Overview

The Cloud Market and UXPaaS

Cloud services have developed at an incredibly fast pace over the last several years and an obvious segmentation of the market has occurred. Three types of services have emerged: Software-a-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-a-a-Service (IaaS). While the first two seem to be stabilizing, the PaaS market is still maturing.

Since PaaS describes the entire middleware stack between the hardware (IaaS) and the end-user (SaaS), features and services of PaaS offerings can vary widely. However, as Gartner recently stated, they all serve a same purpose:

"PaaS is used to enable a cloud-based business application, itself in turn offered as a service (and often referred to as SaaS)." (Gartner, Platform as a Service: Definition, Taxonomy and Vendor Landscape, 9 May 2011)

Among this fragmented PaaS market, two types of offerings stand out: aPaaS and UXPaaS.

• Application PaaS (APaaS) provides the core technology (such as multi-tenancy or elasticity) for developing and deploying cloud applications.
• User eXperience PaaS (UXPaaS) provides the UI and interaction capabilities to integrate apps in the cloud with a collection of services (such as portal, content, collaboration, social, mobile, etc).

With eXo Platform, eXo aims to be a leader in the UXPaaS market.

UXPaaS: Build Your Own Cloud with eXo Platform 3.5

With its cloud-enabled infrastructure, eXo Platform 3.5 is the ideal foundation for building a public or private cloud. eXo Platform’s unique integration capabilities and extensive set of features allow ISVs, enterprises and service providers to jump on the Cloud bandwagon with immediate productivity.

eXo Platform 3.5 can be used by:

• Enterprises who wish to build a private cloud for their customers.
• ISVs building a public cloud SaaS.
• Service providers wanting to offer a modern cloud stack to their customers.

Hosted SaaS Solutions: eXo Cloud Services

eXo Cloud IDE

eXo Cloud IDE lets developers build apps in a private online development environment. It provides common features such as syntax highlighting, code completion, code outline and Git integration. Since it was specifically designed for developing applications that will be deployed to cloud platforms, it provides built-in capabilities for deploying directly to the most popular PaaS solutions. eXo Cloud IDE currently supports deployment to CloudBees, Heroku, Red Hat OpenShift, Cloud Foundry and any Cloud Foundry-based PaaS.

Learn More / Try eXo Cloud IDE

eXo Cloud Workspaces

eXo Cloud Workspaces is a free cloud-based social intranet. It provides tools that let you capture, organize and act on your team's internal knowledge, from a full-featured enterprise wiki, powerful document management system, forums, calendars and more.

eXo Cloud Workspaces lets you go beyond the basic chatter of activity streams, giving employees the tools to customize their working environment. Individual users can create personalized dashboards to act as the starting point for all their online work, while teams and projects can have their own dedicated workspace to connect, share resources and collaborate. Finally, developers can build and deploy custom apps with the embedded web-based IDE.

Currently available only to private beta participants, eXo Cloud Workspaces has a limited number of user accounts, to allow us to continue testing the service and gathering feedback. Sign up for updates with your professional email, and we’ll send you an invitation to participate as the beta program expands.

Learn More / Join the eXo Cloud Workspaces Private Beta