Infragistics upgrades embedded data analytics software
Monday, April 6, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Infragistics is excited to announce a major upgrade to its embedded data analytics software, Reveal. In addition to its fast, easy integration into any platform or deployment option, Reveal’s newest features address the latest trends in data analytics: predictive and advanced analytics, machine learning, R and Python scripting, big data connectors, and much more. ...
Google announced product updates
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
As an avid gamer, every year I look forward to spending time with developers at GDC to celebrate together and learn from their successes. We are all disappointed that this year's conference was postponed, but we applaud the organizers for taking steps to protect our global community.
Although we won’t be gathering in person this year, the Google team is hos...
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...
Omnichannel insights launch for phone call analytics platform DialogTech
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
DialogTech, a provider of marketing analytics for phone calls, has announced the launch of Dashboard Insights. Businesses and agencies can now access and visualize DialogTech’s call analytics data however they choose to gain the right insights into how phone calls from digital advertising, website interactions and offline marketing drive appointments, customers and reve...
Growing your business with an app
Tuesday, May 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
There are many different tools available for businesses to use to market and promote their products and services. Social media is one of those major platforms, but the passive nature of these websites and platforms doesn’t always make them the best way to reach customers. Creating a mobile app for your business allows you to directly engage with your consumer base, but ...
How to increase app revenue by using analytics
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Guest submission by Mark Rosner, CRO of AppLovinYou wouldn’t create a website without at least one line of code for Google Analytics. So why would you create an app without it? Analytics might seem like an obvious element to incorporate into app development, but I’m still shocked that I regularly meet developers who don’t use analytics at all, or bare...
Developers and API standards
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 by Richard Harris
For nearly five years, Andy Beier, director of engineering at Domo, has worked to build more than 500 data connectors for the company’s business optimization platform. However, as Andy and his team strove to complete that monumental task, they continually ran into roadblocks because of the lack of standards in API development. Frustration led to action and the Domo...
Alooma service launches to secure pipelines that stream data in realtime
Friday, January 27, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Alooma, a data pipeline company, has announced the general availability of their newest service which creates secure pipelines that stream data in real-time from any source including databases, applications, APIs, etc. to cloud data warehouse platforms for faster business decision-making. Their solution replaces the decades-old batch uploading approach to data integrati...
Building a Modern Growth Stack
Tuesday, December 27, 2016 by Janice Ryan
At the onset of building out any startup there are a number of challenges to face. Founders must focus on everything from raising capital and finding the right team members to identifying what to build versus what to outsource or who partner with to bring a product to market. Attention to these important first steps can either make or break a company in the short term a...
Summer 2016 Elastic Integration Platform From SnapLogic Launches
Thursday, August 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SnapLogic has announced the release of its Summer 2016 Elastic Integration Platform which brings new additions to SnapLogic’s library of more than 400 intelligent connectors called Snaps, and enhances the core platform with improved performance and new data governance features for hybrid deployments.The Summer 2016 release introduces several enhancements to SnapLogic’s ...
ReportPlus Desktop for Windows Launches
Monday, July 11, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Infragistics has released ReportPlus Desktop for Windows, a cloud-based or on premise self-service BI and data visualization solution. Also new are updates to ReportPlus Mobile apps which now ship with new features for iOS and Android, along with the just released ReportPlus Embedded for ISV’s looking to create desktop, web and native mobile applications.ReportPlus othe...
SOASTA Releases Updates to Digital Performance Management Platform
Tuesday, May 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
SOASTA has released the latest version of its Digital Performance Management (DPM) Platform, offering advancements in front-end web and mobile performance optimization and support for open source tools and frameworks such as JMeter.SOASTA’s DPM platform includes CloudTest for integrated load testing, mPulse for real user monitoring, TouchTest for mobile performance and ...
Google Analytics Measurement Capabilities Now Available for Accelerated Mobile Pages
Friday, February 12, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Google Analytics team has released new Google Analytics measurement capabilities for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) facilitating the ability to identify the best content and optimize user experiences.The Accelerated Mobile Pages Project (AMP) is an open source initiative to help enable content to load instantaneously and provide a better web experience. AMP HTML pag...
New Google App Invites Helps Developers Drive App Installs with Deep Linking
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has released App Invites in beta, which provides mobile app developers the ability to use deep linking from a users’ device and Google-wide contacts as a source to drive referrals and app installs. The new offering is available for iOS and Android app developers. The Google team offers these suggestions for utilizing the beta toolkit:- Use app invites for ex...
Lots of App Development Goodies Announced at Google I-O 2015 Including Android M Developer Preview
Friday, May 29, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
A number of new initiatives were announced at the keynote of the 8th annual Google I/O conference as more than 5,600 developers looked on at Moscone Center. The event also was viewed by over 530 I/O Extended communities around the world and millions via the I/O Live stream. During the keynote, Google made a number of announcements that covered the evolution of the ...
The Top Five Things You Should Know About Paid Search Marketing
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Richard Hartley
Richard Hartley, PPC Director at Jellyfish Online Marketing, provides some quick hits on approaching paid search marketing.1. What's happening with PPC technology right now?- Google DoubleClick’s unrivalled development power could see other software tools lose custom. We witnessed a similar occurrence with competitive tag management solutions when Google Tag Manag...
adaptiv.io to Release Beta of Its Data Automation System for Online and Mobile Marketing
Monday, March 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Marketing and data automation provider adaptiv.io has announced the beta launch of its software for March 16. Interested developers can request beta access through adaptiv.io’s website.The beta launch of adaptiv.io will include the availability of Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Localytics, Kahuna and MixPanel integrations as add-on options to its system. These integ...
Google to Host Developer Day Including Code Labs at GDC 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015 by Richard Harris
Google’s GDC Developer Day will take place in Room 2006 of the West Hall of Moscone Center on Monday, March 2. The schedule will include:Opening Keynote - 10AM: Google will kick off the day by sharing how to make games more successful with Google. You’ll hear about new platforms, new tools to make development easier, and ways to measure your mobile games and moneti...
New Cloud Based Device Detection Service Available From 51Degrees
Thursday, February 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
51Degrees has launched a new free and premium platform that offers website owners a cloud based device detection solution. 51Degrees’ device detection and subsequent web optimization services enable websites to ascertain whether a user is accessing the site on a smartphone, feature phone, tablet, laptop, PC or Smart TV and use that information to deliver a fast loading ...
New Analyze Guide for Integrating Google Play Analytics Available
Monday, January 26, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
To help Android developers leverage Google Analytics, Google has created a new "Analyze" section on the Android Developers website which provides guidance on how to design a measurement plan and implement in-app analytics including features only available between Google Play and Google Analytics.The following guidelines are provided in the Analyze section:- Getting Star...
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...
App Analytics Solutions Are The Answer For Mobile Developers
Saturday, December 6, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
App analytics solutions is the answer to better engage and monetize an application when everything is in question. Venture Beat’s latest insights surveyed 250 million users. The research conducted had asked 230 app developers with 250 million currently active users how they track app data, what works best for them, and what doesn't work. Venture Beat also...
Secrets for Android Developers on Launching Apps on Google Play
Sunday, November 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
The numbers are hard to ignore - 50 billion apps and games downloaded and $5 billion over the last year to developers. So what is the secret to success launching apps on Google Play? I don’t imagine Google is giving away insider company secrets, however they have put together a new publication called “The Secrets to App Success on Google Play.” They are promoting t...
Google Analytics Announces Google Tag Manager Enhancements
Friday, October 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Google Analytics team has announced new updates to Google Tag Manager including new APIs, a new interface to help launch and edit tags faster, and more 3rd-party templates.Google Tag Manager APIThe new Tag Manager API provides the ability to customize infrastructure to specific needs. This includes the ability to create and manage users as well as previewi...
New Analytics, Mobile Crash Reporting and More Announced by New Relic at FutureStack 14
Monday, October 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
New Relic announced a number of new products and upcoming products at its FutureStack 14 conference held last week in San Francisco. Among the announcements was New Relic’s purchase of Ducksboard, a privately held startup based in Barcelona, Spain, that helps customers visualize and monitor data in real time from multiple data sources in a single dashboard. Accordi...
Developers May Have Opportunity to Launch Apps with Android or Windows Device OEMs
Monday, May 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SweetLabs has launched a new app install platform consisting of cloud-based services and client-side software to help manufacturers of any Android or Windows device (“OEMs”) better monetize and differentiate their products through apps.The app install platform is a product of the app solutions SweetLabs has provided to users and developers over the years. Thei...
Google Analytics Allows Web App and Traditional Web Reporting in Same View
Sunday, April 27, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Google Analytics is now enabling the ability to see web and app data in the same reporting view.Now Google Analytics customers can see all data they send to one Google Analytics property in a single reporting view, regardless of the collection method used based on where the data comes from. If data is sent from the web and from a mobile app to one property, both da...
Apmetrix Upgrades Mobile App Analytics Platform
Sunday, April 27, 2014 by Richard Harris
Apmetrix, a provider of business intelligence solutions for games and apps, has announced that 40 new data sources have been added to its real-time analytics platform. The addition of data includes sites and applications such as: Comscore, Facebook, Flurry, adjust.io, HasOffers/Mobile App Tracking, Google Analytics and AdWords, Fiksu, Tumblr, Exact Target, Vim...
Google Adds New Analytics to AdMob App Monetization Platform
Saturday, March 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
Google has announced the full integration of Google Analytics in the AdMob interface. The service is available on a new Analyze tab. Along with the new intergration there are a new set of features including a new drop down menu to switch between individual apps reports, new home page with combined Google Analytics nd AdMob reporting, and a new A...
New Google Play Services Are Rolling Out for Game App Developers
Monday, March 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
With GDC at full steam already this week, Google has kicked off the week announcing new services for its Google Play developer program including the new game gifts incentive program and enhanced engagement and discovery options.Highlights of the New Offerings- Google is introducing game gifts, a new service that lets players send virtual in-game obje...
Vserv.mobi Launches AppWrapper.org One click Integration for Third Party App SDKs
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Vserv.mobi has introduced AppWrapper.org for Android, a new service which offers one-click integration for a number of third party SDKs.
AppWrapper.org is an independent platform for Android developers that brings one-click integration of SDKs across advertising, in-app purchases, analytics, bug tracking and more. The goal of the platform is to automate the S...
APPNATION V Special Offer For App Developer Magazine Readers!
Friday, November 15, 2013 by Richard Harris
As an App Developer Magazine Reader -- we invite you to join APPNATION V in San Francisco, Dec 3-4, 2013 -- at no extra cost!App Developer Magazine Readers are now eligible to receive a free full access conference badge ($495 value) to network with over 2,500, attendees, access all sessions and get into the official APPNATION Party on Tuesday, December 3rd! APPNATION V ...
What Every App Developer Needs to Know About the NTIA's Code of Conduct
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 by Adam Grant
Voluntary and Short...Really?
I have come to a recent belief; fewer and fewer things in life seem to be voluntary, even though they say they are and even less are shorter than you think they should be. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (“NTIA”) Short Form Notice Code of Conduct published on July 25, 2013 seems consistent with these belief...
Google Introduces Tag Manager for Mobile Apps and Updated Analytics Services SDK
Tuesday, August 20, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
First announced at Google I/O, Tag Manager for mobile apps is now available. The free service allows developers to publish their apps and change analytics, remarketing and conversion tracking on the fly without updating the app.
Developers can add tags to Android and iOS apps by including the Google Analytics Services SDK into their app. The SDK utilizes both Google ...
Chrome Dev Channel Release Brings News On Changes in Google Services
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
Mike Tsao, Chrome Apps Tech Lead, has released the latest Chrome Dev channel release on Google's Cromium Blog. I n the blog he discusses changes in access to Google services such as Google Analytics, Google APIs and Google Wallet, and better OS integration using services such as Bluetooth and native app communication. Among items discussed were Identity API, In App Paym...
