LongJump Further Enhances Its PaaS Offering to Developers

As you may remember, LongJump is a platform as a service provider that allows a business to run a whole suite of enterprise office and business applications on the platform to bring their marketing/sales/customer service processes completely online with the most distributed teams producing coordinated results in all the aspects of a business operation. The online applications running on LongJump platform are seamlessly integrated with traditional desktop office applications so that all the information a business stores in LongJump suite is updated with all the new information from the desktop apps like Microsoft Office Outlook.

The suite was launched exactly a year ago and today they are announcing a major new functionality that will be sure to appeal to many developers willing to explore what the platform as a service concept has to offer. Today’s announcement is called LongJump Development Suite and is intended for all developers to see the potential of advanced development and deployment of business data-driven applications based on the PaaS approach.

LongJump has been offering building and deployment of applications without doing actual coding for some time now. Today the company introduces a set of Java-based tools that will allow developers to do very advanced customization or enhancement with the ability to actually code within the tools offered by LongJump.

With LongJump Development Suite it is possible for developers to use applications “building blocks” to quickly build a prototype and then enhance and customize the results at the coding level. At that all coding is done in Java, JSP, and HTML-based code - which makes it easier for developers familiar with Java coding and also ensures compliance of applications built with LongJumpt to industry standards.

Besides, the fact that all the development and deployment are conducted online on LongJump platform means significant cost reduction for a business that can not afford the traditional infrastructure to run a business application on its own (while it is possible to ensure hosting of the applications elsewhere as well).

The development suite is offered for free to existing users (since it is launched as an integral part of the entire LongJump platform that is prices at $20 per month) while new users can see what it has to offer during a 30-day free trial period.

Of course LongJump offer is not intended for web applications developers that are working on complex large-scale end-user applications. As a part of a platform offering a broad range of applications to a business user, LongJump Development Suite is intended for business users to have their developers quickly prototype and code some business applications that are required for the business. And this end-to-end approach of having all the business processes combined on one platform may very much hint at the future of business operations in general.