Football-Stars: A Platform as a Service (PaaS)

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5 min readJun 9, 2018

The PaaS market is growing exponentially with more and more businesses choosing to use PaaS rather than facing the large set-up costs, risks and potential delays involved in creating an infrastructure. One innovative Berlin based start-up called Stryking is utilising the PaaS business model to rapidly bring their Fantasy Sports platform to foreign markets.

By licensing PaaS, brands and businesses reduce their development cycle, meaning they have a clear and rapid route to market.

The apps market moves fast. Getting your product out there before it becomes outdated is key.

PaaS allows the focus to be on creating innovative ideas and getting them rapidly developed and deployed, using a tried and tested infrastructure that is both time and cost efficient.

The PaaS Market

The global PaaS market was worth US$1.6 bn in 2013 and is projected to reach US$7.9 bn by the end of 2020, exhibiting an impressive 25.7% compound annual growth rate between 2014 and 2020.

Simply put, the market is rapidly growing.

In the past, businesses were tasked with building and developing their own apps — however this was costly and time-consuming. App development demands server space, software to create programming environments and security to keep everything safe.

Complex software stacks, frequent updates, hardware maintenance and investment in an on-premise environment to help build apps has high costs. Time spent adding innovation and worth to the app is easily lost to building the infrastructure.

PaaS is changing the world of app development.

Why Choose The Stryking PaaS?

The Stryking PaaS means businesses can save up to 70% in initial development costs. Generally, all of the backend functionalities and development are taken care of, leaving the partner to focus on marketing and adding value to their product.

The Football-Stars platform has already been adopted by the German Pay TV broadcaster Sportdigital, who are using the Football-Stars platform as a white label product.

Stryking’s PaaS has a proven business model that is ripe with potential for further partners in both Europe and Asia. Currently, the markets are largely undeveloped, but both have a large and keen football fanbase, as well as active followers of other sports. This is a key audience for further fantasy sports apps which can be tapped into quickly with the use of PaaS.

By offering three levels of platform service, the Stryking PaaS is adaptable to any need:

a. Partial Platform allows the customer to quickly build and develop branded “mini-games” like the Football-Stars Challenge Mode.

b. White-Label Deployment makes it possible to quickly and extremely cost-efficiently take full advantage of the Football-Stars platform by setting up a local sports gaming application based on the Stryking code base.

c. PaaS Integration makes it possible to build almost any fantasy sports game while making full use of the robust Stryking PaaS backend, database services and advanced logic- and datalayers.

The Stryking PaaS is tried and tested, offering rapid growth and a quick turnaround. It allows the focus to remain on creating innovative marketing and expanding the customer base.

What Are The Benefits Of Using The Stryking PaaS?

In the fast-paced world of app development, speed is everything. The Stryking PaaS allows for rapid development.

IT and developers are no longer responsible for building, maintaining and protecting the hardware and software used in app development. By simplifying, automating and eliminating many of the processes required in early-stage app development, the turnaround time is kept short and the app can be deployed swiftly to meet market opportunities before they pass.

Cost can also be detrimental to app launches. The hours that would pile up in setting up and maintaining the core stack are eliminated. In utilising the PaaS model, costs are amortized across the applications — meaning that businesses can make big savings on initial development costs.

With security threats on an upward spiral, forever increasing in volume and diversity, security is an ever-present worry. The PaaS offers continual security updates, meaning that any vulnerabilities in core language or framework are quickly patched and fixed.

A unique benefit to using the Stryking PaaS is the STRYKZ token.

Being an integral part of the Stryking platform backend, the STRYKZ token is intended to be used and distributed on every PaaS, white-label or partial platform application developed and operated by partners. The STRYKZ token adds value, allowing for content and engagement to be incentivised.

This mutually beneficial offer aims to to enable rapid growth in distribution and circulation of the STRYKZ token, which in turn should drive market adaptation and acceptance of the token, even on applications not based specifically on the Stryking PaaS.

The Future Of PaaS

The demand for PaaS solutions is currently booming. PaaS is driving a new era of mass innovation and business agility.

It shares the same innovative roots as companies like Amazon, eBay, Google and YouTube, all of whom created new capabilities in new markets, simply through the browser.

PaaS offers the same kind of cost-effective and specialised model for application development and delivery. For the first time, developers can focus on application expertise for their business, not managing complex hardware and software infrastructure.

A PaaS is a powerful and innovative way to utilise the benefits of new technology. The Stryking Pass is a proven business model with the scope to adapt to almost any sport, market and language.

In an age where speed and security are everything, a PaaS could be your pass to successful app development.

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