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Advantages of SaaS


Reduced and Predictable Cost

  • Lower capital expense - implementation costs are significantly lower than developing custom solutions or purchasing and installing proprietary software and hardware.
  • Lower operating expenditures - the cost of upgrading hardware, development, and maintenance is shared by and spread across the entire client base.
  • Lower risk - low upfront cost, little or no staff time to get going, and an already up and running environment avoids most of the risks of selecting and implementing new software. The project will be on-time, and there will be no hardware costs or other infrastructure surprises. If it’s not the right software, you won’t be walking away from a big investment if you choose to make a switch.
  • Reliable cost forecasting - subscription fees are predictable, allowing for IT costs to be forecast over several years.
The burden of having to predict or plan for demand and capacity is taken out of the hands of the customer. Frequent upgrades are possible without the hassle of testing, managing change control, or converting data.

Security and Reliability

Platformic's infrastructure consists of professionally run data centers with full system and database redundancy, load balancing and failover, which leads to better availability and performance. It also utilizes a firewall and intrusion protection. User data and passwords are also encrypted.

Faster Implementation and Frequent Feature Releases

Most users already have the tools they will need. All that is required is a web browser and a connection to the Internet. No additional website development software is needed.

Because of Platformic's modular framework, new features are rolled out within weeks or even days.

Continuous Performance Improvements

One of the ways Platformic delivers a faster, higher quality experience for site visitors is through partnerships with content delivery networks such as Edgecast. Platformic customers benefit from the ongoing research, improvements and upgrades made to the hardware infrastructure, and software optimizations.
Below are just a few of our clients sites, built using the power of Platformic. Please click the thumbnails below for full size photos.
Here at the Platformic blog it's a pretty loose forum. While I don't really think that anyone is going to post a blog about their cats (well, maybe Eric might ...) we post about a range of stuff that might be of interest to a client of a CMS or someone looking to work on websites and although Platformic does not provide graphic design services we do work with a host of people who might be interested in graphics and for certain who at some times might use Photoshop so I wanted to share something that I learned today which blew me away (and I have been using Photoshop for 15 years now!)
Google recently announced that it has acquired a social RSS service called Postrank which is a huge indication of their commitment to their social strategy. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this move is an indicator that social media and services continue to have a very big impact on the web as we know it today. The future will surely continue down the social road.

So what does Postrank do anyway? Here's a quote straight form their web site on the subject:

"Our platform tracks where and how users engage, and what they pay attention to — in real-time. PostRank social engagement data measures actual user activity, the most accurate indicator of the relevance and influence of a site, story, or author."
As sure as the sun will rise in the morning, your site users are going to end up hitting a 404 error page at some point or another. But what you provide them when they hit that pages can actually tell a lot about your site, and can help turn your what is technically a fail for the user into a win, if done properly.

By definition (remember when definition was pulled from encyclopedia rather than wikipedia? I guess I am dating myself somewhat here), a 404 page is:

"The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested. 404 errors should not be confused with "server not found" or similar errors, in which a connection to the destination server could not be made at all. A 404 error indicates that the requested resource may be available again in the future."