Logicalis US Outlines Seven Steps to Success in the New Software Delivery Marketplace
Solution Provider Offers ISVs White Paper on Staying Ahead of the Competition
NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --The ready availability, low-cost and feature-rich usability of software-as-a-service (SaaS) has caused thousands of software developers to look outside their own corporate structures to acquire capabilities from third parties for less than they could build those capabilities for themselves. According to Logicalis US, an international IT solutions and managed services provider (www.us.logicalis.com), as SaaS applications continue to take on more complex and critical services, they validate the efficiencies that are possible within the expanding interconnected digital universe. This is the road to "web-scale IT." To help software companies explore this expanding digital distribution system, Logicalis invites software providers and other independent software vendors (ISVs) to download its new white paper, "The Future of SaaS… and the Competitive Advantages for ISVs Who Get There First."
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"Web-scale IT is a new way of describing what is essentially an unbounded software delivery marketplace," says Ryan McNees, Solution Provider Practice Leader, Logicalis US. "By leveraging the vast capabilities available, ISVs can create a delivery network that is global, local and personal at the same time. But doing so requires jumping a number of hurdles along the way, steps that are necessary to accomplish before software providers can fully reap the rewards of this growing delivery mechanism."
Seven Steps to Success in the New Software-Delivery Marketplace
To stay ahead of their competition in the years ahead, Logicalis experts say ISVs need to be actively checking off accomplishments on a list of capabilities that are considered prerequisites for success in this growing, changing marketplace.
- DevOps: Encouraging development and operations teams to accomplish continuous delivery of software.
- ITSM: Ensuring the ISV's procedures and processes align its technology with its business objectives.
- Automation: Building efficiencies into processes and, among other functions, ensuring that all hand-offs between developers and operations are consistent and reliable.
- Infrastructure monitoring and management: Giving the ISV visibility into its own distributed infrastructure so it can manage test-dev and production environments as well as its customers' cloud containers.
- Security monitoring and management: Helping the software developer monitor threat activity effectively, respond appropriately and learn how to better defend against threats in the future.
- Interoperability: Integrating the ISV's applications with other applications/modules (like data analytics) on multiple cloud and on-premise infrastructures.
- Portability: Allowing applications to run on more than one cloud platform, freeing the software developer to pursue the best prices and features regardless of platform requirements, something which can be a very complex and long-term undertaking.
Admittedly, this is a lot to accomplish while at the same time producing killer apps with imminent scalability, global scope, and innovative features that excite customers and deflate the competition. But, Logicalis experts say, the vision of what is possible on the other side is compelling enough to push savvy software providers forward in their quest for competitive advantage.
Want to Learn More?
- Watch a brief video that explains how Logicalis helps ISVs transform their businesses, then explore Logicalis' ISV web site: http://ow.ly/RO4RA.
- Find out why dev-ops is taking center stage among software providers: http://ow.ly/RO3LJ.
- See how embracing the cloud and a SaaS delivery model can increase software providers' bottom lines: http://ow.ly/RO43I.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration; data center and cloud services; and managed services.
Logicalis employs over 4,000 people worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design, deploy and manage complex IT infrastructures to meet the needs of over 6,500 corporate and public sector customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, EMC, NetApp, Microsoft, VMware and ServiceNow on an international basis. It has specialized solutions for enterprise and medium-sized companies in vertical markets covering financial services, TMT (telecommunications, media and technology), education, healthcare, retail, government, manufacturing and professional services, helping customers benefit from cutting-edge technologies in a cost-effective way.
The Logicalis Group has annualized revenues of over $1.5 billion from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific and is one of the leading IT and communications solution integrators specializing in the areas of advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, with revenues of over $6 billion.
For more information, visit www.us.logicalis.com.
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