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APB on FOX: Taking Mobile Apps Mainstream

Amy Groden

The new FOX drama "APB" is loosely based on Sidney Torres' New Orleans' Mobile Crime App Initiative

The new FOX drama "APB" is loosely based on Sidney Torres' New Orleans' Mobile Crime App Initiative

On Monday night, APB will premier on FOX Network. It's a new high-tech police drama starring Justin Kirk. APB on FOX follows a tech billionaire who purchases a troubled police precinct and transforms it into a highly responsive, high-tech private police force.

In this case, art imitates life. While APB is set in Chicago, the series is loosely based on billionaire Sidney Torres' crime initiative in New Orleans. After becoming a billionaire by cleaning up the French Quarter and becoming the "trash king of New Orleans," Torres' decided to tackle crime in the French Quarter.

In 2015, Torres’ kicked off his “3 men and an app” plan to augment existing New Orleans Police Department Services. Torres' built a mobile app that citizen of New Orleans could download and report crimes in the French Quarter. The mobile app would then notify and dispatch Torres' privately funded off-duty NOPD officers or on-duty NOPD officers, depending on available resources. The mobile app has put citizen in control of crime fighting and helped a strapped NOPD. The test worked and the force expanded from a few blocks to the city. After it's initial setup and success, Torres turned over the management of the program and force to the city. New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau has committed to financing Torres' force, at $900,000 a year, for the three years.

Years ago when I worked in the Business Intelligence market, I remember the day we knew analytics had gone mainstream: the day the e*trade baby started lecturing consumers about stock research and analytics. Beginning Monday, "APB" on FOX will take mobile apps mainstream when it shows mainstream America the power of a mobile app. As Alpha Anywhere users can image, it's likely the first mobile app victory of many to come.

Read more about Sidney Torres mobile crime app, or visit the French Quarter Task Force Facebook Page.

More info on ABP on FOX.

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Amy Groden

Amy Groden has served more than 15 years in marketing communications leadership roles at companies such as TIBCO Software, RSA Security, and Ziff-Davis. An expert in enterprise software strategy and data analytics, she developed marketing programs that helped achieve 30%+ annual growth for Spotfire analytics products and for a $1Bil, NASDAQ-listed business integration company. Her accomplishments include establishing the first co-branded technology program with CNN, a communication strategy for launching a public company on the NYSE, and leading digital transformation branding for NASDAQ-listed firms. Amy is a dedicated mentor to future industry leaders, serving as a Guest Instructor for the Sales Practicum at Babson College. She’s also served as a Healthbox Accelerator Program Mentor, a Marketing Committee Lead for the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge and on the inaugural planning team for Boston TechJam. Amy currently serves on the Board of Directors for Hearts and Paws Comfort Dogs, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit. She holds an MBA from Northeastern University.

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.