The advantages that SaaS as a delivery model has brought to the forefront cannot be ignored. With increased levels of innovation, agility, internal communications and operational efficiency, more and more companies are adopting this model as their modus operandi in order to hasten their time to market while delivering on their business objectives. That said, the steps entailed to shift from the older legacy or even older cloud models to a SaaS model are quite transformational. It can touch every aspect of your business, from IT to management, from developers to finance and from QA to your analysts. When utilizing this model you may have to rethink how your product is presented in the market, how it is sold, how it is monetized and more. With so many considerations companies face when making this shift to SaaS, Commit developed a workshop that would ease the transformation and present the key questions that need to be asked to create a roadmap for this journey.

Benefits

Work with highly skilled multidisciplinary experts to develop the path for your SaaS solution Transform your idea into a successful solution Get a clear vision of your business optimal SaaS model Get a defined roadmap with project requirements and documents, at the shortest time to market Setting the next steps of your SaaS journey.

Workshop Content:

Product

Application components, application flow and interfaces SaaS models, customer type and profile. Tenant Provision flow and onboarding process

SW and application architecture

• Existing architecture review, focus on modernizing and tuning to meet SaaS requirements.
• Multi tenancy shared pool vs. silo approaches
• Application layer, Container platform and microservices.
• Application Tenant - SSO and Session level security
• Application-level logging and alerting
• Non-Functional Requirements
• Data and storage

Cloud concepts

• Landing Zone and governance (organization, management, security)
• Application Service cloud platform and Multi-Tenant conceptual design
• Performance and Auto Scaling
• Automation Provisioning and Continuous Deployment

Business & Operations

• Compliance and Regulations
• Cost Optimized SaaS Platforms
• SLA (Service Level Availability)
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Monitoring and ticketing systems

Well Architected SaaS principles

• Unique reference of AWS SaaS Lens during the Well Architected session pillars:
• Security
• Reliability
• Performance
• Cost Optimization
• Operational Excellence

Workshop Assessment Deliverables:

At the end of the workshop, you will have actionable recommendations and a roadmap with clear definitions of the appropriate technological approach that is relevant for you, from product to operations to ensure a successful SaaS journey. This conclusive high-level design for your SaaS solution, with SoW and cost estimations, features:

• Cloud & SW Conceptual Architecture

• Cloud resources initial cost estimation

• Conceptual AWS cloud landing Zone

• Initial SaaS Gap Analysis and modernization guidelines

• SoW and cost estimation for Cloud Platform Design & Build

• Concepts of CI/CD and Automation Deployment

• Guidelines for Service Production Readiness

• Initial cost estimation for ongoing operations