No cloud offering today
Add cloud delivery and new recurring revenue without committing to a full SaaS rewrite or building a cloud operation from scratch.
Turn cloud delivery into a business opportunity.
Modernize how you deliver your proven Windows software to create new recurring revenue, respond to changing customer expectations, and reduce the operational burden on your team.
Where you are today
Your starting point changes the opportunity.
The right cloud model depends on where you are today.
Already working with a cloud provider
A hyperscaler gives you compute. You still own architecture, security, networking, backup, monitoring and support. Vela Cloud takes on that entire layer.
Managing cloud internally
Shift day-to-day cloud operations off your team while keeping control of your software, brand, and customer relationships, while improving your bottom line in the process.
The benefits
Four ways Vela Cloud can strengthen your software business.
Each benefit is built around a simple idea: modernize how you deliver your proven Windows software without the risk, cost, and disruption of a full SaaS rewrite.
01 — Revenue & valuation
Create a more predictable cloud business model.
Add a recurring revenue opportunity
Offer managed cloud delivery alongside your existing licensing. Recurring revenue does not just change the cash flow — it changes how the business is valued.
Start without capital investment
No upfront outlay to stand the offering up, and you can be working in your own application within a couple of weeks at no cost. Vela Cloud earns only once that offering is billing your customers.
Avoid the cost of a full SaaS rewrite
Modernize how you deliver the application without committing years of development resources to rebuilding the product from the ground up.
Business impact: Recurring revenue and cloud growth, without a full SaaS rewrite or an internal hosting operation to get there.
“The recurring revenue from our cloud offering now more than covers what we used to spend just keeping servers running. It turned a cost center into a growth line.”
President, vertical-market software company
02 — Operations & focus
Keep your team focused on the product.
Reduce cloud operations responsibility
Move infrastructure, monitoring and access management off your development team — along with a 24/7/365 security operations centre and immutable daily backups you would otherwise have to build yourself.
Simplify hosted application management
Vela Cloud manages the operating environment around your Windows application, so your team doesn’t have to maintain servers and customer environments.
Scale without rebuilding the environment
Add customers, users and capacity without treating every stage of growth as a new infrastructure project.
Business impact: Less infrastructure responsibility for your team and more time to focus on software, customers and the product roadmap.
03 — Customers & growth
Serve customers in new ways without a rewrite.
Extend the life of proven software
Give customers a modern cloud delivery option without abandoning the application and workflows that already differentiate your business.
Reach customers in more places
Customers reach your software from anywhere, on the devices they already use, without you building a new product to make it possible.
Create another path for growth
A managed cloud offering opens a second commercial model alongside the one you already run, in the market you already serve.
Business impact: Modern delivery that reaches customers in new ways while protecting the software investment that built your business.
04 — Support & go-to-market
The parts you would otherwise have to staff.
A support desk your customers can call
US-based, 5 AM to 5 PM Pacific, covering cloud access along with local network, workstation and peripheral problems. Most calls end there; only questions about your application reach your team.
Support under your own brand
Vela Cloud can answer support calls as your organization, so your customers deal with one company throughout: yours.
Help taking it to market
Positioning a cloud offering, pricing it and selling it into your existing base is new ground for most software companies. Vela Cloud works alongside your marketing and sales effort.
Business impact: A cloud offering you can sell and support without hiring a desk or a go-to-market team to carry it.
Let’s talk
Your Windows application doesn’t need a full SaaS rewrite to have a cloud future.
Tell us about your application, your current environment, and where you want the business to go. We’ll tell you plainly whether Vela Cloud is the right fit.
A conversation, not a sales process