Overview of Key Vendor Capabilities of Cloud Application Platforms

Overview of Key Vendor Capabilities of Cloud Application Platforms

This IDC Market Perspective offers insight into the key cloud application platform capabilities that deliver the highest business value to organizations and better experience to developers. These capabilities can be categorized as the completeness of software development life cycle (SDLC), security, and enabling rapid iteration. The need to meet the demand of end users in the digital-first world has compelled the need for speed, agility, and scalability. Cloud application platform vendors, being strategic technology partners, play a crucial role in providing solutions that meet the needs of organizations and their developers in delivering highly performant digital applications. "Digital solutions are playing an essential role in every facet of the business, including employee productivity, business growth, market competitiveness, and customer engagement," said Brijesh Kumar, senior research analyst, Cloud Applications Development Platforms at IDC. "Organizations must strive to enable their application development teams to focus more on business logic and building innovative software that provides an enhanced digital experience to their end users. Cloud application platforms solve key pain points in the software development life cycle, including enabling security and rapid iteration and deliver compelling business value benefits."

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