Virtual Ark provides SaaS enablement and delivery of major Enterprise Applications on Clouds with a comprehensive managed service to end customers and Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s). Virtual Ark does this by deploying applications on the Virtual Ark SaaS Application Management Platform and managing these to high service levels with comprehensive application management and support. By leveraging existing global cloud infrastructures from companies like Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft Azure, Google and others, and by utilising Virtual Ark’s managed services expertise, software and best of breed management tools, Virtual Ark can provide a “pay-as-you-go" flexible and competitive commercial model delivering true SaaS. Key benefits to ISV partner include: 1) Ability to deploy SaaS offering globally, instantly 2) Reduces significantly the financial risk by aligning costs to revenue from customers and bringing all of the expertise to create, run and manage the SaaS solutions 3) Virtual Ark undertakes most of the technical effort to create a SaaS version of an ISV's products 4) A SaaS version can be made available within 2-3 months 5) Multi-tenancy of the application is not required 6) All managed services skills and application support are provided by Virtual Ark leaving the ISV to be able to concentrate on product development and enhancement