Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, Worldwide
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Cloud Foundry software that is at the b<strong>as</strong>e of IBM Bluemix remains relatively immature. The<br />
next version, Cloud Foundry v.3, is under development now in the CFF community and, given<br />
its scale of change, is likely to introduce some discontinuities. IBM's own Cloud Foundry<br />
extensions, including the future support of the microservice architecture and a consistent cloud<br />
enablement of IBM's diverse Bluemix services, are separate from the CFF development, adding<br />
to the potential <strong>for</strong> some future disruptions <strong>for</strong> Bluemix customers.<br />
The lack of a model-driven, high-productivity aPaaS option in the Bluemix portfolio will likely<br />
lead LOB IT, citizen developers and some central IT projects to look elsewhere <strong>for</strong> suitable<br />
cloud application plat<strong>for</strong>m services, keeping IBM out of a f<strong>as</strong>t-growing, productivity-centric<br />
Mode 2 market segment in bimodal enterprise IT. Some Bluemix services, such <strong>as</strong> DataWorks,<br />
use a model-driven design, but there is no strategic, shared, high-productivity aPaaS plat<strong>for</strong>m<br />
in the IBM portfolio.<br />
The large installed b<strong>as</strong>e of on-premises systems, while providing a potential <strong>for</strong> a solid b<strong>as</strong>e <strong>for</strong><br />
growth, also <strong>for</strong>ces IBM to adapt its cloud design decisions to meet the expectations of its<br />
established enterprise-bound customers. Many of those are demanding continuity of software,<br />
practices and skills, and the ability to migrate legacy systems to a cloud foundation. This limits<br />
IBM's ability to invest in new cloud-native plat<strong>for</strong>m architectures.<br />
Indra gnubila<br />
Indra gnubila is the software and cloud service business unit of Indra, a large Spanish system<br />
integrator operating in about 140 countries. The business unit w<strong>as</strong> set up after the acquisition of<br />
gnubila, a small Spanish software company. The vendor's G application plat<strong>for</strong>m is available <strong>as</strong> onpremises,<br />
cloud-enabled application plat<strong>for</strong>m (CEAP) software (via both an open-source license and<br />
<strong>as</strong> a supported product), and in the <strong>for</strong>m of a high-control, cloud-native, shared-everything aPaaS.<br />
The G plat<strong>for</strong>m supports Java EE, .NET, Ruby, PHP, Python and Perl application containers, and<br />
provides additional capabilities atop the core application server plat<strong>for</strong>m, including mobile app<br />
support; a graph-oriented, in-memory multitenant DBMS (Gdb); big data capabilities; a modeldriven<br />
rapid development plat<strong>for</strong>m; workflow; document management; support <strong>for</strong> mobile devices;<br />
and reporting and data integration features. The recently integrated Sofia2 technology adds API<br />
gateway/API management capabilities to the core application plat<strong>for</strong>m technology.<br />
The aPaaS rendition of the G plat<strong>for</strong>m is available on top of AWS, Google Compute, Microsoft<br />
Azure and Indra's Flex-IT IaaS plat<strong>for</strong>ms.<br />
The G plat<strong>for</strong>m is primarily used to support Indra's business units wishing to move established<br />
packaged applications to a cloud (private or public) architecture or to develop cloud-native<br />
applications, but is also proposed <strong>as</strong> a stand-alone offering.<br />
Strengths<br />
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Indra gnubila's aPaaS core strengths are in its advanced and extensive set of features, and in<br />
the wealth of capabilities to support third-party independent software vendors (ISVs) and user<br />
organizations willing to move established on-premises applications to the cloud. These<br />
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