At CloudBees, we believe the cloud is the new platform. Applications are transitioning to the cloud, lowering hardware and IT costs. Yet, for this transition to occur en masse, true cloud-native infrastructure has to be available.

CloudBees' vision is to offer a cloud-native Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment with the following characteristics:

• IaaS-agnostic: our platform supports multiple Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vendors in a transparent fashion. YOU decide which IaaS offering to use.
• Pay-per-use: With CloudBees, you pay for what you actually use and can instantly scale up, out or down according to your needs. Most existing PaaS solutions are not cloud-native, focus too strongly on the notion of virtual machines, and are fundamentally static deployment environments. The CloudBees' Platform provides a truly elastic platform for virtual applications, hiding the underlying infrastructure complexity. 
• Open: our platform leverages open, standard and free/open source software whenever possible, including for data formats. No vendor lock-in - any application running on the CloudBees Platform can be easily migrated, if desired.
• Friction-less: CloudBees aims to significantly reduce the IT overhead required to develop, test, deploy and maintain applications. We think development teams should be freed from infrastructure maintenance duties in order to focus 100% on application development.
• Real applications: too many cloud platforms are cluttered with restrictions and limitations that make no sense to developers. CloudBees PaaS provides a platform which respects enterprise and developer requirements.

CloudBees provides a cloud environment that covers the entire application life-cycle, from development, through continuous integration and staging, to production and maintenance.

While CloudBees' platform appeals to end-user companies, our platform has also been developed with ISVs in mind.

We envision that most ISVs will have to morph into a SaaS model. Yet, very few ISVs will find it viable to develop a multi-tenant architecture from scratch, especially given the complexity and layers involved: database, runtime, metering, billing, rolling updates and maintenance, high availability, etc.

Much like for enterprises, we want ISVs to focus on their applications, not on building and maintaining cloud architectures.