ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kony Solutions, the leading mobile application platform provider, today announced that Independence Blue Cross (IBC), southeastern Pennsylvania’s largest health insurer, has selected Kony Solutions as its mobile application platform. Kony’s Platform Write Once, Run Everywhere technology enables mobile deployment across more than 9,000 mobile smartphones/tablets/kiosks and operating systems, allowing IBC to develop robust mobile solutions for members, providers, and business partners regardless of what type of device they use.
“Health care enterprises have many mobile app technologies to choose from,” says Michael Yetter, director of eBusiness at IBC. “We chose the Kony Platform because it clearly demonstrated that we could get to market quicker, reach the broadest range of smart devices, and lower our overall development and maintenance costs. Kony also allows us to reach a wider audience and meet the consumer on their mobile platform of choice - we will no longer have to worry about operating system upgrades or new devices on the market.”
IBC developers will soon begin training on the Kony Studio, a proprietary Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the rapid development and deployment of mobile applications. The plan is to begin roll-out of multiple applications as soon as possible. Applications will range from simple mobile web “informational” apps for members, to more complex native applications. “The Kony Platform lets us create mobile web applications as well as native apps and provides us with a standardized platform across all of our business units,” says Yetter.
“We’re pleased to work with a company as forward-thinking as IBC,” says Aaron Kaufman, general manager and vice president of Kony’s Healthcare and Life Sciences division. “Our platform will enable IBC to bring its clients a rich mobile experience, additional functionality, ease-of-use and access to some of its most important services. We’re gratified that IBC has joined a growing number of providers and payers choosing the Kony Solutions, validating our leadership position in the mobile healthcare market.”
KonyOne is the only platform that enables a single application definition to deliver both native applications and mobile web (HTML5 and non-HTML5) across phones, tablets, kiosks and desktops. Offering true native support for all seven operating systems (including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Java ME, Symbian, webOS) along with simultaneous support for the mobile web, the KonyOne platform provides a secure, scalable and extensible mobile middleware runtime platform that can be seamlessly integrated with existing services.
About Kony Solutions
Kony enables companies to provide innovative mobile solutions on every mobile device. Leveraging the KonyOne Platform, an application is defined just once, and deployed across more than 9,000 devices, 7 operating systems and multiple channels, including native, HTML5 and mobile web, hybrid, social media, SMS/MMS, kiosks, desktop and tablet applications. KonyOne provides a universal framework that ensures the best user experience by optimizing all native capabilities for each device operating system and browser. Given the market's rapid rate of device and platform upgrades, Kony future proofs applications against OS and browser updates, providing SLAs guaranteeing timely support of the newest operating systems and devices. Leading brands have built business‐to‐consumer (B2C) and business-to‐ employee (B2E) applications with KonyOne, including Hotwire, Huntington Bank, Hyatt, Toyota and Capital One.
In 2011 Kony was positioned as a “Visionary” in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Consumer Application Platforms (MCAP) report. Kony has been named a Gartner Cool Vendor, a “Most Innovative Company of the Year” by the American Business Awards and was chosen as one of Fast Company’s 100 innovative Apple-affiliated achievers.
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