✓ Application developers no longer operate as disconnected  units making individualized selections for hardware and  software development tools to fit each new project. ✓ Enterprise IT standardize on a framework for all developers to use to write their code. ✓ Improving the development life cycle:  Effectively managing the application development life cycle can be challenging. For example, teams may be in different  locations, with different objectives, and working on different platforms. When it comes time to integrate, test,  and build the application, problems can arise because  developers are working on different platforms with a different configuration than the operations team is working on. In another situation, some developers don’t have the latest version of the code. These same  developers may also be using a different set of tools. A  key benefit of an abstracted platform is that it supports  the life cycle of the application. ✓ Eliminating the installation and operational burden  from an organization:  Traditionally, when a new application server or other middleware is introduced  into an organization, IT must make sure that the middleware can access other services that are required  to run that application. This requirement can cause friction between Development and Operations. With  PaaS, these conflicts are minimized. Because the PaaS  environment is designed in a modular, service-oriented  These materials are the copyright of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and any  dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Understanding the benefits of PaaS Organizations can gain a few different benefits through a PaaS  environment. For example, it’s possible to architect a private  cloud environment so development and deployment services  are integrated into the platform. This provides a similar benefit gained from a public PaaS but in a private environment.  A private PaaS implementation can be designed to work in  concert with public PaaS services. The benefits to using PaaS include the following: Cloud Services For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition  22