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SAP's Mobility Vision - Any Way You Want It

Mon, 14 May 2012 06:15:00 EDT

When you first look at the list of mobility vendors that are attending SAPPHIRENOW 2012, it may seem like most of them compete with SAP mobility, but that would be to forget that SAP sells ERP software. Look at where SAP makes their money. They make their money selling and maintaining large enterprise software implementations that run companies. Mobility is an enabler. Mobility extends and adds value to these large SAP users. Those are important points to understand. In a way, I think SAP's mobile strategy can be defined as, "I don't care." I don't care what mobile software you use as long as it adds users and value. If more users can access SAP through a third-party mobile solution, and SAP receives more user fees, then all is well. Yes, they have spent billions of dollars on mobile middleware, tools, infrastructure and mobile applications (e.g. Sybase and Syclo), but that was, I believe, to ignite a now explosive enterprise mobility marketplace. They needed to kick-start the market and they have succeeded. There are now many mobility vendors supporting SAP users.

AppDirect and StillSecure Partner to Deliver Cloud Security

Wed, 09 May 2012 09:00:41 EDT

StillSecure®, a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, and AppDirect, the leading cloud service marketplace company, today announced a partnership to offer Cloud SMS through AppDirect's global network of branded partner marketplaces.

Mobile Expert Interview Series: Sencha's Michael Mullany

Tue, 08 May 2012 14:33:56 EDT

Sencha is one of the three new partnerships SAP announced in April around HTML5. Here is a quote from SAP, "By collaborating with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha, SAP will enable millions of developers to effectively build mobile apps based on their choice of client architectures - from native to hybrid Web containers to mobile Web. Developers will be able to do so while leveraging an industry-leading enterprise mobile application platform from SAP."

Sencha targets the enterprise market and is very excited to be a partner of SAP. Sencha is doing a lot of things right. They already have over 1 million downloads of their HTML5 tools, and have 350,000 members in their forum.

I believe SAP is very smart with these partnerships. There is no way that SAP can keep up with the demand for mobile applications, so they partner with HTML5 tool vendors and ask the industry to standardize on their mobile platforms. The end users can now choose their own development environment as long as it supports SAP's mobility platform. The burden for supporting the demands of developers will then mostly fall on the shoulders of these HTML5 tool and framework vendors.

At the same time as SAP announced the partnerships with HTML5 vendors, they also announced the acquisition of Syclo. Syclo has many great mobile application development tools, but does not currently have HTML5 support, so these partnerships will also serve to provide an alternative development environment for companies wanting to standardize on HTML5 when possible.

SAP also has a partnership with ClickSoftware which has an HTML5 development environment in their ClickMobile Professional solution.

I asked Sencha's CEO Michael Mullany for his prediction on what percentage of enterprise mobility apps will be based on HTML5 by 2014. He answered, "50% will be HTML5, 20% native and 30% will be hybrid HTML5 apps. I read that as 80% of enterprise mobility applications will be using some form of HTML5 by 2014. Wow!

For integrations with SAP, Sencha is connecting via NetWeaver Gateway.

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Alumnus

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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

Responsive Web Design Made Possible by HTML5 and CSS3

Fri, 04 May 2012 05:15:00 EDT

I am in Scotland this week conducting workshops on mobile strategies. I met with a large company with multiple enterprise mobility projects to connect back office ERPs and HR apps to mobile applications. They have already determined they will be using HTML5 as their preferred mobile app development environment. They already have experienced web developers so extending the skills of these developers into mobility makes perfect sense to them.

2012 Edison Awards Winners Announced

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:00:06 EDT

The Edison Awards, celebrating 25 years of honoring the successful development and launch of game-changing new products and services, announced its 2012 winners last night. Hundreds of executives representing world-recognized brands as well as up and coming companies gathered to celebrate exceptional innovation in 15 categories and industries.

Interview: Sanjay Poonen on SAP's Mobile Strategies

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:30:00 EDT

Yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of spending time on the phone with Sanjay Poonen discussing SAP's intent to acquire Syclo, and other SAP related mobile strategies. Sanjay's current titles are President and Corporate Office, Technology and Innovation Products, Head of Mobile Division, SAP AG.

Bell Canada Pioneers Cloud Service Brokerage

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:55:00 EDT

Earlier today I interviewed hot Cloud venture Appdirect, a company that offers a white label platform for implementing ‘Cloud Service Brokering’. This is one of the headline R&I focus areas for our road map. On the back of a $3.25m VC deal last year, Appdirect is one of a number of pioneers in this super hot [...]

SAP's Acquisition of Sybase in 2010 Revisited

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:00:00 EDT

I was a long time partner of Sybase and valued their mobile middleware, which I embedded in my mobile business apps for years. The cautions I shared in 2010, were that Sybase did not have a library of mobile apps or a robust SDK at that time, and businesses still needed to figure out how to get mobile apps.

CTIA Announces 2012 E-Tech Awards Finalists

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:35:25 EDT

AppDirect Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:00:00 EDT

AppDirect (www.appdirect.com), the leading cloud service marketplace company, today announced that it has been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the Cool Vendors in Cloud Services Brokerages, 2012(1) report by Gartner, Inc.

Cross-Platform Mobile Game Development – a Tool Comparison

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:15:00 EDT

Mobile game development has a world of its own. You will come across different set of programming languages which you would not have encountered elsewhere – Lua, Live Code, Unreal Script, Boo etc. Some of these tools are a derivative or an extension of what is available on other gaming platform while others have been explicitly developed for mobile. At least one of these platform may seize to become a game development platform and become an enterprise cross-platform mobile application development solution.

Be Your Own Enterprise Mobile Apps Powerhouse with HTML5

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:28:00 EDT

ReadWriteWeb published SAP Plans to Dominate Enterprise Mobile Apps with HTML5 and New Partnerships article a few days ago. SAP acquired a mobile development firm Syclo and also announced important partnerships with Appcelertaor, Adobe (PhoneGap) and Sencha to become “…most powerful enterprise mobile developers in the world”. Most enterprise or business apps are content or data-driven. More and more enterprise expose their data, content and resources via REST API services and these apps consume that data. This is the next evolution of client/server architecture or more precise, the new mobile-cloud shift. Basicially, you got a mobile app talking connected to cloud-based REST API resources. HTML5 or hybrid (PhoneGap) mobile apps are the perfect fit here.

SAP Drives Openness and Choice for Millions of Mobile App Developers

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:00:26 EDT

SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reaffirming its commitment to embrace the best choice for customers with an open partner and developer ecosystem, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced agreements with Adobe, Appcelerator and Sencha to provide users with an open mobile apps development framework for efficiently and cost-effectively developing on the company's market-leading mobile platform. Today's announcement was made at a press conference held this morning in San Francisco.

Red Hat to Sponsor Open Cloud Conference and Host Developer Workshop on April 30

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:15:20 EDT

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it will sponsor the Open Cloud Conference presented by CloudCamps, taking place in Sunnyvale, Calif. from April 30 through May 3. On the opening day of the event, Red Hat will host developer workshops focused on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), mobile and Java development in the cloud. Presentations during the Red Hat-hosted workshops will be delivered by Red Hat cloud experts and partners such as 10gen and Appcelerator.

What's New in HTML5

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:00:00 EDT

HTML5 based ads are gaining on Flash. For ads that will be seen on mobile devices, developers are focusing on HTML5. Systems management and monitoring firm DN2K is turning to HTML5. It announced that HTML5 is now, “one of its core technologies in its business and industrial application platform”. ChronoZoom is a new HTML5-based web application developed by Microsoft Research, Russia's Moscow State University, and UC Berkeley. The site uses mixed media to let visitors visualize the universe.

Mobility News Weekly

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:56:00 EDT

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends. For each 10 percent increase in broadband penetration there will be a 1.4 percent growth in the GDP for lower income economies. Facebook revealed that 90 percent of its users in Nigeria and South Africa access Facebook via mobile.

ATP Capital Re-Brands as Relay Ventures; Commences Second $150MM Mobile Fund

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 06:00:06 EDT

ATP Capital, manager of JLA Ventures, Clairmont Capital and BlackBerry Partners Fund, has announced that it is re-branding as Relay Ventures.

Geoloqi Extends Platform With Appcelerator, Factual and Locaid Partnerships

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 16:00:00 EDT

(SXSW Interactive) Geoloqi, a powerful platform for next-generation location-based services, today announced strategic new partnerships with Appcelerator, a leading cross-platform mobile development platform; Factual, a large-scale data aggregation platform with a Global Places API; and Locaid, the world's largest carrier location platform. Through these partnerships, Geoloqi is significantly enhancing its location data and analytics offering while expanding its reach to millions of new developers and end users through Locaid and Appcelerator's customer bases.

Technology Leaders and Venture Capitalists Close Day Two of CITE Conference & Expo

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EST

IDG Enterprise's inaugural Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) Conference & Expo today wrapped up with forward-looking insight on consumer technology's place within the enterprise. During the course of CITE Conference & Expo, attendees heard from top IT executives, technology providers and venture capitalists who have been on the forefront of integrating consumer technologies into the enterprise.

CITE Conference & Expo Opens, Defining the Future of Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:00:00 EST

IDG Enterprise today kicked off its inaugural Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) Conference & Expo. The conference converged IT industry luminaries to discuss the integration of today's exciting consumer technologies into corporate IT infrastructures through more than 25 content-packed panels, case studies and practical workshops.

Consumerization of IT Leaders to Assemble in San Francisco for the First CITE Conference & Expo

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:00:35 EST

Appcelerator Wins GSMA 2012 Global Mobile Award for “Best Cloud-based Technology”

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:01:31 EST

Appcelerator^®, the leading mobile platform company, today announced the GSMA awarded its Appcelerator Titanium™ Mobile Platform an esteemed Global Mobile Award for “Best Cloud-based Technology.” The global award recognizes excellence in innovative and smart cloud-based technologies that are significantly changing the mobile landscape. According to the GSMA judges, Titanium is the “quintessential cloud platform,” enabling developers and brands to “write [a mobile app] once, deploy many times.” The judges also credited how Titanium “drives speed and cost reductions.”

Appthority and Appcelerator Unveil Secure Enterprise App Development Solution

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:30:52 EST

Appthority, The Authority in App Security™, announced today it is collaborating with Appcelerator, the leading mobile platform company, to develop an end-to-end process for secure mobile enterprise app development. The two companies are providing the best-in-breed solution for developing apps with security and compliance in mind. Secure application development has become increasingly important to business customers seeking to develop safe apps for their employees and their customers.

GSMA verkündet Gewinner der 17. Jährlichen Global Mobile Awards

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:45:00 EST

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GSMA annonce les gagnants du 17ème concours annuel du Global Mobile Awards

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:37:00 EST

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GSMA Anuncia los Ganadores de los 17o Premios Anuales Global Mobile

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:21:28 EST

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RSA Collaborates with Mobile Technology Partners to Help Assure Trust for Mobile Business

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:01:11 EST

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA® CONFERENCE --

GSMA Announces Winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:33:51 EST

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GSMA Announces Winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:33:20 EST

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GSMA gibt Gewinner der 17. jährlichen Global Mobile Awards bekannt

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:32:50 EST

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La GSMA annonce les lauréats de la 17e édition annuelle des Global Mobile Awards

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:32:09 EST

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La GSMA anuncia los ganadores de la 17a edición anual de los premios Global Mobile Awards

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:32:05 EST

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GSMA Announces Winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:30:39 EST

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mobile World Congress: The GSMA today announced the winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile awards, held at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The winners were honoured in an afternoon ceremony hosted by comedian and songwriter Tim Minchin.

GSMA Announces Winners of the 17th Annual Global Mobile Awards

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:30:38 EST

Replay Solutions Closes Mobile Application Gap With Two New Products for HTML5 and JavaScript

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:00:16 EST

Replay Solutions (www.replaysolutions.com), the leader in recording-based application monitoring and diagnostics, today announced two new products for mobile application development and performance monitoring. ReplayMOBILE enables developers and testers to more rapidly identify, replicate, diagnose and fix code defects, performance and security problems.

CITE Conference & Expo Releases Full Agenda for Inaugural Event

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:00:23 EST

today announced several key additions to the 2012 conference agenda, including notable IT industry executives and venture capitalist speakers, as well as a new mobile conference app designed to increase networking resources for conference attendees. The CITE Conference & Expo will take place at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco, March 4-6, 2012.

Brazil's Restorando Closes $3.2M Series A Round Led by Emergence Capital Partners

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:00:36 EST

Restorando, the leading online reservation platform for restaurants in Latin America, announced that it has secured $3.2 million in Series A funding. The funding round is led by Emergence Capital Partners, a California-based venture capital firm focused on technology enabled services, with participation from Kaszek, a newly raised fund for Latin America by the founders of MercadoLibre, Atomico, the London-based firm founded by Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom, and Storm Ventures. Concurrent with the funding, Santi Subotovsky from Emergence Capital and Alex Mendez from Storm Ventures joined Restorando's board of directors.

Egnyte Board of Directors Welcomes Todd Rulon-Miller

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:04 EST

Egnyte, the leading provider of hybrid cloud file server solutions, announced today that Todd Rulon-Miller has joined its board of directors as of February 2012. Prior to taking on this advisory role at Egnyte, Rulon-Miller was a founding partner at Apogee Venture Group and senior vice president at Netscape.

Edison Awards Announces 2012 Finalists

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:00:49 EST

The Edison Awards, celebrating its 25th year, has announced its finalists for the internationally renowned 2012 Edison Best New Product Awards. Since 1987, The Edison Awards have recognized ideas at the forefront of new products, services, marketing, design and innovation. Winning an Edison Award has become one of the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation and business.

IBM to Acquire Mobility Vendor Worklight - An Analysis

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:00:00 EST

IBM has jumped into the MEAP (mobile enterprise application platform) competition with yesterday’s announced intent to acquire MEAP vendor Worklight. Worklight is headquartered in New York and was founded in 2006 by CEO Shahar Kaminitz. Worklight's software supports HTML5, hybrid and native applications for smartphones and tablets with industry-standard technologies and tools. Their solutions include an Eclipse-based software IDE (integrated development environment), mobile middleware, mobile solution management and analytics.

Worklight Studio competes with Appcelerator, Verivo (formerly Pyxis Mobile), Sybase Unwired Platform (SAP), Antenna, Syclo, ClickSoftware, Kony Solutions, Rhomobile (Motorola), Webalo and other mobility vendors that are experiencing rapid growth.

The deal size was not disclosed by IBM or Worklight, but the Israeli website Globes (www.globes.co.il) reported the acquisition to be $50-60 million. Worklight raised $21 million in investment capital, from investors Genesis Partners, Pitango Venture Capital, Index Ventures, and Shlomo Kramer. Globe also estimated 2011 revenues for Worklight at between $5-10 million (http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000720723).

My analysis is that all ERP vendors need a standardized approach for supporting mobility. Mobility, and MEAPs in particular, are far too strategic to leave up to partner ecosystems to deliver. SAP acquired Sybase, IBM will acquire Worklight, and we are all awaiting Oracle’s expected 2012 move to acquire a MEAP vendor.

Interesting note, I cannot think of many situations where an ERP vendor bought a mobile apps company. I am told that SAP's proposed acquisition of SuccessFactor will involve some mobile apps, but have yet to see them. ERP vendors seem to want to buy the middleware, so they can standardize integration, syncing, security and management, and leave most apps to their partner ecosystem.

In a recent IBM study of more than 3,000 global CIOs, 75 percent of respondents identified mobility solutions as one of their top spending priorities. Nearly all of the global analyst and research firms are also reporting enterprise mobility to be a top three priority. In the Enterprise Mobility Survey 2011 that I conducted in September of 2011, 80% of survey respondents said enterprise mobility was "very important" to "critical" to their company's future success.

IBM officials said with this acquisition, IBM's mobile offerings will span mobile application development, integration, security and management. Dow Jones Newswire reported on an internal memo from IBM’s senior vice president in charge of middleware software, Robert LeBlanc that highlighted their ambitions, “"Now is the time to make IBM essential in the era of mobile computing."

I had the privilege of interviewing Worklight’s COO Kurt Daniel about 15 months ago and published the interview on this site. Here are some excerpts that you may find interesting given this week's news.

Worklight has developed a MEAP (mobile enterprise application platform) and a mobile SDK (software development kit), not for their own use, but rather for systems integrators and end customers to use to develop their own enterprise mobility solutions. They want to be a technology company, not a mobile application company.

Kevin: What are your areas of responsibilities at WorkLight?

Kurt: I look after our worldwide business channels, partnerships, sales and marketing.

Kevin: Tell me about your solutions.

Kurt: We have the WorkLight Studio, WorkLight Server and WorkLight console. ISVs and OEM partners use these solutions to build their own packaged mobility applications.

Kevin: How do you avoid competing with your partners in the mobility market?

Kurt: We don't sell applications. We are not experts on ERPS or other backend systems. We focus on developing the best mobile technology possible, not services or mobile applications.

Kevin: How do you fund your start-up business in the early years without generating revenue from services and mobile applications?

Kurt: We raised over $17 million. That affords us the opportunity to invest in the technology without losing focus by delivering services and enduser solutions.

Kevin: How do you keep your users loyal to your technology?

Kurt: We provide them with a platform and SDK that supports the latest modern devices. We provide them with great productivity tools that enable the same code base to be used across multiple devices and mobile operating systems. We offer trial versions for 60 days.

Kevin: Where do you see mobility going in the next 18-24 months?

Kurt: Enterprises are going to need to support a larger number of mobile devices and mobile operating systems. They will need to support iPads, tablets of all kinds, Android and many more mobile apps. Internally, companies will be launching large numbers of their own mobile applications that were developed in-house.

Kevin: Who do you compete with?

Kurt: In-house development teams, Sybase and Antenna.

Kevin: In conclusion, where does your company fit in the enterprise mobility ecosystem?

Kurt: WorkLight is a 100 percent technology focused company. We develop a horizontal MEAP.

It is fascinating to ponder Worklight's strategy. They decided to build a new and powerful MEAP, but not to provide services or sell mobile apps to end users. They chose to use their investment capital to focus exclusively on developing technology and developer support. That is a rare strategy. Sybase mostly followed that strategy with their embedded mobile database and synchronization business (iAnywhere and former Extended Systems) and was purchased by SAP, and now Worklight who followed a similar strategy will be acquired by IBM. What does this tell us? Perhaps ERP vendors don't want the burden of supporting a large MEAP or mobile app enduser base that does not fit their traditional customer profile. They would rather just acquire the technology stack? What do you think?

Most MEAP vendors depend on services and end user app sales to help cover expenses as they develop and mature their solutions and channels. Worklight refused to follow that path. It doesn't appear they had yet reached profitability, since it seems they took in another $4 million in investor funding in the past year, but they did accept IBM's offer as their exit strategy. They committed to focus on the technology, rather than indulge the temptation (and distraction) to grab short term end user sales.

End user mobile app sales are sexy. They get the press and show well, but ultimately I think the MEAPs themselves are the mobile market consolidation points. Not just the mobile middleware, but the IDEs. The integrated development environments that are used to design and develop the apps. Some mobility vendors like ClickSoftware and Syclo actually support several choices of mobile middleware under their IDEs. The customers often only see the IDE, but underneath the covers are middleware options. SAP and the Sybase Unwired Platform also offer numerous choices (SUP, NetWeaver Gateway, Sybase 365, etc.) for middleware in their architecture.

If all the large ERP companies are going to ultimately acquire their own MEAP solution, that means MEAP market fragmentation will be hardened along ERP lines. If that is the case, would mobility vendors that focus on mobile end user applications find it necessary to support all the major MEAPs if they want to sell into those markets? That would be expensive!!! If that is how the market evolves, then it seems cloud based ERP-to-mobile app integration hubs would be worth a consideration. Mobile app developers would simply connect to one cloud based integration hub that integrates with all the ERPs. Wow, this line of thinking reminds me of my early days working with EDI/B2B translators and EDI hubs.

It will be interesting to watch the choices companies will make that have a mix of different business solutions and ERPs across their IT landscape.

If I have any bad data or information in this article please correct me!

Please share your thoughts and ideas with us!!!

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Kevin Benedict, Independent Mobile Industry Analyst, Consultant and SAP Mentor Volunteer

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Follow me on Twitter @krbenedict

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Full Disclosure: I am an independent mobility analyst, consultant and blogger. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: IBM, AT&T, Apple, Google and Microsoft

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:30:36 EST

Rhodes approach of NATIVE smartphone apps written with web standards validated

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:20:14 EDT

Recently Nitobi (the company behind PhoneGap) announced that they had been acquired. Congratulations to Andre Charland, Brian Leroux, and the rest of the PhoneGap team. We have always said that if you don’t need the data synchronization, Model View Controller pattern, industrial capabilities such as realtime barcode and NFC, and broadest device support [...]

Grub.it Released - Location-Based Dish Review Web & Mobile Application

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:30:20 EDT

Yahoo Developer Network: featuring Appcelerator

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:32:07 EST

We have been working closely with Yahoo on a number of fronts and we’re pretty excited about the Yahoo YQL integration in Titanium we released in the 0.8 release. More stuff will be coming soon. Here’s a video that Yahoo Developer Network (YDN) featured about Appcelerator and Yahoo on their blog. Enjoy.

iPad - What It Means For Developers

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:00:00 EST

Today was a historic day in computing history. While the techno-geeks will argue for the next several months what this really means and what the Apple iPad is missing or why it’s only a large screen iPod Touch, I’m going to be focused on what I think this really means to some key industries and how Appcelerator can help. From my perspective, web developers are talking up and overwhelmingly are planning new application experiences for the new iPad. We surveyed just a small sample of our community of developers and found that over 90% of them plan on building an iPad application in the next 12 months.

Apple iPad in 3rd Place Behind iPhone and Android For Application Developers

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST

Appcelerator, a platform which is used to develop Apple Tablet applications, on Tuesday, announced the findings of a new poll taken of application developers about their plans to build applications for the Apple Tablet. Taken last week from a pool of 18,000 of Appcelerator's application developers, 554 developers weighed in with responses about their plans, interests and preferences around Apple's forthcoming Tablet. Appcelerator also announced that its flagship cross-platform product, Appcelerator Titanium, would support the new Apple Tablet. Titanium enables web developers to use industry-standard, open-source Web technologies such as Javascript, HTML, and CSS to quickly build rich, fully native applications that run on the iPhone, Android, Apple Tablet, PC, Macintosh, Linux platforms from a single code base.

SugarCRM Appoints Larry M. Augustin Full-Time CEO of SugarCRM

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:39:24 EST

SugarCRM, the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced the appointment of Larry Augustin as full-time Chief Executive Officer of SugarCRM.

Building Smartphone Apps

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:00:00 EDT

Smartphone apps are the most exciting trend in computing since the advent of web apps. How do you as a developer take advantage of this? More generally, how do you do that and get maximum reach for your app across the diversity of smartphones out there. If you’re writing a consumer app you can get away with just targeting the iPhone (albeit missing some market opportunity). If you’re writing a business app you need to be able to reach all the users in the enterprise. There just are no homogeneous mobile device environments in any place but the smallest mom and pop shops now.

Appcelerator Titanium at Mobile 2.0

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:43:59 EDT

Yesterday I gave a presentation about the future of mobile development at the Mobile 2.0 conference in Mountain View, California. It was the battle of the current emerging players in the space (if you could call it a “battle”) : Appcelerator, Rhomobile and Phonegap. Of course, all three of us have much different [...]

Brightcove Accelerates Expansion of Global Partner Ecosystem

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:01:22 EDT

Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, today announced that the company's global partner ecosystem, the Brightcove Alliance, has doubled in size in the past seven months to include more than 200 technology, distribution and solution providers. Brightcove today also unveiled several new Brightcove Alliance partner categories, including content management, transcoding, e-mail, content, and live, as well as a new training and certification program for solution providers.