Innovation Journal - Cognizant

RETHINK - MUSTANG.NET
The use of native interfaces. Other SaaS frameworks wrap the
foundational libraries, creating additional layers of indirection, but
with Mustang.NET, developers continue to use native interfaces
with which users are familiar
Tools and templates integrated with the Visual Studio IDE, which
makes the consumption of the framework and services much
easier.
Mustang.NET architecture and component interaction
Productivity Benefits:
• Development: The Mustang.NET framework provides tools,
components and services that address concerns such as
authentication, validation and authorization out-of-the-box and
enable the SaaS service provider to concentrate purely on
implementing the required business functionalities.
• Setup: Typically, SaaS development aspects such as context setup,
runtime engine setup, usage metering services and exchanging
relevant context data across multiple tiers in a highly distributed
environment are error prone and require a considerable amount of
time to implement. Mustang.NET increases developer productivity
by encapsulating these capabilities.
• Integration: Mustang.NET integrates with popular Integrated
Development Environments (IDE) such as Visual Studio to provide a
standard project template that allows SaaS developers to quickly
begin implementing business functionality. Mustang.NET is
equipped with the standard metadata model and tools to annotate
business functions within the application (either from the ground up
or enhanced) and configure the application startup with the
framework boot-strapper. These increase developer productivity.
• Adoption: The framework was designed so that clients from any
industry could build their SaaS solutions from the Information
Services, Media and Entertainment industry, to the Healthcare and
Life Sciences domain.
• Pricing: SaaS transforms software pricing from a perpetual license
model to an Op-Ex-based pay-per-use/pay-as-you-go model. This
aspect of SaaS removes the need for capital investment for the
SaaS consumer and increases access to capital for the SaaS 19