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3 Benefits of an aPaaS

Written by Kris Sæther | Jun 16, 2021 10:00:00 PM

What is an aPaaS (Application platform as a service), and why is it so beneficial for your document creation needs? aPaaS is a cloud based, platform environment for designing, building, deploying and managing custom business applications. It enables speed, system continuity, scalability and collaboration across the entire application lifecycle.

You can think of it as the foundation on which your applications run. Salesforce.com is probably the best example of this, with Microsoft not far behind as highlighted in Gartner's Magic Quadrant of aPaaS solutions.

So what are the benefits of using an aPaaS solution?

Speed of Deployment

One absolutely key feature of an implemented aPaaS is the ability to quickly deploy applications on top of the platform. Realistically, this is THE key feature for an aPaaS as the whole point of the platform is to give you a foundation for building and launching applications quickly and easily.

Systems Continuity

A second key benefit of an aPaaS is the ability to run, develop and launch applications all from the same platform. This allows for better visibility into the applications and makes control and upkeep of the applications much easier than using disparate systems. How many times have you experienced the pain of pulling like data for different sources because they are using and running on completely different systems?

Scalability

An aPaaS is purpose built to encourage scaling. The platform will be ready at all times without the need to re-configure the database if the need for rapid scaling comes to fruition. Not only will this save money, and possibly earn money with the ability to rapidly scale, but it will save massive amounts of time and manpower.