SaaS Application Packaging Standard
The Application Packaging Standard (APS) is a new application packaging format designed to help implement a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model. This new SaaS model, facilitated by APS, enables additional revenue generation per user and is now made available to all industry hosting providers and independent software vendors who wish to have this new capability.
APS creates a new revenue opportunity for both industry hosting providers and independent software vendors by introducing a "pluggable" approach to distributing SaaS applications. Once packaged in the APS format by a software vendor, an application can be easily "plugged" into an infrastructure of any hosting provider that implemented the standard "socket" for the APS applications.
The introduction of APS advances the web hosting industry. By implementing APS, hosting service providers can gain access to a great variety of APS applications. In turn, application vendors that implement APS can get access to a vast sales and marketing channel of APS-enabled hosting providers.
If you have an Application that you would like to submit for APS Certification and register as a listing in the APS Certified Application Catalog, please click here.