Top 5 SaaS Features

CentricMinds SaaS (Software as a Service) is an on-demand Enterprise Web Content Management platform that combines the best of the CentricMinds Enterprise WCMS with the innovation and commercialization of Cloud computing technologies.

CentricMinds SaaS has primarily been designed for non-technical business users to develop powerful Internet and Intranet solutions, without being hampered by the need to have dedicated technical resources and knowledge typically required in establishing any CMS.

The Top 5 features of the CentricMinds Software as a Service on-demand Web Content Management platform include:

1. Removing the barrier to entry
Getting a Web Content Management System established takes time and technical expertise. An understanding of web servers, application servers and databases is required to establish a successful CMS instance. Invariably those individuals seeking tools to develop web content management strategies and business solutions are typically not technical. CentricMinds SaaS enables non-technical business users to get an Enterprise WCMS up and running in less than a minute. We’ve removed the technical barrier to entry, so you can start focussing on solving business problems within the first hour.

2. Built on Amazon Web Services
Yes, as in Amazon the world’s largest on-line bookstore. Huh? So what do books have to do with Enterprise Web Content Management? Nothing actually. But Amazon have spent billions of dollars over the years developing their own scalable web technology which they have now turned over to the public in the form of Amazon Web Services. CentricMinds started evaluating the AWS offering in early 2007, and we immediately saw a unique opportunity of using AWS to store, deploy and manage our Enterprise Web Content Management System. Not just for our own needs, and the needs of our customers and partners, but to make it accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. Amazon Web Services allows us to deploy literally thousands of CentricMinds WCMS instances, without the need to worry about hardware sizing and server management.

3. Cost
Because we don’t need to buy, support and maintain hundreds of web servers to manage our SaaS offering, we are able to keep the cost of operation low. We pay Amazon for what we use. Our pricing for CentricMinds SaaS is outstanding, considering the solution on offer. You can now employ the CentricMinds Enterprise Web Content Management System to manage your Internet or Intranet site for a few hundred dollars a month, depending on your business requirements. We think SaaS will play a big role in the future of software purchasing and provisioning.

4. Secure
CentricMinds SaaS is built on Amazon Web Services; EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) for running the WCMS, and S3 (Simple Storage Service) for storing and managing all of your content. The AWS environment is manage by Amazon. It’s a more secure environment than anything a privately owned company like CentricMinds could boast to offer.

5. Ease of use
Software as a Service is about on-demand and timely delivery of service. Turn on the tap and you get water. CentricMinds SaaS enables you to pay for what you want, decide when you’ve had enough, or open up the tap even further when you want more. No contracts, pay by the month, you decide what you want.