Posts Tagged ‘enterprise applications’

Timesheet Manager Streamlines Employee Reporting of Work

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 12:16 1 Comment

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. [...]

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Ziff Davis Enterprise eSeminar Series on PaaS

Thursday, April 8, 2010 13:25 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Take Down These SaaS Walls

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 15:11 3 Comments

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 [...]

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PaaS Moves into Private Clouds for Enterprises

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 10:08 No Comments

Steve Bobrowski at The Cloud Option has an insightful post today looking at the evolution of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) into the enterprise. Specifically, he discusses the movement into private cloud environments. According to Bobrowski: PaaS allows application developers to simply build applications in the cloud, without ever having to worry about hardware acquisition and configuration, software [...]

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LongJump CEO Video Shoot

Monday, June 29, 2009 9:12 No Comments

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya was in San Francisco last week for a video shoot. We won’t go into details about what we were shooting, but we do think the video will go a long way to articulating our vision and value proposition for the LongJump platform. We feel like our product is starting to take [...]

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Coghead’s PaaSing

Thursday, February 19, 2009 10:13 5 Comments

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 [...]

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Situational Applications and a New Resource for the Enterprise

Monday, January 26, 2009 15:38 No Comments

There’s a new, vendor-neutral site called Power in the Cloud that is completely focused on situational applications: custom applications that are tailored to meet specific business needs. They have a particular interest in the different platforms, like LongJump, that are geared towards situational apps and are having some interesting discussions around some of the advantages [...]

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New Features Coming January 25th

Monday, January 19, 2009 23:46 No Comments

The LongJump team will be introducing several new features to be released on January 25th. This release will feature the first ever major update to the LongJump user interface. The new style will be less cluttered, easier to read, load faster, and consolidate many functions on the platform. Additionally, we have added some important features [...]

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What is Lean Software, and is It the New Black in Application Development?

Thursday, December 4, 2008 7:26 No Comments

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 [...]

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Tips for Building Your First Application on LongJump PaaS

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 15:03 1 Comment

We sat down with Sheela Sarva who works with the LongJump Support Team to talk about building applications on LongJump’s Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution, and what are some of the challenges for businesses before they jump in. Q. Hi, Sheela. Can you tell us what you do at LongJump? A. I work on the support team, [...]

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