Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) by LongJump

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 [...]

Recently, Infoworld’s Tom Kaneshige wrote an article entitled “A Future without Programming” in which new technologies, such as LongJump’s Platform as a Service solution, are enabling non-coders to build their own applications. Unfortunately, the discussion became about whether developers would still have a place in the grand scheme of software delivery as these easy-to-use tools [...]

Fredric Paul, publisher and editor-in-chief, wrote an article on bMighty.com about how while Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is mostly geared towards software developers, it is making it easier to create programs, and thus promises more choices and higher-quality business applications for all kinds of companies.
By now, everyone knows the value of software as a service (SaaS) to small and [...]

At its 2008 SIMposium conference this week in Orlando, SIM (the Society for Information management) published the results of their survey highlighting the top 10 IT management concerns (listed below):

IT and Business Alignment
Build Business Skills in IT
IT Strategic Planning
Attracting IT Professionals
Making Better Use of Information
Manage Change
Reduce the Cost of Doing Business

Tied for number 8 were: [...]

In a recent article by Telephony Online, entitled ASP to SAAS to Clouds — Oh my!, Rich Karpinski looked at how service providers are attempting to offer cloud-based solutions as part of their menu of services to their endpoint clients.
So how hard could it be for those same service providers to deliver network-based apps, be [...]

The fundamentals of IT economics are not strong.
We have heard from dozens of IT organizations charged with building web-based business applications for their constituents that meeting all of their needs is simply not possible. This is why IT silos and rogue/situational applications occur. LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya discussed this in The Long Tail of IT.
Yet many [...]

When selecting business software and applications, it’s important to consider scale. Why is one application better than another for a given problem?

Integrated Application Design, Development and Deployment Platform and Reduces Application Development and Support Costs
ORLANDO, FL, GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo CONFERENCE, Monday, October 13, 2008 – LongJump, a leading Application Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, unveiled a new release of its platform with features and functionality aimed specifically to meet requirements of corporate enterprises. LongJump already enables corporate IT [...]

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya wrote an article on the “Seven Key Requirements Corporate IT Needs from PaaS” for TechCrunchIT and it was featured today.
In it, Pankaj discusses how cloud computing initiatives are gaining momentum with businesses of all sizes, particularly with enterprises that are looking to adopt the right solutions to address their ongoing business [...]

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya was a featured guest on the PricewaterhouseCoopers Start Up Show hosted by Steve Bengston September 25th. Pankaj and Steve discussed how Platform-as-a-Service as an organizational application development platform and the future of cloud computing can help businesses improve their IT services.
He talked about the need for PaaS, benefits, state of the industry and [...]