Saas Solutions

As part of our philosophy of offering web solutions, NoodleSoft Technologies develops products aimed at specific business verticals. These solutions are hosted and maintained by ourselves and are offered on a flexible pay-per-use basis, which is why they are termed Software as a Service or SaaS applications.

Pitfalls of Using Off-The-Shelf Software
Assume for a moment that you require a specific application and you are forced to consider buying an off-the-shelf product due to skill set or timescale constraints. In this scenario it's fair to say you may well encounter the following issues when purchasing this type of application:

• Typically no off-the-shelf application will cater for all of your functional requirements or your business workflow processes
  
  
• Software licencing may well prove to be an issue. Typically products of this ilk will licence on a single user, 5-user and multi-user licence basis. What happens if you fall somewhere between the two, as in only requiring access for three users? You'll find you will pay for more users than you realistically need.
  
  
• The actual cost of implementing the application may not just be the cost of the application itself. Chances are you may find that you need to implement additional hardware and software, you may require additional infrastructure upgrades or upgrades to your client machines to be able to connect to and run the application.
  
  
• All the individual components will need to be installed and configured properly.
  
  
• Once installed, you'll probably sign multiple maintenance agreements for ongoing hardware and software maintenance and technical support.
  
  

The risk of installing this type of product is that you could end up with an inflexible, potentially costly application, which may require additional infrastructure to even run it and at the end of the day, it may not even cope with everything that you require from it! If that's the case, how would you calculate and justify Return on Investment?

Now compare purchasing a NoodleSoft Technologies SaaS application to an off-the-shelf product:

• The solution is hosted by us which means you have no infrastructure costs of any kind.
  
  
• The licencing options are based on a flexible pay-per-use monthly pricing model, which means your financial outlay is much more manageable and dictated by you.
  
  
• Our SaaS applications make the most of workflow automation techniques to automate as much of the workload as possible
  
  
• Depending on the application, there may be a level of user defined customisation which will allow you to tailor the product to your own specific requirements.
  
  
• Updates to the software are free, instantaneous and require no work on your part to install.
  
  
• Maintenance and support is free.
  
  
• Return on Investment should occur much quicker and be a lot easier to substantiate and quantify because most of the costs are eliminated

Which scenario would you prefer?

Our SaaS Applications
We have a number of SaaS applications coming on-stream over the course of the next 12 months, the first being a solution aimed at Debt Management Companies.

If you would like to enquire about our Debt Management Solution, or you want to talk to us about building an application for you which you think may benefit from the SaaS application model, please contact us by using the appropriate details on our contact page