JPY recently announced the start of an innovative new development and commercialisation programme. The objective is to allow businesses to substantially cut the costs of utilising JPY's development services while commercialising their code at a profit.

Companies are often sitting on core business applications, developed internally, that are very strong; so strong, in fact, that elements of them might be of use to other businesses. At the same time, the cost of having new functionality and updates written to improve these programs can be substantial.

JPY asks "why not commercialise programs and sell them to other businesses as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) at the same time as having them updated and improved?" In so doing JPY's customers can reduce their development costs, reduce risk, improve the consistency of their software and generate income.

"A lot of customers' applications do things that are generally applicable to many businesses", said Dr John Yardley, MD of JPY. "Rather than sell customers time-and- materials development, we partner with the customer to make their web application a service. Customers get a return on their investment by allowing others to utilise all their hard work. For once, the developer is just as keen as the customer to produce a great application at the lowest cost."

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