A Platform as a Service<\/strong> (PaaS<\/strong>) or application Platform as a Service<\/strong> (aPaaS<\/strong>) is a category of cloud computing services<\/a> that provides a software platform to allow customers to design, deploy and operate applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A PaaS should support the full \u201cSoftware Lifecycle\u201d which allows cloud consumers to develop cloud services and applications (e.g. SaaS) directly on the PaaS cloud. Hence the difference between SaaS and PaaS is that SaaS only hosts completed cloud applications whereas PaaS offers a development platform that hosts both completed and in-progress cloud applications. This requires PaaS, in addition to supporting application hosting environment, to possess development infrastructure including programming environment, tools, configuration management, and so forth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Encanvas Secure and Live<\/a> (Secure&Live) is an example of an aPaaS solution designed for the enterprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since 2007, the enterprise computing industry has been progressively leveraging cloud computing technologies to make applications more accessible and available to user communities. The use of cloud hosting applications has made it possible for applications to serve markets and users 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the challenges of porting applications to the cloud has been the risk of data loss. Data security<\/a> has become an increasing concern to organizations because of their greater reliance on data to continue business operations. Additionally, the increased compliance risks of processing personally identifiable information (PII) have made organizations more concerned about the security risks of cloud-deployed applications. Nevertheless, most application platforms today are deployed on cloud computing platforms as an applications-Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n With a general recognition that business success is increasingly derived from the ability of an enterprise to master and leverage its data value, senior management teams are increasingly exploring ways to make sense of their operational performance through data. The ability to re-use data \u2013 to harvest, cleanse, rationalize, and analyze it \u2013 has become a mission-critical need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To deliver their customer values and orchestrate their business processes, organizations must adopt application software to provide an interface between workers and computer systems (human-to-machine-interfacing-applications) and between computers (machine-to-machine-interfacing-applications). Perhaps unsurprisingly, some processes require both human and machine interfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In most organizations a gap exists between inflexible Systems of Record<\/a> \u2013 used to enforce good practice in common core back-office processes such as financial management, human resources, and customer relationship management \u2013 and demand for applications from departments, users, teams, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders to support the fulfillment of a business model orchestration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n The need for greater agility in IT systems, together with the rising influence of operational departments on enterprise software buying decisions, has led to the rise in application platforms that allow non-programmers to author applications. So-called \u2018Low-Code\u2019 or \u2018Codeless<\/a>\u2019 applications reduce or remove the need to see or use programming code or script in the design, deployment and operational phases of the Software Development Life-Cycle<\/a> (SDLC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Encanvas<\/a> is an enterprise software company that specializes in application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) solutions and helping businesses to create above and beyond customer experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Low Code to Codeless<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Better than code-lite and low-code, we created the first no code (codeless) enteprise application platform to release creative minds from the torture of having to code or script applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Live Wireframe<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Use Encanvas in your software development lifecycle to remove the barrier between IT and the business. Coding and scripting is the biggest reason why software development has been traditionally unpredictable, costly and unable to produce best-fit software results. Encanvas uniquely automates coding and scripting. Our live wireframing approach means that business analysts can create the apps you need in workshops, working across the desk with users and stakeholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AppFabric<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n When it comes to creating apps to create a data culture and orchestrate your business model, there\u2019s no simpler way to instal and operate your enterprise software platform than AppFabric. Every application you create on AppFabric adds yet more data to your single-version-of-the-truth data insights. That\u2019s because, we\u2019ve designed AppFabric to create awesome enterprise apps that use a common data management substrate, so you can architect and implement an enterprise master data management plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Customer Data Platform<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Encanvas supplies a private-cloud Customer Data Platform that equips businesses with the means to harvest their customer and commercial data from all sources, cleanse and organize it, and provide tooling to leverage its fullest value in a secure, regulated way. We provide a retrofittable solution that bridges across existing data repositories and cleanses and organizes data to present a useful data source. Then it goes on to make data available 24\u00d77 in a regulated way to authorized internal stakeholders and third parties to ensure adherence to data protection and FCA regulatory standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Encanvas Secure&Live<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Encanvas Secure and Live (\u2018Secure&Live\u2019) is a High-Productivity application Platform-as-a-Service. It\u2019s an enterprise applications software platform that equips businesses with the tools they need to design, deploy applications at low cost. It achieves this by removing coding and scripting tasks and the overheads of programming applications. Unlike its rivals, Encanvas Secure&Live is completely codeless (not just Low-Code), so it removes the barriers between IT and the business. Today, you just need to know that it\u2019s the fastest (and safest) way to design, deploy and operate enterprise applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Learn more by visiting www.encanvas.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Erica Tomlin is a senior consultant specializing in helping organizational leadership teams to grow by implementing enterprise software platforms that improve data visibility, process agility; and organizational learning – creating an enterprise that learns and adapts faster. She writes on subjects of change management, organizational design, rapid development applications software, and data science. She can be contacted via her LinkedIn<\/a> profile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Platform as a Service (PaaS) or application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) is a category of cloud computing services that provides a software platform to allow customers to design, deploy and operate applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,38,48,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apaas","category-application-platform","category-enterprise-software","category-paas","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMoving Application Platforms (aPaaS) to the Cloud<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Why every business needs an application Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The evolution of iPaaS towards Low-Code platforms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
About Encanvas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The Author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Further reading <\/h3>\n\n\n