AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced its latest release of Kony MobileFabric, which features a new model-driven approach to mobile app development, using microservices. The new release includes object services that make it easier and cheaper to develop, maintain and upgrade mobile apps.
Kony MobileFabric 7.0 is a set of enterprise-grade mobile infrastructure services that makes it easy to build amazing apps that integrate and support all backend systems. The new version enables developers to define or automatically generate application data models and then map them to a set of backend content sources for rapid data integration, modeling and object development.
“Kony is providing a radically new approach to mobile application development with the next generation of application services, and a new model that leverages object-based techniques,” said Dave Shirk, president of Products, Strategy and Marketing, Kony, Inc. “History has shown – from mainframe to client server to web – that model-driven approaches provide the fastest and most efficient application outcomes for business. Our release of Kony MobileFabric 7.0 provides modular app assembly capabilities that mobile app developers need to achieve unprecedented speed and cost saving. With Kony MobileFabric 7.0, you can set up ‘app factories’ to meet your business demands by using code that has common components to streamline the development of apps. This is a huge advancement for enterprise mobility.”
According to Gartner, “Through 2017, the market demand for mobile app development services will grow at least five times faster than internal IT organization capacity to deliver them,” (Gartner Report: The Enterprise App Explosion: Scaling One to 100 Mobile Apps, Published: 7 May 2015).
To meet this growing demand, Kony’s model-driven mobile development model empowers enterprises with faster and cheaper mobile app backend development capabilities. The latest updates to Kony MobileFabric enable developers to create and configure data objects using metadata from backend systems. This enables enterprises to have increased agility to meet changing business needs. Rather than focusing on low-level integration and transformational code, mobile app developers can now focus their efforts on improving user experience and value-adding features. In addition, these data objects allow automatic support for both offline data synchronization, which allows applications to run directly from a Kony MobileFabric storage service without requiring a separate backend data source. This helps accelerate the mobile application development process.
"We're using Kony MobileFabric to roll out a customer satisfaction app, which adds significant value not only to employees but also to our customers as well,” said Andrew Quail, chief information officer, SGN. “Kony has allowed us to create the service in a matter of just a few weeks. Before, this would have taken months on the legacy platform and would have come at a considerable expense. Above all, Kony will help us better prepare for the future, by enabling us to build apps faster so we can be just as successful with those mobile apps as we have been with our customer satisfaction app.”
The key benefits of Kony MobileFabric 7.0 include the following:
- Reusability: Code reusability with microservices provides improved efficiency for “app factories” when developing multiple apps that will have common components. Microservices are applications that can be separated into smaller parts that are developed individually.
- Standardized architecture: Code structure is simple to understand, adopt and modify if moved between mobile app development teams, to help minimize development and quality assurance (QA) efforts
- Flexibility: A simplified development approach makes it easy to move between third-party vendors and internal IT, based on business requirements
Kony was recently named a Leader for the fourth consecutive year in the Gartner June 2016 Magic Quadrant for Mobile App Development Platforms (MADP) report. In addition, Kony was named a “Leader” and earned the highest score in the current offering category in Mobile Infrastructure Services by independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc., according to The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Infrastructure Services report.
For More Information:
- Kony MobileFabric Product Details: http://www.kony.com/products/mobilefabric
- Whitepaper: "Accelerating Mobile App Development - Mobile-Driven Development for Mobile Using a Microservices-Based Architecture"
About Kony Inc.
Kony is the fastest growing, cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions company and an industry leader among mobile application development platform (MADP) providers. Kony empowers organizations to compete in mobile time by rapidly delivering pre-built, omni-channel mobile apps across the broadest array of devices and systems, today and in the future, with a lower total cost of ownership. Kony’s cross-platform solution helps organizations design, build, configure and manage mobile apps to empower and better engage with customers, partners and employees. Kony was named the first place winner in CTIA’s MobITs Awards in the Mobile Applications, Development & Platforms category and included on the Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America. Connect with Kony on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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