Online Database, CRM and PaaS – The LongJump Blog

LongJump, a pioneer in platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and private cloud business applications, announced today that leading IT market research and advisory firm IDC (www.idc.com) named LongJump as one of five companies in a report published October 4th, 2010. “We view IDC’s analysis of the advancements in application development and deployment platforms as proof that as more [...]

For enterprises and ISVs, it has become more important than ever to support a global workforce. In fact, according to AnythingResearch.com, the translation and interpretation services industry is a $2.7 billion market that has grown an average of 22 percent a year since 2004. The main thrust is the need for U.S. military and businesses [...]

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 [...]

We’ve introduced a new library of videos that cover the deep set of features within LongJump’s public and private cloud PaaS. Over time, this library will be extended and refined so that businesses, developers, partners and ISVs interested in LongJump’s SaaS application platform can quickly watch a short video on the features that matter to [...]

We added a new app called Timesheet Manager to the LongJump Catalog both as a “ready-to-go” app that you can install and start using as well as a showcase for some of LongJump’s deeper features that are capable on the platform and very easy to use. Timesheet Manager is a web-based customizable timesheet/timecard management application. [...]

We just wrapped up our third eSeminar with ZDEnterprise “How ISVs Can Leverage Cloud Computing to Deliver New SaaS Business Apps in Months, Not Years.” Many thanks to Adam Day, VP of Business Development at HRAnswerlink for his participation on describing how his firm was able to leverage LongJump’s on-premise PaaS to drive rapid deployment [...]

This post was inspired by Tuomas Pelkonen’s blog on How to Manage Programmers because he brings up great points on wasting programmers’ time and reducing their workload. I don’t know a single programmer who likes wasted effort. In fact, there’s a beauty to what they do, much like a poet, when they are able to [...]

The Focused Approach to Delivering Cloud Applications Using Platform-as-a-Service PaaS is the next transformational wave in software-as-a-service and it’s already here. Are you ready? Join us for an insightful and practical examination of PaaS and its effect on how businesses can accelerate SaaS application development. Stefan Ried, Senior Analyst at Forrester will share the latest [...]

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 [...]

Mike Vizard at CTOEdge had a thoughtful post regarding the challenges facing IT in determining how much to rely on software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms to deliver applications versus running those applications on their own internal infrastructure. He adds: The real question IT organizations might want to ask themselves in 2010 is why they have to make [...]