Announcing Rollbase Private Cloud

Over the past year we have seen increasing demand from partners, enterprises, ISVs and other resellers for running the entire Rollbase platform on their own servers, on their own domain, with complete control over branding and product naming. Because of this demand and the fact that other leading PaaS solutions such as Force.com do not offer a self-hosted option, in 2010 we invested time into redesigning Rollbase so that the full platform can now be easily downloaded, installed, custom-branded, and maintained in a fully self-service manner.

Today we are excited to announce that now any company interested in hosting their own instance of Rollbase has an easy to adopt solution and can get started by simply downloading and installing a free trial of Rollbase Private Cloud. Click here to get started.

What is Rollbase Private Cloud?

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The Rollbase Private Cloud is a complete Platform as a Service (PaaS) designed to run on your own servers or any infrastructure of your choice, such as Rackspace or Amazon. You get all of the features of Rollbase.com running under your own domain and brand, on the hardware and operating systems that make the most sense for your business.

Download a Free Trial
Download and install a fully functional version of the entire Rollbase platform. Start building your own custom SaaS applications within your own instance of Rollbase using our state of the art Platform as a Service (PaaS) on your own servers. Click here to get started

Download and setup a full featured trial in 1 hour

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The video below demonstrates the download, installation and setup process to get Rollbase Private Cloud up and running on your own server in less than one hour. The Rollbase Private Cloud download kit also comes with detailed documentation on installation and configuration procedures.



Contact Us

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For questions about general usage, pricing, or partnerships, contact Sales at 650-265-4282 or sales@rollbase.com

 

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Rollbase profiled in JMP Securities' Computing as a Service Report

Today we received our copy of JMP Securities' April 2010 technology report titled "At Your Service: The Rise of Computing as a Service". See page 122 for the Rollbase profile (pics below). 

We are also quietly celebrating the largest rollout to date of a partner-built Rollbase application. More than 1,000 users at a large financial institution are now sharing access to a single Rollbase account! We believe this may be one of the largest PaaS implementations in the industry and we expect to release more details on this project in the near future.

 

The Cloud Taxonomy

Rollbase was recently included in a new site by OpenCrowd called The Cloud Taxonomy. They make it compelling to participate. As a platform agnostic services firm, OpenCrowd fits the partner profile that has been driving our growth over the past 2 years and we look forward to working with them. More on Rollbase growth in upcoming customer and partner announcements.

 

Rollbase partners with Rackspace, featured in Rackspace Cloud Tools

Rollbase was recently added as a featured partner to The Rackspace Cloud, cloud division of Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the world leader in hosting and cloud computing. To announce the partnership, corporate development executive Wade Minter posted Building Business Applications with Rollbase to the Rackspace Cloud blog:

Building Business Applications With Rollbase

wminter on April 29, 2010

Sometimes it’s handy to have a developer on staff, to build web applications with a high degree of customization. However, what do you do if you have a need to access your business data through an application but can’t justify the cost of a dedicated developer or a contract? Rackspace Cloud partner Rollbase has a solution with their service allowing even nontechnical users to define business objects, relationships, and a rich set of tools linking them together.

Easy To Use UI

Rollbase provides a simple web UI that allows you to model your business data and hook into it. At the core of the application are business objects. These represent things like employees, customers, inventory items, invoices, and the like. They basically map to relational database tables, so you can link objects with the standard array of relationships (one-to-one, one-to-many, etc). You define these objects, along with their attributes, within Rollbase. Here’s a quick snapshot of the UI:

It walks you through the steps to create an object. It allows you to set up advanced features like audit trails, versioning, and the like as well as import attributes from a standard list, such as documents, locations, and workflows, which automatically give you features useful for those types of objects.

The fields in the object also have properties beyond the normal database varchar/integer set. There are fields for email addresses, percentages, checkboxes, radio buttons, select lists, and more. For more complex needs, there are computable fields, which allow you to run calculations on the input value with Javascript expressions.

Once you have your objects and relationships defined, the next step is providing an interface into them. Using the Rollbase WYSWYG drag-and-drop view editor, you can develop the interfaces into your data. Create forms to add or edit data, then build pages to display the data. Of course, as security is important to your app, you can set different access permissions to different data on a per-user or per-group basis. And because the pages are HTML, you can embed custom HTML/Javascript widgets into them to provide more functionality.

Because this is an application designed for business, there are plenty of features a business will need. Rich email and document templates are one, allowing for nice-looking mail and exports into Word and Excel. There is a detailed multi-level charting and reporting engine as well. Additionally, if you want your applications to face externally, you can create a public portal into your data, with external user access available as a control.

For users that want to get started with even less effort, Rollbase has an application directory with more than 20 preconfigured applications, from Customer Relationship Managers to software bug trackers to employee management and recruiting.

Available in Two Forms: for ISVs and Resellers

A hosted white label program makes it easy to develop and deploy business applications under any brand or identity. Hosted resellers run on Rollbase’s Rackspace-powered infrastructure. Rollbase is also offered as a licensed product allowing larger organizations and systems integrators to procure a robust multitenant platform as the foundation for SaaS application development and delivery. Licensees can choose to run Rollbase on dedicated Rackspace physical or Cloud Servers or on servers of their own choosing.

Rollbase offers a 30 day free trial, so if your business or group could use fast, easy, and powerful business applications, give them a try!

Rollbase profiled in Piper Jaffray Cloud Computing Report

We received our copy of Piper Jaffray's investment research report titled "The Future Is In The Cloud: A Survey-Driven Forecast For Cloud Computing." See page 224 for the Rollbase profile (pics below)