app conference - cloud services for app developers

Cloud Services for App Developers

AppConference / GMIC October 18, 2012

11am, Winchester room

Today’s Speakers

Steve Guengerich, Co-founder and VP - Appconomy, Inc.

Steven Citron-Pousty, Developer Evangelist - Red Hat

Alan Knitowski, Chairman and CEO - phunware

David McLauchlan, Co-founder and CEO - Buddy.com

What *is* a “platform?”

A computing platform allows you and others to accomplish the following less expensively than if they did it on their own:

Continuously gain new customers

Introduce new services

Integrate with other services (and allow them to integrate with you)

◦ in reliable, predictable ways

◦ usually via 1 or more APIs

Lions & tigers & platforms, oh my...

Social, local, mobile …& global

A smorgasbord of issues

cross platform nuances

data storage

user management and authentication,

push notifications

analytics

…and much more

Kind of like Amazon, right? Nope.

CROSS

PLATFORM

CLOUD

SERVICE

WHITE

LABEL

10,000+ developers building apps for mobile, desktop, SmartTVs, tablets, cars, etc…

Buddy helps professional

developers build better apps faster

& cheaper.

FORTUNE 1000

& AGENCIES PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

STUDIOS

TECHNOLOGY

PROVIDERS & OEMs

CUSTOMERS

PARTNERS

SYSTEM

INTEGRATORS

Buddy is a white label toolset

ideal for system integrators to

sell-in.

Buddy drives usage of (and adds

value to) data infrastructure

products.

By building their apps using

Buddy, corporates/agencies get

best-in-class marketing data on

app usage.

Questions anyone?

How to reach us, via twitter:

SteveG: @sguengerich

StevenC-P: @TheSteve0 zero, not “O”

Alan: @alanknit

Dave: @DaveMacMS