Analysts James Staten, John Rymer, Vivian Brown and Phil Murphy interviewed 28 developer organizations published in "Forrester Wave: Enterprise Public Cloud Platforms, Q2 2013."  IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (platform-as-a-service) options for developers were considered.

* A variety of providers were considered. PaaS platforms included Salesforce.com's Force.com, Microsoft's Azure and Google's App Engine, and runners-up IBM, Rackspace and Verizon Terremark.