Online Database, CRM and PaaS – The LongJump Blog

Tracking some of the buzz from our licensable SaaS platform announcement. From ComputerWorld’s Mark Everett Hall (which includes an interview with LongJump customer NES’s CTO Izak Joubert)… Get cloud tools, but forget the cloud “(Joubert) wanted an application platform that let him quickly create new services without having to update complex database schemas. Joubert evaluated [...]

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 [...]

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya was featured on Innovator’s Radio, hosted by Steve Roeder. Among the topics they discussed were LongJump’s bootstrapped roots, the software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) industry, cloud computing as a whole impact on enterprises and businesses. To listen to the complete interview, along with Steve’s interviews [...]

When selecting business software and applications, it’s important to consider scale. Why is one application better than another for a given problem? Technorati Tags: cloud computing, enterprise, PaaS, Platform-as-a-Service, saas, soa, software-as-a-service

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 [...]

When Terry Childs, a disgruntled network administrator, held the city of San Francisco hostage from getting into their computer systems, records such as officials’ emails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates’ bookings were inaccessible by they city — virtually shutting down operations. This makes yet another case for SaaS and Cloud [...]