SoftServe SaaS Development Kit (SSDK)

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a rapidly developing software delivery model offering many advantages over traditional application software development and deployment. As with many new technologies, several business and technical challenges can hinder broader adoption of the SaaS model. These challenges include:

• Securing data
• Scaling services to accommodate rapid user growth
• Achieving high availability
• Supporting anywhere-anytime service
• Enabling individual customization without hindering overall system functionality

To overcome these challenges SoftServe offers a software development framework with the proven core functionality and best practices required for SaaS applications.

How can SoftServe SaaS Development Kit Help You?

SSDK (SoftServe SaaS Development Kit) is a software development framework designed to accelerate effective development of web-based SaaS applications, the server side of next generation mobile services, dynamic websites, and multi- purpose web services. The goal of the SSDK is to provide building blocks to solve common SaaS technical challenges while serving as a sound starting point for the development of new SaaS products. SSDK lets product teams fully concentrate on the business value of the applications they develop, while the SSDK does the hard work of dealing with SaaS-specific technology and architecture demands. In addition to providing reusable components and modules to solve typical SaaS challenges, the SSDK accelerates the development process, enforces the usage of industry standard best practices, and reduces overall risk for major new SaaS development efforts.

SoftServe SaaS Development Kit provides the following key benefits:

• Quicker time to market
• Lower cost of SaaS implementation
• Improved development team focus application business logic
• Platform/vendor independence and associated cost reduction
• Public and private cloud deployment
• Reliable, flexible and scalable architecture

SoftServe SaaS Development Kit Building Blocks

The SSDK framework provides the following core functionality common to most SaaS applications:

• SaaS product skeleton
  • Wizard-like project generation template
  • Robust build system
  • Enforces flexible, reliable, scalable, and highly available application architecture
  • Integration of all required and used technologies
  • Flexible Multi-Tenancy infrastructure
  • Tenant and user security mechanisms
• Run-time customization
  • Data model customization
  • User interface customization
  • Message and resource customization
  • Multi-lingual support
• Supporting modules
  • Tenant management
  • User management
  • Reusable UI components

The SoftServe SaaS Development Kit (SSDK) removes much of the hassle, technology risk, and time to develop SaaS applications. The SoftServe SaaS Development Kit (SSDK) allows product teams to significantly decrease their time to market, relying on a proven architecture and associated components to speed the development and sale of their application to potentially broad and global markets.