Cloud-Based Application Platform and PaaS by LongJump

RedMonk’s Michael Coté Talks about Developing for the Cloud with LongJump

Michael Coté, one of the analysts at RedMonk talked with LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya about platform-as-a-service on the cloud. He writes: Back in February, LongJump started providing their platform to ISVs packaged to be used as a private PaaS, where “private” means “run on your own,” just as “private cloud” does. That ...

Who are the top Cloud Computing acquisition targets?

James Maguire over at Datamation listed his seven top cloud computing acquisition targets: companies that are "desirable choices" for the "giants" of the industry. Among his targets, Maguire includes IaaS provider GoGrid, cloud enabler Enomaly, storage service provider Vaultscape, cloud manager RightScale, virtualization appliance provider AppZero, application manager Elastra, and ...

LongJump CEO Video Shoot

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya was in San Francisco last week for a video shoot. We won't go into details about what we were shooting, but we do think the video will go a long way to articulating our vision and value proposition for the LongJump platform. We feel like our product ...

Recorded SaaS Application Webinar Available

The recording from last week's webinar on Developing and Deploying SaaS Applications featuring MySQL and SIMCO Electronics is now available. The webinar discussed many aspects of building a SaaS business including how to get to market faster without significantly adding a lot of investment and resources. It also discussed many ...

LongJump 6.2 Platform Release Offers Cloud Applications Greater Flexibility and Visibility

Our latest LongJump release (version 6.2) has hit the cloud with something desperately needed in today's business application space: Flexibility and Visibility. Flexibility in the way that information is displayed and visibility into a deeper set of information and analysis. Many of today's cloud applications come out of the gate ...

LongJump at JavaOne This Week (Booth 511)

LongJump will be a featured exhibitor at the Sun JavaOne conference this week at Moscone Center in San Francisco. We're located in the Cloud Zone at Booth 511. Be sure to stop by and say "Hello," if you're going to be there. We'll be demoing some new upcoming business and ...

CRN: LongJump Has A Springboard To Private Clouds

Yesterday featured a nice article from Chad Berndtson of Computer Reseller News on their ChannelWeb blog about LongJump's BAP. Chad spoke with company Chairman Rick McEachern about the impedous for the platform and the growing need for software producers to want to privately build, brand, deliver and control SaaS applications. "We ...

David Allen Company Getting Things Done with LongJump

LongJump today announced that The David Allen Company, renowned experts in personal and organizational productivity, including David Allen's decade-long bestseller Getting Things Done and the more recent Making It All Work books as well as many public and private coaching session and seminars, has selected LongJump’s Business Applications Platform to ...

Webinar: Developing and Deploying SaaS Applications with MySQL and LongJump

As many of you know, LongJump.com uses MySQL Enterprise Edition as our backend database. Like many, we chose it for its scalability, refined support and performance-for-value business case. Sun Microsystem's MySQL has invited us to present a case study for rapidly building SaaS applications. Enterprises and ISVs acknowledge the trend toward ...

Interop Panel on PaaS, SaaS, and the Taxonomy of On-Demand Apps

If you happen to be in Vegas in the coming weeks, you may want to stop by Mandalay Bay where our very own CEO Pankaj Malviya is taking part in a discussion panel at Interop Las Vegas on May 19th @ 2:45PM. The session is being hosted by Jeffery Kaplan, ...

Gartner Features Report on LongJump – “LongJump Reality Check: Product vs. Service in the Early Cloud Age”

Gartner analysts Yefim V. Natis and Robert P. Desisto produced the first comprehensive research note on LongJump's Business Applications Platform with some key insight for those looking to take advantage of online and on-premises based PaaS. They take an honest look at the opportunities and challenges we face with ...

LongJump Named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Cloud Computing

Gartner has named LongJump one of it's Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing System and Application Infrastructure for 2009. Below is an excerpt of the report available to Gartner research subscribers: Why Cool: LongJump is a cloud application infrastructure service provider delivering an application-platform-as-a-service (APaaS) offering. The company also has a history ...

More Coverage from the LongJump BAP Release

From Jon Brodkin at CIO.com... SaaS Vendor Converts Offering to Packaged Software "After finding that numerous enterprises are not comfortable running applications outside their firewalls, one longtime SaaS vendor is converting to an on-premise model. " Jeffrey Kaplan at Seeking Alpha writes... Proliferation of SaaS and Cloud Platform Players Continues "This new ‘portability’ is in ...

Extensive Look at Platform-as-a-Service Vendors from Forrester

Led by John Rymer, Forrester's research team including Randy Heffner, Jeffrey S. Hammond, James Staten, and Wallis Yu, provided an extensive report entitled "Platform-As-A-Service Is Here: How To Sift Through The Options" on several PaaS vendors, including LongJump. The report discusses the rewards and risks of PaaS for application development ...

Application Platform Announcement Buzz

Tracking some of the buzz from our licensable SaaS platform announcement. From ComputerWorld's Mark Everett Hall (which includes an interview with LongJump customer NES's CTO Izak Joubert)... Get cloud tools, but forget the cloud "(Joubert) wanted an application platform that let him quickly create new services without having to update complex database schemas. ...

Webware 100 Nominees Are in and LongJump Made the Cut

LongJump's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) product for on-demand application creation, has been selected as a finalist by the editors at Webware.com, a CNET site, for the 2009 Webware 100 Awards in the category of Infrastructure and Storage. In each of the Webware 100 categories, there are 30 finalists, and from that list ...

LongJump Provides Installable SaaS Application Cloud Platform

Independent Software Companies Can License LongJump to Launch Branded SaaS Services and Corporate IT can Create Private Clouds Sunnyvale, CA, Tuesday, March 31, 2009 – LongJump, a leading provider of software that powers Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), today unveiled that its LongJump Business Applications Platform can be licensed for use within an ...

LongJump and the Open Cloud Manifesto

LongJump, along with companies like Akamai, AMD, AT&T, Cisco, CSC, EMC, IBM, Red Hat, SAP, Sun Microsystems and VMWare, proudly joins the Open Cloud Manifesto, the first step in defining vendor-neutral interoperability standards for cloud based platforms. The manifesto defines cloud computing as: Scalability on Demand Streamlining the Data Center Improving Business Processes Minimizing Startup ...

CS Techcast Talks to Pankaj Malviya about PaaS

The gang at CS Techcast, a podcast by Consortio Services, talked with the CEO of LongJump, Pankaj Malviya, about Platform as a Service to get the scoop on cloud computing trends for business. They discuss the adoption of cloud computing platforms within corporate IT teams, and how PaaS provide a point ...

Standardizing Cloud Computing

The tech media's reaction to Coghead's folding has bubbled up the perception that suddenly we cloud computing and platform-as-a-service vendors need to look at standardization, because businesses need to be able to move their "stuff" over from one vendor to another. While this is certainly an understandable desire, especially for ...

Coghead’s PaaSing

It was revealed last night by TechCrunch that one of our platform-as-a-service competitors ran out of funding and is closing its doors. While on one hand it is heartening to see someone in your space, who has done a commendable job helping to bring attention to the space, take such ...

SaaS – Acceptance is the Last Stage of Grief

When something long standing and codependent dies, like traditional computing, SaaS and cloud computing are going to be our best friends at the wake. SaaS solutions have been around for going on 10 years now and the time is right to see broader and deeper adoption of this approach to application development ...

Situational Applications and a New Resource for the Enterprise

There's a new, vendor-neutral site called Power in the Cloud that is completely focused on situational applications: custom applications that are tailored to meet specific business needs. They have a particular interest in the different platforms, like LongJump, that are geared towards situational apps and are having some interesting discussions ...

New Features Coming January 25th

The LongJump team will be introducing several new features to be released on January 25th. This release will feature the first ever major update to the LongJump user interface. The new style will be less cluttered, easier to read, load faster, and consolidate many functions on the platform. Additionally, we ...

Pankaj on Innovator’s Radio

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya was featured on Innovator's Radio, hosted by Steve Roeder. Among the topics they discussed were LongJump's bootstrapped roots, the software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) industry, cloud computing as a whole impact on enterprises and businesses. To listen to the complete interview, along ...

Agile Software Development and PaaS – Like Peanut Butter for Chocolate

While agile software development is centrally about the project management aspects of programming, and a flexible, unencumbering methodology to get to a better end product, few tools in the process actually have to do with the rapid creation and recreation of applications. Agile is an approach at the problem, but in the ...

What is Lean Software, and is It the New Black in Application Development?

According to an eWeek article, "Move Over, Open Source, Lean Software Is the New Black for Developers," Forrester analyst John Rymer believes that lean software, an approach to building software that promotes simplicity and minimizes resource usage, is what the application development industry must move to as the next ...

A Future Without Programming? Hardly!

Recently, Infoworld's Tom Kaneshige wrote an article entitled "A Future without Programming" in which new technologies, such as LongJump's Platform as a Service solution, are enabling non-coders to build their own applications. Unfortunately, the discussion became about whether developers would still have a place in the grand scheme of software ...

“What PaaS Means For Growing Companies” – a Chance to Be Mighty

Fredric Paul, publisher and editor-in-chief, wrote an article on bMighty.com about how while Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is mostly geared towards software developers, it is making it easier to create programs, and thus promises more choices and higher-quality business applications for all kinds of companies. By now, everyone knows the value of software as a ...

Top 10 IT Management Concerns for 2008

At its 2008 SIMposium conference this week in Orlando, SIM (the Society for Information management) published the results of their survey highlighting the top 10 IT management concerns (listed below): IT and Business Alignment Build Business Skills in IT IT Strategic Planning Attracting IT Professionals Making Better Use of Information Manage Change Reduce the Cost of Doing ...

Service Providers See Huge Promise in Delivering an Array of Apps and Services in the Cloud

In a recent article by Telephony Online, entitled ASP to SAAS to Clouds -- Oh my!, Rich Karpinski looked at how service providers are attempting to offer cloud-based solutions as part of their menu of services to their endpoint clients. So how hard could it be for those same service providers ...

PaaS-onomics: Making Economic Sense of Platform-as-Service and Cloud Computing

The fundamentals of IT economics are not strong. We have heard from dozens of IT organizations charged with building web-based business applications for their constituents that meeting all of their needs is simply not possible. This is why IT silos and rogue/situational applications occur. LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya discussed this in The ...

Am I an Enterprise?

When selecting business software and applications, it's important to consider scale. Why is one application better than another for a given problem? Software vendors throw around the term "enterprise" quite a bit, and while LongJump is no different, for us, the term has a real meaning. For our applications (everything from ...

LongJump Introduces Enterprise-Grade Platform-As-A-Service

Integrated Application Design, Development and Deployment Platform and Reduces Application Development and Support Costs ORLANDO, FL, GARTNER SYMPOSIUM/ITxpo CONFERENCE, Monday, October 13, 2008 – LongJump, a leading Application Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, unveiled a new release of its platform with features and functionality aimed specifically to meet requirements of corporate enterprises. ...

PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) Featured Discussion on TechCrunchIT

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya wrote an article on the "Seven Key Requirements Corporate IT Needs from PaaS" for TechCrunchIT and it was featured today. In it, Pankaj discusses how cloud computing initiatives are gaining momentum with businesses of all sizes, particularly with enterprises that are looking to adopt the right solutions ...

Getting Clarity on Cloud Computing: How PaaS can Help Businesses

LongJump CEO Pankaj Malviya was a featured guest on the PricewaterhouseCoopers Start Up Show hosted by Steve Bengston September 25th. Pankaj and Steve discussed how Platform-as-a-Service as an organizational application development platform and the future of cloud computing can help businesses improve their IT services. He talked about the need for PaaS, benefits, ...

Developer Suite in The News

The release of our Developer Suite received some great feedback from the media. Our standards-based approach, leveraging a Java-based development environment complete with a plug-in to the Eclipse IDE (Integrated Development Environment), means developers can use their existing skill set and without having to learn new code and thus build apps faster. Martin Heller of ...

LongJump Releases Standards-Based Developer Suite

Rapidly Design, Develop and Deploy Custom Enterprise Applications, Lower Development Costs and Accelerate Time-to-Value Sunnyvale, CA, Monday, September 22, 2008 – LongJump, a leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider, today unveiled its LongJump Development Suite for developers eager to exploit the business opportunities and advantages of Internet-based application development and delivery. LongJump’s developer ...

Learn about Building Apps in the Cloud

As part of our continued efforts to evangalize PaaS, we will be hosing a webinar, "PaaS Applications: What Every IT Organization Needs to Know". This webinar is primarily intended for IT executives, we will discuss: Basic concepts of PaaS, e.g. benefits, technology, potential risks and hurdles, etc. Applications suitable for PaaS Roadmap for successful adoption ...

Why Do We Need Platform-as-a-Service?

As noted in an earlier blog post below, we were at the Office 2.0 Conference, where LongJump CEO, Pankaj Malviya, participated in a panel discussion along with representatives from Salesforce and Zoho. The panel discussed how PaaS addresses the Long Tail of IT applications where vendors like Oracle, SAP are not ...

The Birth of a Silo: Another Expensive IT Application Project

Why are Hollywood blockbusters so expensive to produce? They often run $100-million or more to make. The reason is that every movie project is a product; fully conceived and produced from the lines in the script to the distributed prints that get sent out to the movie theater. Hollywood studios ...

LongJump at Office 2.0 Conference

Despite losing a major sponsor just days before the Office 2.0 Conference on Sept 3-5 in San Francisco, the organizers managed to hustle and still get the show together. However they still need more paying registrations to make up for the loss of the sponsor. Check out their blog. At the ...

Jumping into the Cloud

Robert Scoble of FastCompany.TV talks to LongJump CEO, Pankaj Malviya about a range of topics including what applications moving into the Cloud, i.e. PaaS, mean for IT and about his company.

Holding IT Hostage – Another Case for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

When Terry Childs, a disgruntled network administrator, held the city of San Francisco hostage from getting into their computer systems, records such as officials' emails, city payroll files, confidential law enforcement documents and jail inmates' bookings were inaccessible by they city -- virtually shutting down operations. This makes yet another case ...

Tips for Building Your First Application on LongJump PaaS

We sat down with Sheela Sarva who works with the LongJump Support Team to talk about building applications on LongJump's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution, and what are some of the challenges for businesses before they jump in. Q. Hi, Sheela. Can you tell us what you do at LongJump? A. I work on ...

New Support Wiki

To keep up with our need to provide ongoing, agile support content quickly for our very feature-rich platform, LongJump is introducing our Support Wiki site that encompasses all things technical. It will be a single destination for how-to's, product/platform information, tutorials, and how things work. Our support and engineering teams will ...

GigaOm: The Long Tail of IT

Our CEO, Pankaj Malviya, has been published on GigaOm recently discussing the how IT and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) solutions can work hand in hand. Below is the complete article: The Long Tail of IT Pankaj Malviya, June 25, 2008 Everyone who has worked in — or even with — an IT department knows that the ...

LongJump at GigaOm’s Structure 08 Conference

We had a great time sponsoring the GigaOm's Structure 08 Conference in San Francisco yesterday. It's very clear that the infrustructure of web products and components is starting to consolidate into ready-to-go solutions from hosting, applications, and (like LongJump) complete enterprise application development plaforms. According to Om Malik: The platforms on which we have done ...

LongJump Expands Management Team by Adding CRM Industry Veteran

Company Appoints Vice President of Business Development to Lead Newly Unveiled Partner Program and Drive Channel Strategy Sunnyvale, CA May 19, 2008 -- LongJump, a platform for highly customizable, interconnected on-demand business applications, announced today that it has appointed Jay Noble as its new Vice President of Business Development. Noble brings ...

Recession-Proof Campaigning: CRM Helps Harvest Low Hanging Fruit

Recently, there was a news report on how a lot of families are dealing with the (possible) recession by growing their own fruits and vegetables. Makes perfect sense. It cuts down on expensive gas, its self-replenishing, and you can grow what you need. It also is tasty and satisifying. What's the ...