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15 Coolest Mobile App Development Platforms: 2019 Mobility 100
15 Coolest Mobile App Development Platforms: 2019 Mobility 100CRNWe round up the top vendors focused on offering innovative platforms for the development of business mobile apps.
App Development Platform Innovators
To successfully pull off mobile application projects, businesses of all sizes are looking for every advantage they can get. In particular, companies are looking for faster, lower-cost methods for developing the mobile apps that are increasingly becoming mission-critical to their businesses. Methods for rapid development of apps—including low-code and no-code methods—are a growing focus in 2019, as is the ability to use a single development across both native mobile apps and web apps.
To give a sense of the key players offering mobile app development platforms right now, we've rounded up 15 of the coolest vendors to know about.
Adobe
Top Executive: Shantanu Narayen, CEO
Headquarters: San Jose, Calif.
Adobe's Experience Manager Mobile offering can be used to quickly produce apps that leverage media assets and new content, as well as connect to third-party APIs and key business systems. Main features include the ability to repurpose existing content from digital assets and content management systems in the production of new mobile apps.
Amazon
Top Executive: Jeff Bezos, CEO
Headquarters: Seattle
Amazon Web Services' offerings for mobile app development include AWS Amplify, a framework and toolset for writing modern apps across all major platforms, including iOS, Android and web. AWS Amplify enables creation, configuration and implementation of scalable AWS-powered apps, including through a simplified framework for integrating back ends.
Appian
Top Executive: Matt Calkins, CEO
Headquarters: Reston, Va.
Appian offers a low-code platform that makes it possible to build enterprise apps up to 20X faster than using other methods, according to the company. Appian offers drag-and-drop design for visual development of apps, and provides intelligent automation for related business processes to avoid the need for creating custom code.
Kony
Top Executive: Thomas Hogan, CEO
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
Kony, a longtime mobile app development platform player, in March relaunched its low-code app development platform as Kony Quantum—with a number of enhanced capabilities. Key features of Kony Quantum include a visual design and development canvas; a library of prebuilt microapps, component UI elements, templates and data connectors; an editor for business logic and workflow; capabilities for visual data integration; and the ability to use a unified development approach across both native mobile apps and web apps.
Mendix, a Siemens Business
Top Executive: Derek Roos, CEO
Headquarters: Boston
Mendix's platform focuses on no-code/low-code application development, using the company's model-driven visual development tools. Mendix enables app creators to build objects, attributes and data models with a UML-based data modeler, while using a WYSIWYG graphical page designer to build mobile and web user interfaces that are fully responsive.
MobileFrame
Top Executive: Lonny Oswalt, CEO
Headquarters: Los Gatos, Calif.
MobileFrame's platform focuses on drag-and-drop methods for creating mobile apps and uses native runtime app containers. MobileFrame offers the ability to use no-code development not just for front-end work, but also for back-end API creation and data binding.
Oracle
Top Executive: Mark Hurd and Safra Catz, Co-CEOs
Headquarters: Redwood City, Calif.
Oracle's solutions for simplified app development include the Mobile Hub platform, focused on quickly building, deploying and managing apps that connect to Oracle ERP, HCM or CX—as well as to third-party systems that are on-premises or cloud-based. Oracle also offers Visual Builder, a visual development environment for rapidly creating mobile and web apps.
OutSystems
Top Executive: Paulo Rosado, CEO
Headquarters: Boston
OutSystems focuses on high-productivity development across web, mobile, email, SMS and chat. The company's platform offers a visual modeling approach to developing a user interface, as well as data synchronization, logic and back-end integration. The visual models can be expanded upon using CSS, JavaScript and a number of other languages.
Pegasystems
Top Executive: Alan Trefler, CEO
Headquarters: Cambridge, Mass.
Pegasystems' solutions for mobile app development include Pega Mobile Client, which allows any Pega application to be deployed as a stand-alone app for iOS or Android devices as well as for Windows 10 tablets. Meanwhile, Pega Mobile Mashup enables Pega business processes to be embedded within existing apps, eliminating the need to rewrite existing code.
Progress Software
Top Executive: Yogesh Gupta, CEO
Headquarters: Bedford, Mass.
NativeScript 5.0 is Progress' latest version of its open-source framework for building native mobile apps with Angular, Vue.Js, TypeScript and JavaScript. Key additions in NativeScript 5.0 include NativeScript Schematics (which enables the building of both web and mobile apps from a single project); "Instant Start" CLI workflow (allowing work on native apps to begin quickly, with no need to install iOS and Android SDKs); and Hot Module Replacement (for faster development with instantaneous app updates).
Red Hat
Top Executive: James Whitehurst, CEO
Headquarters: Raleigh, N.C.
Red Hat's mobile app development tools include functionality in OpenShift, the company's hybrid Platform-as-a-Service offering for cloud-based development, hosting and delivery of apps—along with OpenShift Application Runtimes, which consists of runtimes that are cloud-native and can be used for native development of apps on OpenShift.
Salesforce
Top Executive: Marc Benioff and Keith Block, Co-CEOs
Headquarters: San Francisco
Salesforce focuses on the development of mobile and web apps using its Lightning Platform, which can use JavaScript- and XML-built components. Salesforce provides developers with Salesforce Mobile SDKs and with access to JavaScript frameworks for building apps to run across platforms.
SAP
Top Executive: Bill McDermott, CEO
Headquarters: Germany
SAP's mobile app development solutions include SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services—which consist of tools for developing, configuring and managing apps—along with SAP Cloud Platform SDKs for iOS and Android, which offer rapid development of native apps.
ServiceNow
Top Executive: John Donahoe, CEO
Headquarters: Santa Clara, Calif.
ServiceNow's application development platform, the Now Platform App Engine, uses standard tools and languages such as JavaScript and Angular to enable quick app building, while also offering the ability to extend ServiceNow apps with the help of a shared set of code.
Zoho
Top Executive: Sridhar Vembu, CEO
Headquarters: Pleasanton, Calif.
Zoho's low-code mobile app building solution, Zoho Creator, enables rapid creation of apps using drag-and-drop functionality and guided scripting. Zoho Creator also offers plenty of options for customization, such as allowing app builders to customize the layouts and themes of their apps.
10 Coolest Mobile App Development Platforms Of The 2020 Mobile 100
10 Coolest Mobile App Development Platforms Of The 2020 Mobile 100CRNWe round up the top platforms for the development of innovative business mobile apps.
App Development Platform Innovators
Our Mobile 100 project this week has covered everything from mobile devices and accessories, to device management and security, to mobile software. Businesses looking to arm their workforces with internal apps--or seeking to up their game around their customer-facing mobile strategy--will also be wise to invest in one of 2020's leading platforms for mobile app development. To give a sense of the top players right now, we've rounded up 10 of the coolest mobile app development platforms to know about.
IBM Mobile Foundation
Along with offering containerized mobile backend services that provide solutions including application lifecycle management, push notifications and security, the IBM Mobile Foundation platform stands out by enabling artificially intelligent cognitive services--such as text-to-speech and visual recognition--in mobile apps using IBM Watson APIs.
Mendix Platform
The Mendix Platform specializes in low-code and no-code techniques for mobile app development to enable speedy design, building, testing and deployment of apps. Key facets of the platform include visual development capabilities, an integrated development environment that is purpose-built for low-code and no-code and collaboration features for multiple people to work on apps simultaneously.
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft's Visual Studio platform offers mobile app development with .NET, using the company's Xamarin solution. The solution enables developers to build cross-platform apps for iOS, Android and Windows, with access to APIs and capabilities such as Xamarin.Forms--a framework for building native apps from a shared codebase.
Oracle Mobile Hub
Oracle's Mobile Hub platform enables rapid creation of mobile apps from browsers using APIs and optimization of app experiences using pre-populated Oracle cloud software. The platform supports native and hybrid apps as well as no-code development.
Pega Infinity
The Pega Infinity portfolio includes tools and workflows for low-code mobile app development, along with capabilities such as reuse or extension of existing mobile apps and user-experience design solutions. Additional features include "mobile mashup" functionality for more-easily enhancing existing mobile apps.
Progress Kinvey
The Progress Kinvey platform enables simplified connections between mobile apps and enterprise systems--such as SAP, SQL Server and Salesforce--using no- and low-code microservices. Meanwhile, the platform supports development of apps based on NativeScript, allowing developers to use their existing skills in JavaScript for building native Android and iOS apps.
Salesforce Lightning Platform
As part of Salesforce's Lightning Platform, the Lightning App Builder enables simplified app building using a library of configurable components and drag-and-drop functionality. Complex processes can also be turned into apps more easily using Salesforce's Process Builder solution.
SAP Cloud Platform
Using SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services, enterprise mobile apps can be developed and configured using key business data. The platform's mobile services include integration with SAP products, low-code development tools and access to data from on-premise or cloud sources.
ServiceNow - Now Platform
With the Now Platform from ServiceNow, solutions for mobile app development include Mobile Studio, which offers a no-code interface allowing non-developers to create native mobile apps. The solution also offers layout templates and re-usable design elements to speed up the process of app development.
Temenos Quantum
Formerly Kony Quantum, the Temenos Quantum platform offers low-code mobile app creation featuring capabilities such as reuse of components, simplified integration of data and design tools--along with support for adding "next-generation experiences" including AI-powered chatbots and augmented reality.
Best Mobile App Development Companies In Seattle, WA 2024
PayScale is a mobile app development company specializing in creating compensation software to businesses and entrepreneurs wanting more streamlined payroll processing. The company is one of the pioneers in using big data and advanced algorithms to develop highly systematic compensation platforms aimed at improving internal business structure to boost profitability.
They have served over 8,000 clients coming from small business and Fortune 500 companies. UnitedHealth Group, The New York Times, Wendy's and Seattle Mariners are some of their biggest clients.
They also have won the 2018 Stevie Gold, Crowd Top 100 Best Software Company and 2018 HR Reporter Reader's Choice awards.
8ninths is a mobile app and custom software development company which focuses on using emerging technologies in helping companies create stunning and superior user experience with the use of virtual reality and augmented reality.
They are also one of the few agencies to use holographic data visualization to create complex solutions to complicated problems. They prefer to use the latest technologies despite the risk as they believe this brings innovation into the industry.
The services they offer are VR and AR development, user interface design, 3D modeling and animation, data visualization and 3D interaction design for Oculus, Hololens, Gear VR and mobile and web platforms. Microsoft, NASA, Toyota, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Volvo and Vanguard are some of their biggest clients.
Moby is a research and development agency that develops digital and physical products such as apps and custom software solutions. They specialize in developing creative digital media with the help of their in-house team of designers and engineers who work together in building apps, websites and software aimed at business growth.
They offer an assortment of digital solutions such as mobile app design and development, content management system and ecommerce creation services. Lately, the company has expanded their services to product design and web development to meet the growing demands of the market. Some of their biggest clients are Fox, Philips, Adaptive and Definitive Technology.
New Normal is a software and app services company based in Seattle that has worked with numerous Fortune 100 companies like Southwest Airlines, Toyota and Amazon. They have also developed digital solutions projects for Washington State and Gates Foundation.
They have an in-house team of professional app and custom software developers and a digital marketing team to ensure all created apps are designed to leverage on the existing market.
The company analyzes the needs of their clients to come up with a tailor-made approach to solve the challenges they face in the industry. Providing affordable, but conversion-yielding mobile app design, web development, ecommerce development and custom software solutions is one of the things they're best known for.
Founded in 2000, Blink is one of the pioneering mobile app development agencies in Seattle. They are a research, design and development firm that provides professional help to clients wanting to bolster branding through a user-centered app design.
The company, which employs a variety of app designers, software developers and digital marketers, have worked with numerous Fortune 100 brands such as Apple, Starbucks, Disney, Google and Amazon.
They use the latest technologies to create compelling and useful apps that cater to the immediate needs of their client's consumers. They then combine these with their creative department to come up with appealing content. The main services they offer are web development, app design, UI development and digital strategy.
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