Bangalore: AppPoint, a provider of an enterprise business application platform, has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors in Application and Integration Platforms, 2011” report by Gartner, and authored by Gartner Research Yefim V. Natis, Massimo Pezzini, Paolo Malinverno, Michele Cantara, Ian Finley and Gregor Petri.

The report reviews five vendors who provide platforms as a service, which comprises of a multifunctional technology delivered as a service, enabling organizations to address vide ranging needs from business process management perspective.

AppPoint’s offers a comprehensive business application platform which addresses end-to-end needs of organizations of any size and business interest enabling them to establish their own next generation business application infrastructure. As per Garner, AppPoint’s application infrastructure suite delivered as a service is industries first available integrated, modular and feature-rich PaaS offering based on Microsoft Azure.

“We consider being recognized by Gartner as a ‘Cool Vendor’ as further vindication of our vision and the business need our technology addresses leveraging most of what an organization has to offer, while enabling them to leveraging the nest of what technology has to offer in a time, cost and risk sensitive manner. Our unique multiside deployment options, enables organization to distribute the applications across disconnected sites, spread across the globe without compromising on data or process integrity,” says Venki Muthanna, CEO, AppPoint Software Solutions.

Gartner does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather the criteria highlights interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.