General Gartner: Microsoft One of Just Two Market Leaders in Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) The air is pretty thin when it comes to Enterprise Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) providers, finds Gartner. Only Microsoft and Salesforce rated Leader status in Gartner's aPaaS Magic Quadrant, released last week. Administrator Account aPaaSEnterprise Application Platform as ServiceGartnermicrosoft 2016-03-29 1 0