• VolunteerACT Application Built on SaaSGrid to Debut at SXSW®
• Updated SaaSGrid Meters Application Usage and Provides Companies Insights on Feature Sets and New Revenue Models
• Apprenda Announces Availability of the World’s first SaaS-Enabling API for Silverlight
• Apprenda Announces SaaS Entrepreneur and Former Venture Capitalist Devon Watson as Director of Business Development
• Apprenda Closes $5 Million Investment Led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
• Apprendas SaaSGrid Provides Microsoft BizSpark ISVs with a Firm Foundation
• Apprenda Selected as a Network Partner for the Microsoft BizSpark Program
• Appoint IT LLC Selects Scio Consulting for SaaS Product Design and Development
• Scio Consulting Partners with Apprenda for Rapid SaaS Product Enablement
• Apprenda Releases SaaSGrid Revolutionizing How SaaS Offerings are Built and Delivered

 

VolunteerACT Application Built on SaaSGrid to Debut at SXSW®

CLIFTON PARK NY – March 11 2010 –- VolunteerACT a new application built on top of Apprenda’s SaaSGrid the industry’s leading SaaS Application Server will debut at SXSW Interactive tomorrow. The new SaaS application built by UVision Consulting creates a private workspace and outreach portal to help charitable organizations of all sizes publicize their cause and organize volunteers encouraging both collaboration and productivity. 

VolunteerACT chose SaaSGrid to drastically reduce the anticipated time to market and handle the complex multi-tenant architecture needed to support the management needs of volunteer teams. SaaSGrid eliminates the difficulties of building and delivering software as a service by smashing significant technical hurdles like multi-tenancy and grid scalability while at the same time providing out of the box application services like metering and monetization billing and subscriber management and much more.

“Evangelizing and communicating with volunteers to contribute their time skills and effort to achieve a shared vision of common good is a great way to bring people together” Omar Uddin CEO of UVision Consulting the development company behind VolunteerACT. “SaaSGrid let’s us do what we’re good at. We were able to direct our development efforts towards the functionality design and features needed to support volunteer teams while relying on SaaSGrid for all of the SaaS delivery specifics.” 

Since 2004 UVision has inspired volunteer programs at local state and national levels with its volunteer management web application called VolunteerNET. UVision has logged over 100000 volunteer hours with national organizations like National Marine Sanctuary Foundation National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Sanctuaries. Realizing the value of this solution for all organizations that rely on volunteer efforts UVision created a web-hosted version called VolunteerACT.  SaaSGrid let UVision focus on the innovations of the application driving charitable organizations to be more successful in their philanthropic missions. 

SaaSGrid enables VolunteerACT to handle the types of management associated with the collaboration of volunteer work. From one central portal VolunteerACT enables and recruits volunteers manages events assigns tasks records time and achieves charitable goals for volunteer organizations of all sizes. VolunteerACT accelerates volunteer registrations by eliminating physical sign up sheets or distributed emails. Benefits unique to VolunteerACT enable organizations to:  

 Simplify social media engagement
 Motivate followers to spread the word or become volunteers
 Recruit assess reward volunteers 
 Hire qualified people into your organization
 Increase grant awards and donations by reporting volunteer time contributions

 

About Apprenda

Apprenda is the creator of SaaSGrid the industry’s leading SaaS Application Server. SaaSGrid solves the upfront and ongoing technical and business challenges of delivering software as a service. SaaSGrid provides software companies with zero-effort multi-tenancy and grid scalability in addition to “out of the box” application services like metering and monetization billing and subscriber management and much more. 

For more information visit Apprendas website at: http://www.apprenda.com.

About UVision

The VolunteerACT web application was designed and built by UVision Labs an IT consulting product research and development business unit of UVision Consulting. As well as rapid development of innovative web applications UVision Labs builds complex enterprise applications. UVision Labs studied volunteerism problems & the needs of coordinators and volunteers to create VolunteerACT  This ensures optimal usability and focuses on the end user experience & social media marketing to encourage greater participation and results which is what the web is all about.

UVision Consulting is a collective of internet strategy and web technology experts focused on internet and interactive media technologies. As a recipient of a 2008 White House Award for partnership & support of public awareness campaigns for environmental causes UVision Consulting and it’s founder Omar Uddin actively work with corporate and not-for-profit organizations to promote strategic alliances between the public and private sectors.

For more information and to request a VolunteerACT beta invitation visit http://volunteeract.com

 

 

 

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• VolunteerACT Application Built on SaaSGrid to Debut at SXSW®
• Updated SaaSGrid Meters Application Usage and Provides Companies Insights on Feature Sets and New Revenue Models
• Apprenda Announces Availability of the World’s first SaaS-Enabling API for Silverlight
• Apprenda Announces SaaS Entrepreneur and Former Venture Capitalist Devon Watson as Director of Business Development
• Apprenda Closes $5 Million Investment Led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
• Apprendas SaaSGrid Provides Microsoft BizSpark ISVs with a Firm Foundation
• Apprenda Selected as a Network Partner for the Microsoft BizSpark Program
• Appoint IT LLC Selects Scio Consulting for SaaS Product Design and Development
• Scio Consulting Partners with Apprenda for Rapid SaaS Product Enablement
• Apprenda Releases SaaSGrid Revolutionizing How SaaS Offerings are Built and Delivered

 

Updated SaaSGrid Meters Application Usage and Provides Companies Insights on Feature Sets and New Revenue Models 

Application usage data assures ISVs they are maximizing profitability as well as keeping feature options fresh and updated for end users

CLIFTON PARK NY – March 8 2010 –- Apprenda creator of SaaSGrid the industry’s leading SaaS Application Server today announces additions to SaaSGrid giving software companies the competitive advantage to seize new revenue opportunities through insights gathered from usage patterns within their applications.  

Apprenda has expanded SaaSGrid’s metering and monetization engine to allow detailed monitoring of usage patterns for features within an application. New product management strategies can be derived from this data for utilizing better pricing structures or defining the right bundling options. This complex and powerful engine lets companies easily define the metering of features within their application all conducted behind the scenes remaining transparent to customers. 

“Understanding granular feature usage metrics like how often how many and by whom provides an incredible value to maintaining a successful SaaS business model” said Sinclair Schuller CEO of Apprenda. “Customers today demand flexible pricing options a variety of contract models and a la carte feature sets. SaaSGrid’s full metering and monetization engine gives product management insights into how to market and sell the product keeping the business agile and in tune with its users.”

ISVs must have a complete understanding of how customers are using their software but trying to develop this level of real-time multi-tenant data aggregation is difficult and would just add one more layer of burden to internal resources. SaaSGrid provides a convenient single management portal to get a real-time look at application usage so companies can quickly react to indicators of where more money can be made or where usability improvements can be added and adjust for that immediately.

 About Apprenda

Apprenda is the creator of SaaSGrid the industry’s leading SaaS Application Server. SaaSGrid solves the upfront and ongoing technical and business challenges of delivering software as a service. SaaSGrid provides software companies with zero-effort multi-tenancy and grid scalability in addition to “out of the box” application services like metering and monetization billing and subscriber management and much more. 

For more information visit Apprendas website at: http://www.apprenda.com

 

 

Copyright © Apprenda Inc. 2005-2010 All Rights Reserved. Various trademarks held by their respective owners.

• New Silverlight API for SaaS application hosting service - TechTarget
• One cloud provider offers his view of the competitive infrastructure sky - Network World
• Why Your Cloud Applications Should Be Multi-tenant - The Connected Web
• How Cloud Computing will Drive SaaS in 2010 - IT Business Edge
• Startup Apprenda Brings Silverlight to Large-Scale Business Apps - NYTimes.com

 

"The age-old dilemma of form versus function is often settled by budget. When it comes to building Web applications most enterprises will fret about making sure its software is functional and up to spec quite a bit more than it will about the user experience. In the .NET world Silverlight can add a very rich experience to an application’s front end.

But reconciling a Silverlight front end with a multi-tenant on-demand back end can add a good deal of work into building a SaaS offering. Users most commonly experience Silverlight as a single-tenant client-side instance. A good amount of configuration goes into having apps built on this framework play well with scalable cloud environments.

Looking to remove some of that complexity Apprenda Inc. of Albany NY has just released a Silverlight API for its SaaS-enabling application server SaaSGrid." (READ MORE)

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/dotnet-developments/new-silverlight-api-for-saas-application-hosting-service/

 

Copyright © Apprenda Inc. 2005-2010 All Rights Reserved. Various trademarks held by their respective owners.

• New Silverlight API for SaaS application hosting service - TechTarget
• One cloud provider offers his view of the competitive infrastructure sky - Network World
• Why Your Cloud Applications Should Be Multi-tenant - The Connected Web
• How Cloud Computing will Drive SaaS in 2010 - IT Business Edge
• Startup Apprenda Brings Silverlight to Large-Scale Business Apps - NYTimes.com

 

"SaaS delivery has lots of challenges -- scale-out multi-tenancy (how to allow many customers to efficiently and safely share the same single application footprint so that my COGS and incremental delivery costs are a few pennies on the dollar rather than a few dimes on the dollar) commercialization (charging for a service and tracking access and usage rights based on payment) and operational management. Services like Salesforce.com’s Force.com and Apprenda’s SaaSGrid attempt to solve those challenges but in slightly different ways.

SaaSGrid is a cloud application server that can be layered either on-top of offerings such as EC2 or on-top of traditional data-center hardware. It attempts to ease the application provider’s engineering of multi-tenancy and linear scale-out with little to no effort on the part of the application provider. It eases pricing and provisioning through a few button clicks in a web portal. No burden to IT professionals no burden to the organization." (READ MORE)

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/57491

 

Copyright © Apprenda Inc. 2005-2010 All Rights Reserved. Various trademarks held by their respective owners.

 

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