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No notes for slide Transcript 1. zapthink zapnote Doc. ID: ZTZN-1229 Released April 23, 2010 ZAPTHINK ZAPNOTE™ BEEMASTER ICT: PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE FROM THE GROUND UP Analyst: Jason Bloomberg Abstract There’s a battle brewing in the Cloud Computing marketplace. Cloud Computing has the platform vendors running scared, because Cloud Computing may eventually replace the need to own enterprise software assets altogether. To deal with this threat, middleware vendors are scrambling to assemble Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings. PaaS is essentially the delivery of a computing platform and/or solution stack as a service. While established middleware vendors are planning to provide provide software to the Cloud providers themselves, the vendors are struggling with existing middleware offerings that are not well-suited to the Cloud environment. To fill this void, Beemaster ICT offers their BeeBox Enterprise Service Bus, a lightweight, Service-oriented integration platform that supports Cloud capabilities as part of its core design, including multitenancy, dynamic provisioning, and support for Virtual Desktop Integration. Beemaster ICT is well-positioned to take on the incumbent middleware vendors with a more innovative, agile offering that promises to meet PaaS challenges more effectively than traditional middleware-based approaches.All Contents Copyright © 2010 ZapThink, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this publication in any form without priorwritten permission is forbidden. The information contained herein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable.ZapThink disclaims all warranties as to the accuracy, completeness or adequacy of such information. ZapThink shall haveno liability for errors, omissions or inadequacies in the information contained herein or for interpretations thereof. Thereader assumes sole responsibility for the selection of these materials to achieve its intended results. The opinionsexpressed herein are subject to change without notice. All trademarks, service marks, and trade names are trademarkedby their respective owners and ZapThink makes no claims to these names. ZapThink, LLC  108 Woodlawn Road  Baltimore, MD 21210  (781) 207-0203  www.zapthink.com 2. ZapThink ZapNote: Beemaster ICT April 2010The Problem with Platform-as-a-Service Wikipedia defines Platform as a Service (PaaS) as “the delivery of a computing platform and/or solution stack as a service, often consuming cloud infrastructure and sustaining cloud applications. It facilitates deployment of applications without the cost and complexity of buying and managing the underlying hardware and software layers.” Of all the emerging segments of the burgeoning Cloud Computing marketplace, PaaS is perhaps the most active, because it gives the large middleware “platform” vendors a new way to sell their software. The problem with this approach, however, is that the vendors originally developed and assembled these platform offerings with no intention of offering them via a Cloud model, and now they are scrambling to retrofit these packages to serve as PaaS offerings, often with poor results. This lack of nimbleness on the part of the big platform players gives innovative startups like Beemaster ICT a significant market opportunity. Beemaster ICT originally developed their BeeBox Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to support a Cloud-based educational portal application. Since they leveraged open standards and SOA architectural principles, they found that the underlying platform would support a variety of other Cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, so they shifted their focus to the BeeBox product itself. While some enterprise customers may be interested in the BeeBox software, Beemaster ICT’s primary customer base are the Cloud providers (formerly known as Internet Service Providers, or ISPs). BeeBox forms the underlying integration and provisioning platform for such providers’ SaaS offerings. Beemaster ICT is focusing primarily on Europe for 2010, with a plan to target global Cloud providers in 2011. They also have a nascent solution provider channel in the works, following their model of the educational portal to other solutions in other verticals.BeeBox: ESB with Multitenancy and Dynamic Provisioning Built In BeeBox leverages a Java-based messaging framework and loosely coupled Service interfaces for data exchange between the connected software and ICT platforms. It is inherently multitenanted, and supports user, desktop, storage, and application provisioning in Cloud Computing and Virtual Desktop Integration (VDI) environments. In fact, their support for VDI environments like those from Citrix offer both an opportunity and challenge for Beemaster ICT. On the one hand, the VDI players offer a partnership opportunity, and the possibility of an eventual acquisition, but are also competitive with Beemaster ICT to a certain extent, as the VDI vendors seek to build their Cloud Computing capabilities.Beemaster ICT Features Beemaster ICT Overview: Beemaster ICT offers a Service-oriented integration platform for Cloud Providers that delivers loosely coupled Services in a multitenant environment that supports dynamic provisioning. Features:  Identity Management – Delivered as infrastructure Services for the Cloud environment  Integration Services -- Cloud, SaaS, on premise, application integration  Desktop Management – Both local and remoteCopyright © 2010, ZapThink, LLC 2ZapThink, LLC  108 Woodlawn Road  Baltimore, MD 21210  info@zapthink.com  www.zapthink.com 3. ZapThink ZapNote: Beemaster ICT April 2010  On Demand Delivery -- On demand provisioning of computing resources and pay as you go pricing and billing. Value Proposition:  Dynamic provisioning enables straightforward deployment of Cloud-based applications and platforms that adjust to the capacity needs of the customer  SOA approach combined with flexible security and licensing options facilitate third-party application development on the Beebox platform  Support for Virtual Desktop Integration enables VDI customers to leverage Cloud-based resourcesThe ZapThink Take Beemaster ICT is well-positioned to beat the incumbent middleware vendors at their own game as they move to PaaS offerings, because BeeBox is inherently more flexible than heavyweight middleware offerings, and is also essentially built from the ground up for Cloud Computing. Beemaster ICT’s business strategy to target Cloud providers is also a shrewd move, as this approach will get their software into the hands of a large number of end customers rather quickly. Perhaps Beemaster ICT’s greatest challenge, however, is branding and marketing. Their name is awkward, and they don’t own the beemaster.com domain name. Furthermore, BeeBox as well is the name of a German consulting firm, so a comprehensive rework of their branding is in order. These issues won’t significantly impede their progress in the short term, but as they branch out beyond Europe and beyond the Cloud provider market, their branding had better be rock solid. Profile: Beemaster ICT April 2010 Funding: Angel investors CEO: Alex Schoone Product: BeeBox Service Bus Address: De Run 1101, 5503 LB Veldhoven, Netherlands URL: http://www.beemasterict.com Phone: +31 (0) 34 178 74 87 Contact: info@beemasterict.comRelated Research  Why Cloud Computing Scares the Platform Vendors ZapFlash  Does Cloud Computing Hold Water? ZapFlashCopyright © 2010, ZapThink, LLC 3ZapThink, LLC  108 Woodlawn Road  Baltimore, MD 21210  info@zapthink.com  www.zapthink.com 4. 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