Posts Tagged ‘Platform-as-a-Service’
A Future Without Programming? Hardly!
Friday, November 21, 2008 6:21 1 CommentRecently, 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 [...]
“What PaaS Means For Growing Companies” - a Chance to Be Mighty
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:15 No CommentsFredric 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 [...]
PaaS-onomics: Making Economic Sense of Platform-as-Service and Cloud Computing
Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:23 No CommentsThe 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 [...]
Am I an Enterprise?
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:24 1 CommentWhen selecting business software and applications, it’s important to consider scale. Why is one application better than another for a given problem?
LongJump Introduces Enterprise-Grade Platform-As-A-Service
Monday, October 13, 2008 7:06 No CommentsIntegrated 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 [...]
PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) Featured Discussion on TechCrunchIT
Monday, October 6, 2008 15:18 No CommentsLongJump 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 [...]
Getting Clarity on Cloud Computing: How PaaS can Help Businesses
Friday, September 26, 2008 15:25 No CommentsLongJump 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 [...]
Developer Suite in The News
Monday, September 22, 2008 14:39 No CommentsThe release of our Developer Suite received some great feedback from the media. Our standards-based approach, leveraging a Java-based development environment complete with a plug-in to the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment), means developers can use their existing skill set and without having to learn new code and thus build apps faster.
Martin Heller of Infoworld comments in “Cloud application [...]
LongJump Releases Standards-Based Developer Suite
Monday, September 22, 2008 7:01 No CommentsRapidly Design, Develop and Deploy Custom Enterprise Applications, Lower Development Costs and Accelerate Time-to-Value
Sunnyvale, CA, Monday, September 22, 2008 – LongJump, a leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, today unveiled its LongJump Development Suite for developers eager to exploit the business opportunities and advantages of Internet-based application development and delivery. LongJump’s developer suite reflects the growing interest [...]
The Birth of a Silo: Another Expensive IT Application Project
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 15:40 No CommentsWhy 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 [...]


