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Kinvey Named a Leader in Enterprise Health Clouds by Independent Research Firm
Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) today announced that Kinvey,
a Progress company and leader in enterprise Backend as a Service (BaaS),
has been named a Leader in the Forrester (News - Alert) Research, Inc. report: "The
Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Health Clouds, Q3 2017."
For this report, Forrester evaluated 10 of the most significant
enterprise health cloud providers against 37 criteria, which they
grouped into three high-level buckets: current offering, strategy and
market presence. KinveyTM was recognized among vendors that
offer "robust infrastructure support and best-in-class security and risk
tools." Kinvey received the top ranking for current offering, as well as
the highest possible scores in 31 of the 37 criteria, including vision,
developer platform, cognitive/artificial intelligence, alliances, and
customer acquisition and retention.
Forrester makes the following observations about Kinvey in the report:
"Kinvey has developed robust, comprehensive partnerships with leading
data integrators for the industry's most complicated environments,
including EHRs and internet of things devices." The report goes on to
say, "[Kinvey] provides developers with 12 SDKs and accelerators that
are designed specifically to help healthcare organizations manage PHI.
Its customer references cited the strong support system as a major asset
in getting teams acclimated to the platform and building apps quickly."
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From mission-critical consumer and business experiences for global
insurance, manufacturing and media companies, to HIPAA-compliant and
life-critical apps for healthcare, health implant manufacturers and
pharma, Kinvey powers more than 31,000 apps, used by more than 100
million end-users. Kinvey's BaaS serves more than 10 billion API callsa
month and was also named a leader and top ranked in the current offering
category in "The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Development Platforms, Q4 2016."
"We are proud to be named a leader in this independent evaluation. We
believe that Forrester's findings validate the surge of demand we see
for cloud-based mobile solutions that give healthcare organizations the
ability to quickly adopt and scale new solutions to meet changing market
demands - while maintaining compliance with HIPAA," said Sravish
Sridhar, Founder & GM, Kinvey, Progress. "For our customers, which
include some of the largest healthcare providers, payers and
pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, Kinvey provides the secure,
compliant platform of choice for building and deploying modern
applications and dramatically reducing app time to market."
In June 2017, Progress announced it had acquired Kinvey as a key part of
the Progress strategy to provide the best platform to build and deliver
modern cognitive-first applications. The acquisition combines Kinvey's
BaaS with Progress' leading front-end development, data connectivity and
predictive analytics technologies, offering customers the only complete,
open stack for building and deploying cognitive applications.
"We are thrilled that on the heels of being recognized as a Mobile
Applications Development Platform Leader, Forrester has recognized
Kinvey as a Leader again, this time as an Enterprise Health Cloud," said
Yogesh Gupta, CEO, Progress. "Leading-edge healthcare and pharma are
already reaping the many benefits of the KinveyTM cloud
platform - its security, openness, performance, compliance and more -
and we will continue to innovate and extend our lead in this market."
To access a complete copy of The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Health
Clouds, Q3 2017, click
here.
About Progress Progress (NASDAQ: PRGS) offers the leading
platform for developing and deploying mission-critical business
applications. Progress empowers enterprises and ISVs to build and
deliver cognitive-first applications, that harness big data to derive
business insights and competitive advantage. Progress offers leading
technologies for easily building powerful user interfaces across any
type of device, a reliable, scalable and secure backend platform to
deploy modern applications, leading data connectivity to all sources,
and award-winning predictive analytics that brings the power of machine
learning to any organization. Over 1,700 independent software vendors,
80,000 enterprise customers, and 2 million developers rely on Progress
to power their applications. Learn about Progress at www.progress.com or
+1-800-477-6473.
Progress and Kinvey are trademarks or registered trademarks of
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in the US and other countries. Any other trademarks contained herein are
the property of their respective owners.
1 "The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Health Clouds, Q3 2017,"
Kate McCarthy, July 27, 2017
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