Forrester把Google Cloud評為PaaS的領導者廠商。

Forrester的特點，比較看重技術

與它的競爭者不同，Forrester公司的調查不包含高水平的市場增長或是複雜的財務模型方面的研究，但是它卻持續地對技術給與長期的關注。分析師完全依靠直覺和Forrester公司的原則即“向適當的人問適當的問題”進行工作。這就演變成了一種定性的方法。行業調查、與高級執行人員面談以及供應商的簡要說明被用來作為探索行業發展趨勢並預測IT行業未來發展方向的依據。Forrester公司獨具特色的分析，已經成為一種品牌，被一些人形容為“有特色的”，同時也被另一些人評價為“野蠻的”。

Forrester把Google Cloud評為PaaS的領導者廠商

We are honored that Google Cloud has been named as a leader in the Forrester Wave: InsightPlatforms-as-a-service, q3 2017, and received the highest score among all theevaluated vendors in both the current offerings and strategy categories. Thereport evaluated eight vendors against 36 criteria of insightplatform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers.

評選理由：（技術能力突出是關鍵點）

Our evaluation identified one vendor as a Leader based on the strength of its PaaS strategy, advanced tools for batch and real-time solutions, and machine learning and AI offerings.

Google extends its PaaS with advanced analytics and insight execution tools. Google has built its offering around highly performant, highly scalable PaaS components such as App Engine and Google BigQuery. It also features advanced platform features like autoscaling for most of its services. Its efforts at integrating leading Hadoop cloud services are paying off as well — managed Hadoop and Spark are just an API call away, and its data flow service works on both batch and streaming data. Furthermore, Google was the only vendor in our evaluation to offer insight execution features like full machine learning automation with hyperparameter tuning, container management, and API management. Google will appeal to firms that want flexibility and extreme scalability for highly competent data scientists and cloud application development teams used to building solutions on PaaS.

Google needs to further simplify its portfolio of services. Also, its structured business analytics tools and real-time analytics tools are immature. While Cloud Bigtable’s flexibility is great, it can also be an issue. Customer references told us they could easily get data in, but querying can become an issue. As a cloud operator, customers complain that part of Google’s billing process is arcane and drives them crazy as well.