building scalable and secure saas solutions leveraging the

The Leader In Outsourced Software Product Development

Shreekanth Joshi

Head of SaaS Competency Center

Building Scalable and

Secure SaaS Solutions

Leveraging the Oracle

Platform

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Overview

� SaaS challenges

� Case Study

� Benefits of using Oracle Stack for SaaS solutions

� Persistent Expertise


Key Challenges in Building SaaS Solutions


Technology Challenges


SaaS Enablement Methodology


Case Study – Financial ISV

� Situation

� Leading provider of business and financial management solutions for small and mid-sized businesses

� Challenges

� Introduce product to a new geography

� Leverage existing implementation, make efficient use of service composition

� Manage availability and throughput

� Manage Identity related issues

� Monetize based on a usage model and interface to billing system


Case Study - Functional Architecture


Case Study - Implementation Details

� Metadata layer – configuration data, user preferences

� Data layer – Integration with existing data services, caching user data

� Identity management – migration to 10g backend

� Ordering and provisioning – UI components implemented as part of user portal

� RAC implementation for data service layer


Case Study - Future Requirements

� Subscription services – module to track usage data

� Billing component – potentially leverage Oracle Portal billing software

� Data replication

� Monitoring and Management


Benefits of Using the Oracle Stack

Product Features Enabling SaaSOracle Real Application

Clusters

• Support for running single database against

several nodes in a cluster enabling high degree of

scalability

Identity Management • Support for identity federation for cross domain

SSO

Database (10g/11g) • Multifactor authorization checks and rules engine

to enforce isolation of tenant data

• Virtual Private Database (VPD) provides a logical

container for tenant data

• VPD ensures tenant isolation by enforcing further

checks using tenant identifiers

Oracle Enterprise Manager • Support for multitenant administration and

management


Why Persistent?


Persistent's Oracle Experience

� Deploy applications on scalable, grid platform comprised of

� Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle VM

� SLA Modeling and enforcement with top-down app management

� Using Oracle Enterprise Manager

� Ensure security for hosted on-demand apps – address privacy compliance and regulatory issues

� Leveraging Oracle Identity Management, Oracle Advance Security

� Develop operation reports and in-context actionable insights

� Using Oracle Business Intelligence

� Build comprehensive data and business process integration

� Leveraging Oracle SOA

Rapidly develop metadata-driven, customizable, service-oriented applications with

rich Web 2.0-style UI using Oracle Applications Development Framework


SaaS + Cloud Experience

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Shreekanth Joshi (Technical) [email protected]

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Conclusion

Whitepaper on SaaS Architecture Leveraging the Oracle SaaS Platform

Available for download on Persistent’s home page:

Persistent’s formula for successSaaS expertise + Oracle depth + ISV experience = Project Success!

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