AppPoint Software Solutions
16 April 2012:
AppPoint named “Cool Vendor” By leading industry analyst firm Gartner Inc.
As per Gartner, AppPoint’s application infrastructure suite delivered as a service is industry's first available integrated, modular and feature-rich PaaS offering based on Microsoft Azure. AppPoint Recognized as a cool vendor of 2012 for its enterprise business application platform. AppPoint, a provider of an enterprise business application platform today announced that it has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors in Application and Integration Platforms, 2011” report by Gartner, Inc. 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.
Innovation in application and integration platforms continues from a technology perspective and in terms of packaging and delivery models. Increasingly, cloud computing requirements for large-scale, highly available, distributed transactional systems are drivers for application and integration platform evolution. AppPoint’s application platform includes integration middleware as well as application middleware capabilities such as document management, event driven dynamic workflow/process framework, reporting infrastructure, portal infrastructure, security/rights management, monitoring, etc…
AppPoint is recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for its cloud enabled business application platform AppsOnAzure. AppsOnAzure is delivered as a set of highly scalable and elastic services on industry leading cloud infrastructure Azure. AppsOnAzure is a one stop solutions for organization to develop and deliver their business solutions, without any dependency on highly skilled resources or any other tools/technology. With AppsOnAzure, organization can integrate their existing application (spread across cloud and OnPremise), or modernize their legacy applications (such as SaaS/cloud enabling, mobility enabling, technology/feature up gradation, etc…) or even develop and delivery new solutions ground up, and all they need to do these is just a standard browser.
“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 best of what technology has to offer in a time, cost and risk sensitive manner.
While there are several really cool aspects of our application platform, what is really cool about it is the seamless ability to support a flexible distributed development and deployment topologies (in the cloud, on-premises and distributed) that are able to address a wide range of user requirements. Further, our unique multisite deployment options, enables organization to distribute the applications across disconnected sites, spread across the globe without compromising on data or process integrity. This capability eliminates one of the key road blocks to cloud adoption which has to do with managing data security, performance or integration in case of deployment spread across OnPremise and Cloud.”
- Venki Muthanna,
CEO | AppPoint Software Solutions.
About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
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.