Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide

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Table 2. Completeness of Vision Evaluation Criteria Evaluation Criteria Market Understanding Marketing Strategy Sales Strategy Offering (Product) Strategy Business Model Vertical/Industry Strategy Innovation Geographic Strategy Weighting High Medium Medium High Low Low Medium Medium Source: Gartner (March 2015) To evaluate the forward strategy for functional capabilities of vendors' enterprise aPaaS offerings, we examined the available road maps and credibly committed initiatives for the following characteristics: ■ Degree of cloudiness (Medium), including some or all of: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Self-service access to provisioning, monitoring and management of platform and applications API access to provisioning, monitoring and management of platform and applications Sharing of resources between tenants Tenant isolation Bidirectional scaling and autoscaling Resource use tracking ■ Enterprise worthiness (Medium), including some or all of: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ High availability Disaster recovery Secure access High-volume throughput SLAs Page 32 of 45 Gartner, Inc. | G00271188
■ ■ Exposure and access to near and far application APIs Technical support ■ Functional completeness (breadth of offering; High) and functionality of an application platform, including some or all of: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Execution of encoded application logic Multitype data access Omnichannel applications Composite applications Messaging Cloud-aware development Life cycle management tools (DevOps) API management Monitoring, management and administration of application execution ■ Openness (Medium), including some or all of: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Application portability across on-premises single-tenant, private and public cloud deployments Application portability with third-party aPaaS Platform portability with third-party IaaS Support of standards (de facto or de jure) Use of open-source components ■ Developer access to advanced design and operation (High), including some or all of: ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Multiple language support and mixed multilingual programming (polyglot) Programming frameworks/libraries Request/reply communication protocols and models Messaging, event-driven and pub/sub communications protocols models Programmatic access to data sources Custom design of service APIs for near and far access Programmatic invocation of external (near and far) service APIs Interaction with API management tools Gartner, Inc. | G00271188 Page 33 of 45
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