$ 12.5bn revenue ) in North America , a company which has built a mobile application so it can offer services direct to millions of consumers . Farmers needs to know it will scale and it ’ s always on . “ They are an example of a business that has back office systems that have moved into the cloud using mobility and have the need to build truly robust internet scale applications ,” explains Armstrong .
“ Another trend we ’ re seeing is the need for an immersive user interface ,” he reveals . “ We talk a lot about adaptive applications . Gone are the days where users have to adapt to the application . Applications today have to adapt to the way users want to consume them . We need to provide tools which allow people to build responsive mobile applications – whether they be native or hybrid – with voice integration or augmented and virtual reality interfaces and the ability to become truly immersive .”
Armstrong lauds Progress ’ ability to solve a multitude of problems and believes it ’ s one of the prime reasons why businesses worldwide trust applications delivered on its platform . “ A lot of people build hybrid mobile apps allowing access to GPS or the camera ,” he explains , giving an example of how Progress delivers
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