The differences between web apps and native apps
Thursday, October 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Even in 2018, years past the origional question, the debate rages on across the land, in office spaces and conference rooms every day - should we build a full-blown native mobile app, or is distributing over the web good enough?
By now everyone knows the “mobile-first” mentality because statistics like 50% of web searches being done from a mobile dev...
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 ...
Diebold Nixdorf and Kony form strategic partnership
Friday, May 26, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
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...
Becoming a citizen developer
Thursday, April 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Editors note: Guest submission by Oren Ariel, CTO and Cofounder, CaprizaThe latest numbers show that the Personal Computer market shrank another 6% in 2016, the third consecutive year of slowing sales. Smartphone sales continued to grow, and internet traffic from mobile devices actually exceeded traffic from PCs for the first time in October of 2016. Mobile is the new e...
How to integrate business priorities into the DevOps process
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 by Anaud Ganpaul
The business case for enterprise mobile applications is in crisis. Enterprises increased their spend on mobile application development to more than 10% of their overall budgets in 2016, yet fewer than 1% of mobile apps are successful, according to research firm, Gartner.To address this disturbing trend, enterprises are re-envisioning their mobile application development...
Mobile automation testing tips
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 by Adam Croxen
As mobile application development matures, the range of features increases, but so does the effort required to test for regressions before shipping updates. A robust automation testing strategy can help in this situation but it is important to look at some key factors when setting up test suite infrastructure. An automated UI test suite can quickly run through all ...
What you need to know about customizing Software as a Service
Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Stacy Simmons
It’s a given for web and mobile application development that performance testing is critical to application success. Yet, for organizations wishing to customize third-party (3P) software as a service (SaaS) rather than running it out of the box as written, performance testing can be problematic. For some types of performance testing, it is nearly impossible due to limit...
Appio is enabling small business to compete like never before
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Appio, a new startup out of Boston run by parent company LaunchByte, is looking to sweeping small business owners off their feet. They have developed a product to help traditional small business owners stay afloat and thrive in the rapidly growing tech ecosystem that surrounds them.Most small business owners have a dream to be successful and branch out until they are no...
The developer shortage is real and it's going to hit the cloud market real soon
Monday, November 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Global research (across 8 geographies and with nearly 900 respondents) made something crystal clear - the developer shortage is real and it’s going to hit the cloud market really hard, really soon. And the drain is coming from a surprising place -Global 2000 businesses not traditionally known as IT companies. A majority of companies (64 percent) see the g...
Create a conversational UI for your app in a matter of hours
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 by Richard Harris
AI has become a crucial element in our consumer lives. Chatbots and voice-controlled Siri-like-Assistants are changing the way we interact with apps and even consume products and services. The enterprise market doesn’t want to lag behind and is looking to adopt more and more AI technology to improve its capabilities and efficiency. However, high costs and limited resour...
Realm explains the benefits of realtime collaboration for mobile apps
Monday, October 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Realm is a mobile platform company, with a focus on helping developers build better mobile apps, faster. Launched in 2014, the Realm Mobile Database is the most popular third-party database in the world, and the mobile database enabling high-performance, highly engaging end-user experiences for more than a billion users of mobile apps. The Realm Mobile Platform, which c...
Cloud Security Alliance Issues Mobile Application Security Testing Report
Monday, August 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The Cloud Security Alliance has released a new report surrounding its Mobile Application Security Testing Initiative. The purpose of the report is to provide the Alliance’s insight into building out a roadmap for establishing a more secure cloud ecosystem to protect mobile applications.The Alliance’s Mobile Application Security Testing (MAST) Initiative offers...
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...
Web and Mobile Application Development Developers On Application Performance
Saturday, April 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Dimensional Research and AppDynamics recently partnered in a survey to capture trends and data about web and mobile application development as it relates to monitoring and analyzing tools, including the ability to capture data in real-time, measure performance and business impact.Anand Akela, Director of Product Marketing for Application Performance Management (APM) at ...
Insight Into Using Progress Software's Project Garage Incubator
Thursday, March 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Richard (Rich) J. Rosenthal Co-founder of PICS to discuss how his company used the development incubator “Project Garage” to create a new mobile app in an intensive sprint. Project Garage provides a hands-on learning approach to mobile application development that has become an increasingly popular choice for companies that need to launch a new ...
Are Your Mobile Apps Ready for 2016
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 by Phil Buckellew
Mobile devices became the shopper’s device of choice for browsing and buying this holiday season, with mobile accounting for 57.2 percent of all online traffic and 36.2 percent of all online sales – respective increases of 15.2 and 30 percent over 2014, according to IBM Watson Trend. With another holiday shopping season behind us and companies working hard to ...
Insight Into What the Facebook Announcement About Shutting Down Parse Really Means
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Matthew Baier, COO of Built.io, reached out to us to discuss his thoughts into the recent announcement by Facebook that they are shutting down the Parse development platform. Matthew has 15 years of experience launching and growing a wide range of successful products at Sun Microsystems, Oracle and Salesforce. He co-founded KurbKarma, a TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 Startup B...
Expect to See Large Companies Ramp Up Investment in Mobile Development for 2016
Thursday, January 14, 2016 by Richard Harris
Red Hat recently concluded a mobile development measurement survey which polled the views of IT decision makers from 200 private sector companies with at least 2,500 employees across the U.S. and Western Europe. The survey was completed in October 2015, and was carried out online.One of the most significant findings from the report is that 90 percent of companies antici...
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 ...
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...
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). ...
Mobile Application Usage Continues to Redefine Performance
Friday, October 2, 2015 by Joe Schulz
With both mobile device usage and user expectations continuing to escalate, application performance is becoming more important than ever. At the same time, the complexity of the devices themselves, paired with rising security precautions that are locking users out of public Wi-Fi networks, are making it more challenging for developers to ensure consistent performance un...
What Web Development's History Can Tell Us About the Future of Mobile Apps
Friday, September 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
It would be nice to say that web development has gotten easier over the years but that’s just not true. Technology keeps moving forward and web app developers continue to face more challenges than ever. Case in point - the new reality of responsive web design as a requirement, not an option, and the always changing web browser code interpretation argument (hence the lat...
Telerik Survey Shows Over Half of Developers Have Never Built an App
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik, a subsidiary of the software company Progress, has released the findings from its latest Telerik State of Mobile Development report which surveyed 3,000 IT professionals and developers to assess the adoption, trends and perceptions around mobile development.One of the most interesting revelations from the survey was the fact that that 57% of the developers that...
Open Source and Enterprise App Development
Thursday, August 13, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
To open source or not to open source, that is the question for many IT teams that are struggling with deciding on the best approach to mobile application development. There is no doubt that today’s broad array of open source offerings appear to offer development nirvana – free, community driven, customizable software.However, with all the potential of open source platfo...
Alpha Software Launches New Enterprise Functionality to Alpha Anywhere
Thursday, July 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Alpha Software has released in beta new capabilities in the Alpha Anywhere mobile application development and deployment environment providing the ability for developers to create offline-enabled tablet-optimized forms for workers who primarily work standing up and moving around. The update offers new opportunity for companies to mobilize paper forms and workflows ...
Appirio Launches AppXpress iOS Mobile App Developer Crowdsourcing Platform
Thursday, May 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Appirio has launched AppXpress, a new marketplace for businesses to build iOS apps using a global crowdsourcing community of 750,000 plus app developers, designers and UI/UX experts. Appirio created the iOS-focused AppXpress marketplace to give companies of any size a way to tap into the specialized talent. AppXpress serves as a self-service solution that walks a c...
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...
New Responsive Design Elements Offered with Kendo UI HTML5 and JavaScript UI Framework
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Progress has released several updates enhancements to its Telerik Kendo UI HTML5 and JavaScript UI framework, and its server wrappers for ASP.NET MVC, PHP and JSP, to provide more functionality in creating responsive design elements in cross-platform and mobile application development. The Kendo UI framework facilitates responsive design capabilities via a natural ...
Microsoft Releases Azure App Cloud Service to Build Web and Mobile Apps
Saturday, March 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Azure App Service, a new cloud service that enables developers to build web and mobile apps for any platform and device. App Service is an integrated solution by Microsoft to help developers streamline development while enabling integration with on-premises and SaaS systems.The Azure App Service brings together the capabilities from Azure Webs...
Telerik Launches JavaScript Open Source Network for Web Developers to Build Native Apps
Monday, March 16, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Telerik announced the beta availability of NativeScript, an open source framework enabling developers to use JavaScript to build native mobile apps running on all major mobile platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android and upcoming for Windows Universal. The NativeScript framework is designed to be familiar to developers who are comfortable with web technologie...
Suhas Uliyar, Vice President of Mobile Strategy with Oracle, Provides His Predictions on the Future for App Developers and the Mobile Enterprise
Thursday, January 8, 2015 by Richard Harris
I recently had a Q&A session with Oracle’s Suhas Uliyar, who serves as the company’s Vice President of Mobile Strategy. During the talk Suhas provided insights into what app developers can expect as it relates to the mobile enterprise. Richard: Will there ever be a standard development approach for the enterprise or mobile in general? Suhas: In general, no...
IDC's FutureScape: Worldwide Mobile Enterprise Solutions Report
Monday, December 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
International Data Corporation (IDC) session called the DC FutureScape: Worldwide Mobile Enterprise Applications and Solutions 2015 Predictions Web conference was hosted for organizations and they took a look at different perspectives and insights on the long-term industry trends for emerging markets future growth.Predictions from the new Mobile Enterprise App...
Android Development Sought On Christmas Eve By Hospitality Businesses
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Hospitality organizations are seeking out Android development on Christmas Eve. All hospitality businesses are desiring to stay ahead of their competition by including mobile offerings. Android apps in particular have been a sought out mobile app by hospitality companies such those in motel, hotel, traveler, tour and restaurant areas.ARC's 360 Travel Report&nb...
New Master Of Applications Development Course
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
If you always dreamed of becoming a mobile app developer, there is a new Master Of Applications Development Course by Charles Stuart University. CSU's Master of Mobile Applications Development lets students have the opportunities to develop apps for any of the major platforms.Through the Master Of Applications Development Course students can develop on pl...
