Alpha Software In the News

June 14, 2023

Streamlining Workflow and Boosting Efficiency with Low-Code Platforms

Alpha Software VP Amy Groden outlines how manufacturers can dramatically improve operations by accelerating app development with low-code software. She explains the expected benefits and best practices for implementation in organizations.

Read more at SiteProNews

April 12, 2023

Cross Platform Mobile Development Tool Market is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of +17% by 2030

New report lists Alpha Software at one of the companies helping to power major growth in the mobile development tool marketplace.

Read more at Digital Journal

November 24, 2022

Global Mobile App Development Software Market Projected to Reach US$ 366.34 Billion by 2030

Alpha Software is listed as a leading mobile app development vendor in this market forecast for one of the fastest growing market segments in technology.  

December 17, 2018
Multi-channel Apps Market 2018-2023: The Most Innovative report provides recent market information with list of key players such as Google, IBM, Cisco Systems

Alpha Software is recognized as a major vendor that offers multi-channel apps solutions and services across the globe.

Read more at The Business Investor 

Dec, 11 2016
Alpha Software Delivers Offline Capable Rapid Mobile App Development and Deployment with No Limits to the Enterprise

Alpha Anywhere 4.3 significantly speeds development and deployment of web and mobile business apps – giving enterprises rapid app development without limits.

Dec 8, 2016
Alpha Software Boosts Offline Features in Low-Code Mobile Dev Tool

Alpha Anywhere 4.3, a low-code mobile and Web app development tool, has been released with increased offline functionality and several other improvements.
Read more at ADT Mag

Dec, 6 2016
Alpha Software Delivers Offline Capable Rapid Mobile App Development and Deployment with No Limits to the Enterprise

...announced the availability of Alpha Anywhere 4.3. Version 4.3 release adds enhancements that significantly cut development time and shortens time to deployment.
Read more at IT Briefing.net

Dec 6, 2016
Alpha Software Delivers Offline Capable Rapid Mobile App Development And Deployment With No Limits To The Enterprise

Alpha Anywhere has a coding-optional approach that empowers both experienced developers and line of business professionals to speed the development and deployment of sophisticated web and mobile business apps with no limitations.
Read more at Field Technologies Online

Dec, 6 2016
When to Choose Hybrid Platforms for Your App Development

Alpha Anywhere-It enables the developer with a plethora of options associated with using the programming languages. Hence, the developer can utilize C#; JavaScript, Xbasic, VB.NET, as well as any other.NET supported language like Cobra and C++.
Read more at TECH FEATURED

Nov 16, 2016
Customer Enthusiasm Raises Alpha Software to Top of Charts amid Mobile App Explosion

Alpha Software Corporation, accelerating how developers build and deploy mobile and web business apps, closed September with reported record demand for its Alpha Anywhere™ mobile and web application development and deployment platform.

Nov, 1 2016
How to Turbo Charge Your App Load Speeds With Pre-rendering

There are ways to calculate your layout in advance to avoid the performance hit of re-calculating the UX Component’s layout at run-time for every request made to the Application Server: pre-rendering the UX Component at design time.

Sept 28, 2016
Announcements at Alpha DevCon verify dev world's move to JSON data

Announcements made by Alpha Software representatives at the Alpha DevCon conference verified that the ability to work with JSON is a 'must-have' for businesses today.
Read more at TechTarget

Sept, 12 2016
Executive Insights on Mobile Application Development

This week, DZone issued it's annual Guide to Mobile Application Development. Dan Bricklin was one of 17 execs interviewed for Tom Smith's article on page 26
Read more at DZone

August, 15 2016
Discover the Silver Lining in Cloud-Based PMS

Cloud-based practice management software has a number of benefits.
Read more at Veterinary Practice News

July 26, 2016
App Development Tool Increases Speed, Flexibility

Fast Mirror, a professional development firm, adopted a cross-platform development tool that has slashed overall development time by about 50 percent.
Read more at Baseline

July, 15 2016
Survey: Developers Rank Top ‘Must Haves’ for Enterprise Mobile Apps in 2016

A survey of enterprise mobile app developers ranks their top considerations for success in 2016. Alpha Software found mobile app professionals says backend integration, security, offline functionality will be ‘must haves’ – and critical to success. Low-code tools to speed up app launches will gain more attention...

July, 5 2016
Tutorial: Richly Formatted Client-Side Data Displays and Reports in Alpha Anywhere

In this video series, we show how a complex template can be designed to display data (a list of Orders with OrderItems for each order) in a richly formatted display.

June 30, 2016
CIOs combat messaging overload with mobile 'micro apps'

CIOs are addressing major pain points in corporate workflows by consolidating approval requests into lightweight ’micro apps.’
Read more at CIO

June 22, 2016
Alpha Anywhere Empowers Devs to Build Cross-Platform Apps

Alpha Anywhere is giving a wide-range of devs the ability to build cross-platform mobile and web business apps. Check out a quick rundown of what that will mean for devs.
Read more at DZone

June 22, 2016
Here Are the Biggest Tech Events Happening This Summer

News flash: It's actually summer now, even though it's already felt like summer since probably February. If you find yourself asking, "What are the major tech and startup events I should be attending this summer?" you should use this as your comprehensive guide. From Outside the Box Interactive and our very own BostonFest to MassTLC's Technology Leadership Awards Gala, here's everything you need to know about.

June 6, 2016
All New Guide to the Leading Mobile Application Development Platform Solutions

Whether you know it or not, you will eventually have at least one business or enterprise app, which means that you will need to start wrapping your head around how best to build and implement them. This report includes a category overview, the top 10 questions to ask, and a capabilities reference of the leading 24 mobile platforms.
Read more at HTML Goodies

May 10, 2016
Rapid Mobile App Development Environment, Alpha Anywhere V4 Released

Accelerating how developers build and deploy mobile and web business apps, Alpha Anywhere V4 adds powerful capabilities to the Alpha Anywhere mobile and web application development and deployment environment, including the ability to access all mobile device features and a new mobile optimized forms capability that fundamentally streamlines data capture on mobile devices.
Read more at HTML Goodies

May 10, 2016
Alpha Software Will Host Alpha Anywhere DevCon 2016 September 21 - 23

Alpha Software will be hosting its annual user conference, Alpha Anywhere DevCon 2016, on September 21 – 23 in Danvers, Massachusetts. The event will provide the opportunity to network and exchange ideas with professionals who are using, or are interested in using, the Alpha Software app development platform.
Read more at App Developer Magazine

May 9, 2016
Network World Products of the Week: Alpha Anywhere V4

Network World roundup of intriguing new products from companies. Alpha Anywhere V4 adds 100+ new features to the Rapid Application Development platform, as well as a new mobile optimized forms capability that fundamentally streamlines data capture on mobile devices.
Read more at Network World

April 26, 2016
Alpha Software RAD Tool Gets More Than 100 New Features in Latest Release

There's a lot packed into the latest release of Alpha Software's Alpha Anywhere rapid application development tool. Designed for the construction of mobile applications, Alpha Anywhere V4 contains more than 100 new features, including improvements to the user interface to make it easier to use. Low code and no code software development tools are gaining some attention, especially as unskilled users are being brought in to help with the development process. Alpha Anywhere adheres to those methodologies and focuses on making it easy and quick for developers to create business applications.

April 26, 2016
Alpha Software Touts Rapid Mobile App Development 'Without Limits'

Alpha Software Corporation, a firm MMW has covered in the past as the team at Alpha ramped up ways in which developers build and deploy mobile and web business apps, has just announced the availability of Alpha Anywhere V4.
Read more at Mobile Marketing Watch

April 26, 2016
Alpha Software Announces Alpha Anywhere V4: Rapid Mobile App Development Without Limits

Alpha Software Corporation, accelerating how developers build and deploy mobile and web business apps, today announced the availability of Alpha Anywhere V4. This release adds powerful capabilities to the Alpha Anywhere mobile and web application development and deployment environment, including the ability to access all mobile device features and a new mobile optimized forms capability that fundamentally streamlines data capture on mobile devices.
Read more at SD Times

April 13, 2016
10 Simple Tools for Building Mobile Apps Fast

No-code and low-code mobile programming tools give business users and developers a fast track to mobile app success. Alpha Anywhere is a database-oriented, rapid app development tool that shines at creating Web and hybrid mobile apps that work offline. It allows developers to build good apps quickly, with surprisingly solid performance and nativelike look and feel.
Read more at InfoWorld

March 28, 2016
The Road to Success: Tech Leaders Tell All

To get to the top of the org chart, you'll need more than basic dev skills. Today's head honchos offer their wisdom on getting ahead.

Featuring an interview with Alpha Software CEO Richard Rabins.
Read more at InfoWorld

March 24, 2016
9 Ways Technology Will Change Within the Next 10 Years

Ten years ago, there were no smartphones. It was the coffeeshop era of Wi-Fi, which meant that the Internet was just beginning to follow us out the door and into the world. Nowadays, of course, Wi-Fi and mobile data are almost ubiquitous, smartphones have hit market saturation in the most developed nations. Here's our look ahead to 10 years in the future, and how the tech world may change.

Featuring an interview with Alpha Software CTO Dan Bricklin.
Read more at Network World

March 7, 2016
Ready Set Go Mobile! Low Code Platforms Assist Enterprises in Developing Better Mobile Apps, Faster

Mobile applications are the current in demand technologies. New technology helps enterprises develop mobile apps at a rapid pace, with limited resources.
Read more at CIO Review

February 11, 2016
RMAD Predictions with Gartner and Alpha Software

Alpha Software recently released a survey, Enterprise Developers Rank Critical Requirements for Success in the Coming App Explosion, that details what enterprise app developers view as the most important aspects of developing mobile apps specifically for businesses, that may not be totally known or realized by executives and IT departments. I spoke with Gartner Analyst Jason Wong, who specializes in enterprise mobile app development and Dan Bricklin, CTO of Alpha Software to discuss the near and not-so-near future of rapid mobile app development (RMAD) in businesses and why understanding the concepts outlined in the survey are so important to grasp going forward with enterprise mobile app development.
Read more at Mobile Application Development Solutions Review

January 29, 2016
Managed Security Service Provider Mobile Apps Boon?

The opportunity to deliver managed security services for mobile applications is emerging. While it's still early days, there's promise for the future.
Read more at Channel Insider

January 26, 2016
Alpha Anywhere Takes 2016 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Honors

Alpha Software Corporation just got some good news in the mail. A company dedicated to helping developers build and deploy full mobile and web business apps, Alpha Software just nabbed an InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award for its Alpha Anywhere platform. Notably, Alpha Software is the only Rapid Mobile App Development (RMAD) technology included among the recipients.

January 26, 2016
Alpha Anywhere Receives 2016 InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award

Alpha Software Corporation, received this week an InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award for its Alpha Anywhere platform. In the official announcement, IDG InfoWorld called out Alpha Anywhere as “a database-oriented, rapid app development tool that shines at creating Web and hybrid mobile apps that work offline. It allows developers to build good apps quickly, with surprisingly good performance and nativelike look and feel.”
Read more at Boston.com

January 25, 2016
Alpha Software Survey Results Show Developers Need Rapid Turnaround Platforms with Security, Flexibility

"Enterprises can't get enough of mobile apps - that makes it tough for developers to keep up with the demand to create feature-rich mobile applications in a timely way." That's according to Amy Groden-Morrison of Alpha Software. It's true. Businesses are busting at the seams with needs and ideas for new apps for smartphone users. And more and more, they're checking out low-code, rapid mobile application development (RMAD) platforms to get the job done more expeditiously.

January 22, 2016
'Alpha Anywhere' Expediates Mobile App Development; Adapts Low-code Approach

With the aim of accelerating mobile development, CLoudMine, a mobile backend platform for healthcare and life science organizations unveiled collaboration with Alpha Software, developer of business applications for mobile devices and personal computers.
Read more at CIO Review

January 20, 2016
InfoWorld names Alpha Anywhere "2016 Technology of the Year"

"Alpha Anywhere is a database-oriented, rapid app development tool that shines at creating Web and hybrid mobile apps that work offline. It allows developers to build good apps quickly, with surprisingly good performance and nativelike look and feel."
Read more at InfoWorld

January 21, 2016
Mobile Dev Success: All About that MBaaS

You might say it's all about that MBaaS, no trouble. New reports from mobile app development organizations show how Mobile Back-end-as-a-Service (MBaaS) is crucial to enterprise mobility success, especially when using rapid application development (RAD) or low-code tools.
Read more at ApplicationDevTrends Mag

January 21, 2016
63% of Developers Plan to Build Up to Five Business Apps in 2016

The demand for Enterprise and business apps will see development of such apps rise in 2016, with 63% of developers planning to build up to five Enterprise mobile apps over the coming year, and 23% of developers looking into building six or more.
Read more at AppIndex

January 21, 2016
New Survey From Alpha Software Identifies Critical Requirements For Success In Enterprise Mobile App Development

Security, offline mobile support, database integration, and speed to market ranked by developers as top priorities; business users focus on ease of use, accurate data capture, and improved productivity.

January 20, 2016
Research Reveals Importance of Enterprise Apps Connecting to the Backend

While developers and line of business have different priorities regarding the important elements of enterprise mobile apps, the ability to connect to a backend database appears pivotal to both parties. That is the key finding from a study conducted by analyst house Bock & Company, and commissioned by Alpha Software. For developers, an easy integration with the backend is the most popular choice, cited by 96% of the almost 2,000 mobile app devs polled, followed by offline capability (78%) and the need to develop an app only once (78%).
Read more at EnterpriseAppsTech

January 20, 2016
Majority of Developers Plan to Develop Up to 5 Enterprise Mobile Apps This Year

A full 63 percent of enterprise app developers plan to develop up to five mobile apps in 2016, and 23 percent expect to develop six or more, according to asurvey of 1,950 mobile app developers by Bock & Company on behalf of rapid mobile app development provider Alpha Software. Developers ranked security, offline mobile support, backend integration, cross-platform support and speed to market as their top priorities this year.
Read more at FierceMobileIT

January 21, 2016
New Survey From Alpha Software Identifies Critical Requirements For Success In Enterprise Mobile App Development

With mobile-optimized enterprise apps predicted to quadruple, market experts forecast unprecedented levels of app development and deployment in the enterprise. Developers are accelerating their development and preparing to deliver better user experiences in shorter time frames. The majority of developers surveyed by Alpha Software, 63 percent, plan to develop up to five mobile apps in 2016 and 23 percent expect to develop six or more.
Read more at IT Briefcase

January 15, 2016
CloudMine and Alpha Software Partner to Accelerate Mobile Development

CloudMine, the leading mobile backend-as-a-service (mBaaS) platform for healthcare and life science organizations, today announced a partnership with rapid mobile app development (RMAD) leader Alpha Software Corporation, accelerating how IT and lines-of-business build and manage mobile and web apps, to scale secure, HIPAA-compliant mobile app development and deployment for healthcare and life science organizations.

December 24, 2014
Tools To Build Payment-Enabled Mobile Apps

Alpha Software Corporation has integrated its Alpha Anywhere business application development environment with Worldpay, a global payment provider, in a move which it hopes will speed the creation of payment-enabled mobile business apps.
Read more at Dr. Dobb's

December 22, 2014
Q&A: Alpha Software CEO Talks Enterprise App Development

Alpha Software is the company behind Alpha Anywhere, a self-serve development platform that helps enterprises in-particular create cross-platform mobile apps. We thought it would be a good time to catch-up with Alpha Software and learn more about what's making the enterprise app development market tick.
Read more at App Index

December 16, 2014
"Alpha Anywhere Aces Offline Mobile Apps" - InfoWorld Review Scores Alpha 8.8/10

One of the defining characteristics of mobile devices is that you can't count on them being online all the time, but you still need them and want to use them when they are offline. lpha Anywhere 3 does in fact address all of these issues for mobile Web and hybrid mobile apps. And it does this in the context of a RAD (rapid application development) tool that allows developers to build good apps quickly, with surprisingly good performance and native-like look and feel.
Read more at InfoWorld

December 16, 2014
Alpha Software and Worldpay Make It Easy to Build Payment-Enabled Mobile Apps

By combining Alpha Anywhere, a unique mobile and web app development environment featuring offline capability, with Worldpay's payment processing expertise, enterprises can now easily add premium payment processing services to mobile and web applications.
Read more at Broadway World

December 11, 2014
Mobilizing Work Through a Low-Code Platform: Four Factors for Developing Task-Oriented Apps

There's a new generation of mobile enterprise apps on the horizon – task-oriented experiences that are integral parts of business ecosystems. Turn to a low-code platform to design and develop the task-oriented apps.

December 4, 2014
Mobile Enterprise's December "Mobile Industry on the Move" Recap

Alpha Software Corporation integrated its Alpha Anywhere with Apperian, Inc. to enable fast and secure deployment of enterprise business apps. "IT and line of business leaders are creating critical apps, but getting them deployed and adopted in today's BYOD environment is a challenge. Alpha Software's integration with Apperian's platform provides a solution that streamlines the entire app lifecycle, from development, to app security, distribution and updates."

December 4, 2014
Apperian's MAM Platform Combines with Alpha Software to Solve "Mobile App Gap" for Enterprises

It's been a major problem enterprise firms have faced over the past couple of years: in a work environment where enterprise apps are the way forward, how can these behemoths push out the increasing number of apps needed, all at high quality, and manage them properly? Alpha Software, alongside mobile app management (MAM) provider Apperian, aims to solve that with the integration of their software to enable fast and secure deployment of enterprise business applications.
Read more at Enterprise Apps Tech

December 2, 2014
Alpha Software Integrates with Apperian to Enable Fast and Secure Deployment of Enterprise Business Applications

Alpha Software Corporation today announced it has integrated its award winning Alpha Anywhere with Apperian, Inc., the leading platform for securing and managing enterprise mobile apps, to enable fast and secure deployment of enterprise business applications.
Read more at FierceMobileIT

December 2, 2014
Alpha Software and Apperian Solve the Enterprise "Mobile App Gap"

Seamless integration enables fast deployment of business apps by combining Alpha's low-code, offline-capable development environment with Apperian's leading mobile app management platform.

November 20, 2014
Boston PHP - An Evening with Dan Bricklin

When: November 20, 2014 | Where: Microsoft N.E.R.D. Center, Cambridge, MA

Dan Bricklin, Alpha Software CTO and co-creator of VisiCalc who is best known as the "Father of the Spreadsheet," Dan will share his story from the VisiCalc days, when software was at a nascent stage and work such as his went on to influence the software industry in general. Dan will also talk about his foray into the mobile world, with the popular iOs app Note Taker HD and the most recently the HTML5 app AlphaRefReader. Expect a close look into how he is shaping the Enterprise Mobility space with his work as CTO of Alpha Software, the company behind Alpha Anywhere which is a complete environment for building brilliant HTML5 business applications.
Read more at VentureFizz

November 11, 2014
Alpha Anywhere Featured on AlwaysOn's "2014 OnMobile 50 Companies to Watch" List!

The AlwaysOn editorial team has identified 50 mobile companies to watch during the coming year. Alpha Anywhere featured!

November 10, 2014
Use Low-Code Platforms to Develop the Apps Customers Want

Low-code, rapid development platforms provide a way to incorporate user feedback into apps during development. This improves the turnaround time for consumer-facing applications while ensuring that projects don't turn into white elephants.
Read more at CIO

October 29, 2014
Alpha Anywhere Named Product of the Month at TechTarget! "Alpha Anywhere Brings Mobile Applications Offline"

See what distinguishes Alpha Anywhere, a platform that allows developers to quickly create prototypes of potential new applications.
Read more at TechTarget

October 16, 2014
Ten of the Best Cross-Platform Mobile Development Tools for Enterprises

Over the last year or so the market for enterprise-ready mobile cross platform development has begun to take-off. So who are the key players in the mobile enterprise cross-platform development market? We've rounded-up ten of the best platforms for enterprises looking to expand their app development efforts (in no particular order).
Read more at App Index

October 15, 2014
Alpha Software Features Built-In Offline Support for Mobile Apps

Alpha Software Corp. addressed "the offline mobile challenge" with a low-code mobile development solution that builds in offline support so users can effectively use data-driven apps even when there's no network connectivity. Numerous other approaches are designed to handle data changes offline and then synchronize with back-end servers once connectivity is restored, but Alpha claimed its Alpha Anywhere 3.0 is the first development and deployment environment to include such built-in offline support for creating offline-capable transactional business apps "without added time or cost."
Read more at Enterprise Systems Journal

October 14, 2014
Alpha Software Launches SaaS App Development Framework

As part of an effort to make it simpler for developers to test the viability of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application, Alpha Software has made available a framework that provides all the standard pages and mechanisms associated with building such applications. Rather than building everything from scratch, the SaaS Framework from Alpha Software provides functions such as user authentication, free trial status and client portal capabilities. Niket Anjaria, director of business development for Alpha Software, says the SaaS Framework is primarily intended to provide a multitenant platform for prototyping applications. But it could also be used to run applications in production.

October 1, 2014
Alpha Software Launches Robust Offline Mobile Solution

The challenges of offline mobile support, in which devices connect in-and-out of transient networks without compromising data, are often the most complex (and expensive) solutions for developers to implement in mobile applications. Yet these solutions deliver very robust business value and unparalleled user experience, and have become the most important features in modern-day mobile applications.

September 30, 2014
Alpha Software Rolls-out Offline Support for Its Enterprise App Development Platform

Alpha Software has launched what it claims to be the world's first enterprise app development environment with built-in offline support. As Alpha Software points out, nitty gritty stuff such as intelligent conflict resolution and data persistence is a frequent blind spot in enterprise apps and really needs to be ironed-out as the app dev platform sector matures. The 'low-code' Alpha Anywhere development platform now allows enterprises to create HTML5 apps that are designed to seamlessly switch between offline and online modes.
Read more at App Index

September 30, 2014
Solving the Offline Issue with Low-code Tools

Alpha Software announced today the release of their latest version of Alpha Anywhere 3.0 that now addresses the issue of creating apps that can handle situations when the user is not connected. We had the chance to speak with Richard Rabins, Alpha Software's CEO about the issues of building offline support into applications, and he pointed out that there are numerous reasons why business application developers have struggled with this.
Read more at Tech Guru Daily

September 29, 2014
Apps Need to Work Offline

According to Forrester in The Offline Mobile Challenge, the new release of Alpha Anywhere "supports a very robust solution for HTML5 implementations" needing offline.
Read more at IT Business Edge

September 29, 2014
Alpha Anywhere 3.0–First to Offer Offline Mobile Business Applications Without Added Time and Cost

Alpha Anywhere 3.0 is the industry's first mobile application development and deployment environment with robust offline support built-in - allowing offline-capable transactional business apps to be built, without adding any cost or time.
Read more at Mobile Commerce Insider

September 29, 2014
Alpha Software Reduces Mobile Application Costs

It's hard to build mobile computing applications in the enterprise because there are not only so many data sources to integrate, the application itself needs to be able to work offline to minimize telecommunications costs. Rising to address those twin issues, Alpha Software today released Alpha Anywhere 3.0, an upgrade to its mobile application development platform that is aimed primarily at addressing the needs of developers working inside enterprise IT organizations.

September 29, 2014
Alpha Anywhere 3.0 Featured In Network World "New Products of the Week"

Alpha Anywhere 3.0 is an application development and deployment environment with built-in offline support, allowing transactional business apps to operate effectively while disconnected from a network.
Read more at Network World

September 29, 2014
Alpha Anywhere 3.0–First to Offer Offline Mobile Business Applications Without Added Time and Cost

Alpha Software Corporation today announced the industry's first application development and deployment environment with built-in offline support, without added time or cost.
Read more at SD Times

September 4, 2014
Alpha Anywhere Customer Profile: "From Writing Code to EMT: A CTO's Journey"

"Automated coding is our secret weapon." Alpha Anywhere customer Greg Zillox is profiled by TheServerSide.com on his long carreer in software development, starting out programming in COBOL and how low-code development has changed his business.
Read more at TheServerSide.com

August 12, 2014
How Low-Code Development Seeks to Accelerate Software Delivery

The operative word in software development is "speed." Enterprises and application development teams are looking to adopt any techniques that'll expedite software development and delivery. For customer-facing applications in particular, a growing trend to meet this demand is the rising popularity of "low-code" development platforms. Alpha Anywhere featured.
Read more at SD Times

July 24, 2014
IDG Connect Profiles Alpha Software Corporation CTO Dan Bricklin

IDG Connect reporter Michael Veitch published an extensive interview with CTO Dan Bricklin. The interview profiles Bricklin's contributions to the computer industry, from creating the "killer app" for the PC to developing one of the top 50 apps for the iPad, and includes his views on some of the latest trends in the market.
Read more at IDG Connect

July 16, 2014
Forrester: Move Faster on App Development

Developing great apps takes time, but in the age of the customer that time is measured in days and weeks — not months. Enter "low-code" app development, a process that Forrester says will "speed up development by allowing application development and delivery (AD&D) teams to eliminate barriers to customer participation in projects as well as [expediting] handoffs between phases of projects."
Read more at CMSWire

June 16, 2014
Alpha Software Selected as One of the AlwaysOn "Global 100 Companies to Watch"

Alpha Anywhere's pioneering "low code-high productivity" approach to cross-platform mobile business app development recognized for breaking the logjam that is holding businesses back from creating the mobile apps they need

June 13, 2014
AnDevCon Shows Many Paths to Android Success

Developers had plenty to choose from when considering cross-platform development frameworks and tools at the show. Alpha Software was on hand to show off its cross-platform development system. Alpha Software's tooling is based on HTML5, and [CTO Dan] Bricklin was similarly bullish on that technology. "From a corporate viewpoint, HTML5 seems to be the way to go."
Read more at SD Times

May 6, 2014 Usability, Completeness and Total Cost of Ownership

Companies choose Alpha Anywhere to significantly accelerate the development and deployment of HTML5 and Hybrid enterprise-level, applications with the IT and knowledge workers they already have.
Read more at Virtual Strategy Magazine

May 6, 2014
Dan Bricklin, 'Father of the Spreadsheet,' Now Tackles Mobile Challenges at Alpha Software

In an interview with BetaBoston, a technology and innovation news blog for the Boston Globe, Alpha Software CTO Dan Bricklin shares his thoughts and observations about the mobile space, gives advice to today's mobile users and developers, and discusses Alpha Anywhere and how we're at a "magic point" for businesses to take advantage of connected mobile devices. 

April 9, 2014
Develop Hybrid-Business Apps With One Click

Building HTML5 apps enables developers to create business apps that can run on a wide range of mobile devices and the web, making it possible to create hybrid business apps with one click—by automating the process of building Adobe PhoneGap apps and integrating the Adobe PhoneGap Build service, which assembles PhoneGap apps in the cloud from HTML5 and standardized native code.

April 9, 2014
Alpha Software Launches Alpha Anywhere 2.0 for Building HTML5 and Hybrid Apps

Alpha Software has announced the release of Alpha Anywhere 2.0, a front-end to back-end, prototype-to-production environment for rapidly developing and deploying enterprise-level, cross-platform mobile and web business applications. Read more at App Developer Magazine

April 7, 2014
Alpha Anywhere 2.0 Builds Hybrid Business Apps with One Click

Starting today, developers can slash the time and cost needed to produce enterprise-level hybrid business applications that run on multiple mobile devices and the web. Read more at InfoTech Spotlight

April 7, 2014
Alpha Software's Latest Product Cuts the Time it Takes to Develop Business Apps By 90%

Business app software firm Alpha Software will release a new version of its development software next week, allowing businesses to cut the time they spend on developing mobile and Web applications by as much as 90 percent. Read more at Boston Business Journal

March 20, 2014
10 Simple Tools for Building Mobile Apps Fast

No-code and low-code mobile programming tools give business users and developers a fast track to mobile app success.
A low-code, rapid, wizard-driven, end-to-end builder with a Windows-based IDE, Alpha Anywhere supports many databases and targets Web, mobile (iOS, Android, and Windows Phone), and desktop applications. Read more at InfoWorld

January 8, 2014
Unveiled: Hot New Training Tools that Help Mobile Developers Get Productive Fast

Alpha Software, the company that makes it easy to build responsive business applications that run anywhere, released a comprehensive portfolio of multimedia training resources for the company's Alpha Anywhere RAD (Rapid Application Development) platform. These resources help developers of all experience levels capitalize on Alpha Anywhere's ability to build sophisticated business and enterprise apps that look and work exceedingly well on any device, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. Read more at SD Times

January 6, 2014
Cool HTML5 Implementations in Application Development and Gaming

Although the initial excitement about HTML5 has waned a bit in recent months, I'm seeing the maturation of the web coding language, as many organizations and developers are looking for ways to incorporate it into their frameworks and web design systems. HTML5's availability and use in modern browsers shows no signs of slowing down either. In addition, I've also observed more application development, responsive development, and mobile web designs are using the new HTML5 elements and attributes.

Here's a look at several of the latest HTML5 trends. I provide examples of how each HTML5 trend is being implemented for web, mobile designs, and online gaming and development platforms. Read more at Tech Republic