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Build B2B Apps with Security

Amy Groden

This week, Mike Vizard of Channel Insider wrote about Alpha Software’s recent developer survey in a story entitled, “Managed Security Service Provider Mobile Apps Boon?”

In the article, Vizard predicts that the opportunity to deliver managed security services for mobile applications is emerging, and he points to Alpha Software’s survey as evidence of the need. Vizard explains that while IT departments are building business apps for a wide range of employees, these internal B2B and B2E apps still have all the same security issues that challenge B2C apps.

As a result, mobile app security continues to be a top channel for mobile app developers. He writes: “In fact, a new survey of 1,950 enterprise developers conducted by Bock & Company on behalf of Alpha Software finds that 96 percent identify security as an essential requirement for mobile applications.

Enterprise IT organizations often look to build applications that need to run on multiple platforms for employees, said Richard Rabins, CEO of Alpha Software, a provider of application development tools.

For that reason, there's a tremendous focus on protecting applications that need to run across multiple platforms at a time when app security in general is often deeply flawed. ‘Security often comes down to a question of degree," Rabins said. "There's always a tradeoff between security and convenience.’

Read how Alpha Anywhere handles mobile app security challenges.
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Amy Groden
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.

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