PaaS it on: Why PaaS is the New Normal for Businesses ?

The essential information about why Platform as a Service should be on your ‘it-list’ for effective business.

‘PaaS’ or Platform as a Service may not be a term we come across in our day-to-day life, but if you’re part of or own a business, it’s time to become well-versed in the subject. It just might prove to be the next step to take for your business’s future. 

With a need arising amongst various businesses to deliver quick results more efficiently, process automations are now becoming an increasingly popular solution with each passing day. If you want to get ahead of changing technology, market trends, customer needs and your competitors, PaaS is your go-to solution.

What

Just like SaaS (Software as a Service), PaaS is also a type of cloud computing. In PaaS, a service provider or vendor will provide you a platform where you can develop and manage business applications according to your requirements with little to no infrastructure maintenance and coding required. It’s a very handy service that gives you exactly what you’re looking for and enhances your cost savings significantly. 

PaaS is known for its increased flexibility and operational ease, as it will provide a platform or a framework, where developers or customers can easily create their own applications easily.

Who  

Since PaaS is incredibly convenient and versatile, there’s no limitation to who can use it for their benefit. Easily accessible on the web, the vendor or service provider provides the infrastructure and can host the platform on private, public or hybrid cloud as per your requirement and convenience, giving you the freedom to use the PaaS product to its maximum potential. 

With PaaS, you do not have to worry about the maintenance and system upgrades either, which certainly takes the burden off of companies when looking application development and management. 

According to statista.com, 20% of the cloud services market is for PaaS, while SaaS takes the major share. It has also mentioned that the market spending till the end of year 2020 is USD 50.8 Billion, which definitely gives you an insight about just how many organizations are incorporating PaaS to enhance the effectiveness of their business.

According to another blog by thecloudguytim, PaaS can be segregated in 4 categories: 

PaaS for Cloud Computing Platforms: With the increasing amount of data accessed each day, the need to process and store data is ever-present. This is where PaaS cloud computing platforms come in, where instead of purchasing a bundled product with additional services you don’t need; you can purchase a service that serves your specific requirement for storing, processing or running the acquired data. For example: Flickr

PaaS for Web Application: While we know PaaS platforms are accessible through the internet, there are a few services where you can access and run applications through APIs (Application Programming Interface), which refers to a protocol that allows tech products and services to interact with each other over the web. For example: YouTube

PaaS for Social Application: PaaS is known not just for its social media integration functionality but also social collaboration features, making it a highly engaging option. It can help you build a community that encourages contributions that helps solve various challenges or increase engagement and productivity, which can come in handy when you’re interacting with employees, users or customers. For example: Facebook

PaaS for Business Application: When it comes to business applications, there is no limitation to what PaaS can be useful for. You can seamlessly connect with your team, update and track tasks and automate all your business processes for quick results. You can develop your own customized processes with no-code or low-code. For example: HR process automation, creative department process automation, video conferencing tool etc.

Why

Now that we have covered the ‘who’ or ‘what’, let’s also get into the ‘why’. 

While we have already mentioned a few reasons how PaaS can help in the paragraphs above, it’s time we give you concrete reasons as to why and how PaaS can benefit you, your organization and business. 

Enhanced versatility: 

PaaS platforms are known for their flexibility and it’s not a surprise that they’re evolving at a quick rate. The platforms significantly reduce the need for purchase and installation of hardware and infrastructure, and maintenance. The new generation of PaaS platforms have been offering the developer better self-service features where they will have access to better programming interface and integrated management features. 

With API integration and customization capability, PaaS truly becomes a good choice for when you want specific automated processes or features. You can deploy and adapt to PaaS applications quickly, as well as customize or extend as per your convenience.

Scalable and cost-effective:

Using PaaS has not only proven to increase the agility of your application, but also have the same effect on capital savings. PaaS gives you the opportunity to keep up with the fast-paced market by easy and quick development of business applications. 

You can transform innovative ideas into tangible results; saving a whole lot of costs that would instead go into outsourcing or purchasing a bundle to just use one service. Owing to the pay-as-you-use model that is incorporated by most PaaS platforms, it’s an investment that gives you more savings apart from just ROI. You also save on time, capital and resources as manual labour is considerably reduced due to quick deployment and automation.

Improved data security:

PaaS can not only automate your processes, but it also ensures that your data is secured with automatic and frequent updates, any vulnerabilities found in the system are remedied immediately. Your user data remains secure owing to the regular security updates for individual stack components, as well as notifications sent once the vulnerability is remedied.

Reduced need for storage and backup investment:

Backing up data, maintenance and data storage takes a lot of investment and is expensive. With PaaS as a cloud service, both need and investment is reduced considerably. As for maintenance, the regular automatic updates ensure that you do not have to worry about installing an additional hardware or service, which all together saves a whole lot of costs. 

Streamlines processes:

With PaaS, you can automate an entire departmental process of your organization or develop your own business application that ensures wasteful follow-ups and labour is eliminated. PaaS offers a transparent solution that shows exactly what needs to be done and what the next step is. 

You can track where the project is halting and take effective measures to quickly move the project forward. You can also keep a track on your team/ individual progress as well as the savings and expenditure to better understand the risks and investments you need to take. 

Conclusion

Now that we’ve covered the essential information, we can say that PaaS is the option that will be most suitable for you if you want automated custom business applications. Not only will it simplify the way your organization runs, it will also reduce time, labour, capital and resources while giving you significantly better ROI than the traditional methods. It also improves collaboration and communication within your team, which in turn increases the productivity and job satisfaction. Platform as a Service ensures your customer experience is enhanced to help your business achieve bigger and better things. 

So, what are you waiting for? Don’t let this opportunity ‘PaaS’ you by!

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Our IdeaBridge® Workflow & Innovation Management Platform is designed to aid your institution in times of duress and ensure you are connected to each level of your institution no matter where you are, as well as help save time, resources, capital and reduce manual labour by automating your process and keeping you updated in real-time.

We are an Innovation & Workflow Management Platform for global enterprises and institutions seeking to:

• Create new and innovative methods, strategies, products etc.
• Manage costs and enhance savings
• Raise engagement level
• Significantly enhance the employee, R&D and consumer experience.

We have recently launched our Platform as a Service (PaaS) feature that is essentially a low-code platform to help build micro-apps and automate custom processes of your organization such as -

• IP & Patent Management
• Creative Design Process Management, 
• Employee Health and Safety Management, 
• Grievance Management, 
• Ticket Management etc.
• Product Development

We help automate your business process so you can gain a holistic perspective and keep a track on your budget and investment. 

The IdeaBridge® Platform helps you run and manage your business process applications effectively. We help you adapt to constantly evolving changes and opportunities in a time-efficient manner. Our features and automation help maximize your profits and minimize the cost and investment.

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