Temenos expands Quantum MXDP
Thursday, March 5, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Temenos expanded its Temenos Quantum multi-experience development platform (MXDP), giving businesses greater control of their digital transformation and allowing them to offer smarter, AI-powered digital experiences. Temenos Quantum’s integration with Explainable AI (XAI) powers intelligent, hyper-personalized digital experiences, resulting in higher levels o...
Iowa caucus app woes from a developer perspective
Friday, February 21, 2020 by Richard Harris
Whether the issues behind the Iowa Democratic Caucus app debacle were specific to UX, connectivity, traffic, or just good ol’ fashioned reluctance to embrace the technology, the ramifications of this mess will be felt for a long time – the hanging chad of the new decade. So are apps out? Absolutely not, but things are going to have to change.
Applications...
Morten Bagai joins GRAX from Salesforce.com
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 by Austin Harris
GRAX announced that Morten Bagai has joined the team as the company's first Chief Technology Officer.
In this role, Morten will drive GRAX's technology vision and execution, guiding the team to build a platform for deriving strategic value from data. He will be based in Los Angeles and will report to CEO Joe Gaska.
Morten joins GRAX from Salesforce.com, wh...
Splunk acquires software company Omnition
Friday, September 6, 2019 by Freeman Lightner
Splunk, a stealth-mode SaaS company that works in distributed tracing and improving monitoring across microservices applications recently acquired SignalFx, and now they have acquired the software company Omnition.
"Today, we’re happy to announce that Splunk has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Omnition, a stealth-mo...
MobilityWare acquires Jump Ramp Games including Lucktastic brand
Tuesday, September 3, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger
MobilityWare, the original app developer for the game of Solitaire and creator of many other games, has announced the acquisition of Jump Ramp Games. Jump Ramp is a leader in enabling its clients to understand, engage, and acquire customers within its data-driven Performance Marketing Network. As part of the acquisition, MobilityWare will take over Jump Ramps ...
Temenos acquires Kony and strengthens its leadership team
Friday, August 30, 2019 by Richard Harris
Temenos, the Switzerland-based banking software company, has agreed to acquire Kony, Inc., the digital banking SaaS company, for $559 million and an earn-out of $21 million, subject to regulatory approvals.
The acquisition enhances Temenos’ scale and capabilities in the US, adds significant digital expertise, and accelerates Temenos Infinity, the b...
Conversational AI is transforming customer experiences
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 by Richard Harris
New disruptive technologies such as Conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) are transforming how businesses deliver enhanced, personalized consumer experiences. To enable developers to build more engaging web and mobile applications, Kony, Inc., the cloud-based digital application and low-code platform solutions company, today announced the launch of its C...
Alpha TransForm cuts build time for offlinecapable mobile apps
Monday, June 24, 2019 by Austin Harris
Alpha Software Corporation announced the official launch of Alpha TransForm a mobile app development and deployment platform that turns complex paper forms or business processes into scalable, offline-capable mobile apps in just a few hours.
Alpha TransForm apps can be highly-customized and have outstanding offline support for industrial-strength requirements. T...
MariaDB enterprise server helps you sleep at night
Thursday, June 20, 2019 by Richard Harris
MariaDB Corporation announced the release of MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4, code-named “Restful Nights” for the peace of mind it brings enterprise customers. Databases are the backbone of critical business services used every day. A database failure can result in sleepless nights for everyone involved. The new MariaDB Enterprise Server includes added f...
Enterprise grade low code platform arrives from Kony
Thursday, March 14, 2019 by Richard Harris
Kony Inc has a lot to talk about these days. Along with recently being named a leader in The Forrester Wave: Low-Code Development Platforms for AD&D Professionals, Q1 2019, they also sent notice to us that they launched Kony Quantum, a new brand with enhanced capabilities for its next-generation low-code app development platform that aims to deliver rich digita...
Push notification value increases with intensity
Monday, March 4, 2019 by Richard Harris
Marfeel has released the results of an extensive study that measured the value of push notifications to publishers and identified optimized strategies for increasing the value of push notifications by up to 40 percent.
The research defined a new metric, Subscriber Lifetime Value, or SLTV, to evaluate push notification strategies for customers using Marfeel’s au...
The benefits of single page applications as Adobe sees it
Thursday, January 10, 2019 by Gabriel Walt
Most people currently use a SPA every day without realizing it. Google Maps, Twitter, and Gmail are just a few examples of the abundance of SPAs in use today. While SPAs have been around for a while, technology advances have caused interest in them to soar over the past couple of years. Still, some misconceptions exist about the technology, many based on limitations in ...
Kony now supports making progressive web apps
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 by Richard Harris
Kony, Inc. announced new enhancements of its Kony AppPlatform to support Progressive Web Apps (PWAs). Kony is the first vendor to support enterprise-grade, low-code PWA development for mission-critical apps. Developers can use Kony’s visual low-code platform to develop PWAs, while leveraging backend services and third-party integrations for building enterprise app...
G Suite developer platform gets a new Apps Script dashboard
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Austin Harris
Google has announced the Apps Script dashboard that will aim to offer new and expanded functionality under the new name the G Suite Developer Hub to make it easier to create, track and manage developer projects within the G Suite developer platform.
With the G Suite Developer Hub, customers will be able to:
Get started quickly.
The G Suite ...
Strategic technology alliance announced between Appian and Genesys
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 by Richard Harris
Appian has announced a strategic technology alliance with Genesys. The partnership will benefit organizations seeking customer engagement solutions that integrate the case management, intelligent automation, and low-code application development capabilities of Appian with the Genesys Customer Experience Platform. “Over the last several years, Serco has used Appian...
Open source software turns 20
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
First let me say in full disclaimer that I love open source software and initiatives, and I come from the enterprise world as it where in 1998. The days where IT budgets were as fat as overfed guppy goldfish, and open source tech was barely used in production environments. Open source source software has always had the same set of challenges following closely behin...
Kony introduces a new Base Camp to app developers
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Kony, Inc. has announced the launch of Kony Base Camp, a curated online community designed to empower both professional and citizen developers to gain the modern IT skills needed to accelerate the development and delivery of omni-channel apps.The pace and demands of today’s digital business environment has resulted in an increasing IT skills gap - one that hinders profe...
Low code does not mean simple or isolated
Monday, September 18, 2017 by Richard Harris
As automation and rapid development are increasingly becoming the order of the day, a clear pattern has begun to form between two key enterprise practices. That it is to say that low code development platforms are now often offering services for Enterprise Information Management. The new partnership between the two technologies being motivated by companies' constant dri...
Lowcode app development considerations
Friday, September 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Love them or hate them, low-code platforms have made some notable impacts in the enterprise mobile app software development industry. The simple ease of use and low costs of such platforms at the expense of some creative freedoms has proven to be a revolutionary practice.That's why we sat down and had a chat with the experts to learn more on how low-code fares in the pr...
Kony introduces us to AppPlatform V8
Thursday, August 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Businesses big and small are feeling the mounting pressure of increasing demand by their clients, employees and partners for mobile apps. Many of them struggle to meet this demand. Especially with limited budgets and lack of in-house developer skills, which seem to be the biggest hurdles.To help solve this mobile app dilemma, Kony recently launched its Kony AppPlatform ...
Kony gauges the state of apps in the enterprise
Tuesday, July 25, 2017 by Richard Harris
More businesses are realizing the importance of mobile apps, but are discovering deploying and managing apps in their business is not as easy as they had thought. To gauge the state of apps in the enterprise, Kony, Inc., an enterprise mobility and digital applications company, partnered with Wakefield Research. The global survey of more than 1,000 line-of-business execu...
Diebold Nixdorf and Kony form strategic partnership
Friday, May 26, 2017 by Austin Harris
Diebold Nixdorf, provider of connected commerce, announced a strategic partnership with Kony, Inc., an enterprise mobility and application company, to offer white label mobile application solutions for financial institutions and retailers. The next generation mobile application suite - DN Mobile - will enable a unified and highly personalized experience by leveraging cr...
Forrester Research names Kony as one of the top 11 in Low Code
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 by Austin Harris
Kony, Inc., an enterprise mobility and applications company, has announced it has been named a “Leader” in Mobile Low-code Development Platforms by independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc. Based on the in-depth evaluation, Kony achieved the highest score possible in 14 strategy and current offering criteria, including Declarative UX Tooling, Integration, Repor...
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...
Publish and distribute APIbased connectors as Lambda Functions with Cloud Elements
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 by Richard Harris
Cloud Elements just announced at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference they are the first API Integration and Management Platform vendor to offer a revolutionary approach to publish and distribute API-based connectors as Lambda Functions, supporting a serverless architecture. Cloud Elements’ extensive catalog of 115+ connectors can now be consumed from withi...
Kony MobileFabric Now Offers Enhanced Support for Apps on AWS
Monday, August 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kony has announced enhanced support for applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and updates to its offerings in AWS Marketplace. The announcement includes new support for AWS Mobile and IoT offerings that make it easier and faster for mobile app developers using Kony MobileFabric to develop, build and deploy apps on the AWS Cloud.Kony MobileFabric 7 provides a...
Kony MobileFabric Release Offers New Microservices and Object Services Technology
Thursday, July 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Kony has released the latest edition of its MobileFabric platform, the company’s mobile middleware solution designed to be used to rapidly build mobile backend applications. This release, MobileFabric 7.0, offers a new model-driven approach to mobile app development using microservices and includes object services that make it easier and cheaper to develop, maintain and...
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...
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 ...
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...
Kony Releases New Mobile Field Service Solution to Help Companies Modernize Operations
Thursday, December 10, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Kony has introduced a new Mobile Field Service solution for SAP Business Suite, which includes a set of three new apps and implementation services to help companies mobilize and modernize their field service operations. In just 30 days Kony's Mobile Field Service solution can help businesses move away from a paper-based field service operation to a completely mobil...
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...
Kony's MobileFabric Cross Platform Development Solution Available on AWS Marketplace
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Developers looking to leverage the advantage of cross-platform development in a cloud based environment can now take advantage of Kony MobileFabric in AWS Marketplace, which includes the availability of a free Developer Edition.Kony is an enterprise mobility solutions company which provides one of the leading cloud-based mobile application development platforms (MADP). ...
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...
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