"Just Send Us the File": The Two-Sided Data Sharing Problem Between ISVs and Their Customers, and the One Engine That Solves Both

Um, so Vince, um, know propels installs and runs out of the box it's the first and only no code data sharing software which is why it's patented um so if i'm the isv you know virtual z we can provide them with uh you know a download link they'll download propels install it um configure it and they'll be up and running and sharing data right away um What do you think is important for any ISVs listening today to know about installing and configuring Propels where it runs? And then some solutions require that the customer has to install something.

The ISV has to go to their customer and say, I need you to install something.

And with Propels, that's not the case either.

So can you just talk a little bit about what it takes for an ISV to get up and running?

Yeah, I mean the actual.

Software installation is trivial for for our propels product.

I mean, that's you know literally the kind of thing that you could do it in a in an hour, half an hour, whatever on any platform anyway.

I don't care.

It's Linux or mainframes the you know very, very simple to to get up and running initially where we see the customer usually will spend the time.

you know, the ancillary things.

In other words, you know, I need to, you know, it's not just I need to send the data, I need to send the data to a particular target and that might need, I don't know, network access.

It might need digital certificates to communicate to the target.

It might need, you know, all of that setup you would do in order to connect to anything.

You know, we're nothing unusual there.

That's, you know, that would be the same thing no matter, what software, no matter what platform you were going to.

But, you know, it may be a lot of cases that the customer may not have those skills.

He may not have done that before.

So, you know, that's usually where the time will be.

It's going to be about, you know, getting the connectivity that you expect.

It might be down the road a little bit.

Okay, it's really fast, but I want it to be faster.

What do I need to do to tune that? absolutely, you know, either, you know, we can help or the vendor can help with that.

The other thing, too, is that, you know, many times, you know, when we're talking ISV use of Propels, the application it's going in, like, you know, we talked about Zaf, and, you know, that is a multi-tenant SaaS service, basically.

So, you know, there's a question there about How do I segregate the data, you know, one customer from another? Do I want, you know, different databases for every customer? Do I want, you know, one big database, different tables for every customer? Do I want, you know, one table with some kind of tenant identifier in it? I mean, all of that's possible.

It just is, you know, a matter of, you know, what's going to fit with the, you with the ISV's software in the easiest way.