AppDirect’s Marketplace for SaaS Applications
Nowadays, no company, big or small, can avoid the need to have upwards of twenty or more applications in use at once. You need to cover your internet usage, security, communication, and management needs yet not one single app can cover all of this. All these applications have their own separate place in your system, their own IT centers to deal with, and each needs their own bill. If presented with the choice to compile and organize these applications, it would be a no brainer.
A Marketplace of Apps
AppDirect has taken SaaS applications to a whole new level with its AppDirect Marketplace. Imagine an Amazon-like space where users can shop from a growing selection of over 350 SaaS applications. The Marketplace is public-facing but is still a manual shopping experience. While not yet a click to purchase site, it soon will be.
This is not to the users’ determinate however, because the manual Marketplace offers such a vast amount of SaaS applications that this shopping can’t usually be done by the user alone. If one of Conectrix’s clients wanted to use the AppDirect Marketplace, we would connect you with an AppDirect consultant to help ease your app search as well as develop an application bundle that would encompass all of your commuting needs in one spot.
The Application Bundle
The problem we mentioned that confounds businesses concerning their applications is that they are all unconnected. Each app has its own IT call line, its own bill, and they are scattered across you and your employees’ desktops without uniformity. This SaaS app juggling problem would not go away if AppDirect only offered the Marketplace, but this is not so.
Keeping in step with the consulting aspect of the app shopping process, AppDirect packages all the apps your purchase into a bundle. This bundle takes all of your apps and puts them in a single place, accessible with a single click. All the apps are paid under one bill and AppDirect IT is the only place you need to call to handle any of the technical difficulties your bundle of apps might present. What’s more, is that any application your business already purchased directly from Google or Microsoft can be migrated over when you transfer to using AppDirect Management.
Something Conectrix Clients Should Consider
While these SaaS bundles are better fleshed out with an AppDirect consultant, here is a snapshot of some of the apps the Marketplace has to offer Conectrix’s various clients.
· Healthcare: Our clients in healthcare face HIPPA compliance and employee scheduling, both of which are fulfilled by Zix and Bitdefender included within the Paubox offering.
· Professional Services: Accountants and engineers who need pretty websites and other public-facing needs can use apps like Liquid Web, Base Kit Site Builder, and App interact; anything from domain registration, blog creation, and builds for mobile can all be done within a Marketplace bundle.
· Retail: Retail stores can have their point of sale needs met by apps like Talech and their security covered by providers like Century Link and Frontier Communications.
Conectrix will be partnering with AppDirect to provide our clients with a whole library full of all the SaaS applications they could ever want. Spare you and your team the hassle of dozens of unconnected applications and connect with us to see how we and AppDirect can optimize your SaaS application system today.