Item: IBM Cloud Foundry
Rating: 7
Author: Scott Galvin

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We’re using these services as a POC to research the validity of our assumptions - as a way to shorten the development cycle. The freedom of turning services on and off is valuable.

Pros and Cons

Enabling new services and the management of those services without involving another group.
A wide variety of access to APIs and services
It simplifies our internal documentation by reducing the number of steps that need to be taken.

I’d love to see labels when marketing-names are used; for example, Cloudant is tough when I’m not aware what that brand is, but need to create a new database.
Ability to copy projects, services, data, databases between domains - so a user of the IBM cloud with a partner of ours could build and test something, and then move it over to our account when it’s ready. Maybe that already exists.
Easier access to third party APIs; perhaps a catalog of solutions from other vendors / a marketplace.