Demand for enterprise mobile apps continues to grow and businesses have a range of mobile app development platforms and approachs to choose from to get the job done. In the first three parts of this Buyer’s Guide, we discussed the importance of balancing IT/developer needs with line-of-business user needs and critical criteria to consider during your app development platform evaluation. Part IV of this guide deals with one of the most important aspects buying: evaluating pricing and assessing total cost of ownership.
Part 2: 7 Capabilities to Test When Evaluating RAD Platforms
Part 4: RAD Platform Licensing Models and How They Affect TCO
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.
Alpha Software Corporation, based in Massachusetts, produces award-winning software that speeds mobile and web app development and deployment for business and IT. The core technology includes two components. Alpha Anywhere®, a full-stack low-code app development platform for building and deploying web and mobile apps. In just hours, Alpha TransForm® turns complex paper forms into powerful mobile forms that speed data collection.
Alpha Software is an InfoWorld Technology of the Year award winner, and scores near-perfect reviews from customers on crowdsourced review sites.
Customers rate Alpha Software highly for its speed of development, flexibility, offline apps, rich feature set and ability to scale predictably. For more information, visit https://www.alphasoftware.com/