Cloud-Based Application Platform and PaaS by LongJump

Gartner analysts Yefim V. Natis and Robert P. Desisto produced the first comprehensive research note on LongJump’s Business Applications Platform with some key insight for those looking to take advantage of online and on-premises based PaaS. They take an honest look at the opportunities and challenges we face with our platform, but are buoyed by [...]

Gartner has named LongJump one of it’s Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing System and Application Infrastructure for 2009. Below is an excerpt of the report available to Gartner research subscribers: Why Cool: LongJump is a cloud application infrastructure service provider delivering an application-platform-as-a-service (APaaS) offering. The company also has a history as a CRM vendor [...]

From Jon Brodkin at CIO.com… SaaS Vendor Converts Offering to Packaged Software “After finding that numerous enterprises are not comfortable running applications outside their firewalls, one longtime SaaS vendor is converting to an on-premise model. “ Jeffrey Kaplan at Seeking Alpha writes… Proliferation of SaaS and Cloud Platform Players Continues “This new ‘portability’ is in [...]

Led by John Rymer, Forrester’s research team including Randy Heffner, Jeffrey S. Hammond, James Staten, and Wallis Yu, provided an extensive report entitled “Platform-As-A-Service Is Here: How To Sift Through The Options” on several PaaS vendors, including LongJump. The report discusses the rewards and risks of PaaS for application development and includes products up and [...]

Tracking some of the buzz from our licensable SaaS platform announcement. From ComputerWorld’s Mark Everett Hall (which includes an interview with LongJump customer NES’s CTO Izak Joubert)… Get cloud tools, but forget the cloud “(Joubert) wanted an application platform that let him quickly create new services without having to update complex database schemas. Joubert evaluated [...]