I wrote a brief update on Pivotal recently, the full report is available for clients. Here’s the 451 Take:
Pivotal’s connection to the so-called ‘EMC Federation’ gives it an expansive portfolio, but we believe that Pivotal’s core message reduces to, “Hello, Global 2000 enterprises. The middleware stacks you use to build and run your enterprise applications are not so good. Ours is better, so you should use it for new applications development and to rewrite old applications.” The growing acceptance of Cloud Foundry as a PaaS standard is proving to be helpful in realizing this vision, as well as Pivotal’s deep assets in data and ‘big data’ management. Pivotal will need to focus more on articulating the company’s identity and explaining how its broad array of middleware helps solve the business problems that digital enterprises are experiencing when converting to ‘programmable businesses.’
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Pivotal shows good momentum in helping build ‘programmable businesses’ (451 Report)