{"id":455,"date":"2015-04-08T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T16:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/?p=455"},"modified":"2018-07-05T17:08:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T21:08:24","slug":"040815whats-changed-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-enterprise-apaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/cloud-platforms\/040815whats-changed-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-enterprise-apaas\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Changed: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service, PaaS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gartner<\/a>Editor’s Note:<\/strong> The 2016 aPaaS Magic Quadrant is now out. Check out our coverage here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Late last month, Gartner released the latest iteration<\/a> of its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS).<\/p>\n

In the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise aPaaS, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of what it considers leading vendors in the enterprise aPaaS market, and provides readers with a graph (the \u2018Magic Quadrant\u2019) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute<\/em>, and completeness of vision<\/em>. The graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players<\/em>, challengers<\/em>, visionaries<\/em>, and leaders<\/em>. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in its research publications.<\/p>\n

This is the second time Gartner has released a Magic Quadrant (MQ) for aPaaS since they introduced aPaaS as a category in 2014, and there have been some changes in vendor positions, as well as the addition of new players, and the removal of some others.<\/p>\n

We read the 32-page report and pulled a few of what we consider the most important takeaways\u00a0and key changes from last year\u2019s aPaaS Magic Quadrant:<\/p>\n

What is aPaaS?<\/h3>\n

Gartner defines application platform as a service (aPaaS) as:<\/p>\n

“A form of platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a platform to support application development, deployment and execution in the cloud. It is a suite of cloud services designed to meet the prevailing application design requirements of the time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As of 2015, those requirements include mobile cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT), and big data analytics innovations, says Gartner.<\/p>\n

An Enterprise aPaaS is an aPaaS specifically designed to \u201csupport the enterprise style of applications and applications projects (high availability, disaster recovery, security and technical support).\u201d<\/p>\n
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How has the market changed?<\/h3>\n

There have been relatively few major shifts in the aPaaS MQ since last year. As the smallest of the three major cloud markets (IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS) aPaaS has not received as much attention as other cloud services\u00a0and the market has not faced any major upheavals.<\/p>\n

Though Gartner notes that the market is \u201crelatively unsettled,\u201d they also point out that this unsettled state can attract many new vendors. Some\u00a0major IT vendors (such as Oracle and HP) have yet to enter the aPaaS market, and their doing so would undoubtedly cause a market stir-up.<\/p>\n

Gartner notes that, while they identify current leaders in the market, \u00a0the \u201clong-term, sustained leadership in the market remains open to new players.\u201d The report advises users to be prepared for change and even potential discontinuities in the market.<\/p>\n

Gartner\u00a0also lists several \u201ckey trends\u2019 in the market. Here are a few that we found most pertinent:<\/p>\n