Trends like agile development, devops, and continuous integration speak to the modern enterprise’s need to build software hyper-efficiently -- and, if necessary, to turn on a dime.
That latter maneuver is how CloudBees became the company it is today. Once an independent, public cloud PaaS provider for Java coders (rated highly by InfoWorld’s Andrew Oliver in “Which freaking PaaS should I use?”), CloudBees pivoted sharply 18 months ago to relaunch as the leading provider of Jenkins, a highly popular open source tool for managing the software development process.