BURLINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–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. The release was extensively
tested by thousands of Alpha Software customers during a six-month beta.
“Although there are other web and mobile RAD tools out there, they can
be very expensive and, the easier companies try to make them, the less
flexible and powerful they tend to be,” said Tim Bochard, vice president
of information technology, Glacier Water Services, and Alpha Anywhere V4
beta tester. “At Glacier, we want a tool that is not only fast and easy,
but has no limits – Alpha Anywhere V4 has the horsepower to make it easy
for us.”
At the start of this year, Alpha Anywhere became the only mobile app
development technology awarded an InfoWorld
2016 Technology of the Year Award and last month, Alpha Anywhere
debuted on the Gartner
Peer Insights website as the only mobile app development vendor
given a perfect score by IT professionals. The software’s
low-code/coding optional approach empowers both seasoned developers and
business professionals without development experience to create
sophisticated mobile business applications with full access to mobile
hardware and native-quality user experiences in days or weeks.
“Companies are scrambling to mobilize hundreds of business processes and
applications. The demand for mobile applications to speed the pace of
business, is, paradoxically, slowing businesses down as they try to keep
up with explosive demand for mobile apps,” said Alpha Software
Corporation CEO, Richard Rabins. “We created Alpha Anywhere to provide
total confidence to developers, that no matter what challenges a
business faces in app development, problems can be solved while still
remaining highly productive because of Alpha Anywhere’s coding
optional/low code approach.”
New capabilities in Alpha Anywhere V4 include:
Mobile optimized forms made possible through the new FormView
Control and enhanced Adobe® PhoneGap™ Build
integration. This exclusive technology allows users to finally
make replacing paper and clipboards a reality with mobile apps that
can speed data capture in the field with rich media capabilities,
annotation, custom keyboards made for one-handed use and context-aware
data capture. In addition, each field can be enhanced with custom
controls such as checklist swipes and stopwatches for speed and
accuracy.
Digital ink and image annotation allowing users to capture
handwritten notes, sketch and draw (with a finger, stylus or a mouse)
on pictures or images, or add signatures in mobile apps.
Audio capture via a mobile device for dictating notes,
equipment sounds, or recording customers’ comments at field locations
within mobile apps with audio recorder controls.
Seamless access to device hardware including cameras, scanners,
specialized hardware add-ons, recording, GPS, and video, to give
developers the capability to utilize full mobile device features for
automatic or rich data capture within their business apps.
Industry-leading offline capabilities, including client-side data
caching, which allows mobile app users to store large amounts of
data (GB) or rich media files when they don’t have a connection.
Support for OData Web Services to connect Alpha Anywhere
desktop, web or mobile apps to a wide range of corporate data sources
and systems of record.
Support for NoSQL (MongoDB), SQLite, and Amazon S3 Cloud Storage,
giving developers the ability to leverage some of the most popular
technologies in use today.
Access to web sockets for direct messaging, which allows
developers to push data instantly to applications in the field, such
as auction sites, instant messaging and worker location tracking.
Performance and speed enhancements that speed throughput,
enable UX components to load up to five times faster, and power Ajax
callbacks on large UX components up to five times faster.
In total, Alpha Anywhere V4 includes more than 100 new features. Other
improved areas include security, data integration, and user interface.
For full details, visit the Alpha
Anywhere V4 product page.
“In order to be successful, enterprise mobile apps must meet critical
user requirements, including intuitive use, the ability to leverage
mobile hardware device features, such as geo-location, video, audio, and
camera, and the ability to work with large amounts of read/write data –
even when working offline,” said Dan Bricklin, CTO of Alpha Software.
“These functions are no longer optional in enterprise mobility – they
are critical requirements for mobile app development and success. Alpha
Anywhere V4 was developed with the horsepower to quickly meet these
requirements with little to no coding.”
Alpha Anywhere V4 is now available. The upgrade is available for free to
current subscribers. Users new to Alpha Anywhere can get a free trial of
Alpha Anywhere V4, as well as mentoring, training and service offerings
at: http://www.alphasoftware.com.
Alpha Software is also set to release its first mobile optimized forms
sample app for customers to quickly understand how to incorporate new
features such as customized keyboards, digital ink and large media file
storage into their Alpha Anywhere business apps. Alpha Software has seen
greater than 50 percent increase in Q1 2016 sales in comparison to 2015,
and with this release, the company expects this growth to continue.
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,
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