Hi. Sorry I haven’t been blogging recently – the rowing season is upon us so that’s taken up a lot of evenings training and it has been one of those times where I’ve been ear-deep in creating new material.
One of the things that kept me busy has been the recently published “Cordys for ISVs” white paper and Cordys Content On Demand page focused on our ISV customers and value proposition.
As I’ve been working on these materials – it struck me that I haven’t written a “Customer Showcase” blog post for a while. We’ve got some great examples of ISVs that are using Cordys to build a wide variety of all kinds of applications and innovative product offerings. There’s more information in the paper about how the Cordys platform works for and benefits ISVs. In a nutshell, we’re seeing software vendors modernize and evolve their portfolio to exploit things like process, SaaS and enterprise mobility. There also seems to be a strong desire to do that with a much higher degree of productivity to help get to market quicker and deal with fast changing customer demand and need for customization.
I was reading a recent “state of the market” report from Forrester that explained how software spend is driving worldwide software growth. Within that software segment, application spend was the largest segment (when compared with OS, middleware, custom built apps etc). Within the application segment, Enterprise Process Applications dwarfed all other kinds of applications. These Enterprise Process Applications spanned all the different industry verticals.
This plays well into the idea that ISVs need a platform that enables them to take the applications they have and wrap them in process and enable them to be delivered as SaaS and be used on any kind of device. By the way – as an ISV – I can’t throw out everything I’ve built as an ISV over the last 10 years and take 3 years to modernize – so make this as easy to do as possible and show me how you’re going to help me deliver what my customers are shouting for.
So – here’s a few examples of customers who are using the Cordys platform to try and tackle the challenges they had. I’ve tried to pick a variety of industries, regions and use cases. They’re all using a different mix of the Cordys platform capabilities and the application “building blocks” to help them deliver a new generation of applications:
HumanWave – an EMEA ISV focusing on the HRM market. HumanWave selected Cordys to build a suite of seven HRM cloud based solutions from staffing to recruitment. HumanWave reduced their engineering costs by a factor of four, accelerated their time to market, enabled customization of their SaaS offering for customers and opened up a new channel by offering HR SaaS.
Argility – a South African software company specialising in retail. Argility were looking to provide additional value to existing customers and enhancing/extending the life-cycle of existing apps. As a result of adopting the Cordys platform they’ve managed to build a number of solutions including multi-channel marketing, a retail solutions framework and single customer view. They’ve managed to increase their market share globally, reduce their TCO and get to market faster with new solutions.
NCCW – a Dutch based housing association ISV with 300 people serving 240 corporations with nearly a million users. NCCW needed to modernize their application portfolio in two ways – firstly to deal with fast changing regulation and compliance and secondly to offer their applications as SaaS. NCCW delivered improved profitability with lower TCO, new services leading to increased market share and truly multi-tenanted SaaS giving each corporation their own business environment.
A leading US healthcare ISV – this organization selected Cordys to implement and build out their new product portfolio. They delivered a series of dynamic case management based applications delivered as SaaS. These applications gave collaboration and flexibility to the patient wellness suite. Cordys gave them the ability to customize the solution for each customer, delivered ease of use and high productivity for business & IT and allowed them to offer price flexibility to their customers to help win new business.
If you’re interested in reading/watching some ISVs talking about the Cordys platform, the ISV white paper or the Forrester report explaining the value of PaaS for ISVs – check out the Content On Demand page here
As always – thanks for taking the time to read the blog
Matt
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