The cloud computing market has grown into a complex ecosystem of cloud-enabled technology and services. The portion of enterprise IT spending dedicated to cloud computing is increasing. By 2022, the worldwide public cloud service market will grow to $331.2 billion, spending on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is predicted to increase to $76.6 billion, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to $31.8 billion, and Cloud Application Services (SaaS) to $143.7 billion. Gartner
By making the shift to cloud application development platforms, enterprises can benefit from on-demand computing resource power, pay-as-you-go features, easy scalability, to the use of the latest technology stack.
Enterprises that are further along the road of digital transformation and are looking for ways to add business value by enhancing capabilities are revamping application development and delivery models. To rebuild applications to be fully cloud-native, they are running PaaS layers in containers instead of lifting and shifting to IaaS.
What’s the difference between aPaaS and PaaS and the capabilities that define it? Find out.
CIOs, IT leaders, and developers are increasingly adopting cloud app development platforms, owing to the benefits of productivity and simplicity. Moreover, as a PaaS or cloud-based app development becomes more disruptive with Docker technology, it is further urging enterprises to rethink how they develop and deliver applications, manage innovation, and address IT workloads and time-to-market pressures.
Consider the advantages of cloud application development services that will make you rethink application development.
Availability – Users have access to the software at all times with cloud app development platforms.
Innovative Technology – Enterprises using cloud application development platforms have access to the latest technology stack and that gives them a competitive advantage in creating the next big thing or to claim market share over their competitors.
Mobility – Cloud application development platforms are exposed to data and are integrated with APIs which can be accessible using applications on a user’s phone, or mobile device at any point in time. This enables users to carry their work with them and can access applications at any time.
Collaboration – With cloud Low-code application development platforms, users can collaborate and share content or develop applications. This capability allows the clients to be involved in projects, reduce time-to-market, and improve product development and customer service.
Flexibility – Enterprises can customize their cloud application development requirements based on their need. For instance, more capacity can be provisioned during peak times and de-provisioned during off-peak times. In the case of traditional methods, enterprises would have to invest in large-capacity servers and storage which will end up sitting idle during off-peak times.
Cost and risk – Enterprises save millions of dollars before receiving an ROI when they opt for a cloud application development platform. Enterprises do not need to invest in physical servers and data centers as in the case of traditional computing resources and therefore reduce the cost and the risk.
WaveMaker Cloud application development platform is an aPaaS platform that has cloud native architecture app development and provides a lightweight, resource-optimized environment for rapid application development (RAD). By supporting massive scaling and enabling the Cloud development of ready-to-go applications with one-click testing and deployment to cloud pipelines, WaveMaker offers scalability, agility, portability, security, speed, and cost-effectiveness across the application development lifecycle.
Massive application scaling – Cloud-native architecture supporting massive application scaling
Speed and agility – With one-click deployment and testing, Docker container-powered deployment to cloud providers, and Kubernetes environment, applications are ready to go for release in the cloud.
Portability and security – By offering a lightweight, resource-optimized environment, based on a Docker containerization model, applications developed are portable, and secure deployment is ensured.
WaveMaker supports hybrid as well as multi-cloud application development & deployments. The workloads can also work on-premise on your infrastructure. If you are using one of the public cloud providers you can span your instances across and have applications be deployed as containers on any of the cloud providers of your choice.
Visual development: Drag-and-drop UI creation for faster development and change management.
Easy integration: Connect to databases, web services, APIs, and data siloed in legacy systems.
Multi-device support: Create responsive web applications and hybrid mobile apps so that applications are available across all devices and form factors.
Extensive customization: Ability to customize all aspects – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and backend services
Docker container technology: Quicker and seamless provisioning of containers for apps built. We are giving ease to create development and testing environments.
Instant deployment: One-click deployment and option to run on-premise and in private cloud and public cloud.
UI templates: Provides a library of out-of-the-box web and mobile templates to jumpstart the application’s UI development.
67% faster application development than traditional software application delivery
80% lesser coding required compared to traditional software app development
75% lower maintenance costs compared to the traditional software life cycle
