The SaaS game is not about building SaaS products, but building ready-to-made modules that any SME can just order.
iDuple‘s Small Business Startup Kit is a SaaS product, where customers only need to pay a particular amount every month to subscribe to the service. The package includes all the necessary web softwares required for a startup or SME.
Mumbai based startup offers packaged products like:
- Wiki
- Blogs/CMS Platform
- Collaboration Tool
- CRM Tool
- Discussion Forum
- E-Learning
- Email Campaigner
- Human Resource
- Live Chat
- Picture Gallery
- Shopping Cart
- Social Networking
- Web HelpDesk
- Wiki
iDuple allows you to use the web components you need on a subscription basis – and for most of the applications, one can try out a demo version before buying.
Seeding packages is surely a great idea and unlike several other SaaS products, that are selling one or two products, iDuple is targeting the entire IT department.
iDuple also has a portal suite of products (link) that integrated it’s own SaaS products as well as other vendors – for example Invoicing is integrated with Zoho CRM, SCM is integrated with Tracmor etc – a very smart strategy to be the IT department (and not a few module in SME’s IT system).
Give iDuple a spin and share your feedback. As a startup, what stops you from using such products?
As a startup I will be trying to minimize my monthly bills. $399 for a shopping cart is too much. Besides I get most of these services for free. Wiki, wordpress… I know there are advantages of having everything in a Bundle, but startups are here to work and we don’t mind extra work.
@Anil,
It seems like 399$ is for an entire year. Not every month. Also startups in IT industry can try to use the free services, like wordpress and all. But startups in other domains, they need to focus on their core offerings and cannot be distracted by the software infrastructure.
@anonymous, U r right. Open source software like wordpress work so well. They r designed for everybody. Plus they r using opensource.
from their photogallery description –
..and you’ll even stare in awe at some of the innovative innovations we innovated upon.
these guys sure do know how to talk the talk :p
There CMS is Joomla, eLearning product is Dokeos, Forums is phpbb…
So I guess it’s more of a web hosting provider than anything else. Nothing wrong using open source or selling services on top of it, but why not just mention it clearly.
Startups with really strict budget situation can use free services like http://www.dreamhostapps.com for free !