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Alpha Anywhere featured in article about solving "Data Latency"

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Data transfer latency: Tackling problems related to “people systems”

Fred ChurchvilleProfile: Fred Churchville

 

Last week, the creators of Alpha Anywhere hosted a user meetup to talk about mobile application development – specifically, tablet applications for use in the field and workplace.

One of the major pain points discussed was the issue of moving data from user to user across systems in real time in order to achieve the fastest business results. While some may refer to this as the “latency” problem, Britt Whitaker, implementation consultant at Manufacturers ERP Services LLC, notes that it’s worthwhile to distinguish technology-based latency issues and “workflow-related” latency issues. He claims that within their own organization, even though their APIs are reconstructed to optimize the transfer of data, “it doesn’t really solve the problem: the data got in, but it wasn’t reacted to in real time.” For the full article please go to this link
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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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