CIOs: Strike a Balance Between Citizen Developers and Enterprise Architecture
I just read an interesting article on Wired.com that pits CIOs against "Rogue Developers" (what I prefer to call Citizen Developers) and posits that answer lies in private cloud environments. The article does make a good point: in larger enterprises a balance ...
Will 2013 be the Year of PaaS?
Over the past several weeks, a lot of research and news has come out to suggest that 2013 will be a breakthrough year for platform-as-a-service and cloud apps in all their permutations. A recent analysis report signals a major shift towards PaaS starting in 20...
CIOs: Tap the Power of Caspio on Your Own Terms
In today’s enterprise the responsibilities of the IT department are difficult and complex. SaaS and PaaS solutions offer an alternative for IT departments looking to lower complexity and costs. And, SaaS and PaaS tools are being championed by business users,...
Free App: Store Locator
Caspio has released our latest free app, an easy-to-use Store Locator. This ready-made app offers a comprehensive set of web tools allowing you to roll out your own advanced "location finder" on your website, mobile site or within your existing apps. It is a t...
Five Reasons Online News Publishers Should Use Caspio
Our announcement yesterday that Halifax Media has selected Caspio as its standard for cloud-based apps and databases got me thinking. I was curious to learn why Caspio was such a popular platform among online news publishers, and why we continue to have such i...
Caspio and Amazon Affinities: Elasticity and Customer Centricity
While our VP of Engineering and Operations Ioannis Kritikopoulos was attending the Amazon re: Invent conference in Las Vegas last week, I checked out some of the keynotes online. More and more, I realize that while Caspio may use Amazon Web Services as its c...
Building Apps with Caspio Vs. Force.com and Database.com
When it comes to building apps in the cloud, there are a few paths to take. Developers can utilize bare-bones platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings, and essentially hard code in the cloud much the same way they would on their own servers. The benefit here is ...
Supporting “BYOD” Initiatives with Caspio
Terms like Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the Consumerization of IT are hot topics right now. The explosion in mobile device usage is having major effects in how IT departments both manage and design systems. Recent research has shown that more than half of ...
