Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide
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OrangeScape, OutSystems and Zoho were added. These three vendors of high-productivity<br />
aPaaS were deemed to offer sufficient cloud and enterprise capabilities, and were estimated to<br />
exceed the admission thresholds on revenue and number of paying customers. Bimodal<br />
enterprise IT calls <strong>for</strong> complementary requirements <strong>for</strong> both high-productivity and high-control<br />
aPaaS capabilities, which allows more high-productivity aPaaS providers to compete in the<br />
enterprise aPaaS market.<br />
Dropped<br />
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AppPoint Software Solutions — This vendor did not meet the more demanding inclusion<br />
criteria, including the revenue and number of paying customer thresholds.<br />
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CloudBees — This vendor exited the aPaaS market; it discontinued its RUN@cloud service to<br />
focus all business resources on DEV@cloud application development life cycle management<br />
(ADLM) PaaS.<br />
Docker — This vendor exited the aPaaS market: it sold its aPaaS business to cloudControl and<br />
is focusing entirely on its Docker container technology.<br />
CenturyLink-Tier 3 — After the acquisition of Tier 3, the vendor retired its WebFabric aPaaS<br />
offering, and is focusing on its Tier 3 IaaS offering; CenturyLink AppFog did not meet the<br />
revenue and number of paying customer thresholds.<br />
WSO2 — This vendor retreated from the aPaaS market to redesign its offering and to re-enter<br />
with a more functionally complete and competitive aPaaS offering. The new App Cloud did not<br />
meet the revenue and number of paying customer.<br />
Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria<br />
To be included in this research, a vendor must deliver a service with the following characteristics (all<br />
evaluated <strong>as</strong> of 1 September 2014):<br />
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It h<strong>as</strong> to be a cloud service:<br />
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Available by subscription and accessible over Internet technologies<br />
Available uni<strong>for</strong>mly to all qualified subscribers<br />
Includes some sharing of physical resources between logically isolated tenants<br />
Includes some self-service provisioning and management by subscribers<br />
Includes bidirectional scaling without interruption of activities and with some automation<br />
Includes some instrumentation <strong>for</strong> tracking of operations<br />
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It h<strong>as</strong> to be a PaaS:<br />
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