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Thinfinity Remote Desktop Server
Cybele Software
Access Windows applications and desktops via web browser without installing or configuring any client-side software. Thinfinity Remote Desktop allows users to securely access computers from any device with an HTML5 browser. Publish your Windows Applications on the Cloud and allow your users and clients to run your Windows Applications from anywhere on any device. Thinfinity Remote Desktop Server enables ISVs to quickly transform their Windows applications into Web-based, Cloud-hosted services. Offer your Software as a Service (SaaS)! With support for Windows, macOS X, iOS, Android and Chromebook among others, Thinfinity® Remote Desktop Server will enable you to provide users with remote access solutions immediately, wherever they are.
Starting Price: $80 -
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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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Pillir EdgeReady Cloud
Pillir
EdgeReady Cloud is a low code rapid application development platform that is cloud-native and enables the creation of resilient, always-available, self-managing (EdgeReady) applications that work with or without connectivity. EdgeReady Cloud, a low code RAD solution by Pillir, was 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 low code rapid application development for complex business systems. EdgeReady Cloud provides low code, rapid application development that allows companies of all sizes, in any industry, to enhance speed to market and support innovation with custom-built, low code applications. EdgeReady Cloud has pre-built integrations for SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, and other ERP and database systems. Most customers leverage EdgeReady Cloud for modernization and the digital transformation of complex business systems.
Starting Price: $999.00/month -
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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 Embeddedâ„¢ 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 Embeddedâ„¢ 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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Nuxeo Platform
Nuxeo
Nuxeo makes it easy to build smart content applications that enhance customer experiences, improve decision making, and accelerate products to market. The Nuxeo Platform is a modern content services platform for low-code application development with a scalable architecture and flexible metadata model that provides advanced content management capabilities, including AI and machine learning, for any type of content. Regardless of size, volume, or where your content is stored, we enable organizations to securely access, find and use information across business units, applications, channels, and processes.
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CloudQA
Statnetics, LLC
CloudQA offers a powerful no-code/low code automation platform to speed up regression testing OR continuous monitoring of web applications. Type, click, and interact with your site as you normally would. Our recorder captures all of your actions as you navigate your site. No worrying about complexities like nested iFrames or dynamic elements. Intuitive and intelligent script maintenance - Manage tests/monitoring scripts with visual editor, as it creates a dynamic test model that is updated to reflect changes in your application. Automate complex steps with simple JavaScript & select variable data sets. With automation accelerators you require no setup, no infrastructure & no lock-in. Get high volume parallel, scalable & collaborative testing in cloud. Out of the box support for legacy & latest web technologies. See live execution of your tests, share summary & detailed reports with screenshots. Integrate with your tech stack and setup custom notifications.
Starting Price: $99.00/month -
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Esper
Esper
Move beyond a Regular MDM, towards a highly focused Android DevOps platform that includes not only all the features of an MDM but also DevOps tools that can help you configure, deploy, and manage your devices complete Android Device lifecycle. Esper offers powerful, intuitive features to control enterprise devices, including hardware, firmware, app development, monitoring, and remote remediation. Esper is the first solution to combine custom OS, enhanced firmware, a complete DevOps toolchain, and endpoint detection and response. Esper's full-stack admin suite goes beyond a regular MDM with unprecedented support for device management, remote control, and real-time OTA updates. It's the only single-dashboard suite for remote device diagnostics, advanced telemetry and debugging.
Starting Price: Free forever for upto 100 devices -
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EASA
EASA
EASA enables customers to blend the agility and flexibility of Excel, with the convenience and security of a low-code platform. EASA has a unique approach to deploying existing, Excel spreadsheet-based tools as secure, custom web applications. These apps can be deployed within a web portal for use by internal or external staff, including partners, resellers, suppliers or customers. Even sophisticated spreadsheets with VB and macros can be deployed with EASA. Common use-cases include the deployment of spreadsheets used for CPQ (configure price quote), reporting, financial analytics, engineering calculations, and many more. Your existing spreadsheet becomes the “engine� for the web app, eliminating any need to extract the logic and reprogram in a separate solution. If your company has made a significant investment into an Excel-based tool such as CPQ calculators, insurance raters, engineering or scientific calculators, then EASA is the obvious solution.
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DocuSend
Mail Technologies Inc
Remotely send your documents directly to the U.S. Post Office through our cloud-based mailroom. DocuSend works with any accounting, billing or CRM software that produces PDF documents containing a valid mailing address. Users can upload directly or developers can integrate our REST API to offer a "Send Mail" button in their software, either as a reseller or for internal direct connectivity. There are enormous economic advantages for any business or organization that needs to safely print and mail documents on-demand.
Starting Price: $0.83 for 1 pg 8.5 x 11" document -
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Project Insight
Project Insight
Project Insight is award-winning work & project management software that centralizes all of your work, tasks, and projects into one easy to use online platform. We offer a completely FREE expandable version or a full-featured enterprise edition.
Starting Price: FREE + $3 ADD-ONS + ENTERPRISE -
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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: Custom -
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Usersnap
Usersnap
Usersnap provides a user feedback platform to help businesses understand, process, analyze, and monitor feedback, improving their companies and themselves by tracking growth and progress along the way. The extensive feedback use cases enable your business to get feedback along the user journey including: QA, CSAT, NPS, feature requests, bug tracking, visual design feedback and more. More than 20,000 companies have collected over 3 million customer feedback items with Usersnap, including Microsoft, Facebook, Canva, Lyft, and many more.
Starting Price: $19.00/month -
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Raima Database Manager (RDM)
Raima
Raima Database Manager is an embedded in-memory database for IoT and Edge devices. It is an extremely powerful, lightweight and secure RDBMS . Field tested by over 20 000 developers worldwide and has more than 25 000 000 deployments.
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Cyclr
Cyclr
Cyclr is an embedded integration toolkit (embedded iPaaS) for creating, managing and publishing white-labelled integrations directly into your SaaS application. With a low-code, visual integration builder and flexible deployment methods, we help take the hassle out of delivering your users' integration needs.
Starting Price: $599 per month -
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Qualibrate
Qualibrate
Qualibrate is the cloud solution for SAP & web apps test automation, like Salesforce: it has the power of simplicity, customization, and integration with the most CI/CD tools. Test cases are highly reusable and easily maintainable. Undertaking a software transformation journey is a high risk. We offer a simple yet powerful solution to minimize the risk and reduce the implementation resources up to 80%. All you need to do is to record a Business Process: user actions, test data, and technical information will be captured. The recording will be your unique source of truth for running Automated tests and Manual tests, but also for Learning. Check out the website to see how Qualibrate is reinventing test automation for SAP and web apps.
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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: $34.00/month/user for cloud-based instance -
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SaltStack
SaltStack
SaltStack is an intelligent IT automation platform that can manage, secure, and optimize any infrastructure—on-prem, in the cloud, or at the edge. It’s built on a unique and powerful event-driven automation engine that detects events in any system and reacts intelligently to them, making it an extremely effective solution for managing large, complex environments. With the newly launched SecOps offering, SaltStack can detect security vulnerabilities and non-compliant, mis-configured systems. As soon as an issue is detected, this powerful automation helps you and your team remediate it, keeping your infrastructure securely configured, compliant, and up-to-date. The SecOps suite includes both Comply and Protect. Comply scans and remediates against CIS, DISA-STIG, NIST, PCI, HIPAA compliance standards. And Protect scans for vulnerabilities and patches and updates your operating systems.
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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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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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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
Starting Price: Free
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.