RAD definition is changing
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 by Vijay Pullur
RAD platforms started out as tools for citizen developers without substantial technical knowledge of coding, who could use intuitive “out of the box” features to create applications suited for simple departmental and experimental needs. While these early RAD platforms (not this "rad") brought basic coding capabilities to the masses, the application...
Transforming industries with photoenabled apps
Monday, December 24, 2018 by Jindou Lee
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, which is probably why there are thousands of mobile apps designed to help users capture, send and discover images of what’s important to them. Ever since the first smartphone slid off the assembly line, photos have been an essential feature of mobile marketing and social media. But while consumer-facing tools have...
GraphQL as a service platform launches by Hasura
Monday, July 23, 2018 by Austin Harris
Hasura launched their open source GraphQL Engine. A solution available that can instantly add GraphQL-as-a-Service onto existing Postgres-based applications - without the time-consuming task of writing backend code that processes GraphQL. Now front-end developers and enterprise application developers can get GraphQL and start working with it in minutes to build scalable...
Appdome integrates into the AppConfig community
Monday, August 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Appdome, a cloud hub for mobile app integration, has joined the AppConfig Community, re-affirming its ongoing commitment to a secure and efficient mobile industry. AppConfig’s best practice feature-set can now be automatically integrated in apps via the Appdome platform, all without any code or coding. App Publishers (ISVs) and enterprise app developers can add AppConfi...
Samsung hosts first DeX developer workshop in New York
Friday, June 16, 2017 by Richard Harris
Samsung will host a free professional developer workshop for Samsung DeX, its new solution that lets you connect the Galaxy S8/S8+ to a monitor, mouse and keyboard and create a rich desktop experience.In this day-long workshop, enterprise application developers will learn how to optimize their existing applications for the features that DeX offers, including giving user...
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...
Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 happening June 1315 in Santa Clara
Monday, November 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Cloud Foundry has announced Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 will take place June 13-15 in Santa Clara, California. Perennial interest from the community has created demand for an annual regional event, driving Cloud Foundry to present its Summit Silicon Valley 2017 in the hotbed of the tech industry. Early registration ends Friday, December 2, and offers e...
What Jama Software Wants You to Know About Jama 8
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
From aerospace to automotive to medical devices, software is quickly becoming the differentiator in hardware products. Case in point, today there are more lines of code in a John Deere tractor than in the first space shuttle. But making hardware requires rigid workflows that seem counter to more flexible, agile concepts used for software development.
Jama Sof...
A Deep Dive Into the Salesforce AppExchange App Marketplace on its 10th Anniversary
Thursday, January 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We thought it would be relevant to take a deep dive into the development and current offerings of the Salesforce AppExchange, which is now celebrating its 10th year. We visited with Jim Sinai, Salesforce's Vice President of App Cloud Marketing, for insight into the platform.ADM: What’s the AppExchange? Sinai: Ten years ago, Salesforce had a vision that customers, p...
Why 3D Touch is Going to Change the Way We Interact with Mobile
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Michael Wass of Shinobicontrols to discuss the impact of 3D Touch on mobile app development. Shinobicontrols creates interactive UI controls for iOS and Android developers.ADM: Why is 3D touch going to change the way we interact with mobile?Wass: 3D Touch solves a lot of problems with mobile, and a lot of the inherent problems with iOS. Much of ...
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 (...
Cisco, AirWatch and Others Lead ACE Tech Consortium to Create Industry Standards for Enterprise App Deployment
Monday, March 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
AirWatch, Box, Cisco, Workday and Xamarin are leading a consortium of companies who are attempting to create an industry standard for enterprise app deployment. The new App Configuration for Enterprise (ACE) consortium is attempting to create a standard, scalable way to configure and secure enterprise apps.ACE leverages the latest APIs available from Android and Apple i...
AnyAuth from built.io Provides Mobile Developers a Preferred Login Mechanism to Authenticate Users
Wednesday, August 13, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
To help developers add additional security functionality, built.io has introduced a new product, AnyAuth, which allows enterprise app developers to use their preferred login mechanism to authenticate users.The new offering builds on built.io’s ability to offer authentication via Facebook, Twitter, and Google, as well as enterprise social networks like tibbr, Chatter and...
Apsima Announces New White labeling Option for Proximity iBeacon Technology
Thursday, July 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Apsima has announced a new white-labeling option for proximity beacon manufacturers, enterprise app developers, and others to take advantage of Apsima’s proximity aware features. The white-label option provides a way to add Apsima’s proprietary proximity awareness platform to enterprise offerings, without the costs associated with development.Apsima handles al...
Apple vs. Android: Developing Secure Enterprise Apps
Friday, June 6, 2014 by James Seibel
Mobile Device Management (“MDM”) is an infrastructure protocol for executing privileged commands on mobile devices. In other words, MDM is an infrastructure technology that enables administrators to take full advantage of features already included on devices. The MDM specifications are provided by operating system designers, for example Apple and Google, and include gui...
Orasi to Host Two Free Webinars in February for Enterprise App Developers
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 by Richard Harris
Orasi has announced two free webinars in February to help enterprises better understand how to leverage their ALM tools for their SAP environment and to increase testing efficiencies. Leveraging Your ALM Tools for Your SAP Environment – Feb 5Overview - Functional testing is a key piece of any SAP implementation and a piece that is often omitted due to time and...
App Development Industry 2013: Winners and Losers (And Somewhere in Between)
Sunday, December 29, 2013 by Richard Harris
One of the reasons we launched App Developer Magazine was to help bring some clarity to the big picture of the mobile industry as it relates to app development. And while we feel that we have provided many valuable insights in our first year of publishing, it’s been a lot to wrap our heads around and we plan on doing a better job in 2014. So looking at the big pic...
Apps World to Launch New Enterprise App Conference in 2014
Monday, December 23, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
While the environment that indie app developers/publishers and those vested in enterprise mobile operate in might not be convergent, there is a holistic aspect to the approach of mobile and the mobile app infrastructure that is shared by all who operate in this golden age of smart mobile devices.
Recognizing this reality, the people behind the popular Apps World ...
Vision Mobile’s Enterprise App Developer Atlas Provides Old School Print Poster for Developers
Saturday, September 14, 2013 by Richard Harris
We receive literally hundreds of news, commentary and other reports on the app development industry and it is relatively rare that we say to ourselves “wow, how about that!”
However, Vision Mobile’s Enterprise App Developer Atlas has made us say just that with its old school availability as a printed poster coupled with its decidedly new school demonstration on the com...
Android Gets Enterprise Security With LookoutSamsung Alliance
Thursday, September 5, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Lookout is increasing its footprint in enterprise mobility with a new partnership with Samsung and a soon to be released standalone business product. Lookout has announced it will provide integrated support to the Samsung Knox, an Android-based end-to-end mobile security solution that provides security hardening from the hardware through to the application layer.
Looko...
New Study Shows that 80 percent of Manufacturers Will Develop an Enterprise Mobile App This Year
Monday, August 19, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
If you can’t find an enterprise contract gig or a full time job as an app developer, it’s not because the opportunities aren’t out there. It seems that every week a new report comes out that organizations are looking to create new apps, corporate app stores and are examining ever increasing ways to mobilize their operations.
Manufacturing Insights has published a new r...
Enterprise App Developers Questions and Answers
Monday, December 31, 2012 by Richard Harris
Applications have been written for ages, it wasn't until recently - and the dawn of the mobile age that applications morphed into "apps". We went from writing giant software packages with installers to compiling lightweight little packages called apps that can be distributed over the airwaves.Enterprise class developers were lost in the sudden movement everything ...
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