Introducing SaaSplaza
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by kriki
- Why go into SaaS
- Strong growing demand
- CAPEX become OPEX
- TCO is predictable, visible, flexible and … Lower
- Risk is reduced to the minimum
- Sales cycles are down
- Margin contribution is healthy
- Who is SaaSplaza
- 1 million end-users in 55 countries
- 2 datacenters, 1500+ servers
- Overseeing 50+TB of critical customer data
- Trust Services (TM) certificate: only global quality standard
- SAS 70 Type II certificate: annual audit of documented quality management systems
- BS7799 certified data centre
- Commitment
- Nr 1 in Microsoft Dynamics S+S
- Follow all MS requirements
- Having a MS premier support agreement
- Open invitation to all MD ISV’s to join
- 100% partner oriented
- On a non-exclusive basis
- Nr 1 in Microsoft Dynamics S+S
- Why should an ISV/VAR become a partner?
- There are a lot of good reasons, but I couldn’t write them down because they were not exactly short and I couldn’t make the reasons more compact without loosing something.
- Competiveness
- Contract period 1 month: customer can step out of it each month. So he is not a hostage.
- # of users can differ per month
- 24 hour delivery of new NAV instance
- Transparent low pricing per user per month
- Includes all software ex. NAV, the use of the infrastructure and operational management. (They take care of the backups! Very interesting this one.)
- Partner defines end price. So you can make some extra money.
- Enrich your offering
- Combine NAV with
- Office, CRM, SharePoint, ISV granules, web portals or your own developments
- Connecting services with-on premise systems
- Integrating web services
- Back-up-2-on-premise: every day the backup is pushed back to the customer on some server in his office.
- Migration services: migrating using SaaSplaza and after some months customer can decide to remain or get back locally
- User management
- Admin rights for end users
- Monitoring performance
- …
- Combine NAV with
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Hi,
Is there any document available for a Mic. partner to review the cost and profit? Are potential customers asking for partners or is saasplaza looking for partners who transfer there current customers to saas?
You can contact them for more info. If you google for SaasPlaza you will find them (I don’t have their details with me now). They will give you more info. They are also interested in finding more partners for their product.
I didn’t hear about customers who are interested (at least not in Italy), maybe because they don’t know the possibility. As partners I can see some interesting things also giving SaaS as a service.