FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Data Corporation (IDC) has published its 2016 IDC Innovators report recognizing pioneering players in the worldwide platform as a service (PaaS) market. IDC Innovators are companies with under $50 million in revenue that offer an inventive technology and/or groundbreaking new business model.
Algorithmia, CloudMunch, Iron.io, Kismatic, and Reltio were all named as IDC Innovators in the worldwide platform as a service market for 2016.
"Rapid growth and the availability of low-cost cloud infrastructure is bringing new challenges to outdated business models by startups building innovative solutions challenging legacy businesses. A new set of easily consumable cloud services is accelerating the ability to build and deliver new functionality," said Larry Carvalho, Research Manager, Platform as a Service.
Algorithmia offers a marketplace for "the building blocks of algorithmic intelligence," allowing users to search, edit, and integrate algorithms, accelerating development of new applications that extract knowledge from information. CloudMunch provides a platform for development operations (DevOps), bringing together the breadth of tools and integrating them to create business value in a cloud environment. Iron.io has the future of computing in their crosshairs: hybrid cloud environments, microservices, containers enabling scale, continuous delivery, and API-driven workload management. Reltio Cloud blends together master data and big data across all domains and formats from any internal, third plarty, and social media sources, creating a unified view of information through a modern data management PaaS, delivered directly to business users via data-driven applications.
IDC Innovators: Worldwide Platform as a Service 2016 (Doc #US41166516) profiles select companies in the worldwide platform as a service market with an innovative technology or a groundbreaking new business model or both. The IDC Innovators research document examines companies with revenue of less than $50 million with a product, service or business model with a specific use case.
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within a specific market that offer an innovative new technology, a
groundbreaking approach to an existing issue, and/or an interesting new
business model. It is not an exhaustive evaluation of all companies in a
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