Software as a Service (SaaS)

A unique opportunity for software makers

Supplying software as a service on the internet – also known as SaaS (Software as a Service) or webware – is a rapidly expanding business. According to market research bureaus, 25 % of all software will be provided through this channel within 3 years’ time. 

COMBELL: the perfect partner for your SaaS projects

Your future online applications will be guaranteed high uptime and swift availability thanks to COMBELL’s years of expertise in server management and online services.
The arrival of the new business model should not worry the ISV. COMBELL takes care of the setup and maintenance of the entire online infrastructure. This will enable you, the software maker, to keep on focusing on your actual core business: software development and updating.

COMBELL “SaaS Quick Start” program

COMBELL strongly believes in the market of software supplying as an Internet service and wants to fully support all software makers who will partake in it with their new business model.
That’s exactly why COMBELL developed the “SaaS Quick Start” program: to help ISVs to grow quickly within the new SaaS market without having to make expensive investments on the level of Internet hosting infrastructure.

Advantages of the COMBELL "Saas Quick Start" program:

Hosting is 25% cheaper during the first 12 months We offer you a 25% discount on the standard Managed Dedicated Hosting rates.   Independent hosting infrastructure consulting In accord with the ISV, COMBELL investigates which server infrastructure (for any chosen platform) would best supply the online applications.   Microsoft licence costs are 80% cheaper until April, 2008 If you choose to use the Microsoft platform for hosting your online applications, you will benefit from other supplementary advantages as well. COMBELL closely collaborates with Microsoft in order to obtain cheaper licences for the Windows web servers and SQL database servers you purchase for your company during the first year. (Max. 8 servers and 2 SQL servers)   Step by step – flexibility on the level of infrastructure COMBELL understands that you don’t immediately need dozens of servers in the early stages of providing your software as a service. That’s why you start small-scale but aren’t forced to upgrade to a more complicated infrastructure afterwards. You only pay for what you use!   Reliable & completely upgraded Cisco network In order to expand its network, COMBELL had the entire infrastructure redesigned by top engineers from CISCO. This would, among other things, provide the best guarantees for the hosting of SaaS applications in the future.

Conditions
The conditions to join COMBELL’s “SaaS Quick Start” program are that you, the software builder, purchase managed dedicated hosting with a contract duration of at least one year and that you are the owner of all the intellectual property rights to the software you will offer as an online service to your customers on the Internet.