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Thinfinity VirtualUI
Cybele Software, Inc
Thinfinity® VirtualUI enables dual Platform solutions allowing Windows-based desktop applications to function as web applications, which can be accessed remotely from any HTML5 web browser. Since launched in 2015, it has helped thousands of organizations to embrace digital transformation by extending the life Cycle of business-critical applications cost-effectively and reliably. Enable Thinfinity® VirtualUI in your application’s project is as simple as adding one line of code to your source code. You’ll be able to deliver your desktop applications to the web and access them from any computer or mobile device without losing control of your project, supports all programming languages including .NET, DELPHI, C#, C++, VFP, VB6, MS Access Databases and many more.
Starting Price: Priced at per concurrent user/month/year or permanent. With discounts starting at 11 users -
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Zulu Enterprise
Azul Systems
Azul Zulu is a 100% open source, fully standards-compliant Java Development Kit (JDK) and runtime platform with flexible pricing and support plans, no proprietary licenses or field of use restrictions, timely security updates, and the industry’s best support from Azul’s globally-distributed support team. The level of support is extremely important to many customers, as one survey respondent, a VP of Global Information Security, explained: “One of the big benefits of Zulu is its strong support and the optionality of the level of support you want to receive. Customers perceive Azul as really trying to work with them to find the best solution that fits their business needs.”
Starting Price: Up to 5 Desktops $112.5 USD/year -
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Zulu Embedded
Azul Systems
Zulu Embedded™ is the only fully certified, completely customizable 100% open source Java platform for embedded systems plus IoT and IIoT edge devices, gateways and dedicated applications. Across a wide variety of devices and operating systems. Zulu Embedded™ meets all Java SE standards and requires no coding changes to your application. Leverage industry-standard Java tools for development and profiling. As a pure, 100% open source offering there are no license fees. Every Zulu Embedded support plan offers redistribution-ready downloadable runtimes, access to all security updates, technical troubleshooting, and a wide set of packaging alternatives. We will work with you to determine the bundle requirements, support, and pricing model needed to match your requirements.
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Adzerk
Adzerk
Adzerk's APIs make it easy for engineers and PMs to build their own server-side, fully-customized ad server. Top e-retailers and user communities use Adzerk to build innovative ad servers to promote anything from native ads to internal content to sponsored listings (where vendors and sellers pay for their organic listing to be promoted in search and browsing results). Engineers reliably see a 90%+ reduction in dev time using Adzerk’s APIs versus doing it entirely from scratch. Adzerk’s customer list includes Fortune 500 brands, public companies, and unicorn startups, including Bed Bath & Beyond, LiveNation/TicketMaster, Wattpad, TradingView, imgur, Strava, and many more. Our Ad.Product community makes it easy for product managers, engineers, ad ops, and others to discover and discuss how to build innovative, user-first ad platforms. Join us: http://bit.ly/349Lmvh
Starting Price: $3,000 per month -
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Gumlet
Gumlet
Gumlet automatically resizes image, applies lossless compression and delivers images via Super-fast CDN. Gumlet's JavaScript and WordPress plugin make integration super easy. Within an hour you can optimize all the images on your website. Gumlet detects screen size of your users' devices and optimizes each image to fit perfectly for that device size. Our customers achieve: - Upto 60% image optimization - Significantly faster mobile page load times - 40% reduction in CDN costs - Better SEO and higher organic traffic Checkout free trial and test it! PS: Gumlet is developed by the team behind world's most popular image resize library: php-image-resize. (https://github.com/gumlet/php-image-resize)
Starting Price: $5 / month / website -
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Nintex
Nintex
Enterprise organizations around the world leverage the Nintex Platform every day to quickly and easily manage, automate and optimize their business processes. Nintex Platform includes capabilities for process mapping, workflow automation, document generation, forms, mobile apps, process intelligence and more, all with an easy to use drag and drop designer.
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WhiteSource
WhiteSource
The leading solution for agile open source security and license compliance management, WhiteSource integrates with the DevOps pipeline to detect vulnerable open source libraries in real-time. It provides remediation paths and policy automation to speed up time-to-fix. It also prioritizes vulnerability alerts based on usage analysis. We support over 200 programming languages and offer the widest vulnerability database aggregating information from dozens of peer-reviewed, respected sources.
Starting Price: $4,000/year -
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Zing
Azul Systems
Only JVM with pauseless garbage collection technology, ensuring fast startup and consistent high performance without GC pauses, jitter, or application timeouts. Optimized for Linux and x86 platforms, running on-premises or in the cloud, Zing is designed for enterprise applications and production workloads ranging from web-facing apps and human-facing response times to latency-sensitive trading and payments platforms. “They were the only JVM that we could truly trust to not fail us,” said one survey respondent, a VP of Infrastructure Technology and DevOps. “In a high-stakes environment,” said another respondent, a CTO, “you cannot afford anything less than Azul.”
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Newired
Newired
Newired empowers companies to guide users to resources and answers on virtually any web application, by making the user learn and perform on the go. We shall not forget that digital is, first and foremost, for people. -Newired makes technology and software more accessible, replacing any disconnected documentation, tutorial, or training with contextual in-place guidance and support. -Newired guides users with in-place help so they can learn by doing until they comprehend it and are comfortable with challenging content, with support that ensures process compliance in complex internal applications. -Newired can be deployed on any web-based application or website without touching the code and can be adapted to meet customers' needs.
Starting Price: $ 6,480 per year -
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TestRail
Gurock Software
Efficiently manage, track, and report on your software testing with web-based test case management by TestRail. Boost team productivity with real-time insights into testing progress. Use TestRail’s beautiful interface collaborate with comments, attachments and feedback loops. Generate personalized to-do lists and email notifications. Estimate effort and forecast test completion dates. Start test runs and select test cases for execution based on powerful filters. Track progress based on your historical time data. Monitor team workload to adjust assignments and resources. Capture the results of manual testing or get real-time feedback from test automation. Produce traceability and coverage reports for requirements, tests, and defects. Generate meaningful reports. Compare results across multiple test runs and configurations. TestRail integrates with leading issue tracking and test automation tools. Get the free TestRail JIRA plug-in on the Atlassian marketplace.
Starting Price: $32.00/month/user for cloud-based instance -
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API for SEO-software companies
Dataforseo
API for SEO-software companies contain various APIs that you can use for your project Rank tracker API is built to check positions of keywords in the search engines. It is very simple to use this API. You don’t need to create projects/add keywords and anything else. Just pull us a keyword and we will return the actual and accurate position in the search engine you’ve specified. SERP API is built to return TOP100 results from search engines for a specified keyword. It’s very simple. Just pull us a keyword, a location and we will return TOP100 results (with titles, descriptions and paid results). Keywords data API is built to provide you with search volume, CPC and competition level data for keywords from Google AdWord Planner. Just pull us a keyword with a region and we will return all data. Sign up to see more
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Azure DevOps Server
Microsoft
Share code, track work, and ship software using integrated software delivery tools, hosted on premisis. Use all the Azure DevOps services or just the ones you need to complement your existing workflows. Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a set of collaborative software development tools, hosted on-premises. Azure DevOps Server integrates with your existing IDE or editor, enabling your cross-functional team to work effectively on projects of all sizes. Azure DevOps Server is source code management software, and includes features such as access Controls/Permissions, bug tracking, build automation, change management, code review, collaboration, continuous integration, and version control.
Starting Price: First 5 users free, then $6 per user per month -
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Microsoft Azure
Microsoft
Microsoft's Azure is a cloud computing platform that allows for rapid and secure application development, testing and management. Azure. Invent with purpose. Turn ideas into solutions with more than 100 services to build, deploy, and manage applications—in the cloud, on-premises, and at the edge—using the tools and frameworks of your choice. Continuous innovation from Microsoft supports your development today, and your product visions for tomorrow. With a commitment to open source, and support for all languages and frameworks, build how you want, and deploy where you want to. On-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge—we’ll meet you where you are. Integrate and manage your environments with services designed for hybrid cloud. Get security from the ground up, backed by a team of experts, and proactive compliance trusted by enterprises, governments, and startups. The cloud you can trust, with the numbers to prove it.
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Prodoge
Prodoge
Prodoge is a platform for global business and payments. Anyone with the Prodoge mobile app can get started sending payments, promoting their business, and selling their goods & services in under a minute to anyone in the world. Prodoge helps buyers, sellers, friends, and family connect globally, send money, and grow their business. As a Peer to Peer platform, Prodoge does not act as a bank, charges zero fees to merchants, or people sending money, and settlements are near instant. No fees, no chargebacks, no waiting for your money. Global business is open to everyone. Start selling and sending payments today. Available now for iOS & Android. Supporting Dogecoin, Doge Cash, Verge, Digibyte, Bitcoin, and all major credit & debit cards via Stripe. Features: Mobile Point of Sale Mobile Invoicing & Payments Mobile Transaction Records Embeddable Widget Creator for Accepting Crypto Currency on Websites Profiles for accepting payments and selling your goods & services
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Pillir EdgeReady Cloud
Pillir
Formerly appsFreedom, Pillir is a low code, cloud native, SaaS provider that specializes in enabling the creation of resilient, always-available, self-managing (EdgeReady) applications that work in any connectivity landscape. Pillir’s ERP-agnostic solutions were created with the sole purpose of allowing companies to focus more on innovation and less on keeping the lights on - naturally driving down TCO and increasing ROI through the power of rapid application development for complex business systems. Pillir’s EdgeReady Cloud provides rapid application development with little-to-no programming and reusable objects, enabling companies to enhance speed to market and support innovation. Pillir’s EdgeReady Cloud has pre-built integrations for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics and other ERP and database systems. Customers leverage Pillir for modernization and the digital transformation of complex business systems in weeks - regardless of connectivity or device.
Starting Price: $999.00/month -
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Enterprise Universal ERP API
STFB Inc.
Enterprise Universal ERP API is a complete HTTP REST API with hundreds of accounting & ERP functions that you can use to add accounting and ERP functionality to your own applications! All basic Accounting and ERP functionality is included and made available via API calls! GL, AR, AP, OE, Inv, Warehousing, CRM, MRP, and ECommerce calls included. Since the Enterprise ERP API is implemented in stored procedures, and can be called either directly or via HTTP REST, ANY LANGUAGE or PLATFORM can be used to access the ERP business logic! IF the language / development environment / software platform can access MySQL or SQL Server, then it can use the ERP business logic directly! One of the BEST new features of this API, is that it will allow your company to hire outside developers to build sub-systems and add-ons to your software product WITHOUT having to SHARE THE SOURCE CODE WITH THEM! You can simply send your new outside developers the API Call List & API Documentation!
Starting Price: $2499.99 One Time -
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Intellimas
Singletree Technologies
Intellimas is a highly configurable, low code, enterprise solution with spreadsheet features. This allows you to build a variety of web applications that end users will love. Intellimas is built for fast data entry, analytics, exception management, and easy retrieval of live data from other systems, if required. The grid UI allows for an easy transition from spreadsheets. This comprehensive view, along with our new form view, provide you with the flexibility to handle unlimited end uses. Intellimas is deployed on-premise or in the cloud. Companies typically implement Intellimas for one business application and usually find several others for it in a short period of time. Reach out to us for a demo and ask us about our free trial!
Starting Price: $29/Month -
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DBmaestro DevOps Platform
DBmaestro
DBmaestro’s DevOps Platform paves the way for safe implementation of CI/CD for Oracle, MS-SQL, DB2, PostgreSQL, My-SQL and MariaDB databases. DBmaestro brings DevOps best practices to the database, delivering a new level of speed, efficiency, security and process integration. With DBmaestro’s solutions, organizations can run database deployments safely and methodically, increasing development team productivity and expediting time-to-market, making unplanned database downtime a thing of the past. The platform combines several key features that make its value greater than the sum of its parts: repeatable release automation, database version control, governance and security modules, and a business activity monitor. The result is complete database oversight from a single source and a vital edge over the competition. DBmaestro’s zero-friction platform harmoniously complements all major databases, without requiring database engineering teams to change their core processes.
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Amazon ECS
Amazon
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is a fully managed container orchestration service. Customers such as Duolingo, Samsung, GE, and Cook Pad use ECS to run their most sensitive and mission critical applications because of its security, reliability, and scalability. ECS is a great choice to run containers for several reasons. First, you can choose to run your ECS clusters using AWS Fargate, which is serverless compute for containers. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Second, ECS is used extensively within Amazon to power services such as Amazon SageMaker, AWS Batch, Amazon Lex, and Amazon.com’s recommendation engine, ensuring ECS is tested extensively for security, reliability, and availability.
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Docker
Docker
Docker is a software company and offers a software title called Docker. Docker offers training via in person sessions. Docker is application development software, and includes features such as access Controls/Permissions, code refactoring, collaboration tools, compatibility testing, data modeling, deployment management, No-Code, Reporting/Analytics, and source control. With regards to system requirements, Docker is available as SaaS software. Costs start at $7.00/month. Docker includes business hours support, and online support. Some alternative products to Docker include Lightbend, Anthos, and Rollbar.
Starting Price: $7.00/month -
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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Google
Run advanced apps on a secured and managed Kubernetes service. GKE is an enterprise-grade platform for containerized applications, including stateful and stateless, AI and ML, Linux and Windows, complex and simple web apps, API, and backend services. Leverage industry-first features like four-way auto-scaling and no-stress management. Optimize GPU and TPU provisioning, use integrated developer tools, and get multi-cluster support from SREs. Start quickly with single-click clusters. Leverage a high-availability control plane including multi-zonal and regional clusters. Eliminate operational overhead with auto-repair, auto-upgrade, and release channels. Secure by default, including vulnerability scanning of container images and data encryption. Integrated Cloud Monitoring with infrastructure, application, and Kubernetes-specific views. Speed up app development without sacrificing security.
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Kubernetes
Kubernetes
Kubernetes (K8s) is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubernetes builds upon 15 years of experience of running production workloads at Google, combined with best-of-breed ideas and practices from the community. Designed on the same principles that allows Google to run billions of containers a week, Kubernetes can scale without increasing your ops team. Whether testing locally or running a global enterprise, Kubernetes flexibility grows with you to deliver your applications consistently and easily no matter how complex your need is. Kubernetes is open source giving you the freedom to take advantage of on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud infrastructure, letting you effortlessly move workloads to where it matters to you.
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Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat
The Kubernetes platform for big ideas. Empower developers to innovate and ship faster with the leading hybrid cloud, enterprise container platform. Red Hat OpenShift offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack—the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications—on any cloud. Red Hat OpenShift helps teams build with speed, agility, confidence, and choice. Code in production mode anywhere you choose to build. Get back to doing work that matters. Red Hat OpenShift is focused on security at every level of the container stack and throughout the application lifecycle. It includes long-term, enterprise support from one of the leading Kubernetes contributors and open source software companies.
Starting Price: $50.00/month -
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Outgrow
Outgrow
Outgrow allows you to better acquire, qualify and engage leads by making it easy to build personalized quizzes, calculators, assessments, recommendations, polls & chatbots. No developers or designers required! Outgrow has a host of design templates which are fully optimized for mobile, desktop, and tablet, and are easily embeddable into your advertising, websites, mobile apps, social media, SMS and email communication. In addition, there are over a 300 pre-made content pieces and funnels that are optimized to improve conversion so you can change the questions, make a few tweaks so its consistent with your brand and have your own interactive content ready in minutes.
Starting Price: $14/month -
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Google Cloud Platform
Google
Build What’s Next. Better software. Faster. Use Google's core infrastructure, data analytics and machine learning. Secure and fully featured for all enterprises. Committed to open source and industry leading price-performance. Secure, global, high-performance, cost-effective and constantly improving. We’ve built our cloud for the long haul. Tap into big data to find answers faster and build better products. Grow from prototype to production to planet-scale, without having to think about capacity, reliability or performance. From virtual machines with proven price/performance advantages to a fully managed app development platform. Scalable, resilient, high performance object storage and databases for your applications. State-of-the-art software-defined networking products on Google’s private fiber network. Fully managed data warehousing, batch and stream processing, data exploration, Hadoop/Spark, and reliable messaging.
Starting Price: $0.01
App Development Software Explained
Though this keyword tends to sound new and recent, the app development software has existed from a long time. Environments like .NET which facilitate interoperability of various programming languages in many operating systems is a good example. At the same time, IDEs or the Integrated Development Environment’s which help in accelerating the software development with the help of a GUI for tasks involved in coding such as editing, compiling and deploying is also a good example of app development software. Bug tracking software also allows developers in resolving issues and managing them within the apps.
Any application can be deployed either by using a desktop, web browser or a mobile device too. Though most softwares help in developing applications for all the environments, few of them cater exclusively for one platform or both. You must ensure that the products you will develop using the software must be supported by the app development environment.
The term ‘app software development’ is a rather vague one. Many businesses make use of app development platforms which have an entire suite of many tools that are interrelated for creating apps. Though you can buy some of those tools used for creating apps separately, many smaller businesses will opt to settle with a single vendor.
The app development software covers all the key phases of development such as designing, coding, integrating the backend, bug and usability testing as well as delivery and analytics post-deployment too. A few mobile app developments programs additionally support you when you deliver any upgrade and also help you set-up paid licensing methods for applications.
Though app analytics platforms are considered central to the realm of mobile development, they, however, are a healthy market for themselves too. Though cases like IoT (Internet of Things) are trickier applications for analytical capabilities of these app development software, in most other cases, they are generally robust and impeccable.
The following are the most important features that an app development software offers:
Integrated development environment (IDE):
It is a graphical user interface used primarily to write, edit, debug and compile the source code.
Code-free development
This is catered specially to the designers of mobile apps. Features like drag and drop integration and visual interfaces help non-technical users in building apps without having the need to write code.
Prebuilt, templated apps
These are the featured templated that are commonly used in many apps. (employee facing, banking, e-commerce, and field service, etc.,)
Hardware compatibility testing
This feature helps you in reviewing your app on various devices and operating systems. This is made possible by either software stimulation or implementing the app on other real hardware devices.
API
Most mobile app development platforms come with functions that allow developers in integrating the platform’s functionality with backend and databases and thereby becoming RESTful APIs.
Data Synchronisation
It helps in synchronizing the data created through the application while they’re offline with the online services.
Mobile App Analytics
Getting real-time insights about user engagement and bug reports gives ample space and opportunity for growth and improvement.
Benefits of using the App Development Software
Accelerates your development time
It is one of the most important reason for anybody to pick an app development software platform. Though complex apps do require some custom work in terms of their development, automation of the code-writing process as much as possible will allow the businesses in bringing the apps to the stores as quickly as possible.
Backed data integration made easier
In general, connecting your apps and services with the backend might turn out to be a challenging task, however, the app development softwares provide APIs that are extremely user friendly and help with backend data integration seamlessly.
Enables visual development environment
For non technical people with little to no knowledge about coding, the visual development environment with templates can help in creating apps for businesses. Otherwise, people without programming skills cannot create apps.
Ease in testing hardware compatibility
In general, the app development platforms tend to integrate with native software development kits, also known as SDKs for both iOS and Android as well. It thereby helps the developers to test their application on various hardware features of smartphone platforms without going through the native SDK. This also helps in spotting any potential problem before the launch of the app.
User interface and workflow design assistance
As these app development platforms automate the development process, they leave more room for improving the workflow and the user interface. This results in an enhance user experience overall.
So What Kind of a Buyer Are You?
Any app development software buyer can be categorized as follows:
- DevOps buyers: These kind of buyers will have to primarily focus on how customizable the code generated by the app development software is. As these buyers need to extensively expand and edit the code generated by the software, they must also focus on the back end integration services provided as well.
- Line of business buyers: These kind of buyers should look into the visual interfaces and templates provided.
Market Trends to Be Understood
Enables Rapid App Development
This in turn refers to the techniques which are coding free. The templates, visual guides and the interfaces with drag and drop are few examples. The ultimate goal of rapid app development is to power the non tech users equally and help them build a functional application. The digital businesses having marketing, customer service and sales departments have to launch apps as soon as possible to capture all the new and emerging opportunities coming their way.
Integrating a Platform as a Service
This applies for the cutting edge technical practices like cloud data integration and back end integration as well. While most softwares come with an inbuilt data integration service, few intricate services do require deployments that are far more complex.