App Search on Elasticsearch Service launches
Thursday, February 6, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Elastic the company behind Elasticsearch and the Elastic Stack, is excited to announce the general availability of Elastic App Search on Elasticsearch Service.
Elastic App Search is a ready-to-use, fully complete search solution with user-friendly relevance tuning and analytics built-in. And starting today, users can deploy App Search instances with the click of a bu...
Why app analytics tools can get your app removed
Friday, February 8, 2019 by Richard Harris
Apple has recently started to crack down on developers that aren’t disclosing how they are capturing analytics from their users, as reported by Techcrunch and a few other sources. Analytics that includes everything from taps and swipes, to what screens users are on, length of time inside apps, and more. Some embedded SDK's developer use even record user sessio...
Diffusion data streaming platform gets an update
Friday, November 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Push Technology released new functionality in their Diffusion Intelligent Data Platform to increase security authentication and authorization handling, facilitate easy transitioning from REST-based applications to streaming data applications, simplify development of multi-user and collaborative applications, and enhance data compression for large payload distribution ap...
Microsoft's Azure Mobile Engagement SaaS Platform Receives New Functionality
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has released the latest version of its Azure Mobile Engagement service which offers a SaaS-delivered, data-driven user engagement platform that enables real-time fine-grain user segmentation, app user analytics, and contextually-aware smart push notifications and in-app messaging across connected devices. Azure Mobile Engagement has SDKs available for Apple iO...
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...
Perforce Software Launches New Helix SCM and Content Collaboration Platform
Thursday, March 12, 2015 by Richard Harris
Perforce Software has released Perforce Helix, a new supply chain management (SCM) and content collaboration platform that brings distributed workflows, Git management, advanced threat detection and new deployment options for applications, Internet of Things devices and digital media. The Helix collaboration platform serves as a single source for all the contributo...
Will iBeacons Break Out This Holiday Retail Season
Monday, November 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Black Friday or Cyber Monday – which is bigger? Actually, that question may be a moot point, as many retail pundits think that Thanksgiving day in the US may quickly overtake those two days as more retail stores open their doors in advance of Black Friday. What better way to work off the drowsiness from the effect of the Tryptophan in your turkey than by getting out and...
Microsoft Buys Capptain to Get a Piece of the Mobile Push Analytics Arena
Sunday, June 1, 2014 by Ron Beaman
Microsoft has announced that it has acquired Capptain, which offers app user analytics and provides push notification services based on customer usage patterns.According to a Microsoft statement, “Capptain will bring a vital new element to our end-to-end story for mobile app development – real-time user and push analytics. With Capptain’s solution, organizatio...
Parse Announces New App User Analytics
Monday, March 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The folks at Parse have added two new components to their analytics platform: Data Analytics and Performance Analytics.On Parse developers can manage their collection in Parse’s Data Browser however if could be unclear how a collection grows over time. In the past, developers could see growth by manually filtering API requests on a particular class. With the new an...
App Developers Focus On Tablets
Sunday, July 7, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
App Developers are increasingly including tablets in their efforts to develop enterprise apps.
According to a Survey by Appcelerator and IDC, mobile developers for iOS and Windows are equally creating apps for smartphones (84%) and tablets (81.3%). The study points to the growth of enterprise usage of tablets as a driving force to develop for the devices....
Rise of the Mega SDK Vendors in Mobile
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Panagiotis Papadopoulos, founder and CEO of Bugsense, provides an interesting look into the rise and consolidation of third party vendors for mobile development.
On the Vision Mobile blog he list three reasons for the consolidation of SDK providers: capital changing the perception of value; the need to subsidise developer onboarding; and catering to adjacent develope...
