Tag: Software as a Service

One of the top challenges in operating a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution is measuring the resource consumption of individual tenants in order to understand their usage patterns, attribute costs, and more. The dynamic nature of SaaS environment and shifting needs makes it even more challenging. Explore how you can use the tenant resource consumption data you gathered to optimize your SaaS architecture, to improve operational footprint of SaaS environment and to drive business decisions.

Tenant data isolation is a core SaaS concept, verifying that tenant resources remain in isolated environments. There are a number of ways to achieve this isolation, and one common approach is to use a token vending machine that issues tenant-scoped credentials at runtime. Explore an alternate approach to vending tokens that uses Amazon EKS and open-source HashiCorp Vault, simplifying access to the credentials and streamlining the overall management of tenant-scoped policies.

A tenant management service manages the tenant’s provisioning and lifecycle, and tenant management is usually one of the first services SaaS providers build for their SaaS control plane, as the tenant onboarding experience must be simple and fast. Learn how CyberArk built a serverless, simple, and scalable tenant management service. Its primary responsibility is adding new tenants and provisioning multiple CyberArk products to the tenants according to the customer’s subscription.

As with most industry segments, financial services are experiencing a shift towards the software-as-a-service business and delivery model. Explore how partnering with the AWS SaaS Factory team, Prometeia created a new platform as a SaaS solution on AWS. Prometeia is a leading provider of advisory services, tech solutions, and research insights. A unique combination of skills has made Prometeia a leading European company for risk and wealth management solutions, as well as services for institutional investors.

IBM and Amazon are both signatories of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040—10 years ahead of The Paris Agreement. Learn how SaaS providers can optimize applications by implementing best practice recommendations from AWS, and review a few examples from IBM to optimize SaaS applications for sustainability and track the results via dashboard. Every action you take contributes to your organization’s broader sustainability goals.

Explore how you can leverage Reserved concurrency to define a tiering strategy for multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. There are many benefits when using AWS Lambda functions starting with the serverless model in SaaS that removes undifferentiated heavy lifting by simplifying the architecture and operational footprint. Reserved concurrency is an important feature of AWS Lambda which guarantees the maximum number of instances, running concurrently, for a Lambda specific function.

We are excited to highlight 120 AWS Partners that received new designations in November for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Sales order fulfillment and billing can impact customer satisfaction, and receivables and payments affect working capital and cash liquidity. As a result, the order-to-cash process is the lifeblood of the business and is critical to optimize. Qlik Cloud Data Integration accelerators integrate with Snowflake to automate the ingestion, transformation, and analytics to solve some of the most common SAP business problems, enabling users to derive business insights that can drive decision-making.

We are excited to highlight 135 AWS Partners that received new designations in October for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Most applications require a form of identity service to manage, authenticate, and authorize users. In SaaS applications, multi-tenancy adds specific challenges to this task. To meet these needs, SaaS builders must consider integrating with an identity service provider. AWS services such as Amazon Cognito or AWS Partner services like Auth0 provide deep expertise in the field and allow you to focus on your SaaS application’s value proposition while relying on a secure, feature-rich identity provider.