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Software as a Service (SaaS)

Managing Risk and Moving Along the Maturity Model

Lionbridge is committed to helping its ISV clients plot a sensible path through the SaaS landscape. SaaS models represent an enormous opportunity, but also a significant change to the commercial software business model—and as such, a significant business risk.  Regardless, successful ISVs cannot afford to stand on the sidelines:

  • IDC predicts a 32% compound annual growth rate for Worldwide SaaS implementations from 2007 to 2011.
  • Gartner expects some 25% of new business software to be delivered as a service by 2011.
  • Yankee Group says that SaaS sales will exceed $20 billion in revenue by 2011.

As a company, we ourselves took the plunge three years ago, and Lionbridge now runs its Language Services business using award-winning SaaS applications and portals that we have built from the ground up.  Whether SaaS will work for you and your customers requires a careful consideration not only of your business model, but of your existing software architecture. Lionbridge can build SaaS applications for you that are mindful of:

  • Architectural options
  • Code transition options
  • SaaS "Maturity Model" analysis (multi-tenancy)
  • Assessments of security and data integrity issues
  • Scalability parameters
  • Performance parameters
  • Availability and reliability
  • Operational parameters
  • Integration issues
  • Upgrade procedures and tools
  • Configuration
  • Billing/Payment 
  • Service Level Agreement parameters

When the design phase is complete, our engineers can provide:

  • Ground up development of SaaS modeled applications at any level of maturity.
  • IV&V (Independent Validation and Verification) of multi-tenant-reliable SaaS features and infrastructure.
  • Upgrading existing license-based and ASP based applications to SaaS modeled applications.
  • Configuration and Operational enhancements to SaaS overhead.

Our SaaS engineers work with a number of industry-standard solution stacks:

  • Integration with external applications:
  • SOAP-based Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
  • Extract Transform Load (ETL), and
  • On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) 

Interactive GUIs

  • AJAX-based APIs; Usability experts

Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)

  • Spring, Hibernate
  • JDBC
  • Java Cryptography
  • JSP, JSF, and Struts

Microsoft:

  • ASP.NET, including Atlas

Database:

  • OLAP
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle, My SQL,
  • Postgres and DB2

Open Source tools and technologies, including:

  • Ruby on Rails Platform
  • LAMP (Linux, Apache, My SQL, PHP)
  • Python and Perl
  • Testing tools like JUnit and JMeter
  • XML, XSLT and XPath-based APIs
  • RIA-based APIs, including:
    1. Macromedia Flash and Flex
    2. Java Script and DHTML

    Let Lionbridge help you move to the new paradigm.

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