Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide
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Exposure and access to near and far application APIs<br />
Technical support<br />
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Functional completeness (breadth of offering; High) and functionality of an application plat<strong>for</strong>m,<br />
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Execution of encoded application logic<br />
Multitype data access<br />
Omnichannel applications<br />
Composite applications<br />
Messaging<br />
Cloud-aware development<br />
Life cycle management tools (DevOps)<br />
API management<br />
Monitoring, management and administration of application execution<br />
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Openness (Medium), including some or all of:<br />
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<strong>Application</strong> portability across on-premises single-tenant, private and public cloud<br />
deployments<br />
<strong>Application</strong> portability with third-party aPaaS<br />
Plat<strong>for</strong>m portability with third-party IaaS<br />
Support of standards (de facto or de jure)<br />
Use of open-source components<br />
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Developer access to advanced design and operation (High), including some or all of:<br />
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Multiple language support and mixed multilingual programming (polyglot)<br />
Programming frameworks/libraries<br />
Request/reply communication protocols and models<br />
Messaging, event-driven and pub/sub communications protocols models<br />
Programmatic access to data sources<br />
Custom design of service APIs <strong>for</strong> near and far access<br />
Programmatic invocation of external (near and far) service APIs<br />
Interaction with API management tools<br />
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