Big corporate names like IBM,
Microsoft, Adobe Systems and Salesforce dominate Gartner Inc.'s new list of
mobile application development platform (MADP) leaders, though the smaller Kony
Inc. has made the grade for the fourth year in a row.
Gartner uses its Magic Quadrant
to rank vendors according to their "ability to execute" and
"completeness of vision," placing companies that excel on both
indices in the "leaders" category, which features just those five
companies in the new June 2016 study. Kony provided a complimentary copy of the
for-pay report here.
"The MADP market offers
tools, technologies, components and services that together constitute the
critical elements of an integrated platform," the report states. "The
MADP enables an organization to design, develop, test, deploy, distribute,
manage and analyze a portfolio of cross-platform mobile apps running on a range
of devices and addressing the requirements of diverse use cases, including
external-facing and internal-facing scenarios."
Kony, which edged IBM on the
vision index and trailed only IBM on the execution index, said its Mobility
Platform fits that description. "It supports the entire application
software development lifecycle (SDLC) and operations (DevOps) lifecycle,
empowering enterprises to quickly design, build, deploy, and manage multi-edge
app experiences," the company said.
"Kony is in the Leaders
quadrant this year, based on its continued strong execution globally --
particularly in building strong partnerships with system integrators, including
a global alliance with Cognizant and its completeness of offering,"
Gartner said in the report. "Being the largest independent MADP provider,
Kony's vision also continues to be strong in relation to both the richness of
its front-end development and its forward-thinking back-end services and
integration capabilities."
Along with Kony, some other MADP
leaders put out news releases trumpeting their ranking by Gartner.
Xamarin exec Nat Friedman, whose
C#-based cross-platform technology was acquired by Microsoft, said his former
company's tooling helped the Redmond software giant attain leadership status
this year.
"The designation reflects
the fact that Microsoft's Mobile Application Development Platform vision has
expanded dramatically, evidenced by the Xamarin integration, enhancements to
Azure App Service, and improved mobile DevOps capabilities," he said.
Gartner also touched on the
Xamarin integration in its analysis.
"Microsoft's MADP is a broad
omnichannel offering based mainly on Visual Studio, Azure App Service, and the
Xamarin platform that was acquired in early 2016," the report states.
"Hybrid apps are built using Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova.
Native apps can be built using C# and .NET with Xamarin in Visual Studio, which
is now free and open-source as part of the .NET Foundation. Developers can use
Xamarin. Forms to build cross-platform UI elements for greater code reuse.
Citizen developers, such as line-of-business analysts, can create hybrid apps
with Microsoft PowerApps, using a no-code authoring tool (PowerApps is fully
generally available in 2H16)."
Adobe exec Aseem Chandra pointed
to the company's Experience Manager as the focal point of its MADP, helping
enterprises build, manage and deliver enterprise apps. "Mobile is at the
heart of connecting the physical world to digital experiences, yet brands are
challenged with building and managing apps that provide an amazing experience
for their customers and employees," Chandra said. "We believe our
recognition as a leader in Gartner's report validates the unique functional and
design value that Adobe Experience Manager Mobile brings to
organizations."
"AEM Mobile is Adobe's MADP;
however, its full mobile app development capabilities require the use of other
Adobe products, including Adobe Marketing Cloud and the new Adobe.io
offering," Gartner said. "Many of the back-end data integration and
services capabilities are tightly integrated with the Adobe Marketing Cloud,
such as messaging (push, in-app, SMS, e-mail) and location services. Adobe's
mobile analytics are also very strong, offering extensive enhancements to
facilitate personalization and targeting for apps developed using AEM
Mobile."
At Salesforce, the App Cloud is
the centerpiece of its MADP offering, further showcasing the company's an evolution from its CRM roots into mobile app development.
"Salesforce's App Cloud
contains all the essential elements of a MADP to address a spectrum of mobile
Web and app development needs, from line-of-business users to experienced
developers," Gartner said. "Underpinning the newer capabilities of
the multichannel App Cloud is a set of Lightning technologies consisting of a
UI Component Framework, Schema Builder, Process Builder and App Builder.
"Lightning Schema Builder
and Process Builder is used to building Web apps without coding, using a visual
point-and-click approach, while App Builder offers a drag-and-drop editor to
create and deploy hybrid apps via the Salesforce1 app container. For more
custom-made app development, mobile SDKs for native iOS and Android, React
Native framework and Cordova are available, as well as watchOS and Android Wear
SDKs. Offline support has been available for apps built using the SDKs, but now
Salesforce has added system-level offline support for objects and files for
Salesforce1 and Lightning-built apps."
IBM, the leader in execution,
offers the Mobile First Platform, which relies upon the company's Bluemix cloud
for Mobile-Back-end-as-a-Service (MBaaS) functionality.
"The IBM MobileFirst
Platform is a comprehensive MADP spanning the full software development life
cycle and offering elements addressing app design, development, testing, deployment
and management for mobile hybrid apps (using Cordova)," Gartner said.
"An extension of the IBM MobileFirst Platform is IBM MobileFirst for iOS,
where IBM has partnered with Apple to develop more than 100 template apps with
specific iOS feature support. IBM has added new App Builder and API Connect
products to enhance front-end and back-end productivity. The MobileFirst App
Builder gives developers a visual development tool that generates native mobile
apps, along with Objective-C and Android Java code that can be edited in the
native IDEs."
Gartner also ranked 12 other
companies in its quadrant exploring the burgeoning mobile app dev space. The
research firm said that some three-quarters of enterprises will use an MADP
platform by 2020, up from the one-third of enterprises reportedly using such a
platform last year.
Reference: https://adtmag.com/articles/2016/06/20/madp-rankings.aspx
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