mobile backend as-a-service provider guide
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App Marketing Networks 2014
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
2015 Edition
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Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
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Mobile Backend-as-a-Service providers may have only been around for a few years but theyrsquore already beginning to evolve as the market consolidates and the various middlemen of the app industry converge MBaaS started out as infrastructure for mobile apps offering backend cloud storage and APIs to cater for the growing mobile app revolution Many players have since aban-doned indie users for big enterprises and many have also moved on to offering cross platform development along with a variety of other features such as push notifications app analytics monetization and more Over the next year or so expect this trend to continue with the lines between MBaaS development and marketing platforms becoming ever more blurry
But if yoursquore looking for an MBaaS right now what does the landscape look like and whorsquos of-fering what Take a look at the following list to find out If you think wersquove missed out any key vendors get in touch and let us know Also take a look at our recent enterprise app develop-ment platform round-up for more suggestions
Mobile Backend-as-a-Service providers may have only been around for a few years but theyrsquore already beginning to evolve as the market consolidates and the various middlemen of the app industry converge MBaaS started out as infrastructure for mobile apps offering backend cloud storage and APIs to cater for the growing mobile app revolution Many play-ers have since abandoned indie users for big enterprises and many have also moved on to offering cross platform development along with a variety of other features such as push no-tifications app analytics monetization and more Over the next year or so expect this trend to continue with the lines between MBaaS development and marketing platforms becoming ever more blurry
But if yoursquore looking for an MBaaS right now what does the landscape look like and whorsquos of-fering what Take a look at the following list to find out If you think wersquove missed out any key vendors get in touch and let us know Also take a look at our recent enterprise app development platform round-up for more suggestions
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
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Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
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Kinvey
Kinvey was one of the first players to emerge that solely focused on offering an MBaaS solution The company founded in 2010 had since focused its business on catering to big business and has recent rolled out secure private cloud offerings and an enterprise devel-opment platform The company also recently launched an enterprise-focused tool that helps companies manage external and internal app development teams while also facilitating the iterative agile development process Kinvey most recently raising $108 million in Series B funding in September
Kinvey offers a free limited version of its platform to try out Prices start at the ldquoIndierdquo level at $200 per month which includes support for 5000 active users The next tier is ldquoBusinessrdquo which includes 50000 active users and is priced at $1500 per month Enterprises above ldquoBusinessrdquo level can contact Kinvey directly for pricing details
Kii
Kii is one of the few MBaaS solutions thatrsquos been heavily pushing an Internet of Things focus over the last few months hoping to reap the rewards of whatrsquos expected to become a huge market (Juniper forecasts wearables online will be worth $15 billion this year) Kii supports deployment testing and user acquisition within a single environment The company is quite marketing skewed too which will probably see more of going into 2015 and offers push notification analytics geo-location and monetisation Headquartered in Asia (Japan to be precise) Kii also touts itself as a channel into China offering app localisation and other mar-keting services for whatrsquos one of the fastest growing app markets out there
Builtio
Builtio is an MBaaS and app development solution created by Raw Engineering a software development company based out of San Francisco and India Unlike some other MBaaS plat-forms Builtio says it was created from the ground-up for enterprise use and allows customers to deploy mobile apps in private public or hybrid cloud environments The company also recently partnered with app creation platform AppGyver letting users built-out prototypes with a quick drag-and-drop interface Most recent funding was in 2012 with a $600 Seed round
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Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
4
Pricing is broken down into three categories Standard Dedicated (for private cloud deploy-ments) and Students Within the lsquoStandardrsquo category developers can try out a free version including up to 50 users Prices then start at the lsquobusinessrsquo level for 5000 users at $99 per month moving up to $399 per month for the same amount of users but with added enter-prise features such as analytics
AnyPresence
AnyPresence recently hit headlines having secured $6 million in a Series B funding round which included software multinational Citrix The company offers enterprise-focused MBaaS solution and app development platform emphasising its policy of giving customers com-plete control over the created source code with an open no-proprietary technology stack AnyPresence says this gives customers great customisation control and portability when it comes to their apps Clients include the likes of MasterCard USA Today and Petco Pricing details are not publicly available
Sencha
Sencha offers a number of tools to develop HTML5 apps so itrsquos surprise that its MBaaS solution Sencha Space focuses on HTML5 Customers can take advantage of a secure runt-ime environment across desktop and mobile manage user access secure data and more Trial version is free up to 10 users then Sencha Space is priced at $399 per user while large enterprises can get in touch directly
Appcelerator
Like most on this list Appcelerator offers a complete end-to-end solution with its Appcel-erator MBaaS platform and its cross platform app development tool allowing customers to build deploy and host on public virtual private or private servers Appcelerator also touts its robust analytics offering as a key draw allowing customers to get an insight into user acquisi-tion retention engagement and other metrics Pricing details are not publicly available
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Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
5
Parse
Acquired by Facebook back in 2013 Parse offers three main products Parse Core is the ba-sic MBaaS offering letting you store data securely connect with social networks and the like Parse Push is as the name suggests a push notification platform while Parse Analytics lets you measure acquisition retention engagement push notification campaigns and everything else yoursquod expect out of an analytics platform In terms of pricing Parse Core is offered for free to try out at 30 requests per second and you can tailor up from here When you get to 80 reqs that price jumps to $500 and 210 reqs hits $1800 per month (yoursquore about halfway up the scale at this point)
apiOmat
If yoursquore looking for more of a stripped down MBaaS offering without all the cross platform development stuff then take a look at apiOmat The solution includes setting up data models third party APIs ready made modules backend logic and deployment into the public cloud Prices start from a free version to try out to lsquoMediumrsquo at 49 euros for 2500 active users pro-fessional at 299 euros for 20000 active users and lsquoUltimatersquo at 599 euros for 50000 active users Based out of Germany
Looking for an enterprise app development platform Check out our round-up here Or head over to our directory for more suggestions
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
FIND OUT MORE
helloappindexcom | wwwappindexcom | appindexhq
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
2
Mobile Backend-as-a-Service providers may have only been around for a few years but theyrsquore already beginning to evolve as the market consolidates and the various middlemen of the app industry converge MBaaS started out as infrastructure for mobile apps offering backend cloud storage and APIs to cater for the growing mobile app revolution Many players have since aban-doned indie users for big enterprises and many have also moved on to offering cross platform development along with a variety of other features such as push notifications app analytics monetization and more Over the next year or so expect this trend to continue with the lines between MBaaS development and marketing platforms becoming ever more blurry
But if yoursquore looking for an MBaaS right now what does the landscape look like and whorsquos of-fering what Take a look at the following list to find out If you think wersquove missed out any key vendors get in touch and let us know Also take a look at our recent enterprise app develop-ment platform round-up for more suggestions
Mobile Backend-as-a-Service providers may have only been around for a few years but theyrsquore already beginning to evolve as the market consolidates and the various middlemen of the app industry converge MBaaS started out as infrastructure for mobile apps offering backend cloud storage and APIs to cater for the growing mobile app revolution Many play-ers have since abandoned indie users for big enterprises and many have also moved on to offering cross platform development along with a variety of other features such as push no-tifications app analytics monetization and more Over the next year or so expect this trend to continue with the lines between MBaaS development and marketing platforms becoming ever more blurry
But if yoursquore looking for an MBaaS right now what does the landscape look like and whorsquos of-fering what Take a look at the following list to find out If you think wersquove missed out any key vendors get in touch and let us know Also take a look at our recent enterprise app development platform round-up for more suggestions
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
3
Kinvey
Kinvey was one of the first players to emerge that solely focused on offering an MBaaS solution The company founded in 2010 had since focused its business on catering to big business and has recent rolled out secure private cloud offerings and an enterprise devel-opment platform The company also recently launched an enterprise-focused tool that helps companies manage external and internal app development teams while also facilitating the iterative agile development process Kinvey most recently raising $108 million in Series B funding in September
Kinvey offers a free limited version of its platform to try out Prices start at the ldquoIndierdquo level at $200 per month which includes support for 5000 active users The next tier is ldquoBusinessrdquo which includes 50000 active users and is priced at $1500 per month Enterprises above ldquoBusinessrdquo level can contact Kinvey directly for pricing details
Kii
Kii is one of the few MBaaS solutions thatrsquos been heavily pushing an Internet of Things focus over the last few months hoping to reap the rewards of whatrsquos expected to become a huge market (Juniper forecasts wearables online will be worth $15 billion this year) Kii supports deployment testing and user acquisition within a single environment The company is quite marketing skewed too which will probably see more of going into 2015 and offers push notification analytics geo-location and monetisation Headquartered in Asia (Japan to be precise) Kii also touts itself as a channel into China offering app localisation and other mar-keting services for whatrsquos one of the fastest growing app markets out there
Builtio
Builtio is an MBaaS and app development solution created by Raw Engineering a software development company based out of San Francisco and India Unlike some other MBaaS plat-forms Builtio says it was created from the ground-up for enterprise use and allows customers to deploy mobile apps in private public or hybrid cloud environments The company also recently partnered with app creation platform AppGyver letting users built-out prototypes with a quick drag-and-drop interface Most recent funding was in 2012 with a $600 Seed round
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
4
Pricing is broken down into three categories Standard Dedicated (for private cloud deploy-ments) and Students Within the lsquoStandardrsquo category developers can try out a free version including up to 50 users Prices then start at the lsquobusinessrsquo level for 5000 users at $99 per month moving up to $399 per month for the same amount of users but with added enter-prise features such as analytics
AnyPresence
AnyPresence recently hit headlines having secured $6 million in a Series B funding round which included software multinational Citrix The company offers enterprise-focused MBaaS solution and app development platform emphasising its policy of giving customers com-plete control over the created source code with an open no-proprietary technology stack AnyPresence says this gives customers great customisation control and portability when it comes to their apps Clients include the likes of MasterCard USA Today and Petco Pricing details are not publicly available
Sencha
Sencha offers a number of tools to develop HTML5 apps so itrsquos surprise that its MBaaS solution Sencha Space focuses on HTML5 Customers can take advantage of a secure runt-ime environment across desktop and mobile manage user access secure data and more Trial version is free up to 10 users then Sencha Space is priced at $399 per user while large enterprises can get in touch directly
Appcelerator
Like most on this list Appcelerator offers a complete end-to-end solution with its Appcel-erator MBaaS platform and its cross platform app development tool allowing customers to build deploy and host on public virtual private or private servers Appcelerator also touts its robust analytics offering as a key draw allowing customers to get an insight into user acquisi-tion retention engagement and other metrics Pricing details are not publicly available
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
5
Parse
Acquired by Facebook back in 2013 Parse offers three main products Parse Core is the ba-sic MBaaS offering letting you store data securely connect with social networks and the like Parse Push is as the name suggests a push notification platform while Parse Analytics lets you measure acquisition retention engagement push notification campaigns and everything else yoursquod expect out of an analytics platform In terms of pricing Parse Core is offered for free to try out at 30 requests per second and you can tailor up from here When you get to 80 reqs that price jumps to $500 and 210 reqs hits $1800 per month (yoursquore about halfway up the scale at this point)
apiOmat
If yoursquore looking for more of a stripped down MBaaS offering without all the cross platform development stuff then take a look at apiOmat The solution includes setting up data models third party APIs ready made modules backend logic and deployment into the public cloud Prices start from a free version to try out to lsquoMediumrsquo at 49 euros for 2500 active users pro-fessional at 299 euros for 20000 active users and lsquoUltimatersquo at 599 euros for 50000 active users Based out of Germany
Looking for an enterprise app development platform Check out our round-up here Or head over to our directory for more suggestions
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
FIND OUT MORE
helloappindexcom | wwwappindexcom | appindexhq
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
3
Kinvey
Kinvey was one of the first players to emerge that solely focused on offering an MBaaS solution The company founded in 2010 had since focused its business on catering to big business and has recent rolled out secure private cloud offerings and an enterprise devel-opment platform The company also recently launched an enterprise-focused tool that helps companies manage external and internal app development teams while also facilitating the iterative agile development process Kinvey most recently raising $108 million in Series B funding in September
Kinvey offers a free limited version of its platform to try out Prices start at the ldquoIndierdquo level at $200 per month which includes support for 5000 active users The next tier is ldquoBusinessrdquo which includes 50000 active users and is priced at $1500 per month Enterprises above ldquoBusinessrdquo level can contact Kinvey directly for pricing details
Kii
Kii is one of the few MBaaS solutions thatrsquos been heavily pushing an Internet of Things focus over the last few months hoping to reap the rewards of whatrsquos expected to become a huge market (Juniper forecasts wearables online will be worth $15 billion this year) Kii supports deployment testing and user acquisition within a single environment The company is quite marketing skewed too which will probably see more of going into 2015 and offers push notification analytics geo-location and monetisation Headquartered in Asia (Japan to be precise) Kii also touts itself as a channel into China offering app localisation and other mar-keting services for whatrsquos one of the fastest growing app markets out there
Builtio
Builtio is an MBaaS and app development solution created by Raw Engineering a software development company based out of San Francisco and India Unlike some other MBaaS plat-forms Builtio says it was created from the ground-up for enterprise use and allows customers to deploy mobile apps in private public or hybrid cloud environments The company also recently partnered with app creation platform AppGyver letting users built-out prototypes with a quick drag-and-drop interface Most recent funding was in 2012 with a $600 Seed round
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
4
Pricing is broken down into three categories Standard Dedicated (for private cloud deploy-ments) and Students Within the lsquoStandardrsquo category developers can try out a free version including up to 50 users Prices then start at the lsquobusinessrsquo level for 5000 users at $99 per month moving up to $399 per month for the same amount of users but with added enter-prise features such as analytics
AnyPresence
AnyPresence recently hit headlines having secured $6 million in a Series B funding round which included software multinational Citrix The company offers enterprise-focused MBaaS solution and app development platform emphasising its policy of giving customers com-plete control over the created source code with an open no-proprietary technology stack AnyPresence says this gives customers great customisation control and portability when it comes to their apps Clients include the likes of MasterCard USA Today and Petco Pricing details are not publicly available
Sencha
Sencha offers a number of tools to develop HTML5 apps so itrsquos surprise that its MBaaS solution Sencha Space focuses on HTML5 Customers can take advantage of a secure runt-ime environment across desktop and mobile manage user access secure data and more Trial version is free up to 10 users then Sencha Space is priced at $399 per user while large enterprises can get in touch directly
Appcelerator
Like most on this list Appcelerator offers a complete end-to-end solution with its Appcel-erator MBaaS platform and its cross platform app development tool allowing customers to build deploy and host on public virtual private or private servers Appcelerator also touts its robust analytics offering as a key draw allowing customers to get an insight into user acquisi-tion retention engagement and other metrics Pricing details are not publicly available
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
5
Parse
Acquired by Facebook back in 2013 Parse offers three main products Parse Core is the ba-sic MBaaS offering letting you store data securely connect with social networks and the like Parse Push is as the name suggests a push notification platform while Parse Analytics lets you measure acquisition retention engagement push notification campaigns and everything else yoursquod expect out of an analytics platform In terms of pricing Parse Core is offered for free to try out at 30 requests per second and you can tailor up from here When you get to 80 reqs that price jumps to $500 and 210 reqs hits $1800 per month (yoursquore about halfway up the scale at this point)
apiOmat
If yoursquore looking for more of a stripped down MBaaS offering without all the cross platform development stuff then take a look at apiOmat The solution includes setting up data models third party APIs ready made modules backend logic and deployment into the public cloud Prices start from a free version to try out to lsquoMediumrsquo at 49 euros for 2500 active users pro-fessional at 299 euros for 20000 active users and lsquoUltimatersquo at 599 euros for 50000 active users Based out of Germany
Looking for an enterprise app development platform Check out our round-up here Or head over to our directory for more suggestions
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
FIND OUT MORE
helloappindexcom | wwwappindexcom | appindexhq
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
4
Pricing is broken down into three categories Standard Dedicated (for private cloud deploy-ments) and Students Within the lsquoStandardrsquo category developers can try out a free version including up to 50 users Prices then start at the lsquobusinessrsquo level for 5000 users at $99 per month moving up to $399 per month for the same amount of users but with added enter-prise features such as analytics
AnyPresence
AnyPresence recently hit headlines having secured $6 million in a Series B funding round which included software multinational Citrix The company offers enterprise-focused MBaaS solution and app development platform emphasising its policy of giving customers com-plete control over the created source code with an open no-proprietary technology stack AnyPresence says this gives customers great customisation control and portability when it comes to their apps Clients include the likes of MasterCard USA Today and Petco Pricing details are not publicly available
Sencha
Sencha offers a number of tools to develop HTML5 apps so itrsquos surprise that its MBaaS solution Sencha Space focuses on HTML5 Customers can take advantage of a secure runt-ime environment across desktop and mobile manage user access secure data and more Trial version is free up to 10 users then Sencha Space is priced at $399 per user while large enterprises can get in touch directly
Appcelerator
Like most on this list Appcelerator offers a complete end-to-end solution with its Appcel-erator MBaaS platform and its cross platform app development tool allowing customers to build deploy and host on public virtual private or private servers Appcelerator also touts its robust analytics offering as a key draw allowing customers to get an insight into user acquisi-tion retention engagement and other metrics Pricing details are not publicly available
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
5
Parse
Acquired by Facebook back in 2013 Parse offers three main products Parse Core is the ba-sic MBaaS offering letting you store data securely connect with social networks and the like Parse Push is as the name suggests a push notification platform while Parse Analytics lets you measure acquisition retention engagement push notification campaigns and everything else yoursquod expect out of an analytics platform In terms of pricing Parse Core is offered for free to try out at 30 requests per second and you can tailor up from here When you get to 80 reqs that price jumps to $500 and 210 reqs hits $1800 per month (yoursquore about halfway up the scale at this point)
apiOmat
If yoursquore looking for more of a stripped down MBaaS offering without all the cross platform development stuff then take a look at apiOmat The solution includes setting up data models third party APIs ready made modules backend logic and deployment into the public cloud Prices start from a free version to try out to lsquoMediumrsquo at 49 euros for 2500 active users pro-fessional at 299 euros for 20000 active users and lsquoUltimatersquo at 599 euros for 50000 active users Based out of Germany
Looking for an enterprise app development platform Check out our round-up here Or head over to our directory for more suggestions
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
FIND OUT MORE
helloappindexcom | wwwappindexcom | appindexhq
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS) Guide
5
Parse
Acquired by Facebook back in 2013 Parse offers three main products Parse Core is the ba-sic MBaaS offering letting you store data securely connect with social networks and the like Parse Push is as the name suggests a push notification platform while Parse Analytics lets you measure acquisition retention engagement push notification campaigns and everything else yoursquod expect out of an analytics platform In terms of pricing Parse Core is offered for free to try out at 30 requests per second and you can tailor up from here When you get to 80 reqs that price jumps to $500 and 210 reqs hits $1800 per month (yoursquore about halfway up the scale at this point)
apiOmat
If yoursquore looking for more of a stripped down MBaaS offering without all the cross platform development stuff then take a look at apiOmat The solution includes setting up data models third party APIs ready made modules backend logic and deployment into the public cloud Prices start from a free version to try out to lsquoMediumrsquo at 49 euros for 2500 active users pro-fessional at 299 euros for 20000 active users and lsquoUltimatersquo at 599 euros for 50000 active users Based out of Germany
Looking for an enterprise app development platform Check out our round-up here Or head over to our directory for more suggestions
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
FIND OUT MORE
helloappindexcom | wwwappindexcom | appindexhq
copy Soko Media - Learn more at wwwappindexcom
FIND OUT MORE
helloappindexcom | wwwappindexcom | appindexhq