Integrated into the UDC product family is an integration platform. This means, all your conversions can be deployed to a server (with running UDC platform). With help of this platform conversions could be monitored and managed. You want to execute your conversion in periodical manner, in a specified term or once a single time? No problem, everything can be adjusted. 
All functionality of the UDC V3 Platform may be managed over the network. The interfaces are fully web service enabled and compatible with nearly all language standards. This means, data conversion tasks can be remote planned, started and monitored. An arlanis UDC integration job may be inserted in different kinds of business processes with help of its web service infrastructure.

UDC V3 Platform Highlights:

• Comfortable scheduling for Batches
• Once / at a specific time / periodical
• Watch, start and stop conversions
• Web 2.0 graphical user interface
• Web Service interface for headless environments
• Integration as a Service Platform
• Monitoring
• Examine the state of conversions
• Easy deployment of conversions

The idea behind Software as a Service (SaaS) is to rent a needed piece of software for a period of time. But, not only software is rent instead you will get the software, maintenance, database space, backup procedures and many more. So you will receive a stress less environment from a user’s perspective. Services like a development environment, programming libraries are part of the infrastructure. Also, from a developers perspective everything is provided.

In contrast to Software as a Service, (that means „On-Demand“ and highly specialized applications) the newer strategy, Platform as a Service (PaaS), is a runtime and development platform for nearly every kind of business application.

Details can be found here.