Virtual Global Announces Free Crash Course for Software Developers using PaaS tools

RESTON, Va. - June 26, 2013 - PRLog -- Reston,VA -- Virtual Global announced today that it will hold an online workshop on July 19 at 12:00 pm Eastern Time, for developers looking to jumpstart their as-a-service strategies. Virtual Global will make its SaaS Maker™ platform-as-a-service freely available to participating developers. SaaS Maker includes online tools for rapid prototyping, building, and integrating social business applications.

The workshop will be led by Cary Landis, CEO of Virtual Global; and Dan Blacharski, editor-in-chief of Techie.com. The workshop is open to managers and developers of all types, including entrepreneurs, small businesses and large system integrators.

To register for the event, go to http://saasmaker.eventbrite.com. The workshop will introduce the concept of platform-as-a-service, the coming "dot cloud boom" and details to help attendees jumpstart their cloud strategies. Attendees will learn about SaaS development, deployment, application migration and modernization. Participants will also see how a real multi-tenant SaaS application can be built in 30 minutes, and become available on-demand to global users. The presenters will also address hot topics like how to avoid vendor lock-in, brokering cloud services, and deploying applications across data centers.

"The world of software development is changing for small businesses thanks to PaaS," said Landis. "These tools have taken the mystery out of application development, and put it squarely in the hands of businesspeople and entrepreneurs. Whether developing as-a-service apps for internal use, or as part of an entrepreneurial venture, SaaS Maker offers an end-to-end, 'idea to revenue' model that starts at the idea stage and stays with you all the way through to revenue generation."

Using SaaS Maker, developers can build, deploy, and sell social business applications with zero upfront investment, which represents a sharp contrast to just a few years ago when substantial lead time and project funding would have been required even for a simple development project. "Cloud-driven business models are ushering in a new wave of innovation," noted Blacharski. "This is what we call the 'dot cloud boom,' which has already made substantial inroads into enabling more startups, lowering barriers to entry, and putting meaningful development into the hands of more people on the front lines of business and innovation."

At the workshop, attendees will learn about the specifics of how to use SaaS Maker to create apps, as well as the new "dot cloud" trend and the new business models and opportunities it is enabling.

About Virtual Global:

Virtual Global, a West Virginia corporation with a Northern VA presence, is a provider of cloud platform solutions, including the SaaS Maker™ online toolkit for building social business applications; TeamLeader™, a real-time team management system; and Role-based Workflow, a web services library that improves record privacy in healthcare applications. Virtual Global’s technologies have served commercial and federal customers worldwide.