This whitepaper discusses the economic impact, cost savings, and business benefits provided by Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), which is an open source, multi-cloud application platform as a service (PaaS), originally developed by VMware and then transferred to Pivotal Software, a joint venture between Dell EMC Corporation, VMware, and General Electric, and is governed by the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which is a 501(c)(6) organization.

Cloud Foundry stated services are making it easier and faster to build, test, scale, and deploy applications working through a variety of private cloud distributions, public cloud instances, application services, and developer frameworks. Cloud Foundry is backed by major technology corporations like Google, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, SUSE, and SAP SE (Systems, Applications, & Products in data processing, Societas Europaea). Some of the aspects of Cloud Foundry are the abilities to run any application, work in any cloud, accessing external resources, integration, adaptability, and being open source.