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Hosting firm Savvis has joined the Microsoft Software + Services Incubation Center Program to help guide independent software vendors (ISVs) and ensure their business model and applications are ready for service-based delivery.
The program is designed to ease the commercial, financial, and technical challenges ISVs and enterprises encounter as they build and deploy software-as-a-service (SaaS) business models.
John Zanni, general manager of the Worldwide Software Plus Services Industry team for the Communications Sector at Microsoft Corp, said: “Through an established provider like Savvis, ISVs get one-on-one business and technical guidance to help deliver applications to market faster than their competition.”
By joining the program, Savvis will gain access to Microsoft customer relationships and participate with Microsoft in Business Development Consulting and Technical Design Services.
Larry Steele, Savvis’ Vice President of SaaS, said: “We look forward to working closely with Microsoft as we continue to expand our ability to deliver SaaS enablement and infrastructure solutions to ISVs and enterprise customers.”
Savvis customers will benefit from shorter time to market, reduced risk and lower levels of investment by utilizing Savvis lifecycle services. This new category of services assists ISVs through all the tasks involved in development, integration, delivery and manages of their applications.
In addition, Savvis’ solutions deliver virtual development labs, virtual and dedicated load testing services and multi-tenancy functionality to global enterprises and software companies of all sizes.
Microsoft selected Savvis based on its abilities as a global hosting and IT infrastructure services in delivering SaaS enablement services to ISVs and enterprise customers.
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