{"id":1398,"date":"2016-10-25T13:13:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T17:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2016-10-25T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T17:13:46","slug":"application-platform-as-a-service-offering-productivity-gains-that-your-business-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/application-platform-as-a-service-offering-productivity-gains-that-your-business-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Application Platform-as-a-Service: Offering Productivity Gains That Your Business Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1404\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/Application-Platform-as-a-Service-Offering-Productivity-Gains-That-Your-Business-Needs-1.png\" alt=\"Application Platform-as-a-Service: Offering Productivity Gains That Your Business Needs\" width=\"800\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/Application-Platform-as-a-Service-Offering-Productivity-Gains-That-Your-Business-Needs-1.png 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/Application-Platform-as-a-Service-Offering-Productivity-Gains-That-Your-Business-Needs-1-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/Application-Platform-as-a-Service-Offering-Productivity-Gains-That-Your-Business-Needs-1-768x336.png 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/Application-Platform-as-a-Service-Offering-Productivity-Gains-That-Your-Business-Needs-1-600x263.png 600w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/Application-Platform-as-a-Service-Offering-Productivity-Gains-That-Your-Business-Needs-1-180x79.png 180w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/Application-Platform-as-a-Service-Offering-Productivity-Gains-That-Your-Business-Needs-1-400x175.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you haven&#8217;t heard of the great products that are allowing\u00a0the average Joe to develop apps with little to no experience at a rapid speed, you MUST explore the possibilities that Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) products\u00a0are bringing to market. Development platforms have shifted to offering low-code or no code\u00a0options, accommodating builders who have little to no development experience, but want the flexibility to generate new products quickly. aPaas solutions can change the way businesses innovate, by streamlining tasks and adding new functions to everyday business processes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Named in <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5mIhD-ix\">Gartner&#8217;s 2016 Magic Quadrant aPaaS Report<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kintone.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span id=\"0.820807624914347\" class=\"highlight\">kintone<\/span>&#8216;s application platform<\/a> allows users to build custom enterprise applications with no coding required. Applications can then be instantly and securely deployed to internal teams via the <span id=\"0.3815640375854539\" class=\"highlight\">kintone<\/span> iOS and Android mobile app container.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1401 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fead3b079-a6f8-4607-92fa-a5289c284069_2Fimg_03_03.jpg\" alt=\"kintone screen shot\" width=\"521\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fead3b079-a6f8-4607-92fa-a5289c284069_2Fimg_03_03.jpg 900w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fead3b079-a6f8-4607-92fa-a5289c284069_2Fimg_03_03-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fead3b079-a6f8-4607-92fa-a5289c284069_2Fimg_03_03-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fead3b079-a6f8-4607-92fa-a5289c284069_2Fimg_03_03-800x444.jpg 800w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fead3b079-a6f8-4607-92fa-a5289c284069_2Fimg_03_03-486x270.jpg 486w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fead3b079-a6f8-4607-92fa-a5289c284069_2Fimg_03_03-146x81.jpg 146w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fead3b079-a6f8-4607-92fa-a5289c284069_2Fimg_03_03-324x180.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">aPaaS products deliver the ability for near anyone to develop business, consumer, web or mobile apps, helping organizations everywhere dream up new tools for consumers and even special apps for employees to access and communicate on off-hours.\u00a0Once you have access to the easy development tools that aPaas vendors offer, which allow ANYONE to spin up a quick app to address a problem, or fill a gap- you\u2019ll wonder how you ever did without.\u00a0Low-code and no-code cloud-based tools allow business designers\u00a0to drag and drop processes and users to configure apps rather than code without ever requiring the need for the management of infrastructure and servers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1402 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fe3957979-a006-474a-acfb-974ba9449d3a_2Fslider-image-3.png\" alt=\"Kintone Screenshot 2\" width=\"527\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fe3957979-a006-474a-acfb-974ba9449d3a_2Fslider-image-3.png 762w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fe3957979-a006-474a-acfb-974ba9449d3a_2Fslider-image-3-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fe3957979-a006-474a-acfb-974ba9449d3a_2Fslider-image-3-414x270.png 414w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fe3957979-a006-474a-acfb-974ba9449d3a_2Fslider-image-3-124x81.png 124w, https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/files\/2016\/10\/expirable-direct-uploads_2Fe3957979-a006-474a-acfb-974ba9449d3a_2Fslider-image-3-276x180.png 276w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Apps help businesses grow, and to embrace this modality is to keep pace with competition, and remain current\u00a0with the tech capabilities of today.\u00a0If you don\u2019t provide users\u00a0with a great enterprise app, it\u2019s likely they might take their business elsewhere. We need apps to keep pace with the changing landscape of finance, and communication.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sf_cols row -mb3 -l-mb0\">\n<div class=\"sf_colsOut col-12 -l-full\">\n<div id=\"GeneralContent_C114_Col01\" class=\"sf_colsIn\">\n<div class=\"sf_cols row\">\n<div class=\"sf_colsOut col-23 col--offset-1\">\n<div id=\"GeneralContent_C118_Col00\" class=\"sf_colsIn\">\n<div class=\"sfContentBlock\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One of the best things about low-code platforms is that businesses can get started, and shortly thereafter, launch low code creations within the first few days of training- unlike traditional business process management suites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As the low-code space itself continues to evolve, Forrester predicts that\u00a0more diverse platform capabilities will temper demand for the new innovation to better serve enterprise needs. Forrester\u00a0also predicted that bigger technology vendors will\u00a0adopt low-code platforms as a new offering against traditional business process management suites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cRight now, the low-code platform space is dominated by smaller emerging vendors,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forrester.com\/report\/The+Forrester+Wave+LowCode+Development+Platforms+Q2+2016\/-\/E-RES117623\" target=\"_blank\">Forrester in the\u00a0Wave\u2019s: Low-Code Development Platforms report<\/a>. \u201cHowever, we expect larger more established players, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/ibm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IBM<\/a> and Pegasystems, to begin positioning new offerings that address this space and will help give the use case even more credibility from an enterprise perspective. We hear the imperative for low-code loud and clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><br \/>Widget not in any sidebars<br \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you haven&#8217;t heard of the great products that are allowing\u00a0the average Joe to develop apps with little to no experience at a rapid speed, you MUST explore the possibilities that Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) products\u00a0are bringing to market. 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