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If you're an ISV jumping into Software as a Service (SaaS), talk to Tenzing. Tenzing is a leader in hosting business-critical Internet applications and as a Microsoft SaaS Incubation Center, Tenzing has developed a comprehensive approach to the delivery of SaaS applications. This "Summit with Tenzing" approach helps ISVs avoid the pitfalls common to SaaS delivery, lowers their time to market, and the associated costs.

- Microsoft case study profiling SaaS Provider ONE-EIGHTY CORP   » read more
 - Whitepapers for SaaS Providers   » view now

Helpful Tip: If you are a private company, in business less than three years and with less than $1M in annual revenue, Tenzing can also enroll you in Microsoft's BizSpark program.

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As a Microsoft SaaS Incubation center, Tenzing has developed a comprehensive SaaS Enablement Service (SES) for ISVs. This service has three components to help you avoid the business and technical pitfalls common to SaaS, lower your time to market, and reduce your total cost of ownership:

Readiness Assessment - Enable your SaaS Vision

Tenzing's SaaS Readiness Assessment help ISVs evaluate their readiness to adopt a SaaS delivery model. The Readiness Assessment is grounded in best practices learned by successful Software as a Service providers and ensures the path to success is brought into focus early in the process.

Tenzing's assessment services include:
  • On-site discovery of business requirements and special pain points and constraints
  • Consultative meetings with application development team and in-house IT expertise
  • Expert analysis of technical requirements and ITSM capabilities
  • Consultation around the IT life-cycle and ITSM best practices
  • Access to professional Microsoft, Linux and Oracle solutions engineering
  • Access to subject matter experts on IT Support, Delivery, and Infrastructure
  • Detailed map of your applications and their ideal end state

Solutions Engineering - Architect for Success

Following the assessment process, Tenzing's expert Solution Engineers will help you design a comprehensive managed services plan to address your specific business and technical requirements. The plan will detail the managed IT services required to achieve the necessary level of application availability, capacity, scalability, security, manageability and affordability for you to be successful.

Tenzing's design services include:
  • Expert Microsoft, Linux and Oracle solutions engineering services
  • Service Level Planning
  • Capacity Planning
  • Availability & Continuity Planning
  • Security Services Planning
  • Infrastructure Services Planning

IT Operations - Behind you Every Step of the Way

Designed around industry-leading ITIL and ISO best practices, Tenzing's provides world-class data center and comprehensive IT support services you can trust. Unlike most managed hosting companies, Tenzing partners with clients to address the entire IT lifecycle from operations centers in Toronto, Ontario, Vancouver, B.C. and Kelowna, British Columbia to provide geographical redundancy to infrastructure and support services.

Tenzing's operational services include:
  • IT Delivery Processes
  • Service Level Management
  • Availability and Continuity Management
  • Capacity Management
  • IT Support Services
  • Service Desk
  • Incident and Problem Management
  • Change and Configuration Management
  • Security Services
  • Compliancy Services


Tenzing Success Story for SaaS Providers

  1. Strategic Hosting Partners Case Study featuring ONE-EIGHTY Corp
    Prepared by: Microsoft Software-plus-Services


White Papers for SaaS Providers

  1. When Availability Matters: Change Control for SaaS Providers
    Prepared by: Kelly Beardmore, Chief Technology Officer
  2. Avoid the Pitfalls of SLA Management: a lesson for SaaS Providers
    Prepared by: Kelly Beardmore, Chief Technology Officer


Microsoft Bizspark Program

Microsoft BizSpark The BizSpark program will provide you with powerful development tools (Visual Studio Team System: Team Suite, Expression Studio, and VSTS Team Foundation Server), production software licenses (Windows Server, SQL Server, Office Sharepoint Portal Server and more), and a connection to a global community of peers and BizSpark Partners with business, legal and financial services aimed at Startups. Best all, there is no upfront fee to join.   » Read More

To learn more, please contact one of our expert SaaS consultants through our online Assessment Request form or call toll free: 1.877.767.5577

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