You can build a SAAS service and implement customized business software without any programmers. Totally NO CODE. Sound impossible? Well, read on.
Formever NC-SASS (No Code – SAAS) is open-source software that allows you to build a complete SAAS cloud service for your client and implement custom multi-user systems for them that run in your SAAS cloud and all with NO CODE!
This means you don’t need those expensive hard to find programmers. All you need to set up and run this SAAS service is intelligent business minded staff we call ‘Formever designers’ (usually just ‘designers’).
You can build all kinds of systems for companies – Accounting with G/L, Receivables, Payables. You can build systems to track things like orders, bookings – you name it. There is almost not bounds to what can be done in Formever – and all with no coding. It is an amazingly powerful tool!
This all sounds impossible but it is not! You can download the Formever NC-SAAS software and have a cloud service running in minutes. The Formever design environment allows you to build custom systems that run in that cloud SAAS.
We presently have a small pilot swarm running with 4 paying customers. These systems are totally different from each other:
- Union membership system with G/L
- G/L system for a game company
- Booking system for school bus orders for a yearly festival
- Retail store system to manage A/P and dated checks.
All of these systems were developed using the point and click interface of Formever’s business logic. All were developed by non-programmers. Business people with good logical skills (Hint: almost always these people are real spreadsheet pros).
Checkout these features:
- You can run it on cloud servers you rent (currently Formever supports Digital Ocean and Amazon AWS ) or you can run it on your own servers.
- You can run one server with many client accounts or many servers each with one or more accounts. The servers can be in different countries that you specify.
- You can write your custom systems in any major human language and different users on a client account can work on the same data in different human languages.
- You can run clone servers to test changes to an account without interfering with normal operations. When you are satisfied the logic changes are okay you can merge them into the running account.
- It is your SAAS service. You control all the accounts. You bill them as you see fit. You charge for maintenance and enhancements.
- You have tools to control your service. You can delete accounts, you can suspend them. You can move them between servers. You can change a password. You can send messages to working on one of your systems and you can force log them out. In short, you have all the tools you need to have complete control.
- The servers just run. You can monitor them but they are super-reliable and require no attention or maintenance. If clients have a system problem you are sent a log.
- Your clients can run the Formever client software on Windows, Mac or Linux.
How simple it is to create your own NC-SAAS using Formever?
You just download the Formever SAAS install and install it on an Ubuntu computer. (Windows or MacOS as the administration platform will be added later).
You open a terminal/command window.
You run the /formever/saas.sh script
At the command prompt type:
.saasWizard
The following is a typical wizard session to create your SAAS cloud
FORMEVER SAAS WIZARD
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Answer any question with a ? for help.
Do you wish to use an IAAS service to provide servers?yes
These are the flavors of servers available:
That finishes the wizard session but there is one more thing to do. You go to your DNS service (I use hover.com) and register the location URL to point to the IP of your server. This is very easy and there will be detailed documentation on how to do it if you are unfamiliar with DNS entries.
That is all there is to it you now have a running SAAS service.
Developing and Putting Accounts on your Cloud
Formever provides a complete NoCode development environment for creating completely custom systems for your clients. You develop the system in ‘local’ mode – i.e. off line. In local mode the system runs just as it does on the cloud. It is almost impossible to tell the difference.
When you have developed a system and tested it locally you are ready to put this system onto your SAAS cloud. going. You do these steps:
1. go to admin program as as for an activation key .registerAccount
The admin program will find a server that can accommodate the account and register the account there returning a key
e.g. BBBB-BBBB-BBBB-BBBK .
2. Run the Formever local and go to the activation form. Fill in the form giving the activation key and choosing a unique account name.
3. Hit the button to activate and you are done – the system will be copied into the cloud and now you or any other Directors you have set up can log in and start working.
Billing Your Clients
Summing Up
It is really simple. With absolutely no coding, no programmers you can start up a cloud service and implement systems for clients to run on this service.
You can download and test it for free using an introductory offer from Digital Ocean.