Vaakya''s BAF for SMEs, ISVs

BANGALORE: After three years of R&D, Bangalore-based Vaakya Technologies has developed a unique software development & delivery platform and a descriptive scripting language.

Titled Vaakya Business Application Framework (BAF), the beta version of the framework is available at www.vaakya.com, in an 'On-Demand' model.

Vaakya BAF would enable developers and small & medium ISV's (Independent Software Vendors) to decrease time to develop and deliver applications to market by nearly 30 to 40 percent.

Vaakya BAF is an integrated suite of runtime components, which includes an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), a database, web application server, communications server, all at a tiny footprint of less than 1.5mb. The framework can be used on operating systems like Windows, Linux and FreeBSD.

The framework plays a role in increasing profitability and reduces transaction costs of software applications. It enables small & medium ISV's, SI's and end user IT departments to develop front-office consumer applications or enterprise back office applications across various deployment models like standalone, client/server or web-based.

Vaakya Technologies CEO, K Sudarsan, says, "Vaakya technology platform is lightweight and versatile. Built on 'C' language, Vaakya is an abstract embodiment of design and architectural patterns represented by a powerful runtime engine. It signifies a conceptually new philosophy to software programming. Today developers design and develop software separately for different deployment models. But Vaakya enables them to design/develop applications once and deployment in a standalone, client-server or on a SaaS based model without any re-architecting."

"Moving away from the traditional server-centric computing, companies will need to deliver software functionality on distributed computing models to support rich client applications, executable software delivered over the Internet and applications for mobile devices. Software as a Service (SaaS) is the next wave in the software delivery model. Gartner predicts that by 2011, 25 percent of new business software will be delivered as services," he added.

"Current SaaS architectures have limitations, which will be eliminated if vendors use Vaakya - designed to fulfill SaaS application architecture needs", concluded Sudarsan.

CIOL Bureau