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Mobile Enterprise Magazine States Mobile Apps Need to Work Offline.

Mobile Enterprise Magazine, a  widely read magazine and web site,  serving  enterprise mobile professionals ran the following article today on the topic of offline support.

offline appsNow that companies are moving away from the planning phase for mobile apps to the building phase, it is becoming clear, that with real world experience, they are now realizing the fundamental notion, namely that mobile business apps have to be able to keep working whether there is signal or not. Offline applications done right work seamlessly, regardless of whether or not the device is connected. However, adding offline access in a mobile app can be hard.

We were gratified to see that Alpha Anywhere 3.0 featured in the article. Alpha Anywhere 3.0 features improvements that make building an offline-enabled app easier than ever. Offline data caching and data synchronization are built into the framework, simplifying building an offline mobile app.

Apps Need to Work Offline

— September 29, 2014
An application development and deployment environment with built-in offline support, can now be found in Alpha Anywhere 3.0—which allows a transactional business app to operate effectively while disconnected from a network. This solves what Forrester Research identified in its September 2014 report, The Offline Mobile Challenge, as "often the most important and difficult mobile feature" for business today and "a consideration for nearly every future modern application."

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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.

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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.

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