3 Tips for Using PaaS for Mobile App Innovation

Grazed from Mendix. Author: Pam Baker.

The buzz on using platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for app development has been loud for a while now but it has just recently emerged as a serious reality play. Sure, a few developers have been working in PaaS, most of whom were quick to tout its benefits. Still, they were in the minority. Many developers and development managers were still kicking the PaaS tires and were not quite ready for the test drive.

But that was then and this is now: 2013 may be the year PaaS goes full bore in mobile app development, according to industry experts and enterprise development teams. “In the mobility world we call it MBaaS or Mobile Backend-as-a-Service,” explains Vishal Jain, analyst of Mobile Services at 451 Research. Technically, MBaaS is a hybrid of PaaS and middleware involving ready-made server code and APIs, explains Jain in his report. “Increasingly it is moving towards offering custom code services from the earlier out-of-box for some of the generic use-cases,” he says…

For CIOs and application development managers, the mobile backend-as-a-service setup equates to the same savings found in any cloud scenario. It eliminates the need to buy hardware and provide staff to operate it and maintain it. It also means app developers can spend 100% of their time actually developing and none on tinkering with servers and tuning databases. Further, apps are turned faster, which in turn helps close the gap on time to market and improves the company’s app store’s ability to compete with consumer apps for employee use…

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