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E-Week Identifies Key Challenges for Developing Enterprise Mobile Apps


In a March 27 slide show E-Week Identifies key issues that are important for mobile apps and which also may be different from desktop web apps.

In this blog post we will do a quick review of these issues and you can see how Alpha Anywhere deals with these issues

Custom mobile applications built for enterprise need to meet a key set of requirements for a business to be able to use them. Without meeting these requirements, mobile apps will fail to server their enterprise customers. Below are some of the top needs for enterprise applications that E-Week has identified as key issues for developers. These key issues include data security, support for offline applications, private digital stores for enterprise app deployment,  and excellent customer experience. Alpha Anywhere can help application developers achieve all of these requirements and more. Click here to learn more.

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Richard Rabins
Richard Rabins

Co-founder of Alpha Software, Richard Rabins focuses on strategy, sales, and marketing. Richard also served as CEO of SoftQuad International from 1997 to 2001, when it owned Alpha. In addition to his 30 years with the company, Richard played a key role as co-founder, and served as president and chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council (now the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council), the largest technology trade organization in Massachusetts. Prior to founding Alpha, Richard was a project leader and consultant with Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), and a management consultant with Management Decision Systems, Inc. Richard holds a master's degree in system dynamics from the Sloan School at MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and master's degree in control engineering from University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has served on the boards of Silent Systems, Legacy Technology and O3B Networks, and is co-founder of Tubifi www.tubifi.com.


The Alpha platform is the only unified mobile and web app development and deployment environment with distinct “no-code” and “low-code” components. Using the Alpha TransForm no-code product, business users and developers can take full advantage of all the capabilities of the smartphone to turn any form into a mobile app in minutes, and power users can add advanced app functionality with Alpha TransForm's built-in programming language. IT developers can use the Alpha Anywhere low-code environment to develop complex web or mobile business apps from scratch, integrate data with existing systems of record and workflows (including data collected via Alpha TransForm), and add additional security or authentication requirements to protect corporate data.

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