The document outlines the features and capabilities of various mobile application development platforms (MADPs) as of 2018, including those from Progress Telerik, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, Mendix, OutSystems, Kony, and Backbase. Each platform provides essential components for creating custom and web mobile apps, integrating back-end services, and supporting cross-platform development. Key highlights include tools for lifecycle management, cloud services, and hybrid app development, emphasizing the growing need for comprehensive and user-friendly solutions in the mobile app ecosystem.

1. Mobile App Development Platforms
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2. Gartner's 2017 MADP definition01
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Gartner's 2017 MADP definition is as follows:
A MADP provides tools, technologies, components and services that together
constitute the critical elements of a platform for creating
1. Custom mobile apps (that is, .ipa and .apk binary files),
2. Mobile web apps or sites.
Increasingly, MADPs are adding support for
1. Wearables,
2. Chatbots,
3. Virtual personal assistants (VPAs) and
4. Conversational UI endpoints
through the same services and APIs they create and orchestrate for mobile apps
and web.
A MADP must:
1. Include Cross-platform development tool
2. Include MBS (Mobile Back-end Services)) that must be decoupled from its
own proprietary front-end development tool
3. Able to address the requirements of external-facing and internal-facing
scenarios, as well as connecting to diverse enterprise systems
4. Centralize the life cycle activities (such as design, develop, test, distribute,
manage and analyze) for a portfolio of mobile apps running on a range of
operating systems and devices

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5. Progress Telerik MDAP Architecture02
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The Progress Telerik Platform
Telerik AppBuilder development tool that maximizes the benefits of the company's JavaScript-based NativeScript framework,
which Progress created and made open source. Progress also offers a variety of UI components, including a Kendo UI component
for the web, a Xamarin UI component, and native UI components for iOS, Android and Windows 10
At the back end, Progress offers a wide range of services including mobile analytics, a device-testing cloud (Test Studio, Mobile
Testing, API Testing, JustMock) and web content management.

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The Progress Telerik Front End Component
AppBuilder/ScreenBuilder:
• Quickly, Visually assemble apps out of pre-built
“views”
• Configure via Properties, Connect to data
codelessly
• Customize, Tweak, Debug by opening in
AppBuilder
• No separate projects, no platform-specific code
• Cross-platform mobile development in the cloud
• Develop apps for iOS, Android and Windows
Phone with a single, reusable JavaScript code
base
• Use built-in simulation, debugging and deployment
tools
• Skip the manual process of building, provisioning
and deploying your mobile app, and experience
your code changes simply by clicking "Save.“
NativeScript
• Truly Native Android & iOS Apps using JavaScript
• OSS from Telerik
• Build Native Cross Platform Apps
• Use XML for UI & JavaScript for code
• One Single Code Base
• Supported in AppBuilder/ScreenBuilder
• NOT DOM … TRULY NATIVE UI

8. Microsoft MDAP Architecture03
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The Microsoft platform
Microsoft's platform is much more than just front-end development tools with Visual Studio and Xamarin. It launched Visual Studio
Mobile Center to support life cycle management and DevOps activities for mobile apps, with tightly integrated testing (via Xamarin
Test Cloud) and analytics (HockeyApp).
Xamarin.iOS & Xamarin.Mac = Native mobile apps for iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and OS X with .NET
Xamarin.Android = Native mobile apps for Android, Android Wear, and Android TV with .NET
Xamarin.Forms = Native UIs for iOS, Android, and Windows from a single, shared codebase
Microsoft also provides an extensive suite of mobile services via its Azure platform, including application and data integration via
Azure Logic Apps.

10. Oracle MDAP Architecture04
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MAF JET MCS Client SDK MAX
• IDE: Eclipse
• Write Once Deploy to
Many
• Java, HTML5, JS5,
CSS3
• IOS, Android,
Windows
• Write Once - Run on
iOS / Android
• Rich UI theme, focus
on data visualization
• Enterprise-ready –
accessibility,
• security,
internationalization,
offline sync, EMM
support, and MCS
ready
• Jquery, Knockout,
Hammer, Cordova,
Require JS
• IOS SDK, Android
SDK, Windows SDK
• Javascript SDK
• MAF SDK
• Xamarin SDK
• Sencha SDK
• Save hand written
REST calls
• Significantly reduces
native code
• Prebuilt, tested,
optimized
• providing native,
optimized APIs to call
MCS without coding
from the ground up
• Codeless Tool for the Business Analyst
• Browser based development
• No coding required
• Easily map to business services
• App Preview
• Edit, Test and Publish from the web browser
• Cloud Based
• iOS and Android devices (MAX)
• Web and Mobile Web (ABCS)

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The Salesforce App Cloud Mobile platform
Force.com includes a mobile SDK for native and cross-platform development tools, such as React Native and Xamarin. The
proprietary Saleforce1 app container, which can now be custom-branded for customers, runs on iOS, Android and Windows to
support app deployment, and within HTML5 browsers.
Heroku provides custom-coded microservices.
Lightning offers a visual app builder with a component framework and exchange for high-productivity app development. Users can
design and build a UI, build app logic, deploy an app, and manage that app through its life cycle on the platform.

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The Mendix platform is a cloud-based MADP
Mendix provides a high-productivity, model-driven development environment through its Web Modeler tool for citizen developers and
its Desktop Modeler tool for professional developers, which has an option to customize apps via JavaScript. Both tools can be used
in concert to build apps using Apache Cordova for hybrid iOS and Android apps.
Mendix's MBS offer SDKs to support native iOS and Android apps, as well as cross-platform frameworks such as Microsoft Xamarin,
React Native and NativeScript.

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The OutSystems Platform
The OutSystems platform uses a visual modeling language (Service Studio) to create app UI, logic, data store capabilities (for
offline) and integration with its back-end system (Integration Studio). This language is used across the platform for development of
apps for the web, tablets and mobile phones using a hybrid approach with HTML5 and Apache Cordova..
At the back end, OutSystems offers core mobile services and produces SDKs for third-party tools for each back-end API, with
complete models and documentation of the API entities.

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The Kony Platform
Kony Visualizer gives developers the ability to create a rich, interactive user experience for mobile apps within a high-productivity
environment that also supports custom coding via JavaScript. Kony's Native Function API supports all native iOS and Android APIs,
as well as third-party-native components via JavaScript
Back-end services and omnichannel support are provided by the combination of Kony MobileFabric and the Kony Nitro Engine,
which can be deployed and managed across any combination of public cloud, private cloud or on-premises implementations..

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23. Backbase Architecture09
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The Backbase Products
CXP (Customer Experience Platform)
1. Portal: presentation site, business + security, data object
access
2. Content and Targeting: Visual Page Editor - content and
campaign management for business teams (IT-support not
needed)
3. Mobile: SDK connects widgets to provide the same
presentation layer
4. Forms: customer data entry and workflow management
5. Widget: standalone software containers that interface with
REST-ful services, providing native implementations of logic
and presentation (HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
DBP (Digital Banking Platform Product Suite)
1. Launchpad: pre-built widget packs, customized portal,
extensible
2. CXP Services: connects backends via WOA/SOA micro-
services to CXP Manager or Launchpad
3. CXP Manager: visual editor for business and marketing
teams
4. DBS (Digital Banking Service): connects core systems to
services with APIs, connects services to CXP with APIs
5. Digital Banking Apps: Open banking marketplace for 3rd
party software vendors

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