PaaS Provider Coghead Intros Builder and API Tools at Flat Rate

By David Sims

TMCnet Contributing Editor

 

Coghead, a platform-as-a-service provider, today introduced a new flat-rate pricing option, as well as Coglet Builder and open API tools which company officials say “together provide a way to give a broad number of users access to a slice of application functionality.”

The limited user costs $50 per month, letting an unlimited number of users – customers, prospects, partners, suppliers and Web visitors – interact with Coghead applications.

 

It’s being billed by the Cogheads as “an economical and easy way for businesses to make a piece of their Coghead applications – such as forms and list data – widely available to an unlimited audience without logging into Coghead.”

 

It’s generally designed for users who occasionally access applications, or for applications that have small numbers of active users and a large number of less active users.

 

Upon the product’s release in fall of 2006, TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington said the product was one in a line of Web applications designed to “allow non-programmers to easily build record-driven Web-based applications.”

 

“Coghead promises many of the things that the other applications do – the ability to easily create, access and share applications,” Arrington said. “The primary use of these products is to create business applications that deal with everything from task tracking through to purchase orders. Coghead comes loaded with a set of starter applications such as a simple CRM, an issue tracker and recruitment management. These starter templates can then be edited and further refined by the user to suit their particular needs.”

 

What is special about Coghead, Arrington said, “is that users building applications with the product require less technical skills because the process is all drag-and-drop and visual. Coghead is unique because of just how easy it is to create forms, views and apps – the design view allows users to create fields by dragging and dropping them onto a form. The user can lay the fields out and place them on the page, making the application they build more user friendly and easier on the eyes.”