BURLINGTON, MA. June 17, 2014 – Alpha Software Corporation, which offers the most complete environment for rapidly prototyping, developing and deploying enterprise-level, cross-platform mobile and web business applications, today announced that it was included as a low-code development platform in the Forrester Research, Inc. June 2014 report, "New Development Platforms Emerge For Customer-Facing Applications." This report analyzes the requirements, products, and potential benefits driving the adoption of low-code application development offerings, which are gaining traction in enterprises building mobile and web business applications.
As companies move to produce more operational mobile apps that service different lines of business, they're realizing that traditional hand-coding is too slow to allow enterprises to develop and deliver the apps needed to win, serve, and retain customers. As a result, Forrester reports that companies are increasingly adopting "low-code" application development platforms, including Alpha Software products, to dramatically reduce the time required to build sophisticated business apps.
According to the report, "Faster delivery is the primary benefit of these [low-code] application platforms; they also help firms respond more quickly to customer feedback after initial software releases and provision mobile and multichannel apps. Usage of low-code platforms is gaining momentum for customer-facing applications."
In the report, Forrester included Alpha Software as one of six general purpose app platforms that addresses a wide range of web and mobile application scenarios with a broad toolset and application services for transactions, integration and workflow. The report also included Alpha Software as one of three vendors that are strong for database applications. Several Alpha Software customers were interviewed for this report.
"Enterprises are under great strain to quickly build more business applications faster, and key requirements include running on multiple devices and running offline," said Richard Rabins, CEO of Alpha Software Corporation. "By using Alpha Software's low-code development environment, our customers have succeeded at accelerating the speed at which they create business applications with the developers they already have on staff."
The report is available to Forrester subscribers or for purchase at www.Forrester.com. For more information about Alpha Software a free 30-day trial of the Alpha Anywhere development platform, visit: www.AlphaSoftware.com.
About Alpha Software Corporation
Alpha Software products deliver significant productivity gains to developers of all levels building cross-platform mobile and web business apps. Alpha Anywhere is a front-end and back-end, low-code, rapid mobile application development and deployment environment. Alpha Anywhere applications showcase built-in offline capability, easy integration with existing data and applications, and advanced security. Developers and business leaders in thousands of organizations across one hundred countries have used Alpha Software products to cost-effectively deploy enterprise applications with outstanding user experiences. For more information, visit www.AlphaSoftware.com, or follow us on Twitter at @AlphaSoftware.
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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/
