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Platform as a Service: Definition, Taxonomy and Vendor Landscape, 2012
19 March 2012
 
Yefim V. Natis   Michele Cantara   Joseph Feiman   Donald Feinberg   John Hagerty   Ian Finley   Ben Huang   Paolo Malinverno   Jim Murphy   Thomas E. Murphy   Massimo Pezzini   Gene Phifer   W. Roy Schulte   Eric Thoo  

Application infrastructure (middleware) is an essential enabling technology for business applications, whether deployed on- or off-premises. This research looks at the segmentation and emerging trends in application infrastructure for cloud computing, also known as cloud platform as a service.





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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Analysis
    • Application Infrastructure for Cloud Computing (Cloud PaaS)
      • Essential Functions of Application Infrastructure
      • Application Infrastructure in the Cloud Computing Context
      • Elastic Sharing
      • Models of Multitenancy
      • The Naming Convention
      • Embedded PaaS Functionality
    • The Market Trends
      • Cloud as a Market-Disrupting Force
      • Native Cloud Solutions vs. Adopted On-Premises Products
      • The Inevitable Consolidation of PaaS Offerings
      • High Productivity vs. High Control
      • Hybrid Architecture Through Integration, Not Homogeneity
      • The Private PaaS
      • The Vendors' Face-Off
    • The Market Landscape
      • Application Platform Services
    • Integration Middleware Services
      • Business Process Management Platform Services
      • DBMS and Data Store Services
      • Enterprise Horizontal Portal Services
      • ALM Services
      • Business Analytics Services
      • Cloud MOM Services
      • Application Security Services
      • Application-Services Governance Services
      • Managed File Transfer (MFT) Services
    • Conclusions: The PaaS Market Is Under Construction
  • Recommended Reading
Tables
Table 1.
Vendor Offerings in aPaaS and CEAP
Table 2.
Vendor Offerings in iPaaS and Cloud-Enabled Integration Products
Table 3.
Vendor Offerings in bpmPaaS and Cloud-Enabled BPM Platforms
Table 4.
Vendor Offerings in dbPaaS and Cloud-Enabled Data Store Platform Products
Table 5.
Vendor Offerings in Horizontal Portal PaaS and Cloud-Enabled Horizontal Portal Products
Table 6.
Vendor Offerings in almPaaS and Cloud-Enabled ALM Products
Table 7.
Vendor Offerings in baPaaS and Cloud-Enabled BA Products
Table 8.
Vendor Offerings in Cloud MOM Services and CEMT Products
Table 9.
Vendor Offerings in Cloud Application Security Services
Table 10.
Vendor Offerings in Application-Services Governance Services and Cloud-Enabled Application Services Governance Products
Table 11.
Vendor Offerings in Cloud MFT Services and Cloud-Enabled MFT Products
Figures
Figure 1.
Application-Services Governance




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