Kony, Inc.

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
(Redirected from KonyOne Platform)
Jump to: navigation, search

Lua error in Module:Infobox at line 314: malformed pattern (missing ']').

Kony is a mobile application development platform for building mobile, tablet, desktop, and kiosk applications. Kony is one of several platform supports that developers can use to build mobile applications for consumers and enterprises. Kony is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has offices in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, London, Germany and the Netherlands.[1] Its development center is located in Hyderabad.

The Company

Kony, Inc. is an American multinational technology software and services corporation, with headquarters in Austin, TX. Kony provides a cloud-based mobile application development software for the enterprise that spans across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The Kony Mobility Platform allows organizations to define, design, develop, deploy and manage multi-channel applications from a single code base. In addition, Kony has “pre-built” applications for consumer and employee users. Kony also offers a MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service) solution that is front-end UI design agnostic.

Currently, Kony has over 350 customers worldwide and has been recognized as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platform in 2013,[2] 2014,[3] and in 2015.[4] Kony has also named A Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Mobile Infrastructure Services, Q3 2015 report.[5]

History

Founded in San Mateo, California on January 1, 2007 by BITS, Pilani Alumnus and past CEO/Co-founder of Intelligroup, Raj Koneru. The company released its first product, the KonyOne Platform in 2009. In 2012,[6] it acquired Australian SAP consulting company Sky Technologies.[7] In May 2014, Kony announced its latest round of funding, $50 million.[8] Investors in the company include Softbank Capital, Hamilton Lane, Insight Venture Partners, Georgian Partners, Delta-v Capital and Telstra Ventures.

Products

Kony Mobility Platform

The platform is used by developers to write, deploy and manage mobile applications for native and web channels (also known as multi-channel app development). Kony supports iOS, Google Android, HTML5, Windows and Blackberry. Support for Blackberry 10[9] was announced in Feb 2013, support for Windows 8 in October 2012,[10] support for Apple iOS 6, iPhone 5 and Passbook in September 2012.[11]

Kony has been integrated with native platform SDKs to execute natively across devices. The run-time consists of a Mobile App Server, and a virtual machine that implements the scripting language (JavaScript) used by Kony, coupled with the library for each device platform – BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Java, Symbian, and browser clients.[12]

In June 2012,[13] Kony added JavaScript support to its platform, to allow development of both native and mobile web applications.

Kony Visualizer

Kony Visualizer allows users to create click-through preview apps without manual software coding, and view, publish and share the app preview on mobile phones, tablets and other mobile devices via the Kony Visualizer cloud collaboration services. Using rapid iterative design and development, Kony Visualizer reduces the effort related to app design and user experience testing, helping to quickly gain satisfactory approvals from business stakeholders. In addition, Kony Visualizer provides a seamless collaborative cloud environment for real-time feedback and iteration.[14]

Kony MobileFabric

Kony MobileFabric is a pre-built back-end services for identity, integration, orchestration, messaging and location services (MBaaS). It also provides offline sync capabilities, along with full platform as-a-service productivity through seamless elastic provisioning, monitoring and analytics. The cloud-based platform ensures there are no delays in setup with instant elastic provisioning of not just back-end services, but also the full app platform environment. Kony MobileFabric also provides open Native and Multi-platform support, and integrates through open RESTful APIs with major mobile app development tools and frameworks. This includes support via a set of downloadable Software Development Kit’s for native iOS and Android, JavaScript and PhoneGap development.[15]

Applications

Kony Field Service

Kony’s Field Service mobilize field services by incorporating mobile apps, wearable and IoT options.[16]

Kony Retail Banking

Kony Retail Banking allows mobile banking on mobile, tablet, desktop or wearable devices.[17]

Technologies supported

Native apps

  • iOS 3+
  • Android 2.0+
  • Blackberry 4.5+
  • webOS
  • Windows
  • Symbian/MeeGo (Qt SDK)
  • JavaME

Native applications are often the best choice for apps that require access to device-specific capabilities such as GPS, camera, address book, etc.

Mobile Web

  • Mobile Web – Legacy
  • Basic
  • Basic with Javascript
  • Advanced devices
  • Mobile Web- HTML5
  • Desktop Web

Mixed mode

A version of a native application where some of the forms may be native or web based to take advantage of the best of both native and mobile web deployments.

Hybrid

An approach that embeds HTML5 within a native container and leverages the functionality of the browser to display and process the code locally on the device.

Awards & Recognition

  • 2011 Mobile Star Award: Middleware and Success story Banking[18]
  • 2012 Mobile Star Award: Application Development[19]
  • 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant: Leader in Mobile Application Development Platform[20]
  • 2013 Red Herring’s Top 100 North America award[21]
  • 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant: Leader in Mobile Application Development Platform[22]
  • 2014 CTIA MobITs Award: Mobile Applications, Development & Platforms[23]
  • 2015 Named a Leader by Ovum for Mobile Application Development Platforms[24]

Funding

On January 12, 2011 Kony Solutions (Kony,Inc) announced that it has secured $19.1 million in Series A financing from Insight Venture Partner.[25] In May 2014, Kony announced its latest round of funding, $50 million.[26] Investors in the company include Softbank Capital, Hamilton Lane, Insight Venture Partners, Georgian Partners, Delta-v Capital and Telstra Ventures.

See also

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.

Use <references />, or <references group="..." />
  1. ↑ http://www.kony.com/about/locations
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  19. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  25. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Kony,_Inc.&oldid=719744888"