Big cloud + low code

Forrester’s report “Five customer facing scenarios shape low code platform choices” includes a section on how low code platform companies are working together with big cloud companies.

It says that Microsoft’s long term priority is building platforms for coders to use (like .Net). Microsoft does not do much ‘low code’ platforms. So there could be room for low code vendors to do this, making low code services running on Microsoft’s “Azure” cloud system, or over Office 365. K2 and Nintex run on Microsoft cloud.

Mendix, OutSystems and Acquia are providing services running on Amazon Cloud.

OrangeScape is building ‘low code’ workflow tools running on Google Apps.

Alphinat is an ‘IBM partner’ – IBM is currently developing cloud infrastructure

ExactTarget’s fuel runs on the Salesforce.com cloud.