<p>In October of 2012 we provided a Sector RoadMapTM for the still-emerging PaaS market that focused on the basics of that particular technology. The examined vectors in that report were application infrastructure, database management, application development, business intelligence, application deployment, and application security. We looked at fundamental features one would expect to find in a development platform because that's how PaaS was and is being defined by the marketplace.</p><p>However, the PaaS market took on some new dimensions in 2013. Private PaaS players saw some strong growth as some enterprises looked to keep applications and data in-house. There is also greater support for the emerging use of devops, better database integration, and better support for emerging multicloud deployments. This builds upon, not replaces, the traditional uses of PaaS to automate application development, testing, and deployment processes.</p><p>Moreover, the PaaS market saw increased meshing with the IaaS space in 2013. This included strong showings from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PaaS offerings and other IaaS-focused players. We also saw the arrival of some new PaaS players, including Oracle, and we got a clearer picture of how PaaS offerings from Salesforce.com and Pivotal will likely exist in the emerging market.</p><p>Given all of these developments, there is a need to reevaluate the PaaS market and the PaaS players in terms of how PaaS truly fits within an enterprise application development strategy. New questions are emerging: When will PaaS work? When will PaaS be a challenge for enterprise IT? What is the changing value of PaaS technology as we move into 2014?</p><p><a href="http://research.gigaom.com/report/sector-roadmap-platform-as-a-service-paas-in-2014/">Keep reading...</a></p>