Everyone knows that user experience is vital to the beneficial adoption of a mobile application. What’s equally important to set off on the right path is the efficient integration and synchronization of business data. Kony has always recognized the key role that integration plays. In fact, Kony’s experience across hundreds of customer implementations highlights that over 50 percent of the effort and risk to an enterprise mobile project is in the integration piece. This is primarily because of complexities involved with distributed systems, data profiling, handling large volumes, tortuous transformations, and transaction management. Unfortunately, integration is often seen as an afterthought by many vendors. I’ve lost count of how many competitor mobile projects fail when they reach production volumes of data and users. Just having a connector doesn’t cut it.

Thousands of new apps hit the market each week. At the same time, thousands of hackers work hard to tap into these apps to try to phish for user information or implant malware. That means app developers have to be vigilant about security to protect users. As an app developer, you need to know how to avoid the eight security issues most widely affecting users today.

Does trying to piece together various niche solutions that ultimately prove difficult to integrate and maintain give you and your customers a headache? Wouldn’t it be nice to have the perfect union of a mobile app development platform (MADP), mobile backend-as-a-service (MBaaS), and platform-as-a-service (PaaS)? Do you want to answer yes to something that solves your problems instead of merely lists them? Then, you’ll be excited to see the powerful new features Kony has in store for MobileFabric in fall 2014.

The end of 2014 is coming soon, and Kony plans to end the year with a bang. Across the board, the Kony product portfolio has radically expanded with new products and major game-changing updates to current industry leading products. Kony Management solution is no exception; the Kony fall release sees significant new product offerings and features for enterprise mobility management.

Last week marked an exciting milestone at Kony. Gartner published its annual 2014 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms, and Kony was named a Leader for the second year in a row.

There has been a lot of buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) lately, starting with Google’s purchase of Nest and including Facebook’s purchase of Oculus, Apple’s Carplay/Smart watch, and more. These companies are at the leading edge of a growing phenomenon. Various research has predicted that there will be nearly 50 billion devices by 2020 with a business value close to $1T. I am personally very intrigued by the opportunities presented by IoT, especially in the insurance space as well as the healthcare market (you can follow my frequent thoughts on IoT in my social media page.)

Mobile insurance is a table stakes game: Insurance companies need to have it as part of their mobile strategy. But what does it take to get there? How can we improve customer satisfaction as well as the efficiency of insurance agents? How can we capitalize on this mobile opportunity for insurance?