Visual Map of OnDemand Marketplace

Peter Laird; with assistance from Kent Dickson and Steve Bobrowski, has created an excellent visual mapping of the current state of the OnDemand Marketplace as of early 2008.

Peter has the marketplace broken out into:

Cloud Computing

Platform as a Service ( Link to Dion Hinchliffe whitepaper - 2.4 mb pdf )

Software as a Service

Core Cloud Services

Within these 4 Markets, Peter has numerous submarkets with the majority of companies as of today providing solutions in the Cloud Computing and Software as a Service Markets.

I would expand a bit on Peter’s definition of the Software as a Service market to also include Billing and Contract Management which he has broken out into Core Cloud Services. On Demand Billing and Contract Management can be utilized not just for Software as a Service and Integration as a Service solutions but could also be used behind the firewall to meter in house computing usage.

I will create followup articles over the next few months that go into detail on the technology and players in the Integration as a Service, (Market where my firm Applation is developing solutions) Database, Storage, Security, and Cloud Computing Markets.

1. George Staines , May 22, 2008:

   The list of companies is rather incomplete. There are only a few Cloud Computing and Software as a Service Companies on the map.

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   Nick reply on May 23rd, 2008 :

   George,

   The Cloud Portal has a up to date list of Cloud Providers

   http://cloudcomputing.qrimp.com/portal.aspx
   and
   http://tinyurl.com/539ccf

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   Magnús Sveinsson reply on May 23rd, 2008 :

   Thanks for the links

2. Ameed Taylor , May 22, 2008:

   George,

   Peter Laird mentions in his article ( http://tinyurl.com/45ejjj ) that the list of companies is not exhaustive.

   You can go to http://www.saas-showplace.com to get a more complete list of Saas companies at least.

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