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AppPoint: Breaking the barriers with business management on the cloud

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In the current scenario, SMEs and enterprises alike, adopt numerous applications in the cloud to improve predictability, scalability and effectualness with which outcomes are managed. While a few packaged applications are embraced to address specialized needs, a large percentage of the apps are either customized solutions or developed ground up.

However with the ever evolving technology with increasing complexities, developing and delivering scalable enterprise class business application is always associated with higher levels of risks as well as cost. Adding to this challenge would be the dynamic business need requiring high levels of agility with which business can launch or adopt new solutions/products or services.

Recognizing this crucial pain-point, Venki Muthanna, Founder and CEO of Bangalore headquartered AppPoint, leads his team of technocrats on delivering one of its kind technology platform for cloud enabled business applications, AppsOnAzure. Established in 2005 by a team with over 2 decades of experience in designing and developing some of the industry’s leading solutions for companies such as IBM Rational Software & Microsoft, AppsOnAzure offers a comprehensive infrastructure that enables business to quickly develop, deliver and manage business solutions all on the cloud.

Taking Over Traditional Approaches
Taking a look at the traditional approach to building any enterprise class business applications would involve adoption of enablers such as integration middleware and numerous application middleware such as reporting infrastructure, rules infrastructure, workflow and portal capabilities to name a few. However, in addition to these, the organizations are required to shell out money on highly skilled resources to finally develop and manage the applications. All of these factors amalgamated to produce a heavy dent on the responsiveness of the IT capabilities of the respective organization.

Trying to solve theses core challenges, the AppsOnAzure platform provided by AppPoint offers a high degree of technology abstraction to develop functional rich enterprise class business applications with additional features such as multi-tenancy, auditing, reporting, dynamic rules enforcement, workflows, document management, versioning of data and mobile workflows all using just a browser and no dependency on any other software or tools.

“AppsOnAzure comprises of an integration middleware, application middleware, cloud middleware as well as mobility middleware, all enabled with a unique model driven development environment and delivered as a single integrated suite of services on MicrosoftAzure,” says Muthanna.

The cloud platform is today able to integrate disconnected tools and processes spanning OnPremise and Cloud to deliver composite applications improving automation, and improved access to information. Citing the problems faced in growing business needs, the AppPoint team has skill sets to modernize legacy applications to provide richer capabilities to users while developing scalable cloud and mobility enabled applications which aid organizations to transform the way business is managed. “The platform only requires a browser, needs no investment on specialized skills and takes a non-intrusive approach to leverage existing infrastructure and applications,” points out Chandru, who is one of the co-founders and leads the solution initiatives with-in AppPoint.

Moving forward, having already been recognized in the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report as a niche player for enterprise business application platforms, AppPoint hopes to continue to build on its vision to break into the top 10 global technology providers. The team is today, actively moving towards this vision by broadening and strengthening its portfolio and extending its presence to newer markets.

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