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March 17, 2021

SaaS Development Company: How SaaS Products Are Developed?



Most business organizations and startups are going after SaaS (News - Alert) applications to develop and expand their business.



It is a cost-effective approach that helps you to make a lot of money in a short span of time. This cloud-based software has many advantages. 

Because of this reason, the demand for SaaS application development has increased these days. Instead of building a normal web application or mobile application, most people are developing SaaS applications.

SaaS Application Development:

Software as a service is software that is distributed as a service. There is a third-party provider who hosts the software. The customers can directly use it over the internet. There is no need to download it to your device to use it.

There is no need to install or maintain this software on your device. Whenever you want to use it, you can access the internet.

SaaS Development Company:

It is a development company that builds and develops SaaS platforms, applications, and solutions for clients. 

These companies have a team of developers who help startups as well as business organizations to develop the software. It is then hosted on servers so that end-users can use it via the internet.

SaaS Products Development Process:

Now that you know what SaaS Development Company is, it is time to learn how the developers develop the software. Here are the stages in the development process.

  • Stage 1: Discovery Phase

This is the first and the most important step in developing a SaaS application. In this phase team of analysts work together to analyze the core functions as well as the best features of the software. They analyze the competitors as well as the domain used by them. They create a detailed product vision and estimate the project. This is the stage where the actual planning starts. The team has to regularly communicate with the client to stay on the same page about the software requirements.

  • Stage 2: IA and UI/ UX Design

After the initial planning is done in the discovery stage, the company develops UI/ UX design which serves as a prototype. It helps them to get feedback from the clients. The developers design the software to enhance the user experience. This stage includes research and analysis, information architecture, user experience, and interface design.

  • Stage 3: Architecture Design and Programming

After the user-interface design, it is time for architecture design. The architecture is designed in such a way that the software is scalable. The developers design expandable software. It is the most important development stage. Cloud platform deployment, as well as development and integration, take place in this step.

  • Stage 4: Testing and QA

This is a quality assurance step. After developing the software, the team has to conduct various checks to get quality assurance. It includes code reviews, performance testing, security testing, load testing, unit tests, GDPR tests, etc. 

This is how SaaS Development Company develops SaaS solutions and platforms for the clients. These are the stages in the SaaS product development process. 



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