Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Solutions

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SAP Business Technology Platform

SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) is the company's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering, that brings together intelligent enterprise applications with database and data management, analytics, integration and extension capabilities into one platform for both cloud and hybrid…

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Peltarion
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The Peltarion Platform is a low-code deep learning platform designed to enable users to build commercially viable AI-powered solutions, at speed and at scale. The platform allows users to build, tweak, fine-tune and deploy deep learning models. It is end-to-end and lets users do…

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Gurulize
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Gurulize is a SaaS for entrepreneurs who wants to build an online consultancy platform to serve online paid audio/video sessions. Gurulize aims to enable every individual/company to digitize and serve their expertise to the world without boundaries – via their very own platforms…

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Capgemini Cloud Platform

Capgemini Cloud Platform brings together technology, processes and culture to help organizations of every size leverage the efficiency and agility of cloud. It is a portfolio of cloud services and accelerators in a single cloud management platform.

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Stefanini Cloud Services

Stefanini Cloud Services includes a number of IaaS, PaaS, and managed public cloud services for Azure and Microsoft Cloud (e.g. Office 365) in a configurable bundle.

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Telefónica Managed Cloud Services

The Telefónica Tech and Cyber Security division offers managed cloud services for public and private enterprise clouds, featuring end-to-end cloud management. Telefónica's Cloud IaaS service boasts 10 years of operation, and users can include the Telefonica PaaS which makes available…

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ModusBox
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The platform, PortX, an Integration-Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) is designed for community financial institutions.

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Waylay  Enterprise

A suite of low-code enterprise automation software platform for the enterprise IOT, connecting devices, and enterprise IT systems.

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Waylay Digital Twin

Waylay Digital Twin is a no-code Salesforce solution that connects IoT to Salesforce and boosts the visibility of data, health and performance metrics for connected assets. Salesforce users configure asset monitoring based on the business context, create new condition-based predictive…

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Waylay Edge Solution

Waylay is a leading enterprise IT-OT digital unification software company delivering low-code based orchestration, automation and analytics software solutions. Waylay Edge Solution's TinyAutomator brings the power of Waylay automation technology to the edge, in response to the…

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Waylay IO
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Waylay IO brings an entirely new low-code business model to the developer community. It allows developers to build automation flows and use cases in no time. Its developer-friendly environment, backed by an engaged community creates the perfect setting to bring ideas to life, experiment…

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Rigetti Quantum Cloud Services

Quantum Cloud Services from Rigetti Computing in Berkeley is a quantum-first cloud computing platform. With QCS, Rigetti's quantum processors are integrated with classical computing infrastructure and made available to users over the cloud. Quantum Cloud Services provides users with…

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Otomi Container Platform

Otomi Container Platform is an enterprise-grade, production-ready container platform solution that acts as an added-value layer on top of Kubernetes. It's like WordPress for Kubernetes. The Otomi Container Platform is designed to make it possible to make Kubernetes Adoption a Less…

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SkySilk Cloud Computing

SkySilk is a scalable cloud platform with cloud solution for developers, gamers, system administrators, business owners, freelancers, and IT professionals. They offer two classes of service: For IT Professionals: scalable cloud VPS, Gaming servers with premium infrastructure, and…

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DigitMarket Marketplace

The vendor states that the Torry Harris Integration Solutions marketplace platform has the following features to: · Power and scale platforms · Strategize, design, develop and maintain a platform · Navigate the digital economy with a no-code approach…

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Userful
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Userful is flagship desktop virtualization software from the company of the same name.

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IIJ GIO PaaS Cloud

IIJ (Internet Initiative Japan) offers a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution powered by IIJ GIO Cloud. In addition to PaaS, IIJ also offers other tools to support developers such as HaaS and IaaS.

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InterCloud
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InterCloud is a cloud computing platform solution that offers private access to any cloud provider, such as AWS or Google Cloud. It is a modular solution for connectivity, security, and application delivery services.

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WorkXpress
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WorkXpress is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution from the company of the same name in Pennsylvania. It is optimized for both web and mobile app development and integration with third party tools.

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Apprenda
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Apprenda is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) product that enables enterprise software development in public, private and hybrid clouds. The vendor says it is a foundational software layer and application run-time environment that abstracts the complexities of building and delivering…

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Ridge
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Ridge is a distributed platform providing cloud computing.

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Huawei Cloud ServiceStage

Huawei Cloud ServiceStage is an application management and O&M platform that lets users develop, build, roll out, monitor, and maintain applications all in one place. So users can do less recoding with the Java, Go, PHP, Node.js, Docker, and Tomcat running environments, and the web,…

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Pellerex
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Pellerex is a data and AI marketplace that lets users tap into a network of data scientists to build new AI models so the user avoids having to hire full time science teams, by leveraging the talent on the network and once they developed the required models, they can also deploy…

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Bitloops
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Bitloops is a backend development platform that empowers software engineers to build custom enterprise-grade software. By incorporating core software engineering principles and best practices into the development process, teams are able to design and build backend applications that…

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CloudEdge
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CloudEdge is a solution that helps to accelerate the user's cloud deployment, an automated, secure, and compliant cloud platform as a service.

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Azure Fluid Relay

Azure Fluid Relay, part of Microsoft's Azure suite of services and apps, enables users to add real-time collaborative experiences to apps with the Fluid Framework. Users can create collaborative solutions without building Fluid servers, including real-time collaboration experiences…

Videos for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Solutions

What is IaaS and PaaS - An Introduction to Cloud Computing Servicing
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Learn more about the worlds of IaaS and PaaS (Infrastructure as a service and platform as a service) in this short video.
PaaS Explained
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In this lightboard video, Tessa Rodes with IBM Cloud explains what Platform as a Service, or PaaS, is while also using multiple analogies to illustrate how PaaS can be a more cost-efficient solution by enabling developers to focus on code and not the server and software configuration.

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What is Platform as a Service Software?

Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provide a computing platform and a solution stack as a service. PaaS is a set of tools and services designed to make coding and deploying applications much more efficient. In essence, PaaS is a platform for building software delivered over the web. A PaaS platform can be a very good way to develop a scalable web application with modest up-front investment.

Developers of SaaS applications are now responsible for operational work like provisioning, configuring, managing, and updating hardware resources, which are skills they would not have needed in the traditional on-premise world. The overlap between provisioning IT services and developing applications is a much-discussed area that has come to be known as DevOps.

The emergence of PaaS is designed to release application developers from complexity by providing them with the operational components underlying application development, such as operating systems, databases, and middleware, etc. Developers of business applications using Platform as a Service technology are released from the overhead of worrying about scalability and security issues and are free to focus on developing applications.

The PaaS layer also integrates automatically with the even more fundamental Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) layer, so that developers don’t have to worry about infrastructure components like hardware.

PaaS systems execute a developer’s source code by retrieving all necessary dependencies that are specific to the frameworks and languages used in the application. The platform also manages things like configuration and release management.

The value proposition for purchasing a PaaS solution is that these tools typically result in a faster time to market for emerging applications, provide streamlined management of applications, and reduce the complexity associated with the development process. Of course, one of the biggest selling points of PaaS is that it significantly lowers the high costs historically associated with application development. As such, PaaS solutions should typically manage the following components for users:

  • Runtime
  • Middleware
  • O/S
  • Virtualization

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Features & Capabilities

  • Ease-of-building user interfaces
  • Scalability
  • Platform management overhead
  • Workflow engine capability
  • Platform access control
  • Services-enabled integration
  • Development environment creation
  • Development environment replication
  • Issue monitoring and notification
  • Issue recovery
  • Upgrades and platform fixes

Platform as a Service Software Comparison

When considering different PaaS solutions, consider the following aspects of each product offering.

  1. Compatibility: PaaS solutions can function alongside Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS) solutions. When doing so, it is necessary to consider compatibility. Some vendors offer solutions that include both IaaS and PaaS solutions, while others have a separate offering for each. Some PaaS solutions can even integrate with IaaS solutions from different vendors. When purchasing a PaaS solution, it is crucial to discuss compatibility with vendors.
  2. Type of PaaS: There are three different types of PaaS. PaaS software tied to a specific Software as a Service (SaaS) works with a particular SaaS application, providing it with additional features. PaaS solutions related to a particular operating environment work with specific operating environments, such as IaaS solutions that include PaaS features. Lastly, open-cloud PaaS acts as a standalone platform without dependencies on other applications.
  3. Hosting Options: PaaS solutions have several cloud deployment options, including private, public, community, and hybrid clouds. The type of cloud deployment can influence price and resource portability, consider what kind of deployment is ideal when comparing PaaS solutions.

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Pricing

For developers on a budget, there are a few PaaS offerings available for free. Products like Dokku, are completely free, open-source projects. Then there are providers like OpenShift and AWS Elastic Beanstalk, that while not totally free, have free options for smaller projects.

For paid offerings, pricing varies greatly. Some products charge users per month, per instance, whereas others charge based on the amount of data used, sometimes on a monthly or even hourly basis. While services can start as low as less than 1¢ per gigabyte, for example, users should realistically plan to invest at least a few hundred dollars a month on the lower end to several thousand on the higher end, into their PaaS product if going with paid offerings.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Platform as a Service software?

Platform as a service is a cloud computing service that provides a computing stack as a service for developing applications. Platform as a Service software provides components such as operating systems, and databases so developers can focus on developing and worry less about issues like scalability.

What is the best Platform as a Service software?

The Top Rated Platform as a Service software include:


What are the benefits of Platform as a Service Software?

The biggest advantage of Platform as a Service software that it allows for quicker application development, so products can be developed and released sooner. Additionally, since platform as a service software includes development tools that allow developers to write less code while developing.

How much does Platform as a Service cost?

For developing on a budget, there are free Platform as a Service options including Dokku, an open-source software, and proprietary options with free versions for smaller projects. For larger projects that want a proprietary software, pricing is dependent on number of users and the amount of data used. Services can start as low as $0.01 per gigabyte, but as more features and users are needed, prices increase.