The hidden hazards of mobile app development
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 by Burley Kawasaki
The transition from desktop to mobile computing is not a question of if, but when. According to Gartner, within the next five years, 70 percent of software interactions in enterprises will occur on mobile devices. Little wonder, then, that organizations that are just embarking on their mobile app development journeys can often be tempted to assume the voyage will be smo...
Why developers benefit when implementing a cloud backend into apps
Wednesday, October 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
The popularity of enterprise mobile app development has boomed across many industries as businesses have identified mobility as a key agent in their digital transformation efforts. As mobile application demand has risen, app developers are exploring new ways to simplify mobile app development and management. Enter cloud backend.We recently sat down with Ashruti Singh, P...
The Growing Benefits of Cross Platform App Development With VPlay
Saturday, August 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Christian Feldbacher, co-founder and CEO of V-Play, to discuss the growing benefits of cross-platform development and how V-Play aims to make it easier than ever for developers to bring their apps to market.ADM: Who is V-Play? What does the company do?Feldbacher: V-Play provides a cross-platform development tool for mobile app and game developer...
Kinvey and Redox to Accelerate Mobile Health Innovation
Friday, August 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Health care providers face more challenges than most industries when it comes to digital and mobile innovation, including HIPAA compliance and legacy systems. mBaaS provider Kinvey and electronic healthcare record (EHR) API provider Redox seek to ease those challenges with a new mobile app solution that will provide faster, easier delivery of EHR data into mobile,...
Built.io Makes MBaaS Customizable With 3.0 Update
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
Built.io Backend 3.0 is the latest update to Built.io’s award winning mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) product. With this announcement, Built.io Backend becomes the industry’s most flexible enterprise backend for application development, says Matthew Baier, COO.Typical MBaaS requires the application developer to deploy a separate application server for their business...
Kony Makes Updates to Visualizer Cross Platform Solution
Thursday, March 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kony has released a number of updates to the cloud-based Kony Visualizer application design and development solution offered through Kony’s Mobility Platform. Enabling cross-platform mobile app development, the release of Visualizer 7.0 includes updates to simplify and accelerate the mobile app development process, enabling developers to build connected, omni-chann...
Insight Into What the Facebook Announcement About Shutting Down Parse Really Means
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Matthew Baier, COO of Built.io, reached out to us to discuss his thoughts into the recent announcement by Facebook that they are shutting down the Parse development platform. Matthew has 15 years of experience launching and growing a wide range of successful products at Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Salesforce. He co-founded KurbKarma, a TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 Startup B...
Security Brief Protecting Against the OWASP Mobile Top 10
Thursday, January 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
There are over 1.6 million Android apps in the Google Play store. Over 1.5 million apps are in the Apple App Store. For mobile app hackers, today’s mobile environment has never offered a more fertile landscape to phish for user information or implant mobile malware. And never in history has more information been available to exploit.To understand how mobile application ...
Red Hat's Mobile App Platform Includes New Push Notification Capabilities
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The main focus of the recently released Version 3.6 of the Feed Henry’s (which is now owned by Red Hat) cross platform Mobile Application Platform (MHP) is the integration of the Aerogear UnifiedPush Server into the platform which provides improved iOS, Android and Windows Phone push notification functionality. Also new is Windows 10 support.With the UnifiedPush Server ...
MBaaS: The Missing Piece in Your Mobile App Strategy
Sunday, December 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
There is not an IT team out there that isn’t feeling the pressure to feed their customers, employees, and other stakeholder’s insatiable appetite for mobile solutions. The problem grows daily and developers have to work smarter and faster to meet the increasing demand.Fortunately, a growing number of services are being introduced within the industry to help alleviate th...
The Unsung Side Of Mobile Apps: Bootstrapping Development With Mobile Backend Services
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Mike Thompson
There’s more to a successful mobile app than a slick UI and cross-platform availability. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) makes developing compelling, full featured apps faster and easier.When building applications, every budding developer knows the temptation of fixating on the UI at the expense of algorithms, data structures and state management. After al...
Orasi Extends Expertise to Kony's CrossPlatform Enterprise Mobile Solutions
Monday, November 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Orasi Software has partnered with Kony to expand its software, support, training and consulting services to provide a complete suite of services for the application lifecycle. With the partnership, Orasi will provide sales, implementation services, training, consulting and support for Kony’s mobile development solutions. The partnership is part of Orasi’s expansion...
What's Wrong with Mobile Development and How to Fix It
Friday, October 30, 2015 by Joe Schulz
Between the proliferation of mobile devices, the differences in operating systems, and the complexity of application interactions, mobile developers are often caught between the desire to ensure robust functionality and the need to contain costs and meet deadlines. Do we code for the most popular devices and hope for the best? When we can’t stay abreast of releases...
In the Year Ahead, Enterprise Mobility Will Hinge on the Back End
Saturday, September 12, 2015 by Cathal McGloin
This year demand for enterprise mobility has escalated. With increasing volume and sophistication of mobile app projects, organizations must now pay special attention to how they integrate mobile apps with back-end systems in an efficient and affordable way. According to a recent survey of global customers at Red Hat, back-end integration and security ranked at the...
AnyPresences's Ambitious New Platform Release Offers API and IoT Functionality
Monday, August 31, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AnyPresence has announced a major change in how the company will approach its product offerings as it moves its solutions beyond traditional MBaaS and API management towards a comprehensive solution for API-driven enterprise app development and IoT ecosystem enablement.This new direction enables rapid API development, direct connectivity to APIs from client SDKs, and ge...
Oracle Releases 24 New Cloud Services
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 by Richard Harris
Oracle has expanded its Oracle Cloud Platform offerings with more than 24 new cloud services for SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. These include Oracle Database Cloud - Exadata, Oracle Archive Storage Cloud, Oracle Big Data Cloud, Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Mobile Cloud, and Oracle Process Cloud.The Oracle Cloud Platform helps customers build new applications, extend existing ...
Red Hat Releases Three Different Studies on Mobile Development, Digital Leadership and OpenStack Adoption
Friday, May 29, 2015 by Richard Harris
Red Hat has recently published three different studies focusing on: mobile development trends, OpenStack enterprise adoption, and digital leadership.Mobile Trends SurveyA new mobile trends survey by Red Hat shows that - while mobile plays a role for 73 percent of organizations - nearly half of the respondents identify security (45 percent) and back-end integration(43 pe...
Progress Telerik Platform Adds Enterprise Functionality for Mobile Web, Native and Hybrid Apps
Thursday, May 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
Progress has added new enterprise functionality to its Telerik Platform, a cross-platform mobile application development solution for creating mobile web, native and hybrid apps. With this latest release, the Telerik Platform adds enterprise elements to better enable low code development options for both the developer and technical business user; enterprise mBaaS f...
Built.io Adds Realtime Capabilities to its Mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS)
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Built.io has announced that it has added new capabilities to its mBaaS platform which now offers full support for cross-platform realtime integration.The Built.io backend previously enabled near-realtime communication for web applications and select mobile use cases via its support for WebHooks. This new upgrade introduces a scalable realtime platform specifically optim...
moBack Releases New Enterprise Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS)
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
moBack has launched new enterprise Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS) which offers a self-deployable MBaaS platform that helps developers build and deploy mobile and web apps. moBack is an enterprise-ready mobile backend platform that combines an array of services for development and deployment of applications over the infrastructure of choice at web-scale, while ...
AnyPresence Launches JustAPIs Platform to Build and Deploy RESTful APIs
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AnyPresence, an enterprise backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) provider, has released a new service called JustAPIs - a solution for building and deploying modern RESTful APIs.JustAPIs is designed to solve the API building challenge from the perspective of the enterprise app developer. The platform provides a quick, easy way to define and deploy APIs with specific signatures (...
Appcelerator Launches New Cloud Based Service for Building APIs
Monday, April 6, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Appcelerator has released Appcelerator Platform 4.0 which introduces a new service called Arrow, offering framework for building APIs, with a scalable cloud service for running them. Arrow forms the backbone of the Appcelerator Platform’s MBaaS. It consists of two primary components - Builder and Cloud. Arrow Builder lets developers assemble APIs, data models and d...
The Mobile Developer’s Dilemma: Do It Yourself Storage or Surrender Your Data
Thursday, January 29, 2015 by Brian Taptich
With more than 1,600 new apps debuting daily and almost three million fee-based applications currently available in leading app stores, it’s clear that the mobile app economy has exploded. The staggering success of app-based services such as Uber Technologies and Snapchat are prime examples of the massive opportunity mobile app developers have to build an industry-disru...
Mobile Advertising Lingo 101: What Exactly is eCPM
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
We wade through a lot of acronyms in the mobile industry. From technology terms to marketing lingo, it can be confusing. And every day more acronyms are created, adding to the hundreds we already have - IoT, MBaaS, MEAP, MDM, BYOB, etc. - as we push the envelope to provide descriptions and names for new concepts impacting the rapidly changing mobile economy.Take e...
Kii Launches Dedicated Platform Providing Backend Capabilities for Apps and Connected Devices
Monday, September 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kii, an end-to-end mobile backend provider, is launching a dedicated platform to provide backend capabilities for apps and connected devices through available through a company’s own datacenters or as a hosted cloud service with Kii. The platform will enable businesses to create and run mobile apps, while maintaining control over app deployment, delivery ...
Kony Offers New Packaged Mobile App Enterprise Platform
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kony has launched a new packaged mobile enterprise platform called Kony MobileFabric. The platform packages a mobile application development platform (MADP), mobile backend as a service (MBaaS), Application Programming Interface (API) management, and platform as-a-service (PaaS) infrastructure under a single, open and standards-based mobile platform. Kony MobileFab...
Report Shows Large Enterprises Still Struggle to Launch Mobile Apps
Monday, August 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Being a large company with significant IT resources in play does not guarantee success in launching mobile initiatives, at least according to a new study by Apigee. The company reports that 45% of the large enterprises they surveyed are struggling with mobile.Analysis from the study is available from Apigee’s “Lessons from the App Masters: How Some IT Departments Excel ...
StrongLoop Node.js API Server Released for Developing, Securing and Scaling REST APIs
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
StrongLoop, a provider of solutions for Node.js, has released the StrongLoop API Server to facilitate the ability to develop, deploy, secure and scale REST APIs written in Node. The StrongLoop API Server is a set of components that work together to take an API project from development to production. The impact of the proliferation of mobile devices along with the r...
FeedHenry Offers Field Workforce Management Enterprise Mobile Solution
Monday, July 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
FeedHenry has launched its Field Workforce Management (WFM) mobile solution, offering ready-to-run field workforce management features that can be customized and configured to support company-specific field workflow processes, backend data integration, forms, and branding. The solution offers cross-platform capability which supports deployment to all majo...
Develop Apps for Any Device and Any Platform With AppMethod's New Platform
Saturday, June 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero has introduced its latest release of Appmethod which allows developers to use C++ to create apps for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS X. This release of Appmethod now includes a "Free Forever" subscription plan that C++ developers can use to create Android apps to be published on any public app store (e.g., Amazon App Store and Google Play). ...
Kony Releases New Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) for Enterprise App Developement
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Kony has released a new Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS), featuring pre-built multi-channel packaged mobile apps and enhancements to the Kony Multi-Channel Experience Cloud.The Kony MBaaS provides an open set of integrated, enterprise-grade cloud services that help companies mobilize business processes including customer relationship management, human resou...
DreamFactory Launches Updated MBaaS Services Platform for Mobile Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory has introduced DreamFactory 1.5, a MBaaS platform that allows developers to connect mobile apps with back-end services.The platform focuses on two areas. First, it lets developers securely connect mobile users with existing enterprise databases and control record-level data visibility. Second, it offers new scripting functionality to customize the...
FeedHenry Offers New Enhancements to Mobile Cloud Offerings Including mBaaS and API Management
Thursday, May 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
FeedHenry has introduced FeedHenry 3, the latest version of its mobile cloud that offers new features around its core mBaaS and API management, role-based development, team collaboration and support for a wide range of app development frameworks including Backbone, Angular and Xamarin. The platform now offers increased support for a range of client app develop...
Kii Cloud based Mobile Backend Platform Now Available on AWS Marketplace
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Kii, a mobile backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) provider, has announced their platform’s availability on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace and are now a member of the AWS Partner Network (APN) for enterprises and startup mobile app companies. Developers who are either starting, or currently building their apps, can sign-up for free to access Kii’s full...
Kinvey Launches New Libraries for Mobile Web Development
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Kinvey has announced new libraries for mobile web development including a full range of JavaScript, Backbone.js, Ember.js and Angular.js frameworks in addition to enhancements to its PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium modules. These new capabilities give enterprise customers more flexibility to deliver mobile applications for employees, partners and custo...
