Online Database, CRM and PaaS – The LongJump Blog

The advent of social (Relay) and mobile (Javelin) interfaces to LongJump’s PaaS and Online Database solutions has gotten some good write-ups by members of the technology journalists. Here’s a sample of who’s covered the release. David Carr at InformationWeek talked about how “customers will be able to add social media features to their applications, and [...]

David Strom over at ReadWriteWeb has a great primer on the range of online database tools on the web. Some of the benefits include: The process is very straightforward: you either copy and paste data or take your spreadsheet and upload it to the service, after creating accounts for you and your collaborators. Then you [...]

You may argue the difference between SaaS and the Cloud — about how one is a technology and the other is market-ese — but one factor you cannot argue about anymore is how multitenancy must be the basis for SaaS business software going forward. In September, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, at their conference Oracle OpenWorld, [...]

Phil Wainewright at ZDNet makes a wonderful case for multi-tenancy when it comes to modern SaaS applications. The strength of multi-tenancy is that each of its multitude of individual tenants keeps it constantly evolving. This is in direct contrast to single tenancy, the whole point of which is to limit evolution only to those changes [...]

While we don’t usually review books on this blog, the Manga Guide to Databases deserves some serious attention for LongJump users. Those who are just getting started with relational database design and data modeling will find this guide to be entertaining and extremely comprehensive. And even the most seasoned DB gurus can appreciate just how [...]

Developing web applications for business with Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solutions is like fitting users with a tailored suit for a special occasion. As a developer you are the tailor, with access to configuration-ready suits and the ability to make edits to a suit as needed. You work with your customer, understand their needs, and guide them [...]

Join the PaaS Network group on LinkedIn! Engage in discussions about PaaS, Cloud Computing and its role in application design, development, and distribution as well as read and share PaaS news. This is a great resource for enterprise developers, software vendors, and others to exchange information about Platform-as-a-Service. Technorati Tags: cloud computing, linkedin, PaaS, Platform-as-a-Service

ChannelWeb today posted an article on the opportunities in the cloud as they relate to public and private clouds. This discussion hearkens back to the old days when we were still debating if anyone would ever want to run their applications on the web. What year was that? 2002? But there is clear trend towards [...]

ChannelWeb has recognized LongJump as one of the 20 Coolest Cloud Companies, positioning it with the likes of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and Microsoft’s Windows Azure platform. This comes on the heels of last week’s naming of LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya to their list of Top 25 Technology Thought Leaders. As indicated by ChannelWeb, [...]

Scott Dahlgren at The VAR Guy posted an article today about how VARs, solution providers, MSPs and others in the IT channel can really capitalize on cloud computing. Specifically he looks at how the PaaS model presents the widest opportunity for the channel to be involved in the cloud. He states: The current trend is [...]