– Mark Armstrong , VP & MD EMEA , Progress Software

innovation . “ But if you want to build a true user experience and allow access to all the functions of a mobile device , you need to build native . The problem is that you have iOS , Android , Windows and a plethora of different versions of iOS and a multitude of devices you can run Android on – people can ’ t afford to do this . We have a product called Native Script , a differentiating technology , which allows you to write once using a familiar process to users of Java Script . It will deploy natively to Android or iOS giving you all the benefits of native . It ’ s the only tech of its kind in the business marketplace which is why we ’ ve had over a million downloads and trials with developers using the tech . It ’ s open source and then we supplement that by providing world class tools and utilities to enable it to create graphics etc .”

Progress is now one of the leading providers of developer tools in the market through its acquisition of Telerik , and it also recently acquired Kinvey , highlighted by Gartner and Forester as one of the leading mobile application development platforms for back-end services in the market . “ If you want to build in a service environment and deploy on any platform in the world in a robust and compliant way , Kinvey is a great choice . You can run all three ( Native Script , Telerik and Kinvey ) seamlessly in the same environment and then you have a differentiated platform . Collectively there ’ s nothing better on the market ,” asserts Armstrong proudly .

Progress can call on a wideranging ecosystem of partners including software vendors who use its web management tools to build solutions for companies like

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