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89% of Business Surveyed by VDC say that it is critical for mobile business apps to be able to work when there is no signal or the signal is spotty or inconsistent. Wired Magazine reports that building offline/disconnected support in apps can often TRIPLE the cost because of the complexities involved (synching, conflict resolution, persistence etc) At this Innovation Summit, Alpha Software previewed its upcoming Alpha Anywhere with Offline which lets developers build sophisticated enterprise class mobile apps rapidly and with no additional time or cost required for offline support.TRANSCRIPT
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www.AlphaSoftware.com 1
Richard Rabins, CEO
Enabling Organizations to Prototype, Develop and Deploy Enterprise-levelMobile Business Applications FAST
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Intro Video
• Click here for the video (password when prompted is Alpha 101)
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Internal Mobile Business Applications
Reality Desired
- IDC May 2014
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4Mobile Applications for business are poised for growth – with Mobile being a top priority for CIO’s – Gartner 2013
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However, until now, building these apps has been hard, time consuming and expensive because of screen real estate issues, because of the need for responsive design, because of the need to run on different devices, because of the need to adapt to a new
swipe/gesture metaphor and because of connectivity issues
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6One approach to building mobile apps is using code centric platforms. They are powerful
but they take a lot of time and therefore the cost of building applications tends to be very high.
Lots of handwritten code
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And …. They require skilled developers who are as hard to find as Waldo!
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8As a result of these factors, people have looked at an alternative approach - the “no code” approach
No Code
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9This approach promises rapid development…but
Fast Development
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10Because coding is not possible – inevitably for serious enterprise and business applications, this approach poses the serious risk
that the project cannot be completed and therefore has to be abandoned and re-attempted with code heavy platforms.
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In addition, mobile applications for business involve both the back end (databases and business rules) and the front end and the vast majority of current mobile platforms are either front end or back end 11
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12As a result with these two approaches, companies are held back from getting their mobile apps built
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There has to be a better way! 13
What is the solution?
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14Firstly you want a platform that offers both the front end and back end.
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15Secondly you want a system that requires as little code as possible, but you do want to be able to code when needed
Low Code
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16This way you get rapid development because coding is minimized and the assurance that you can build enterprise apps because coding is possible
Fast Development
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17You also want a full set of tools so that everything you need is built in – this further enhances productivity
Role Based Security Reporting Scheduling
Geographic Information Services Database Connections and Web Services
Complete Solution - no risk of running out of steam
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Alpha Anywhere is that platform! 18
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19We mentioned before that there are many challenges in building mobile enterprise apps –
Offline is probably the single biggest and hardest challenge.
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“The hottest trend in mobile”
“Suddenly, the industry woke up to the reality that we can’t always get connected”
- ComputerWorld May 2014
The issue is not new, but as business gets more serious about building mobile apps in the real world, the issues of offline have bubbled up to the top
Offline – The Elephant in the Room
#OfflineProblems
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21Most developers have assumed that signal is always available and they don’t factor offline capability into their applications
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22And until they have to deal with it, they also tend think that that syncing data from mobile devices to the server is easy.
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23It turns out, that this is a really flawed assumption on both accounts
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24Connectivity in the real world can be unpredictable, intermittent, non existent or slow. Which means…
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25…that mobile initiatives that don’t take into account connectivity problems are unable to get off the ground
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2689% of Enterprises regards offline support to be extremely or somewhat critical
How critical is offline support for mobile business applications?
Not at allSomewhatExtremely
- VDC Research25%
11%
64%
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..One of the most difficult challenges developers face
…Many organizations specify “offline access” as a required feature of their app, but quickly remove that feature when the development teams responds with the estimate of what it will take to architect and build offline support.
Can Triple the Cost of Development.
Offline Data Synchronization is…
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1. Security and Compliance2. Linking to Enterprise Databases3. Conflict Resolution4. User Control 5. Data Integrity6. Persisting Local Data 7. Development Cost
This is complicated and hard stuff. This means dealing with all these issues in an easy, fast and seamless way is highly desirable!
Offline Issues
#OfflineProblems
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What Do Enterprises Want?
To Develop Mobile Apps Without a Time and Cost Penalty for Offline
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30Alpha Anywhere does this. It solves the problem at the application level, It works with existing
enterprise databases. Offline capabilities are built right in
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Short Video Demo
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32Just a couple of examples of what customers say
Customers
“Over one weekend, from scratch, I built a secure loan analysis and reporting app. It's not because I am a genius, it’s because Alpha Anywhere is just that good.”-Imran Riaz, SVP TD Bank
Other products advertise themselves as Rapid Application Development, but you quickly find out that unlike Alpha Anywhere, they run out of steam before the job can be completed.”
-Anthony Ward, Director Development, Palace Entertainment,
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Summary
Large unmet and growing need for enterprise mobile applications.
Alpha Anywhere is the Solution• Low Code• Complete – Front/Back End• Offline Built Right In • Rapid Development