Servoy - An Ideal Tool for Independent Software Vendors
If you are considering building a vertical market product or enhancing your existing vertical market software, Servoy has a compelling business story for you to consider. With Servoy, you can radically affect your profit potential -- both by reducing costs and increasing your market reach.
Servoy is committed to help your company save time and money by modernizing your current application. With our
ISV Assurance Program we can help you to ensure that your transition to Servoy is within spec, on time and on budget.
For all the details on our
ISV Assurance Program, please click
here or contact us at
sales@servoy.com and we'll be happy to assist you or phone a Servoy Business Development Director by phone:
North America - Yvo Boom
yboom@servoy.com - (805) 990-1865
EMEA - Andy Rooswinkel
arooswinkel@servoy.com - +31 641 499429
How Servoy Supports Our ISV Partners
Servoy will help you re-write your product on-time, within-budget, fixed cost.For all the details on our
ISV Assurance Program, please click
here or contact us at
sales@servoy.com and we'll be happy to assist you or phone a Servoy Business Development Director by phone at (805) 624-4959.
Servoy Success Stories and Testimonials
Want to know who else is using Servoy to develop and sell their vertical market products? Want to read what kinds of experiences they had? Here are four compelling Servoy Success Stories to visit:
- adBlocks - Sells a product for cable T.V. advertising.
- Choices - Sells a product that rolls out thousands of PDF forms to the insurance industry.
- McCann Medical Matrix - UCLA Doctor - Sells a product for eye doctor's offices.
- UHS - A Medical Group that utilizes Servoy for telemedicine; considering going to market with this product.
Find out what on what Peter Kastner, VP and co-founder of
the Aberdeen Group, has to say about Servoy
here (video snippet).
If you are already convinced, contact
sales@servoy.com to discuss a proposal or personalized Servoy Webinar to help demonstrate how Servoy can benefit your business needs.
How to Generate More Revenue with Servoy
Business owners and executives are always strategically concerned with how to make more money. Servoy can help you achieve your goal in several ways:
- Rent Your Application to End Users
Want to change or create a new pricing paradigm? You can be like the big boys (e.g. SalesForce.com) by hosting your product as a SAAS (Software As A Service). Servoy's Zero Deployment Client enables you to host your product and reach whole new markets -- with no recoding at all. Develop your product once and then deploy to any platform, as client/server, webclient, SAAS, ASP, PDA, etc. etc.!
- Add New Features to YOUR Product
Because Servoy allows you to completely control the user experience via events, you can easily create interfaces containing "modes" or "modules" that allow you to offer enhanced functionality only to certain customers. The ability to have "add-ons", and more advanced functionality means that you can also charge your customers for those features -- and still develop your product from a single code base.
- Add Web and Mobile Options WITH NO RECODING
Are your clients clamoring for browser-based products, cell phone products, PDA and other mobile products? With Servoy, you can roll out all or parts of your application to ALL of these end users WITHOUT recoding! Think how many more products you can add WITH NO EXTRA WORK. Imagine how many new clients you can pitch your products to. Think of how you can run circles around your competitors.
Click here to view screens shots of a company actually deploying their Servoy application to mobile devices.
- Easy Upgrade Path for YOUR Product
One of the major ways ISVs can generate recurring revenue is to offer new upgrades with enhanced features and fixes for their current clients. With Servoy, you can create new revisions quickly; add new functionality -- such as those described in the previous paragraph -- and deploy those revisions seamlessly! Since Servoy does not store data, you (or your end customer) can roll out your newly enhanced GUI (graphical user interface) features easily from any browser. There is no longer any necessity to physically go to customer offices just to upgrade; and no need to duplicate disks and mail them out. You can virtually just "push a button" to roll out your new Servoy developed upgrade or revision (or roll back to a previous version if necessary).
- Rapid Development
Let's face it -- the faster you get your product to market or the more consistently you can update your application, the more revenue potential. See the section below dedicated to Rapid Application Development (RAD) for more information and published articles about Servoy's superior RAD capabilities.
- Platform Independence - including Linux
With the massive push to Open Source, a whole new market is emerging or shifting to this platform. Servoy can run on: Windows; Mac OS X; Linux; Unix; Solaris; AS400; and all the way up to mainframe hardware.
Click here to read an article about Servoy and Linux.
- Data Source Independence
You are not locked into any proprietary database with Servoy. Servoy can connect to virtually any SQL backend database -- and even more than one database simultaneously. You can expand your market potential, since your clients don't have to re-key or even reload their data. Your application can access that data where it is currently stored.
- Standards Based
Servoy is completely based upon industry standards, which can lead to a greater adoption of your application; and greater reach within your targeted market. Servoy "glues" industry standards together.
Click here for more detail on the industry standards supported by Servoy.
- Make it LOOK Like Your Current Product
Servoy has an extremely powerful graphical user interface (GUI) builder. You can make your new Servoy application look like your existing version -- so your customers don't need to invest in re-training. They will feel comfortable with your new Servoy application and will more readily upgrade.
- Performance and Concurrency
Servoy accesses multiple datasources and supports a virtually unlimited number of concurrent users. The Servoy Server is fast, reliable and secure -- using 128 bit SSL in communications between the client and server -- even over a LAN. Servoy Server is also lightweight in size; will run on everything from a laptop to mainframe hardware; and will scale based on hardware.
How to Reduce Your Costs with Servoy
The other side of the profit equation is reducing costs. If you can drive down your costs, you can bring profit right to the bottom line. Here are just some of the numerous ways Servoy can effectively help you lower your costs:
- Develop Faster
Time is money. Time to market, time to develop, and the programmer's time. Developing with Servoy is MUCH faster than trying to learn other proprietary programming languages -- even compared to other 4GL development platforms. Servoy customers have consistently told us they can program their applications 5 to 10 times faster with Servoy. You can often build a proof of concept with Servoy in less time than it takes to write a specification. And you can build and deploy your finished application in record time -- a must when re-developing your solution.
- No Citrix Needed for WAN Access
Save serious cash by dumping your Citrix licenses for WAN users. Servoy has a very low network latency -- which enables your customers to access your application over a WAN nearly as quickly as if they were on the LAN. Test the speed for yourself!
Click here to launch our sample CRM in the Smart Client, or click here to launch it in the Web Client from a Servoy demo server in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Click here to launch our sample CRM in the Smart Client, or click here to launch it in the Web Client from a Servoy demo server in British Columbia, Canada.
NOTE: The first time you click on either of these links, the Java Client software may download to your computer; and then the demo solution will open (and be cached on your machine). Subsequent launches of the Servoy demo solutions will be extremely fast, since there is no need to re-download any Client software.
- Zero Deployment Clients
Seriously -- ZERO DEPLOYMENT! Your users can literally click a button and Servoy deploys via a web browser. One Click. Done. Save money, save time, save support hassles. (see the Servoy demo links above). Besides having Zero deployment, Servoy Clients are also self-updating. When launching a Servoy Client application, client software will self-update and continue to launch -- AUTOMATICALLY -- when there is a new version of Servoy on the server.
- Plugins Included
Servoy is installed by default with over 15 Java Plugins. With Servoy Plugins, you can leverage functionality that would cost you thousands to develop (or re-develop) in-house. Right out of the box, Servoy enables you to offer your users POP/SMTP email; get/post HTTP data (including documents and images) from the web; custom pop-up menus; implementation of application-specific chat functions; manipulation of files/folders on the client machine; and much more. Besides the default plugins that ship with Servoy, the Servoy community continues to develop free and commercial third-party plugins for: Outlook integration; SOAP connectivity; Word integration; custom menu bars; streaming media; and the list keeps growing. Servoy is 100% Java -- meaning you have immediate access to the thousands of JavaBeans and Java Applets already available, and can integrate them seamlessly into your Servoy solution with a few clicks.
- Lower Maintenance Costs
With Servoy, you can develop standalone "modules" to increase code re-use. For example: If you have calendaring functionality that you want to use in two different products, you could simply create a calendar module that could be added to both applications. Developing Servoy modules means you only need to change the code once when you want to enhance functionality; combine commonly-used functions; store your error dialogs; apply common navigation routines; etc. Modular development will greatly reduce your maintenance costs vs re-inventing the same functionality over and over again for more than one product.
- One Code Base - Multiple Deployments
Imagine being able to code your application once, and deploy it on multiple devices -- all with ZERO re-coding on your part! With Servoy, you only have to write code ONCE and you can deploy your application via the web: desktop; cell phone; mobile units; PDMs; Blackberries; and more. Think of the cost savings for this one feature alone.
- Develop On Your Existing Hardware
With Servoy, you can code on any platform and database, and then deploy to any other platform/database -- with ZERO re-coding. For example: You could develop on Mac OS X using Sybase ASA, and then your customer can deploy on Linux running Oracle -- without a single line of code change on your part! And when you upgrade your product -- such as adding columns or tables -- Servoy will automatically update your customer's backend database, regardless of platform or vendor. Just think of how much time and money you will save on support, not to mention the ability to service a whole new class of customers.
How to Quickly Get to Market with Rapid Application Development
Getting your products to market or the ability to create compelling revisions quickly can be a key component for an ISV. You need to get your product revised quickly with high quality features. Servoy is a superior Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool.
Click
here to read about how Servoy compared to .Net, Magic, Oracle Forms in a head-to-head application-building competition.
Servoy Success Stories and Testimonials
Want to know who else is using Servoy to develop and sell their vertical market products? Want to read what kinds of experiences they had? Here are four compelling Servoy Success Stories to visit:
- adBlocks - Sells a product for cable T.V. advertising.
- Choices - Sells a product that rolls out thousands of PDF forms to the insurance industry.
- McCann Medical Matrix - UCLA Doctor - Sells a product for eye doctor's offices.
- UHS - A Medical Group that utilizes Servoy for telemedicine; considering going to market with this product.
Servoy Whitepapers and Newsletters
Some of our earliest adopters have had tremendous success increasing their profits by switching to Servoy. Servoy Whitepapers detail how profits increase by reducing costs; how gross revenues multiply by reaching new customers since Servoy is platform independent (including Linux); and how market potential can be radically expanded because Servoy connects to virtually ANY backend data.
Click
here to read the Servoy Whitepapers.
To sign up for the Servoy Newsletter,
download the Servoy Demo software or register for a free online
Servoy Webinar -- and you will also be notified about new Servoy Whitepapers.
How Servoy Supports Our ISV Partners
Servoy will help you re-write your product on-time, within-budget, fixed cost. For all the details on our Assurance Program, please click
here or contact us at
sales@servoy.com and we'll be happy to assist you or phone a Servoy Business Development Director by phone at (805) 624-4959.
Servoy is known for being an extremely open and supportive company to our many developers; ISVs; Servoy Alliance Network (SAN) members; and Servoy "fans". They rave about the level of interaction with Servoy; the support Servoy offers; and the responsiveness to feature requests/other posts on the Servoy Forum. We know that for us to continue to be successful, you have to be successful.
Working together with ISV's means we closely partner with you; we can customize ongoing Servoy Support services; offer jump start support; or whatever it takes to make you as an ISV successful. The more customers you have, the more licenses Servoy sells! Typically, we bundle a mix of Servoy Webinars; as well as customized phone, on-line and on-site support/service level agreements to help your development efforts.
Additional Servoy Resources
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Ready to Try Out Servoy?
Are you ready to make more profit? Lower your costs? Increase your market reach? Add new features and gain new upgrade revenue? You owe it to yourself to try out Servoy today.
Download the free Servoy Trial Version.
Frequently Asked Questions
Here are a few commonly asked questions from potential ISV customers and their answers:
- Can I white label my Servoy application? Yes. We can give you the option of only featuring your software product's name, with the Servoy name supressed. Please contact sales@servoy.com for details.
- Does Servoy have specials for large volume license? Yes, we have multiple ways that we can work with you to ensure your profitability. You may choose to do your software as a service (SaaS), short term rentals (for spikes) or various volume agreements. Please contact sales@servoy.com for assistance.
- Do you support training and development? Can you offer assistance to help us jump start this process? Yes! At Servoy, its our goal to help you be successful. We have the Servoy Assurance Program to help you reach your goals on time and within budget. Please visit here for all the details: here Servoy Assurance program.
Have more questions? Write to
sales@servoy.com and we'll be happy to assist you or call a Servoy Business Development Director by phone at (805) 624-4959 x803.
