6BURLINGTON, MA. April 29, 2014 – Today Alpha Software Corporation, which offers the most complete environment for rapidly prototyping, developing and deploying enterprise-level, cross-platform mobile and web business applications, announced that an increasing number of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Mobile Software as a Service (mSaaS) businesses have adopted the Alpha Anywhere development environment.
The SaaS market, which has revolutionized the way software is distributed, is exploding and expected to reach $22.1 billion by 2015, according to Gartner research. Despite the appeal of SaaS, the time and costs required to develop sophisticated applications that run responsively on any mobile device and the web remains a major obstacle for entrepreneurs. Alpha Anywhere, which allows for fast prototyping through to secure deployment of enterprise-level responsive business applications for mobile devices and the web, has emerged as the preferred solution to the long and expensive development cycles typically faced in the creation and updating of SaaS applications.
"Alpha Anywhere enables us to build powerful applications that run on iOS, Android and the web in a fraction of the time compared to other development environments," said Scott Moore, President of Business Support Solutions, Owner and Operator of PetSitClick, a scalable ERP platform that handles hundreds of thousands of daily transactions in the pet care industry. "Equally important, Alpha Anywhere has proven to be extremely cost-effective to operate and maintain, allowing us to price our service optimally for the market without being burdened by high per-user costs."
Other SaaS businesses built on Alpha Software include:
Alpha Anywhere utilizes a single code base, making HTML5 business applications quick to prototype, build and deploy. Once built, the business apps are easy to modify. With one click Adobe® PhoneGap™ Build integration, Alpha Anywhere apps can be turned into hybrid apps that can access mobile device hardware and that can be deployed via popular app stores. Alpha Anywhere's "coding optional" approach accelerates development by a factor of 5 to 10 over traditional approaches. The applications can easily integrate with existing databases and web services, and can take advantage of the fact that Alpha Anywhere offers built-in reporting, business charting, scheduling, GIS/data-mapping, e-forms and advanced media handling. Style templates in Alpha Anywhere mirror the latest iOS and Android look and feel. Alpha Software offers transparent and affordable pricing and hosting so SaaS businesses can price their offerings without the burden of high operating costs.
Alpha Software is helping SaaS entrepreneurs innovate and collaborate through SaaS networking opportunities, regular SaaS meetups, real-world lessons learned from successful SaaS customers, and educational content on best SaaS practices. Topics covered include: system architecture, user acquisition, digital marketing, payment options, customer relations, market flux and trends.
SaaS businesses interested in a free license or learning more can visit: https://www.alphasoftware.com/professional-services
About Alpha Software Corporation
Alpha Software products deliver significant productivity gains to developers of all levels building cross-platform mobile and web business apps. Alpha Anywhere is a front-end and back-end, low-code, rapid mobile application development and deployment environment. Alpha Anywhere applications showcase built-in offline capability, easy integration with existing data and applications, and advanced security. Developers and business leaders in thousands of organizations across one hundred countries have used Alpha Software products to cost-effectively deploy enterprise applications with outstanding user experiences. For more information, visit www.AlphaSoftware.com, or follow us on Twitter at @AlphaSoftware.
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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.
Alpha Software Corporation, based in Massachusetts, produces award-winning software that speeds mobile and web app development and deployment for business and IT. The core technology includes two components. Alpha Anywhere®, a full-stack low-code app development platform for building and deploying web and mobile apps. In just hours, Alpha TransForm® turns complex paper forms into powerful mobile forms that speed data collection.
Alpha Software is an InfoWorld Technology of the Year award winner, and scores near-perfect reviews from customers on crowdsourced review sites.
Customers rate Alpha Software highly for its speed of development, flexibility, offline apps, rich feature set and ability to scale predictably. For more information, visit https://www.alphasoftware.com/