Enabling developers to create and deliver any kind of business application, entirely on-demand and without software it’s a breakthrough new concept that is making companies radically more successful by letting them translate their ideas into deployed applications in record time.
Time to build and deploy a custom database application:
| Web Platform | Traditional Platform | |
| Development Time | 100 hours | 4000 hours |
| Time to Deploy | Instant | 4 weeks |
| No Hardware & Software | True | False |
| No Maintenance Required | True | False |
| No Extra Development Required | True | False |
| – Analytics | True | False |
| – Internationalization | True | False |
| – Authentication and security model | True | False |
| – Mobile access | True | False |
| – Compliance audit trail | True | False |
Learn more about PaaS:
- Let the PaaS wars begin – by Phil Wainewright
- Defining Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS – by Dave Mitchell
- Are We Moving to Platform as a Service? – by David Linthicum
Federico Cargnelutti 