Rapid SaaS Development: Leveraging “off-the-shelf” applications As SaaS is becoming the preferred way of software delivery for end-users, every established Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and software start-up is now seeking to join the SaaS movement. However, the idea of building a SaaS solution from “scratch” sounds time-consuming and creates a fear of staying behind in the SaaS race. Fortunately, cost-effective fast track options like Platform as a Service – Force.com, LongJump Pre-built SaaS Solution Accelerators – PropelSaaS 3rd party subscription-based billing solutions – Vindicia relieve software vendors from re-inventing the wheel and accelerate their time to market. In this webinar, our speakers Jothi Rengarajan, Technical Architect, Aspire Systems and Steve Klebe, Senior Vice President, Vindicia will discuss how to tailor these ready-made applications to meet the speed to market objectives for your SaaS offerings.  | | Date : | Thursday, April 29th, 2010 | | Time : | 1:00 PM ET/06:00 PM BST/10:30 PM IST | | Speakers: Steve Klebe Senior Vice President, Vindicia  Steve has over 30 years of experience in sales, business development, strategic alliances and product marketing in electronic payments, authentication and fraud prevention including the last 15 years specifically in ecommerce. He has worked in a variety of senior management roles at companies such as; VeriFone, CyberCash, CyberSource, and PassMark Security (acquired by RSA/EMC). He was responsible for a wide variety of partnerships with companies such as First Data and Visa including the equity investment by Visa in CyberSource and the co-branded product - the CyberSource Advanced Fraud Screen enhanced by Visa. Steve has taught classes at the NACHA Payments Institute, was on the board of directors of the Electronic Transactions Association (www.electran.org) and on the advisory boards of the DRF (www.directresponse.org) and the EFTA (www.efta.org). He has spoken at over 50 banking and technology conferences during his career. Steve received a Bachelor of Science with honors in Business Administration from Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Jothi Rengarajan SaaS Technical Architect, Aspire Systems As a Senior Technical Architect, Jothi specializes in on-demand services (SaaS, PaaS and Cloud). She has almost 10 years of software product-building experience, designing and architecting enterprise SaaS solutions, specifically in the SCM, HRM and Education domains. She plays a key role in Aspire’s SaaS Center of Excellence (CoE) and heads the R&D effort of Aspire’s proprietary framework PropelSaaS, which provides over 30% savings in developing an on-demand solution. |