Digital Design offers a Software plus Services approach to the software infrastructure management that combines advantages of traditional in-house hosted software with remote services available online. Modernization according to S+S principles includes IT audit, web enabling, enterprise application and data integration (Enterprise Application Integration), software optimization, application maintenance, and hosting. Together they form a flexible solution providing greater accessibility and business process automation at reduced administration cost and minor initial investment.

What it means

Software plus Service (S+S) is a wide concept, that covers advantages of SaaS, SOA, Rich Internet Applications, Web 2.0 and Cloud computing, but widens them with additional benefits such as no risk of possible data loss and availability of applications in offline mode because of combination of on-premise and online models.

Picture 1. Parts of Software plus Services concept

S+S includes:

• IT audit - A set of activities aimed at collection and analysis of information about existing IT infrastructure and resulting in a comprehensive report providing overview of current state of IT resources and recommendations for their improvement.
• Web-enabling - Making internal applications accessible to users and other applications via the Internet with additional value of extending their functionality and improving usability.
• Application and Data Integration - Combining different applications into one system that uses common set of data structures and rules for effective data and process sharing.
• Maintenance & Optimization - Technical questions of company applications efficiency, operability and security are handled by the service-provider .
• S+S readiness +hosting - Software delivery model and approach to the software infrastructure that combines advantages of traditional in-house hosted software with remote services available online.

You need S+S enabling to:

• cut IT costs, but at the same time use the newest IT solutions;
• expand business process automation for new user groups;
• make internal applications accessible from distant locations;
• provide access to data from your internal systems on a regular basis for customers, partners and distributors;
• keep your legacy applications up-to-date to meet efficiency requirements without replacement;
• implement business process automation that involves data and functionalities of different applications;
• cope with M&A process problems;
• get help with organic growth of the company;
• make IT infrastructure smaller, lighter and more flexible;
• concentrate on your core business.

Advantages of S+S model:

• Large potential for enterprise-wide team collaboration and cooperation with with customers.
• Faster and well-informed decision-making.
• Guaranteed and secure access to enterprise data from any place where Internet is available.
• Minor initial investment on services launch due to reduction of hardware and software licenses purchase.
• IT Flexibility (agile IT infrastructure can be adjusted to the changing needs of your business, varying from in house IT to outsourced IT).
• Maintenance and administration costs reduction due to re-use of the existing application base.
• Well-documented and transparent application maintenance process.

Digital Design SaaS/S+S enabling services:

• Evaluation of S+S readiness status (including IT audit)
• Building S+S transition roadmap
• Integration of SaaS/S+S enabled applications with existing IT environment
• Deployment and customization of S+S systems (including web enabling and software optimization )
• Application hosting

Our experts will help you prepare IT infrastructure to consuming online services. We will start with analysis of your current IT infrastructure and figure out which applications are ready for migration to S+S model. Then we’ll prepare a comprehensive transition plan with detailed description of the steps that should be undertaken before you switch to S+S. After recommended steps are completed, we will host your application, fulfill all necessary customizations and ensure effective maintenance of the system.