16. Application Platform as a Service (Gartner) Need a new type of application server XTP — Extreme Transaction Processing MT — Multitenancy Application Platform as a Service (APaaS) Hardware Grid System Infrastructure SaaS-Enabled Application Platform AppDev AppServer XTP MT Business Data Metadata SaaS-Enabled Business Application Tenant App. View Users Tenant App. View Tenant App. View Users Users Business Application as a Service Application Provider User Organizations Platform Supplier Host
Thanks to Massimo for the very informative presentation of the technology roadmap that awaits us. With your permission – I’d like to spend the next few minutes talking about 2 things: How we at GS see the change that our industry is going through (and no - I’m not referring to the sub-prime crisis...), How we are responding to it.