Are you struggling to re-engineer your applications for delivery as a service? At CSC, you’ll find savvy SaaS technical architects with the experience you need to help you architect great on demand solutions.

Below, we’ve answered a few of the most common questions related to migrating packaged software applications to the Software-as-a-Service delivery model.
For more complete information, download our SaaS Technical Readiness whitepaper.

Q: Our company is doing pretty well, but we don’t have a huge budget to spend on hiring resources to port our application to on-demand. Is there an affordable way to benefit from CSC’s expertise to migrate our solution?
Yes! CSC offers a complete set of Technical Readiness Services that can be adapted to meet your needs and integrate with your own internal migration efforts. From 2-day best-practice consulting programs to multi-week engagements to fully outsourced development projects, we work along with you to create the optimum program that fits your needs and budget requirements. CSC will work with you to determine your timeline, objectives, cost constraints and technical hurdles and help you build a plan to get you there faster—so you don’t get left behind.
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Q: Building and supporting our own SaaS application is going to consume a lot of resources and time. I know I will need to balance maintaining my current business with the effort of building my SaaS business offering. How can CSC help me with this balancing act?
Enlist the services of a guide—someone who’s been there before—as you navigate the technical waters of moving into the SaaS sector. By working with CSC, we can help you avoid the trial and error pitfalls, and find a balanced plan to help optimize your path forward with respect to SaaS application development, operational planning and execution. You’ll have a good idea of the answers before you begin—so you can make better decisions up front.
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Q: What do I really need to do to technically change my application? Our application can already handle 10,000 users—isn’t that good enough?
To answer your second question, probably not. But it depends. There is a series of mileposts on the path to adapting your application to be optimized for on demand delivery as a service. Scalability is just one of many aspects we examine as we sit with you and evaluate your application using a structured methodology to ensure success of your finished product. From tenancy, to authorization, provisioning, billing systems, reliability, support, and life-cycle requirements and more, CSC knows precisely what it will take to keep your migration or new development project on track. Rely on CSC to shorten your SaaS learning curve.
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Easy as A, B, C, 1, 2, 3 …

Well, perhaps it's not that straightforward, but at CSC our SaaS Enablement Team works with you to help you rapidly enable your SaaS offering, shortening time-to-market, and ensuring that your offering will scale appropriately as your business grows.

Due to lack of familiarity with the SaaS arena, ISVs sometimes underestimate the technical complexities in enabling an application for the SaaS market, or assume that once the application has been modified for SaaS, then the rest is easy, but there’s more. Issues like Security, Multi-Tenancy, Scalability, and Operational Supportability are sometimes left unaddressed until late in the product development cycle, unfortunately resulting in unnecessary costly modifications and delayed market introduction.

A great looking online web interface won’t create revenues if the robustness behind it crumbles at the threshold of successful introduction into the market, and it’s a painful lesson to learn three months after launch that half the backend needs to be rewritten.



Don’t wait until it is too late to get expert advice on implementing an architecture that will meet all your business requirements. CSC offers comprehensive architecture design and review services to help you avoid common SaaS transformation mistakes.