Best Dev Platform/Dev tools/framework

Description

The current
pick of the crop apps have moved from roll your own to accelerating by using
platforms, tools and frameworks, just like yours. The winner of this category will be a dev platform
or service that makes the App life cycle go easier than other alternatives, it
will power features that would have taken years to bring to market and allow
App Designers to run and jump where if they had to do it themselves they would just
be imagining their solution

Nominations - Best Dev Platform/Dev tools/framework

OutSystems Platform - OutSystems

Best Dev Platform/Dev tools/framework

OutSystems provides an enterprise Rapid Application Delivery (RAD) platform that makes it at least three times faster to develop apps once and deliver seamlessly across iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Web. The Platform provides for deep integration with existing cloud and on-premises databases and systems of record. As a result, IT teams can increase productivity, manage change more effectively and innovate for changing customer demands. OutSystems Platform has helped hundreds of organisations from both the public and private sector to create and deliver new apps successfully, dramatically reducing cost and time to market.

Kirin - a cross-platform development framework - Future Platforms

Best Dev Platform/Dev tools/framework

Kirin is a cross-platform development framework designed and developed in-house by Future Platforms, providing the ability to deliver native user interfaces with shared business and application logic. Our framework helps reduce the time and cost spent on implementation, support, and maintenance, ensuring we deliver stable and unified suites of apps. For clients like Domino’s Pizza, who process over £5million of orders each week through their apps (10m downloads), the smallest error could result in a significant drop in sales; using Kirin, for example, allows us to immediately change to a new API across all their apps with stability & efficiency.

LV Broker Portal - London Victoria – LV / Mendix

Best Dev Platform/Dev tools/framework

Driven by rapid growth, one of the U.K.’s leading insurers turned to Mendix's application platform to quickly create high-value applications that streamline broker interactions and support the development of innovative new insurance products. The speed, simplicity, and completeness of Mendix's application platform enabled LV= to complete strategic projects with unprecedented speed. With Mendix, LV= is able to develop sophisticated applications in less time and at a lower cost. “We really like the holistic nature of the platform – from ideation to deployment,” said Willmott. “That was important to us. We have the ability to do more than merely create apps. We’re using the agile methodology and Mendix is a collaborative platform to capture user requirements as well as create automated solutions. Deployment and hosting are very easy and affordable, too. We don’t have to worry about technical design or hosting or provisioning servers – it’s all self-contained.