Welcome to Appzio 3.0!
Today we are thrilled to announce a major release that will change the way you think about creating apps. We introduce our server-driven technology that will allow any company to deliver native mobile applications with a single development language just from backend. This means less development time and respectively reduced costs, with no compromise in the final app quality.
Forget about those hybrid or web apps as they still require both server-side and client-side development & compiling of the client code in most cases. Here we talk about 100% native with no HTML or web views.
Also, as part of the transition, we introduce our new website and improvements in our business model. This makes the technology adoption as easy as any other dev tool.
Time to Empower — Appzio 3.0
Working together with our clients in the past years has given us valuable feedback (Thank you :) ). So we listened and we are now ready to announce a few big changes based on this.
1) While previously our platform was opened to selected companies — now anyone can get a license and use the technology.
Given you have PHP or Javascript developer(s) or you yourself can code in one of these languages — you can create your custom app just from backend. There is rich documentation, introductory videos and supportive materials that will help to jumpstart your next project.
And if you need help with development, you can rely on one of Appzio’s selected partner companies. They are experts with our platform and can help build your app, no matter what is the complexity.
2) To reflect this freedom in our business model and make it more accessible, we shift away from the SaaS offering to traditional licensing.
Whatever code you create — it’s yours to keep.
The goal is to simplify the process and encourage technology adoption to make it easier for our clients to control their deliverables and planned budget. This also means that once bought, a license can be used forever. It comes with one year of platform updates for free.
3) Attention to detail is key, so we introduce the Appzio UI Kit.
It is a rich library of polished components that you can use and customize as much as you’d like. All Appzio apps come with it applied by default. This means that even if you do not want to create a fully custom design, you still would launch a modern app with good UI.
In a nutshell — Appzio 3.0 is all about our clients. It’s your code — your rules.
A brief history of how we reached here
In 2014 we launched Appzio and set the credo we share today — people should be able to create mobile applications much easier and faster. The problem we identified back then was that there are many apps in the store, yet very few bring value to users. A lot of good ideas never saw the light of the day as:
1) iOS & Android apps built with native languages are very expensive.
2) hybrid apps may solve the money-problem, yet they fail to deliver quality results where a more complex solution is needed.
Thus we set on a road to find a solution that makes app development accessible.Of course, we did not do that in a day — the first version of Appzio was already in development for a few years and was a handy tool on its own.
The DIY Times
By mid 2015 we already had a Do-It-Yourself tool (DIY) allowing anyone to create native iOS and Android apps. An innovation that really excelled and excited as in less than a year, apps built with it were beating any of the seasoned competitors’ work. It allowed having custom logic, design and app flow that end-users loved.
Still, we realized that the better the tool gets, the more demanding it is to the clients. Those with project management and development experience found it most useful. It was easier for them to see the complexity behind organizing an app while others got a bit lost in all the possibilities we offered.
We got the message –we had great innovative technology ready to empower real apps that bring value, yet DIY did not make sense. There were so many good ideas waiting to be turned into apps and we would help them.
The “Base Apps”Initiative
2016 marked the opening of our platform and our server-driven development structure for building apps. In layman terms this means apps we created were built only from the backend, where their logic lies. The server would set the ready-made app components we already had and arrange them while the whole logic was crested in just one programming language. This ultimately makes apps much easier to create and manage. New features are quickly added, updates are done over-the-air, backend is scalable — meaning that apps work equally well with 100 and 100s of millions users.
In plain business terms, this meant we focused on boosting the technology further and delivering good apps with it. To facilitate faster app creation, we focused on a few areas for which we created our so-called “base apps”. These were solutions that app owners can use as a foundation for their app idea and evolve them in any direction, so that they get their custom app ready.
These clients reduced up to 4 times the time and money they would otherwise spend in development with other tools. The model works and Appzio’s clients are happy.
Still we know that we should stay focused and empower more people in their desire to build apps. That is why we moved on to Appzio 3.0.
Now that we are here, we are up for next app challenges.Tell us, what is your next app project!
