SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aria Systems, Inc., the leading provider of cloud billing and subscription management solutions, today announced it delivered greater than 99.99% availability of the Aria Subscription and Billing Platform for its customers, year to date, with zero downtime in February. This industry-leading availability was enabled by the company’s breakthrough Aria LiveRelease™ technology, which delivers new Platform feature releases with zero downtime.
Downtime for system upgrades causes lost revenues for companies that rely on cloud services for critical business applications. According to a 2011 Gartner Research report, “The business effects of downtime can be significant for some business processes, such as those affecting revenue, regulatory compliance, customer loyalty, health and safety.” **
The Aria LiveRelease technology eliminates scheduled system downtimes and speeds up deployment of new features and customizations, providing customers with a significant competitive advantage. The technology, which was introduced in December 2011, is the industry’s first SaaS billing solution to deliver the capability of rolling out new product features, enhancements and bug fixes without impacting service availability.
“Uptime for any system is important and when that system is mission critical, for example a billing and payment system, it is essential,” said Oleg Ganopolskiy, vice president of Product Operations, Aria Systems. “Even short periods of downtime or ‘brownouts’ can be disastrous, especially if those ‘down minutes’ result in missed payments, lost sales or untracked usage of a product or service – which basically equals lost revenue.”
About Aria Systems
Aria Systems is the leading provider of cloud billing and subscription management solutions for Global 2000 companies. The Aria Subscription Billing Platform is the industry’s only advanced subscription billing solution capable of managing the entire subscriber life cycle for all recurring revenue models as a company grows and expands its business. Disney, Pitney Bowes, Ingersoll Rand, DreamWorks, EMC, Internap, VMware, Taleo and Hootsuite all rely on Aria Systems for fast time-to-market, low operational costs and monetization flexibility. For more information about Aria Systems, visit www.AriaSystems.com.
** Gartner, Hype Cycle for Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Management, 2011, John P. Morency, Roberta Witty, July 20, 2011. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.