Many companies like the simplicity of SaaS, but are frustrated that unique features — which may help their business stand out and compete online — cannot be added. To provide the added flexibility needed for our OCentric SaaS solution, we chose the Magento Enterprise Platform. Magento’s modular architecture can be customized to provide nearly any user experience and design that a development team can come up with.

By leveraging open source software and cloud computing, companies can implement unique ecommerce experiences at the same cost as standard storefronts from existing ecommerce SaaS vendors. For example, our client, Naspers (recently profiled in the Economist), used the flexibility of Magento-powered OCentric to create its private-sales site 36Boutiques.

Roy Rubin, chief executive officer and founder of Magento explains it this way: “OCentric is a smart option for companies that want SaaS, but are frustrated by a lack of flexibility from existing SaaS providers.”

Magento Enterprise is also robust enough to power large-scale enterprise deployments. For example, at Optaros, we have scaled Magento Enterprise for client sites with more than $200 million in revenue, 2,000 page views per second and three orders per second. In addition, it offers best-in-class features and extensive community support.

As the fastest growing eCommerce platform with more than 180 solution providers and 60,000 merchants and brands worldwide, Magento Enterprise enables over $25B in transactions each year and offers merchants complete flexibility and control over the presentation, content, and functionality of their online channel.