The App Lifecycle: Tips for engaging and retaining users
Monday, July 30, 2018 by David Lundell
Today, there are over 6 billion apps across the app stores, with more and more popping up every day. Developers are constantly working to fight through the clutter to acquire new users via paid and organic channels. And in a world of ever-changing user attention, the challenge for developers once they do acquire a new user is figuring out how to keep the user engaged an...
Sonatype expands firewall to stop dev vulnerabilities
Friday, March 9, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Sonatype has announced that the Nexus Firewall is now available to support the more than 10 million developers currently using the open source version of Nexus Repository. Previously only available to commercial users of Nexus Repository Pro, the newest version of Nexus Firewall gives all Nexus Repo users the ability to automatically stop vulnerable open source componen...
PacketZoom expands its offerings to SEA
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Slow app speeds are a major problem for Southeast Asia, where a recent Digitimes report found that 3G/4G mobile broadband Internet access was expected to reach just 60% in Southeast Asia in 2017, compared to 81% for the United States and more than 90% for countries such as Japan and South Korea. PacketZoom’s own Mobile Observatory report also found a high number of netw...
Adopting DevOps should be a top priority for you right now
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
As DevOps becomes more mainstream, there has been a rush for companies to implement it and agile workflows. DevOps as a buzzword isn't going away anytime soon, but are companies truly "doing DevOps" to the best of their ability? Sacha Labourey, founder and CEO of CloudBees, a hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, discusses the difference between companies claiming to do...
Demand for mobile print solutions are on the rise
Thursday, May 11, 2017 by Christoph Schell
Understanding the opportunity for mobile printing in the workplace first requires rejecting the notion that the enterprise has abandoned much of its need for printing and paper records. Digital forms and workflows may be reducing the amount of paperwork, yet many organizations still rely on hard-copy contracts, government forms and reports to support business processes ...
MapD tech open sources their Core Database
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 by Richard Harris
MapD Technologies, a GPU-powered analytics company, has released their Core database to the open source community under the Apache 2 license, seeding a new generation of data applications. By open sourcing the MapD Core database and associated visualization libraries, they are making their analytics platform available to everyone."MapD's decision to open source its Core...
Red Hat and Avi Networks join forces to automate the enterprise app lifecycle
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Avi Networks has collaborated with Red Hat to simplify and automate the enterprise application development and deployment lifecycle. Through the collaboration, Avi Networks and Red Hat integrated technologies to give enterprises the combined power of a container application platform, IT automation, software load balancing, and container networking services. With the con...
Catching up with Red Hat Mobile to talk about low code in the enterprise
Tuesday, April 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
Low code is a movement that has emerged in the marketplace in recent times, not only for mobile but also for business process management (BPM) and other application development areas. What company can resist the pull of low-cost and relatively fast development times? Especially when it's as simple as a drag and drop gesture away. So it's not surprising that many big nam...
The A to Z of lowcode app development
Friday, February 10, 2017 by Karthick Viswanathan
As we enter 2017, we are seeing low-code app development take root across larger enterprises and smaller businesses alike. In 2016, big players like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce staked their claim in this market segment. Enter 2017, and we can expect the new entrants, along with incumbents such as WaveMaker, Mendix and OutSystems, to beg...
Flurry's Insights on the "7 year itch" and What it Means to Developers
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Chris Klotzbach, Director Flurry from Yahoo, reached out to us to talk about the affect of “seven year itch” on the mobile industry, focusing on how Flurry has seen mobile growth plateau over the last 7 years.ADM: At your Mobile Developer Conference in February, Flurry shared that mobile growth is plateauing. Can you elaborate on that more?Klotzbach: In 2015, overall ap...
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...
Localytics Launches New Mobile First Email Marketing Solution
Monday, June 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Localytics continues to enhance its app marketing offers as it rolls out new platforms, marketing channels, and automation tools. Their latest introduction is a new email marketing platform, offering a personalized and mobile-first approach to email.Email is an important channel for user nurturing because it enables you to engage users with longer, more visually compell...
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 ...
Sencha Releases Web App Lifecycle Management Platform
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sencha, a provider of HTML5 desktop and mobile web application development technologies, has released the Sencha Web Application Lifecycle Management Platform., which facilitates a unified approach to application development including designing, rapidly prototyping, developing, testing, securely deploying and managing applications. Sencha’s Web Application Lifecycl...
Adobe Updates Mobile Development Framework
Friday, March 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Adobe has announced enhancements to its Adobe Mobile Services that now includes an integrated mobile app framework. Mobile Services is offered through the Adobe Marketing Cloud as a product to encompass the mobile app lifecycle from app development and user acquisition to app analytics and user engagement. The mobile app framework in Adobe Mobile Services brings to...
AMASE Analogy: This Is What a Profitable App Looks like
Monday, January 19, 2015 by Josh Cline
Mobile-app development, marketing, and monetization are all extremely difficult to do well – it’s why very few mobile apps end up being successful.In this article from The Cline Group (I’m the President and CEO), my goal is to provide end-to-end insights into the mobile-user lifecycle. Let’s start by defining a successful mobile app as one that has achieved sustained pr...
How to Dig Your Organization Out of a Mobile Application Development Backlog
Thursday, October 23, 2014 by Sean Allen
Mobile applications are great for business. They can be a competitive differentiator, generate revenue, improve business processes and enable better customer service. But for development and operations teams, these business drivers translate into a growing list of mobile apps that must be developed, launched and updated. With the need to deliver more and faster, organiz...
Electric Cloud Introduces Continuous Delivery SaaS Service for Mobile App Development
Thursday, October 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
Electric Cloud has introduced Ship.io which brings continuous delivery to native iOS and Android app development. This SaaS offering is now available as a free public beta service simplifying and automating build, test and deployment processes. Ship.io facilitates the mobile app lifecycle process by delivering the benefits of continuous integration and continuous d...
SOA Software Releases API Catalog for App Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
SOA Software has released its Enterprise API catalog, an enhancement to its API Management Platform to foster the creation of API communities inside the enterprise. The API catalog combines the collaborative, open practices of external API Portals with search, controlled visibility, selective provisioning, and integration with enterprise security for internal ...
Learn How to Manage the Lifecycle of Mobile Apps
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Perfecto Mobile will host a webinar this Wednesday, May 20, 2014 at 11:00am (EDT) which will outline successful ways to manage the lifecycle of mobile applications using Perfecto Mobile's suite of mobile testing & monitoring products.The webinar will feature Sushma Mondkar, the head of Discover Financial’s mobile application development team, who will reve...
IBM Expands Its App Development Platforms: Opens Cloud Marketplace
Monday, May 5, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
IBM has expanded its MobileFirst Application Development portfolio including the addition of new industry-specific IBM Ready Apps. It has also announced the opening of 18 new IBM MobileFirst studios around the world.The IBM MobileFirst Application Development portfolio offers tools for developers to create, deploy and manage mobile apps, on-premise or in the c...
Urban Airship Introducing Actions: Push Alerts That Allows Engaging Interactions With Users
Saturday, March 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
UA will begin shipping version 4.0 of their mobile SDK for iOS and Android early next week. The new release brings several enhancements to the push messaging workflow – together they will be called the Actions Framework. Actions will allow developers to send customized notifications that cause interesting things to happen when the notification is received or activated –...
What Mobile Experience Management Means for App User Engagement
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
As markets grow and mature, trends emerge and these trends receive names to describe that trend. Connecting a bunch of stuff to the Internet, you get the Internet of Things (first used by Kevin Ashton executive director of the Auto-ID Center).Artisan Mobile has developed the term “Mobile Experience Management” to describe its integrated suite of tools and...
Growth Continues in the Enterprise App Market as Activations Rise
Monday, February 24, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Most enterprises are still trying to figure out a long term mobile strategy, however that does not stop them from activating enterprise apps.Good Technology’s recent report shows that businesses with a more established mobile approach are now focused on deploying the types of apps that can increase employee productivity and encourage collaboration, which are u...
Monetizing Your App with Game Offers
Monday, December 2, 2013 by Thomas Sommer
Passion is
without doubt the main driver of a developer’s motivation to build great and
beautiful apps. This passion will keep you awake at night and fuel the
creativity and hard work necessary to the completion and perfection of a
beautiful product.However,
passion is not enough.
And
although you may not be in the game for this reason in the first ...
Orasi Hosts Free Webinars in November – “Test Data Management (TDM) Strategies” and “App Lifecycle Intelligence”
Friday, November 1, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Orasi will host two webinars in November to help developers improve their efficiency.
On November 5, Orasi will host the webinar “Gain A Competitive Advantage with Test Data Management” and on November 20 will present the webinar “Using HP Application Lifecycle Intelligence to Gain Insight & Improve Collaboration.” Did you know that developers and testers...
Magic Adds Features to Mobile Device Management Products
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 by Richard Harris
Magic Software Enterprises Ltd. has, announced that it has enhanced its enterprise mobility solution to provide businesses with an end-to-end solution that addresses enterprise mobility requirements, including support for offline mode and a full Magic Software Enterprises (MDM) offering.
The new product offering includes secure and reliable access to real-time enterpri...
