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Eight out of 10 Top SaaS ISVs Run Mission-Critical Applications on Oracle
According to independent analysis by Nucleus Research, software as a service (SaaS) independent software vendors (ISVs) are turning to the Oracle SaaS Platform in increasing numbers, with eight out of 10 top SaaS ISVs now developing and delivering mission-critical SaaS applications on Oracle.
In addition, several ISVs rely on Oracle on Demand to host and manage the Oracle SaaS Platform on their behalf, allowing them to focus their full attention on innovating in their markets and preserving capital to grow their business.
The Oracle SaaS Platform enables ISVs to build, deploy, and manage SaaS applications more efficiently, thanks to a complete, highly secure, and preintegrated set of technologies, including Oracle Database (including Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database and Oracle Berkeley DB) and Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Enterprise Manager, which provides a single, integrated console for the management of ISV applications and platforms, including service-level management.
"SaaS vendors are challenged to deliver greater value to customers while managing costs," said Rebecca Wettemann, vice president at Nucleus Research. "We found most delivering mission-critical applications chose Oracle as their foundation because its flexibility and scalability, as well as ease of management, enabled them to deliver on the SaaS promise while keeping costs low."
Boosting Developer Productivity
Making developers as productive as possible is key to the profitability of SaaS ISVs.
With its rich Web 2.0 user interface and easy-to-customize processes, the Oracle SaaS Platform enables developers to rapidly develop, deploy, and manage metadata-driven, service-oriented applications.
Multi-protocol enterprise service bus (ESB) for integration, a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engine to orchestrate services, and an enterprise portal for configurable access to content and services all further speed the work of developers.
Scaling to Customer Demand
The Oracle SaaS Platform also provides the scalability SaaS ISVs require to meet the wide—ranging—and often rapidly growing—needs of their customers.
This scalability is built in at every level of the Oracle SaaS Platform, including Oracle Database Real Application Clusters, Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database for real-time caching, and Oracle Berkeley DB for embedded, nonrelational data management.
This scalability also extends to the middle tier, with support for clustering in Oracle Application Server and distributed data grids with Oracle Coherence.
"With the Oracle SaaS Platform, ISVs are looking to Oracle and its partners as a fully capable, low-cost, virtually seamless path to SaaS enablement," says John Gawkowski, vice president Oracle Platform Technology Solutions.
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