Online Database, CRM and PaaS – The LongJump Blog

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 [...]

The tech media’s reaction to Coghead’s folding has bubbled up the perception that suddenly we cloud computing and platform-as-a-service vendors need to look at standardization, because businesses need to be able to move their “stuff” over from one vendor to another. While this is certainly an understandable desire, especially for those left in a lurch [...]

It was revealed last night by TechCrunch that one of our platform-as-a-service competitors ran out of funding and is closing its doors. While on one hand it is heartening to see someone in your space, who has done a commendable job helping to bring attention to the space, take such an unfortunate turn, it has [...]

When something long standing and codependent dies, like traditional computing, SaaS and cloud computing are going to be our best friends at the wake. SaaS solutions have been around for going on 10 years now and the time is right to see broader and deeper adoption of this approach to application development and utilization. Lower risk [...]

While agile software development is centrally about the project management aspects of programming, and a flexible, unencumbering methodology to get to a better end product, few tools in the process actually have to do with the rapid creation and recreation of applications. Agile is an approach at the problem, but in the end, traditional compile, check-in, test, [...]

According to an eWeek article, “Move Over, Open Source, Lean Software Is the New Black for Developers,” Forrester analyst John Rymer believes that lean software, an approach to building software that promotes simplicity and minimizes resource usage, is what the application development industry must move to as the next development paradigm in order to move [...]

As part of our continued efforts to evangalize PaaS, we will be hosing a webinar, “PaaS Applications: What Every IT Organization Needs to Know”. This webinar is primarily intended for IT executives, we will discuss:  Basic concepts of PaaS, e.g. benefits, technology, potential risks and hurdles, etc. Applications suitable for PaaS Roadmap for successful adoption and integration [...]

As noted in an earlier blog post below, we were at the Office 2.0 Conference, where LongJump CEO, Pankaj Malviya, participated in a panel discussion along with representatives from Salesforce and Zoho. The panel discussed how PaaS addresses the Long Tail of IT applications where vendors like Oracle, SAP are not focusing. IT, despite being [...]

Why are Hollywood blockbusters so expensive to produce? They often run $100-million or more to make. The reason is that every movie project is a product; fully conceived and produced from the lines in the script to the distributed prints that get sent out to the movie theater. Hollywood studios often have to create everything [...]

Robert Scoble of FastCompany.TV talks to LongJump CEO, Pankaj Malviya about a range of topics including what applications moving into the Cloud, i.e. PaaS, mean for IT and about his company.   Technorati Tags: Applications, cloud, Longjump, PaaS, Platform, saas, Sales and CRM, Service