI using custom JSP pages. |
Release Management
Application packaging, versioning, and cataloging.
Intellectual Property Protection
Code and customization safeguards to lock down applications from
unwanted changes.
Extensibility
A suite of code-based tools using Java, Javascript and JSP to customize
applications, and connections to existing SOA (service oriented
architecture) initiatives via REST or SOAP.
Proven Platform
Leverage the same platform currently used by Relationals CRM which is
serving hundreds of large enterprises and our growing LongJump.com
service that provides business-ready operational management
applications.
Managed Services Partner
If full-time management of application services is beyond the scope or
focus of your business, we can provide a complete set of outsourced
services for server maintenance, user and account administration, or
even application creation. |
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