Tag: Software as a Service

With the support of AWS SaaS Factory, GA Telesis launched the FraudBlock SaaS solution, a fraud protect API service for companies to protect their organizations from BEC/EAC scams and help securely perform B2B transactions. The SaaS Factory team spoke with Darryl Maraj, Head of Technology at DIG and CTO at Blockrails, to learn more about Blockrails, the value its new FraudBlock solution brings to customers, and the key lessons learned building a SaaS solution on AWS.

While SaaS remains a huge growth driver and provides benefits to end customers and software providers, the transition to this model can be challenging as technology and operations take on new responsibilities in an “as-a-service” environment. To be successful, organizations need to rethink every dimension of how they build, sell, manage, support, and operate their solution. Learn how to accelerate your SaaS journey with help from AWS SaaS Competency Partners.

We are excited to highlight 72 AWS Partners that received new designations in February 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.

Organizations hosting customer-specific machine learning models on AWS have unique isolation and performance requirements and require a solution that provides a scalable, high-performance, and feature-rich ML platform. Learn how Amazon SageMaker Pipelines helps you to pre-process data, build, train, tune, and register ML models in SaaS applications. We’ll focus on best practices for building tenant-specific ML models with particular focus on tenant isolation and cost attribution.

Exasol provides a high performance in-memory analytics database to give organizations the power to transform how they work with data. Working with AWS SaaS Factory, Exasol launched their analytics database through a SaaS model and navigated technical and business decisions for launch and beyond. In this Q&A, Peter Jackson, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Exasol, shares insights on their journey and advice for organizations who are in the process of building SaaS on AWS.

AWS Partners with the Financial Services Competency have demonstrated industry expertise, readily implemented solutions that align with AWS architectural best practices, and have expert staff with AWS Certifications. Learn about Kasasa’s multi-year migration from legacy architecture to AWS, the benefits of Kasasa’s software-as-a-service rewards platform, and how Kasasa brought 900+ community financial institutions along for this epic journey.

Video delivery is changing as viewers expect content providers to deliver an exceptional streaming experience with personalized and context-aware streaming. Broadpeak is an AWS Partner and leading provider of CDN and video streaming solutions that helps content providers and pay-TV operators worldwide. We recently spoke with Mathias Guille, VP Cloud Platform at Broadpeak, to learn more about the new broadpeak.io SaaS platform and the value it brings to customers.

Thank you for joining us in Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2021. We hope you are enjoying all of the educational content and big announcements. If you missed anything from our Global Partner Summit or just want to recap, we have rounded up the most relevant launches, program updates, and educational content available for the AWS Partner community. Reminder that virtual options for re:Invent breakout sessions will be available December 6-10.

What does it take to build and run a successful SaaS business on AWS? This is a question the AWS SaaS Factory team gets often during our conversations with AWS Partners and customers who are moving to SaaS. While there is no single formula, we have been observing some common patterns and strategies that help organizations maximize SaaS success. In a recent webinar series, AWS SaaS Factory demystified some of the common patterns and strategies with AWS Partners Druva, NetWise, Stripe, Crowdstike, and Snowflake.

A key challenge SaaS providers face is understanding the cost profile of their environment and the customers within it. Measuring the cost of each tenant in the system, understanding cost-effectiveness of product features, and accurately metering the margin in a SaaS solution are examples of abilities that are critical for SaaS success. Learn why breaking down the cost to different unit metrics, customers, features, segments, and business units is a requirement for any modern SaaS business.