Kaarnet

KaarNet is an extended supply chain portal that works seamlessly with SAP. It works as an effective and efficient collaborative tool between customers and their partners. Its real time synchronous design will enable instantaneous communication between a customer’s SAP system and its partners namely vendors and dealers. The solution is delivered on a SaaS model that iscompletely secure.

KaarNet drastically reduces your TCO in implementing an end-to-end state of the art collaborative supply chain solution connected real-time to SAP. It leverages your investment in SAP and results in measurable supply chain improvements.

Technology:

With the goal of reaching a large global audience, KaarNet is designed for scalability and to work seamlessly on the World Wide Web. Such an internet based solution provides both the organization and all its partners a faster and secured platform to conduct their business.
The solution is designed with complete information security. The application is hosted in a secured data center. Built on the Microsoft .NET platform, KaarNet uses Secured RFC connection to access data from SAP server.

KaarNet is delivered via SaaS Model. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which applications are hosted by a service provider and made available to customers over a network, typically the Internet.

Benefits:

No Capex

The most obvious one is zero capital expenditure in SaaS as compared to heavy capex in on-premise applications. With SaaS you pay a monthly fee to the and you need not buy expensive servers, earmark space for keeping the servers, hire database administrators to maintain servers etc.

Move from License to Subscription

With SaaS, you do not need to buy expensive licenses from enterprise product vendors as it is normally done by your service provider and hence the ROI increases for you. In SaaS you subscribe the service as you subscribe to a magazine or a cell phone service which can be started anytime and can be stopped anytime

Flexibility of change

SaaS ensure that you do not have to worry about shifting to a new and better product from another vendor. Just close your subscription and move to the new one almost immediately.

No support infrastructure required

Normally, after implementation at your premise, you would engage a product support team that will help resolving the bugs in the application and helps users to get over them. This incurs lot of cost and often it is difficult to retain the talent in this high demand category. In the case of SaaS, the service provider will not only provide you all the functionality but also will support your application so that the operations are seamless and without break.

Ease of implementation

On-premise implementations take long time and involve the business as well as IT resources completely for a substantial period. With SaaS, the level of difficulty as well as period of deployment is reduced considerably.