LongJump Further Enhances Its PaaS Offering to Enterprise Customers

LongJump has been very active developing and releasing new features and updates lately and I have had two briefings with the company’s CEO during the last few weeks only. LongJump is a company that offers its customers with a platform twhere they can use and modify the complete range of business productivity applications for basically any process in their operations.

Last month LongJump made it easier for developers to customize and roll out new applications for developers working on LongJump platform. Today at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Conference in Orlando LongJump is announcing yet another enhancement to its enterprise-targeted platform that will be appealing to existing companies and will also be useful for LongJump to attract new customers as well.

Today’s release is intended to add functionality specifically targeted at enterprise customers, like email-based interaction with the business workflow when a user can make decisions on various tasks using any email device - be it a desktop or a mobile device - simply by replying to a message he receives from the application.

In addition to accessing various features of LongJump applications by email to handle the workflow easier, LongJump also offers mobile access for various devices that have a web browser - be it a BlackBerry or an iPhone or some simpler WAP-enabled phone.

Another interesting addition today is a sandbox where a company using LongJump to develop and deploy their own business applications will be able to test the new releases before actually rolling them out as production versions. There are also some enhancement to security and reporting functionality of LongJump platform that will most probably be appreciated by LongJump customers.

Since LongJump is focused on reducing costs for their enterprise customers to be able to efficiently run all their crucial business processes without investing in large-scale development of custom applications and deploying/hosting them on owned or rented servers, I think LongJump really has a good chance of succeeding during this economic crisis as the number of companies looking for new ways to optimize budgets is constantly growing. Small hint to both startups and existing large-scale companies: figure out how you can help anyone cut their costs, and you will most certainly stay healthy even in a recession.