Sector RoadMap: Platform as a Service in 2012

Summary:

The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) market is predicted to reach $20.1 billion in 2014. Huge brands occupy this emerging space, including Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce.com. Many newer startups enter the market each month, too. The recent trend is that more features and functions win the day, especially those with the ability to instantly provision resources for PaaS-built applications, such as elastic storage, compute, and database services. This report examines the key disruptive trends that shape the emerging PaaS market and where companies will position themselves to gain share and increase revenue.

  1. Table of contents                                                                                                            
  2. Executive summary                                                                                                    
  3. Disruptive forces                                                               
  4. Company positions                                                                                                  
  5. Methodology                                                                                                              
  6. Company analysis                                                                               
  7. Outlook and predictions                                                                                     
  8. About David Linthicum                                                                                            
  9. About GigaOM Pro                                                                                                    
  10. Further reading                                                                                                        

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