Enterprise software is the core of IT solutions to run everyday business. Despite it is the largest software market with turnaround 500 billion dollars annually, development and user experience is much behind modern software development. Modern mobile devices allow seamlessly decide, install and play with numerous mobile apps from an app store developed by many independent vendors and talents. Modern Web demonstrates real time responsiveness. However, enterprise software market does not provide any similar quality app stores and responsiveness of systems requires patience especially in a high load. More specifically:
- It is difficult to enter the market and time-to-market is huge;
- The built solutions are extremely complex and it is difficult to manage and extend them;
- The market is characterized with high failure rate of IT projects;
- Businesses and enterprises have hard times to provide desired functionality;
- Delivery of new features to customers is long and costly;
- End users are unsatisfied with their experience.
Our aim to change how enterprise software is built and to enable enterprise app stores. We designed our next-generation platform to build software modules, like apps, by independent vendors, domain experts and talents, and run independent apps together by choosing them from an app store and starting on single server powered by our platform. This enables true app store with apps to constitute best enterprise software solutions. Furthermore, an ecosystem, demonstrated in the figure, will arise with app stores and solutions from and for different ISVs and enterprises and with contributions not only from ISVs and enterprises but also from talents.
Real time responsiveness and high performance is provided through use of Starcounter’s high performing in-memory database and platform.
