CDC Software, a provider of enterprise software applications and services, has unveiled Respond complaint management system, a cloud software-as-a-service (SaaS) application that will be developed with the Windows Azure platform.
The announcement comes as part of the company’s plans to expand its portfolio of cloud-based offerings and increase recurring SaaS revenue during the next few years.
The company said that it has already piloted CDC Respond on the Azure platform and plans to deliver the product by the end of the year. The Windows Azure platform, a set of cloud computing services, can be used together or independently that enable developers to develop cloud applications.
CDC has made several cloud-based acquisitions, as well as made investments in two SaaS application companies as part of its Strategic Cloud Investment Partner Program (SCIPP).
Under SCIPP, CDC Software plans to make minority investments in, and form strategic reselling partnerships with, companies offering cloud-based or point offerings which complement its enterprise offerings portfolio.
Alan MacLamroc, chief product and technology officer for CDC Software, said: “We believe that by developing applications using Windows Azure and leveraging our Agile development methodology, we will be able to launch flexible, reliable and scalable cloud applications quickly to the market.
“Azure provides us the ability to develop SOA-based multi-tenant architectures with the tools we are already using, and deploy them to a robust platform with staged production, failure-resilience, elastic scalability and self-service provisioning. CDC Software shares a complementary vision in cloud computing with Microsoft, and as a result, we expect to partner with them again on future cloud products.”
