Best Cloud Application Service

Adaptive Planning - Adaptive Planning

Adaptive Planning is the worldwide leader in on-demand budgeting, forecasting, reporting, consolidation, and visual discovery solutions for companies of all sizes. Its solutions allow finance and management teams to obtain real-time visibility into performance metrics, streamline FP&A processes, and drive better business decisions. Adaptive Planning makes it easy to move beyond cumbersome, spreadsheet-based processes, without the cost and complexity associated with traditional on-premise business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM) software.
Adaptive Planning’s cloud based solution provides its customers with an alternative to manual spreadsheets and expensive enterprise software. Adaptive Planning is an affordable, easy-to-use, rapidly deployable, cloud-based solution that allows companies and nonprofits of all sizes to enhance the strategic value of their finance organizations and elevate their CPM cycle.
Adaptive Planning’s integration of cloud allows companies to reduce the amount of time spent implementing and managing their mission-critical applications, and to do things better and faster, thereby increasing their competitive advantage. Cloud computing allows companies to scale their business as needed. They can deploy business applications on demand, quickly bringing new business initiatives online, and just as quickly decommission non-profitable initiatives.

Additional information can be found online at:

• Budgeting & Forecasting with Adaptive Planning
• Data Integration with Adaptive Planning
• Reporting & Analysis with Adaptive Planning
• Adaptive Planning Data Sheet

Aria Subscription Billing Platform - Aria Systems, Inc.

The Aria Subscription Billing Platform is a complete SaaS subscription commerce solution that manages the entire subscriber lifecycle for all recurring revenue models as a company grows and expands its business. The feature-rich Platform shortens the time it takes for companies to bring new products and services to market, while providing the flexibility they need to optimize their monetization strategies.

Built by billing experts, the cloud-based Aria Platform supports business needs ranging from the simple to the complex. It is the only enterprise-class solution that fully automates the entire subscriber lifecycle for all recurring revenue models. The Platform brings the front and back office together by seamlessly connecting back office applications (invoicing, payments, service delivery) and front office applications (products, pricing, analytics) with customer care and channel management. It offers companies more visibility into their customer base, more control over how they manage their business and the added ability to quickly adapt to changing market conditions.

The Aria Platform also offers industry-leading system uptime by leveraging Aria Systems' LiveRelease technology, which ensures 99.99% system availability and delivers the unique ability to roll-out new features, enhancements and fixes without impacting service.

Additional information can be found online at:

• The Anatomy of A Recurring Revenue Model (White Paper)
• Aria Systems Announces Latest Version of Aria Subscription Billing Platform (News Release)

Aryaka WAN Optimization as-a-Service - Aryaka

Aryaka has brought to the market the world’s first WAN optimization solution delivered as a service. Purpose built-for-the-cloud, the Aryaka solution is unique in its architecture and business model, with performance improvements built across every part of the overall solution. In the revolutionary Aryaka model, the intelligence is moved out into the secure Aryaka cloud.
Aryaka utilizes a global network along with QoS and security, TCP optimization, compression and deduplication, and application acceleration – the cornerstone techniques of WAN optimization
solutions – to improve network and application performance and provide end-to-end visibility and control. This allows enterprises of all sizes faster, secure and reliable access to data, resources and applications for all their locations, regardless of geography and time zones. With Aryaka, there is no need to buy expensive bandwidth, costly and complex WAN optimization hardware appliances, or dedicated links. Aryaka’s intelligent, optimized, scalable network finally makes affordable, easy-to-deploy WAN optimization for application acceleration and bandwidth savings a reality for the midmarket.
Global enterprises of all sizes are now leveraging Aryaka’s WAN optimization-as-a-Service to increase productivity, improve business processes and gain a competitive edge.

Additional information can be found online at:

• Aryaka Facebook page
• Aryaka YouTube page
• Aryaka LinkedIn page
• Analyst whitepapers about Aryaka

ClassLink LaunchPad iOS & Touch Apps - ClassLink, Inc.

ClassLink LaunchPad™ iOS & Touch Apps delivers a personal cloud desktop to your tablet or handheld. Access from these mobile devices allows schools to provide the same learning experience to all students regardless of device type. Whether using an Android, Apple or Windows mobile device, your students will have fast and easy access to all their school resources. LaunchPad is a cloud-based learning desktop that provides administrators, teachers and students personalized access to files and applications on any device at any time. LaunchPad Cloud Desktop delivers cost savings for schools and all reduces the complexity often inherent with technology. LaunchPad features a resource library, single sign-on to all applications and files, and the ability to collaborate in real time. Simple to set up and manage, LaunchPad’s easy-to-use cloud desktop is a great solution for schools looking to implement a successful Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or 1to1 instruction model. With more and different mobile devices showing up in the classrooms today, users expecting 24/7 access and schools needing to keep costs low, LaunchPad™ iOS & Touch will quickly provide the desired new approach.

Additional information can be found online at:

• LaunchPad overview
• LaunchPad Webinar
• BYOD Central Answers Schools BYOD questions

MaaS360 - Fiberlink Communications

MaaS360 by Fiberlink is a cloud-based, FISMA-certified enterprise device management solution that provides multi-platform support for businesses of all sizes to manage and secure enterprise computing platforms – from desktops and laptops to smartphones, tablets, and even employee-owned devices. MaaS360 features an easy to use interface that displays enterprise information on users, devices and applications, and manages the entire mobile lifecycle in a single console.

Currently, MaaS360 is used to manage and secure more than one million endpoints globally and features easy integration with Microsoft Exchange/ActiveSync, Lotus Traveler, Gmail, Active Directory and any required certificate authorities. Users are always on the latest version of the product without manual updates and MaaS360 delivers faster time-to-value than any on-premises solution, with devices enrolled in minutes. MaaS360 keeps devices and corporate data secure, and keeps professional and personal data separated and organized. It is also the first mobile device management solution to receive an authority to operate (ATO) in accordance with the U.S. Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).

Fiberlink’s unique cloud-based technology and delivery model are the foundation for this Mobility-as-a-Service platform, and MaaS360 changes the game for how IT manages, views, and controls all enterprise devices.

Fieldglass - Fieldglass, Inc.

Fieldglass is the largest Vendor Management System (VMS) provider. Its innovative cloud technology solution is used by more than 180 Global 2000 companies to procure and manage their flexible workforces, including contingent labor, services arranged through Statements of Work, independent contractors and specialized talent pools like interns and alumni.

Fieldglass’ technology automates and optimizes the entire services procurement procure-to-pay process. The solution is deployed in 78 countries, accessed in 12 languages, and used by more than 10,000 staffing and services suppliers worldwide. To date, customers have managed more than two million candidates using Fieldglass’ technology.

Customers rely on Fieldglass to gain visibility into complex services spend, improve worker quality, enforce both corporate and external compliance and realize greater efficiencies across the entire talent supply chain.

The Fieldglass application was “born cloud”, operating via the Software-as-a-Service model since its inception. Fieldglass has completed SAS 70 / SSAE 16 examinations since 2005, and its infrastructure can scale for growth with high availability, redundancy and security. Fieldglass’ integration capabilities allow customers to create flexible work streams, enforce processes and maintain data integrity. Common customer integrations include on-premise ERP systems like Oracle and SAP as well as function-specific applications like Ariba, Kronos and WorkDay.

Additional information can be found online at:

• Fieldglass LinkedIn page
• Fieldglass Facebook page
• Fieldglass press release: #1 VMS for 4th consecutive year
• Fieldglass press release: #1 in supplier and customer satisfaction

New Relic - New Relic

New Relic is a SaaS-based software management tool for web and mobile applications. It empowers developers, operations, and DevOps teams to manage their web app and/or native mobile app performance by helping IT teams to quickly pinpoint and solve performance issues across the web application stack. In a single UI, New Relic monitors the entire software stack from servers, through the web app, down to the end user experience. It provides a laser like focus on performance issues, often identifying the source of bottlenecks down to a specific line of code. New Relic supports monitoring of applications built on Ruby, Java, .NET, PHP and Python. It offers enterprise-class capabilities including Real User Monitoring, Performance analytics, Transaction Tracing, Proactive notifications, Server Monitoring, Availability Monitoring, architecture mapping (App Map) and performance monitoring for native iOS and Android mobile apps. The SaaS delivery model provides freedom, flexibility and control without the costs and implementation obstacles of traditional on-premise solutions. The New Relic Dashboard enables users to manage their application from any location, at any time, through any browser.

Additional information can be found online at:

• New Relic Infographics
• New Relic for Mobile Apps
• white papers
• customers and case studies

ServiceMesh Agility Platform - ServiceMesh

ServiceMesh has created an enterprise cloud management platform that enables transformative everything as a service IT delivery models for Global 2000 clients. ServiceMesh's Agility Platform accelerates this transformation by governing, orchestrating, and delivering portfolios of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and across hybrid cloud environments to reduce the cost, complexity, and time-to-market for delivery of IT services.

The ServiceMesh Agility Platform enables customers to adopt cloud-based, everything as a service IT operating models to compress IT service delivery time and lower costs throughout the enterprise. We provide a single, consolidated management platform that simplifies the complexities of private, public, and hybrid cloud management for large enterprises. The Agility Platform’s unmatched capabilities in policy-based governance, security, and lifecycle management allow our customers to accelerate the adoption of cloud services and speed the delivery of business applications safely into the cloud with complete governance and control.

Additional information can be found online at:

• Agility Platform 9 Overview and Demo
• Several Videos including overview of Agility Platform as well as advanced features and functionality
• Case Study Presentation: Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• ServiceMesh Takeaways: case studies, videos and analyst reports