Capterra Glossary
Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)
Application Performance as a Service (aPaaS) is a service where a third-party company helps an organization develop and deploy applications in the cloud. The company provides the cloud infrastructure needed to build applications, deploy them (deliver them to users), and scale them.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS)
SMBs might benefit from aPaaS when they lack the staff or technological resources to build, deploy, and scale apps themselves. They can develop apps quickly and compete with larger companies.
Related Terms
- Synchronous
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Intranet
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Scalability
- Data Center
- Authorization
- Multitenancy