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Kony Unveils a Revolutionary New Mobile App Design and Development SolutionORLANDO, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced Kony Visualizer, a revolutionary new mobile app design solution that enables business users, designers and developers to collaborate and rapidly create native and Web mobile app experiences for iOS, Android (News - Alert), Windows and the Web. With the introduction of this innovative product, Kony is helping businesses not only design amazing app user experiences but also streamline the app development process in order to cut the time it takes to design and develop great mobile applications by half. The next generation Kony Visualizer 2.0 will be available for limited release next month. "A major inhibitor to successful enterprise mobile app adoption is the huge gap between what the business stakeholder expects and what IT delivers. We've heard from our customers that the majority of defects found in apps are directly related to the user interface design and experience," said Burley Kawasaki, senior vice president of products, Kony, Inc. "To solve this issue, we have built Kony Visualizer to fundamentally change the process of creating stunning mobile app designs. By providing a single solution that enables collaboration across all stages of the mobile app design process, we are empowering app designers, developers and business analysts to work together in a much more cohesive manner." The challenge with the current app development process is a lack of mobile-first design tools that enable users to build cross-platform, multi-edge user experience for phones, tablets, watches and other newer device form factors. In today's silo'ed business environment, each team of app designers tend to use different tools and capabilities to create static assets that are usually not translated well in the development process. This approach to app design and development creates inefficiencies and misrepresentation of the business use cases, due to the various hand-offs that take place at every stage in the software development lifecycle. "Developers, designers and business users need a means to rapidly prototype native and web applications, have them quickly previewed by all stakeholders on actual mobile devices, and enable stakeholders to provide real-time feedback from when the application is created to when it is deployed. Essentially enterprises need a compressed lifecycle where at all stages the stakeholders are as close during pre-production to what the end-users will themselves ultimately experience," said Chris Marsh, principal analyst, Enterprise Mobile App Strategies, 451 Research. Kony Visualizer is the first product that allows users to immediately create click-through preview apps without manual software coding, and instantly view, publish and share the app preview on mobile phones, tablets and other mobile devices via the Kony Visualizer cloud collaboration services. Kony calls this new capability "WYSIWYM" (what you see is what you mobilize). Using rapid iterative design and development, this greatly reduces the effort related to app design and user experience testing, ultimately gaining quick and satisfactory approvals from business owners. In addition, Kony Visulizer provides a seamless collaborative cloud environment for real-time feedback and iteration, which addresses a need by a growing number of business groups that are leveraging both in-house IT and outside design firms for their mobile app development projects. With Kony Visualizer 2.0 and latest generation of Kony's multi-edge development framework, organizations can dramatically reduce the time and cost it takes to design and develop a mobile app by taking advantage of:
Pricing and Availability Kony Visualizer 2.0 limited release will be released next month. The current Kony Visualizer release is available globally today. Go to http://www.kony.com/trials to learn more. Partner Quotes Sybven: "Kony Visualizer is a powerful tool that drastically reduces the time spent to design and develop a mobile app. Kony Visualizer introduces a new vision in the process of creating an app because final users can visualize how the app will look before it is actually built, reducing the pain that developers usually suffer for not meeting users expectations," said Magdalena de Luca, chief executive officer, Syben. "With Kony Visualizer, the designers and ideas creators are now more productive than ever." Stefanini: "Kony Visualizer is very useful when developing wireframes that will ultimately be used in a Kony Mobile App Development project," said Jay White, Director of Enterprise Mobility, Stefanini. "We used Kony Visualizer with an insurance customer of ours, when starting their mobile app project, and found the ease of sharing design with the client to be invaluable." Pariveda: "After experiencing it first-hand, we believe Kony Visualizer is clearly a leap forward in mobile development," said Stephen Pillow, Mobility Practice leader, Pariveda. "Kony Visualizer is helping us accelerate our ability to deliver client solutions by allowing prototypes to be fully leveraged in development, and enabling seamless distribution of clickable prototypes on mobile devices." Supporting Resources: About Kony Kony is the fastest growing cloud-based enterprise mobility solution provider and an industry leader among mobile application development platform (MADP) providers, serving enterprise customers around the globe. The Kony Experience Platform is an integrated software development lifecycle (SDLC) platform that empowers businesses to define, design, develop, test, deploy, and manage multi-edge mobile applications from a single codebase. With Kony, customers can deliver stunning user-first experiences, get to market faster, and lower total of ownership for applications. Kony also offers ready-to-run business mobile apps to better engage with customers and help increase employee productivity by enabling them to gain access to company systems and information via their mobile devices. In September 2014, Gartner (News - Alert) placed Kony in the "Leaders" quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms. Kony was also honored in the Mobile Star Awards for achievements in enterprise application development; named a winner for Red Herring's (News - Alert) Top 100 North America award; and included on the Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America. For more information, please visit www.kony.com. Connect with Kony on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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