At Scio, our team has been forging the way for "On-Demand" business models, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Web 2.0 applications since before these terms existed to describe the development services we provide. Creating on-demand applications using our custom methodology stack.

To assist software companies make a smooth and rapid transition to SaaS, Scio developed three major service components to create a SaaS Rapid Application Development (RAD) offering.

The first component is a business consulting assignment, called SaaS Readiness Evaluation, designed to help companies to examine the SaaS business model for their own market and services. The engagement covers business planning, market analysis, application evaluation and includes a SaaS business case and a working prototype. The latter can be used to acquire working capital for development phases, or can be presented to potential clients for buy-in and feedback.
 
The second component is a SaaS Technical Assessment, which provides technical recommendations related to the issues that will affect the performance, scalability, manageability and security of the application, such as application architecture, tenancy and provisioning model options, integration requirements, database design, infrastructure architecture, development platform, and usability.
 
The third component is SaaS Application Development services using resources of the Scio Morelia Development Center leveraging cost-effective software development resources experienced in building SaaS applications. The development team is experienced with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) rapid development tools as well as custom development of SaaS applications and architecture.
 
Clients can engage Scio either for specific business and technical consulting needs, as an outsourced product development partner or for development team augmentation. With all of these approaches, our clients benefit from the SaaS and the collaborative development experience of the Scio team.

• SaaS Readiness Evaluation
• SaaS Technical Assessment
• SaaS Development Solutions