The latest updates to the Kony Mobility Platform address this growing market challenge. Developers can bring their existing skills and tools to the Kony platform and blend together a mix of native, web and hybrid approaches to increase time to market, rather than having to learn an entirely new solution, rewrite the app or hire additional resources, which increases costs.
Kony Nitro’s cross-platform JavaScript API enables enterprises to use widely available and lower cost web development resources for full 100 percent native access to underlying OS capabilities, and open support for hybrid web technologies, such as Cordova, Angular and third-party JavaScript frameworks. Customers can stay in a familiar visual design and development environment based upon JavaScript, and leverage the most powerful low-code, design experience of Kony Visualizer.
“Ask any CIO what’s on the top of their agenda, and digital transformation will certainly be on that list. But successful digital transformation requires enterprises to bring together an omni-channel strategy that connects across mobile and web initiatives,” said Dave Shirk, president of Products, Strategy and Marketing, Kony, Inc. “Customers today find themselves having to compromise when choosing solutions, forcing them to pick point solutions or tools for each style of digital architecture. These point solutions, unfortunately, don’t offer the choice of speed, control, and great user experiences within a single consistent toolset. Also, this limits them from reusing their existing skill sets, outsource agency skill sets and development frameworks. Kony Nitro, the omni-channel engine at the heart of our Kony Mobility Platform, allows organisations to take on their digital transformation initiative confidently and address all of these challenges without compromise.”
With Kony Nitro, organisations of all sizes now have powerful omni-channel capabilities that include:
- Flexible and comprehensive app development: Truly cross-platform native, web and hybrid development styles are available in one toolset. Customers can choose the style that best meets the needs of their app, or combine a mix of all three development styles inside a single app.
- Mix and match omni-channel solution with 100 percent access to native iOS and Android features: Take full advantage of the native OS, with full access to all native APIs using JavaScript. Also, mix and match native iOS or native Android components with Kony’s omni-channel components in a single user interface for maximum flexibility.
- Open web standards support including HTML5, Cordova, Angular + any JavaScript frameworks: Maximum development flexibility by reusing existing HTML5, Cordova, and other popular JavaScript frameworks and skillsets that may have already been developed. Customers can import them into Kony Visualizer to accelerate the next app project, and leverage the best of the open source community.
- Automatically enables advanced security, analytics and backend integration: Build a native, web or hybrid app on Kony Nitro and automatically inherit Kony’s advanced security measures, including tamper-proof protection and whitebox cryptography. Developers can also get insight into users’ behaviour and app performance and a consistent approach to accessing backend APIs through Kony MobileFabric.
With the new release, powered by the Kony Nitro omni-channel engine, Kony is expanding its platform appeal to the Web developer community, and has also increased its developer community of more than 32,000 that use Kony Visualizer.
The new Kony Nitro engine also supports the powerful visual drag-and-drop, low-code design tools, prototype sharing, and full-stack development capabilities that Kony Visualizer provides for developing omni-channel experiences that span across mobile, tablet, wearable, desktop native and desktop web channels. The latest release of Kony Visualizer now enables organisations to create a unifying experience across channels using the best approach for their digital initiatives – whether it is native, web or hybrid – without having to start from scratch and rebuild apps.
In addition, Kony MobileFabric, with its set of enterprise-grade mobile infrastructure services, expands upon open standards and adds Node.js support to allow development of backend integration logic that leverages the best of the open-source community. This new release also enhances Kony MobileFabric’s API Management, Object Services and Analytics capabilities, and allows backend developers to either use codeless visual mapping and configuration, or leverage existing web skills.
“The marketplace shift to omni-channel development spanning native, web and hybrid styles adds new complexity and drives new market requirements. Customers can optimise their current approach to get the best user experience, speed or control, but they usually never get all three at the same time,” said Burley Kawasaki, senior vice president, Products, Kony, Inc. “The latest updates to the Kony Mobility Platform address these issues head-on, giving customers complete access to full OS and device capabilities, the ability to reuse existing skills, access to web app components and a broad ecosystem of open source and third party frameworks, and the ability for rapid development using single visual design tools.”
