

The recently revolutionary notion of cloud-first is quietly being replaced by vendors and users with the more radical and more strategic cloud-only.
More capabilities than ever are now available only in the cloud, and fewer projects, than ever are initiated exclusively on-premises.
This trend has an increasingly profound effect on cloud platforms where backwards compatibility becomes a niche priority and the vendors and users target cloud-native innovation.
PaaS is a multi-functional market composed of application, integration, database, analytics, API management, mobile back-end, event processing, BPM, portal and other services.
The multifaceted trends in this market reflect the overall movement of enterprises to cloud-based computing.