2016-09-23

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced that Kony Visualizer 7, the visual application design and development solution of the Kony Mobility Platform Suite, was named the first place winner, in the Mobile App Development Platforms category, for the 10th annual CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards. The CTIA E-Tech Award winners were announced at the CTIA Super Mobility 2016™, the largest wireless event in America.

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The winners represent the latest innovation in mobile products and services that have the power to transform networks, businesses, smart cities and connected consumers. CTIA-The Wireless Association®, an international nonprofit trade organization representing the wireless communications industry, recognized Kony as one of the best mobile solutions of the year, and one that has the potential to influence and benefit businesses and consumers.

By the end of 2017, Gartner predicts the demand for enterprise mobile apps will surpass IT organizations’ capacity to deliver them by five to one (Gartner Report: The Enterprise App Explosion: Scaling One to 100 Mobile Apps, published: 7 May 2015). The significance of the new Kony Visualizer 7 is that it addresses this issue head-on with its innovative technology, which simplifies and accelerates the mobile app development process. The recent release of Kony Visualizer 7 enables cross-platform mobile app development and supports voice input for Apple Watch apps or intelligent control of smart homes using new Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities.

“In just a few years, mobile apps went from being viewed by many in the enterprise as simply a ‘cool’ consumer thing, to becoming a strategic business imperative to stay competitive and meet customer expectation. Yet enterprises are still struggling to bridge the gap between business demands for mobile apps and the ability to quickly and effectively deliver them,” said Dave Shirk, president of Products, Strategy and Marketing, Kony, Inc. “With the help of non-traditional, low-code tools, like Kony Visualizer 7, developers and designers, and those with no background in programing or coding skills, can easily and quickly build rich, innovative mobile apps. Kony Visualizer 7 also allows developers and designers to collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to get immediate feedback on the mobile apps they’ve designed, creating better alignment between business and IT as part of the innovation process.”

The Kony Visualizer Starter Edition is downloadable at no cost, opening up the opportunity for a broader group of users, such as designers, developers and non-technical line-of-business users. With Kony Visualizer Starter Edition, users can visually design fully interactive, native mobile apps for their organizations. Once users design a mobile app using the Kony Visualizer Starter Edition, they can also choose to easily move the app to production using the Kony Visualizer Enterprise Edition subscription to deploy and connect the app to back-end services and APIs (Application Program Interface) via Kony MobileFabric.

Kony Visualizer 7 is generally available worldwide. The free Starter Edition can be downloaded from here: http://www.kony.com/products/visualizer.

About Kony Inc.

Kony is the fastest growing, cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions company and an industry leader among mobile application development platform (MADP) providers. Kony empowers organizations to compete in mobile time by rapidly delivering pre-built, omni-channel mobile apps across the broadest array of devices and systems, today and in the future, with a lower total cost of ownership. Kony’s cross-platform solution helps organizations design, build, configure and manage mobile apps to empower and better engage with customers, partners and employees. Kony was named the first place winner in CTIA’s MobITs/E-Tech Awards for the last three consecutive years in categories recognizing mobile application development platforms, and was included on the Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America. Connect with Kony on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

About CTIA Super Mobility 2016

CTIA Super Mobility 2016™ (CTIASuperMobility2016.com) is the largest mobile event in America and the only B2B marketplace dedicated to demonstrating products and strategies for smart cities, mobile-first enterprises and connected consumers around the globe. For three days, more than 30,000 technology and business professionals, 1,000 exhibiting companies and dozens of collocated partner organizations gather to discover next-generation technologies, people and ideas transforming everything wireless. Powered by CTIA for 30+ years, this award-winning trade show advances the association’s commitment to foster wireless innovation and enable connected life. CTIA Super Mobility 2016 takes place September 7-9, 2016 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas, USA.

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