While this has been admirably courageous, we believe the combination of innovations, all being wrapped up in the offering of Coghead, in several cases resulted in or was perceived by customers and partners as a layer-upon-layer of risks. This in turn might have played a part in the slow adoption by large customers, who characteristically apply a risk-averse attitude, of PaaS based solutions aimed at addressing and embracing complex business critical processes.
In this perspective it is important to consider and address the underlying issues, especially if you are in the pressing situation of quickly finding a replacement to your Coghead based solution and meet the deadline of close down of the services - who would like to get out of the frying pan and into the fire?
Some of the issues at hand:
• Layers of multiple novel technologies and infrastructure solutions
• “Lock-in” through proprietary data formats and design of the application vs. a specific PaaS solution
• Solution offered and provided by young VC based companies
• Lack of enterprise grade support services
On the other hand a PaaS based solution offers many genuine and substantial advantages and perhaps the most important ones from a business perspective are:
• Short time from vision to productive and realized value in launching applications
o All accomplished without programming or coding
• Very favorable cost-of-operation throughout the lifecycle
In the context of the above pros and cons, IS Tools offers an enterprise level and battle-proven PaaS-engine for installation and operation in the “corporate cloud environment”, or alternatively, as a dedicated hosted PaaS. This value offering off-sets the layer-upon-layer risk elements while maintaining the upsides of PaaS based solutions.
The IS Tools Paas-engine offering specifically targets enterprise customers. IS Tools has a solid track record in helping customers leverage on deploying and running PaaS solutions on a global basis involving not only our PaaS-engine product but also professional services – all well suited for business critical applications driving billion dollar throughputs.
IS Tools holds an AAA credit rating, and is profitable since 2003.
Should you be interested in migrating your PaaS-in-the-cloud application into your “corporate cloud” and have your own PaaS-engine you are most welcome to contact us.