Author .......... ONReady                                                        Date ... 11 Jul 2005
Location ........ http://www.onready.com/                                        Rev .... 7 Jan 2011
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Prepare Applications for e-business

Fast-emerging markets provide an unequalled opportunity for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs)
to rapidly grow their share of the small and mid-sized business markets - if their applications
are ready.

To ensure the performance of business applications at the level required for ON-Demand, we 
launched ONReady allowing qualified ISVs and system integrators to leverage the company's 
expertise in designing and managing large-scale environments for performance, cost and 
availability. ONReady enables companies to model and test the infrastructure requirements for 
the mass provisioning of their application and assess the business cases for different 
approaches to deployment - including in-house hosting and various outsourcing options.

The partnering initiative features ONReady's Lab, a web-hosted application center that combines
systems, e-commerce solutions, networking technology, and secure storage to create an 
environment where companies can design and test application delivery solutions in a real-world
environment. With a range of data center infrastructure services and facilities to help 
companies certify application readiness in three phases:

    Self-Assessment - A complimentary, web-based service designed to quickly evaluate 
       application readiness for deployment in a hosted environment. Certified companies are 
       eligible to join our community of solution providers.

    ONCapable - Technical experts work to test, proof, and integrate the application into a 
       large-scale environment. The two-week process includes a thorough evaluation of the 
       business model, demand plan, and market opportunity; operational scalability testing; 
       and cost modeling.

    ONReady - The Lab team conducts intensive testing to verify operational readiness and
       document performance, response times, network loading, scalability, management costs, 
       and deployment costs. The comprehensive examination also ensures interoperability with 
       system management and other required tools such as billing, provisioning, security, 
       service level management and monitoring.