Progress
(NASDAQ: PRGS) today announced the next evolution of its Telerik®
Platform offering, the only mobile development platform combining rich
UI tools and cloud services to build compelling apps, regardless of
operating system, device or technology. After a year on the market, the
Telerik Platform offering has hit many major milestones, culminating in
its latest release, which focuses on speed, powerful mobile app
development and testing.
“The Telerik Platform solution demonstrates our capabilities within the
mobile space and our ongoing commitment to the developer communities we
serve,” said Aaron Mahimainathan, SVP DevTools & Platform, Telerik, A
Progress Company. “Making the development process a seamless
experience–regardless of the development approach–is a top priority.
After many successes, including thousands of apps built, a global
customer base and a ‘Visionary’ position in the Gartner MQ for Mobile
App Dev Platforms, the latest Telerik Platform release makes it by far
the most robust platform in the market for creating beautiful enterprise
and consumer apps.”
Feature Advancements
Launched in January 2014, the modular,
cloud-first, end-to-end vision of Telerik Platform offering is unlike
any other in the market today. Furthered with the release of three new
modules in June focusing on prototyping, distributing and gathering user
feedback, Telerik Platform solution has been widely adopted by
developers the world over based on its ease-of-use and agility.
Additionally, with the launch of the Verified
Plugins Marketplace, the first-of-its-kind gallery of
Cordova/PhoneGap plugins, Telerik is building a strong ecosystem of
plugins aimed at closing the gaps in creating feature-rich applications
using open source Cordova APIs.
Today’s Telerik Platform release focuses on speed and powerful mobile
development. Equipped with day one support for the latest iOS and
Android releases, it offers device cloud testing, enabling automated app
testing for hundreds of different devices. According to Gartner, “Cloud
testing solutions are becoming commonplace in performance and load
testing, including performance monitoring. In addition, the demands
created by bring your own device (BYOD) programs and development
pressure around device-centered computing has created a strong drive to
make use of device clouds.”1
Another major enhancement, Screen Builder (currently in beta)
accelerates PhoneGap app scaffolding and enables both developers and
business users to create 80 percent of the mobile app from pre-built and
pre-wired screens―without ever touching code.
The latest Telerik Platform release also makes mobile development easier
and more guided than ever, by providing new mobile app dev quick start
templates to get developers building complex mobile apps fast. With the
new templates and quick start workflows, developers can build their
first app in as little as 15 minutes.
In addition, the release takes interactive push notifications to the
next level with the Telerik Cordova Push plugin with built-in backend
services, push troubleshooting logs and a simplified push API.
Finally and most notably, the Telerik® open source project,
NativeScript®, (still in private beta) is gaining strong momentum. In
its drive to create the best native development framework, the
NativeScript offering now includes robust support for CSS styling of
native app UI, an improved cross-platform JavaScript framework, support
for third party native libraries and the ability to build native apps
using Command Line Interface. For more information on the NativeScript
project, click
here.
Customer Success
During the last year, developers have
created more than 20,000 apps using Telerik Platform tools and
solutions. More than 600 enterprise organizations leverage its strength
in UI to create business apps that serve customers, partners and
employees worldwide. Telerik Platform apps range from HR and payroll
services, governmental data and inventory control to property details
and more. Some of its many customers include Boston Heart Diagnostics,
Denver Museum of Nature and Science, United Health and the University of
Wisconsin.
“At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we chose Telerik Platform and
Kendo UI® solutions for our Badger Gameday app for two reasons: The
hybrid development approach allowed us to leverage our existing HTML and
JavaScript expertise, and the Telerik Platform offering makes delivering
test builds and publishing the app to market incredibly simple. Our
testers love the Telerik AppBuilder companion app’s LiveSync feature
which makes it unbelievably quick and simple to test new builds. The
Kendo UI controls enable our users to get the game results, schedules,
video highlights and other fan info they need in a fast, fluid interface
with performance that feels truly native. The Telerik Platform solution
removes all the friction and complexity of cross-platform mobile
development, and allows us to deliver an app that would simply be too
time consuming to develop and support otherwise,” said Brad Westness, IT
Specialist at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Industry Accolades
In the last year, Telerik Platform honors
spanned several awards and recognitions, including both the American and
International Business Awards (Stevies) for Mobile Dev Solution, the
European ICT Innovation of the Year Award and the Golden Bridge Award
for Mobile Innovation. Telerik was also recognized by Gartner as a
Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development
Platforms.
The new release of Telerik Platform solution is available today. To
learn more about the latest features and to hear more about future
development, please
click here.
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About Progress Software Corporation
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) is a global software company
that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business
applications on-premise or in the cloud, on any platform or device, to
any data source, with enhanced performance, minimal IT complexity and
low total cost of ownership. Progress Software can be reached at www.progress.com or
1-781-280-4000.
Progress, Telerik, Kendo UI and NativeScript are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation or one of its
subsidiaries or affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Any other
names contained herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
1 Gartner, “Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2014,” 24 July
2014, David Mitchell Smith
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