Customers say ecosystems are top priority when choosing PaaS providers
April 18, 2013
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Jessica Scarpati.
Platform as a Service (PaaS) providers love to crow about how many development languages they support or how feature-rich their platforms are, yet customers have other priorities in mind when deciding which PaaS provider to use. Businesses select their current PaaS providers primarily for their various ecosystems of partners, developers and independent software vendors (ISVs) that build commercial applications on top of their platforms, according to a new TechTarget survey.
"Customers are saying now, ‘I’m not just looking at Salesforce as an app provider, but I’m also looking at them as a platform provider, and I want to use their whole ecosystem.," said Adam Selligman, vice president of developer and partner relations at Salesforce.com, whose PaaS portfolio includes Force.com and Heroku…
About half of the PaaS users responding to the spring edition of TechTarget’s 2013 "Cloud Pulse" survey indicated that they chose their current PaaS providers because they were "part of a cloud ecosystem we use or plan to use," making it the top deciding factor in provider selection. Respondents could select up to three answers from eight possible responses. They ranked "integration capabilities with our current architecture" as the second most important deciding factor, and features and functionalities as third…
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