Kony Named “Cool Vendor” By Leading Analyst Firm

Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor” report are innovative, impactful and intriguing

Kony, the leading mobile application platform provider, today announced that the company has been included in the list of “Cool Vendors” in the Cool Vendors in Enterprise Mobility, 2011¹ report by Gartner, Inc. In the report, Gartner identified Kony as one of four companies at the forefront of helping organizations implement mobility initiatives.

The report outlines, “many new products and solutions promise to help organizations implementing mobility initiatives for employees and customers, which is getting more complex due to the consumerization of mobile devices and applications.” The report continues, “cross development platforms represent a new approach to deal with these complexities. Leveraging the application design and its single code base, the Kony Platform generates each client specific application, optimized for that channel and format whether that is a smartphone, mobile web browser, tablet, SMS, web gadget or kiosk. Kony’s capability to create native applications for more than 9,000 devices, operating systems and channels without compromising native features and functionality offers brands a unique opportunity to deepen the customer experience through the mobile medium.

‘Change Once, Change Everywhere’ ensures that any design change in message, flow, feature or design is simultaneously applied to the application across all extensible clients, achieving an effective, broad, and consistent mobile experience. In addition, Kony’s unique single application definition approach ensures faster adoption of new operating systems and standards as they are introduced, eliminating maintenance, upgrade and future development costs.

“Our team spent two years in dedicated development of the Kony Platform, ensuring our ‘Write Once, Run Everywhere’ technology was fully developed before bringing it to market,” explained Kony CEO Raj Koneru. “The results of this technology investment are remarkable. Many Fortune 500 brands have selected Kony for their mobile deployments. To date, nearly 70 percent of the U.S. airline industry has migrated to Kony and the largest financial institution in the world is deploying Kony in over 46 countries. Gartner naming Kony a ‘Cool Vendor’ is further reinforcement of the strength and viability of our technology.”

About Gartner’s Cool Vendors Selection Process
Gartner’s listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

¹Gartner “Cool Vendors in Enterprise Mobility, 2011” by Monica Basso, Nick Jones, William Clark, Brian Gammage, April 15, 2011.

About Kony
Kony enables enterprises to offer consumers and employees feature-rich mobile applications in less time and at lower costs than any other solution. Leveraging a single application definition, applications are designed and developed just once, in a device-independent manner, and deployed across multiple channels, including native applications, device-optimized mobile web, SMS, web gadgets, kiosks, and tablets without compromises. Kony’s unique platform is proven to future-proof a company’s mobile investment by enabling applications to be changed once for all channels, ensuring faster adoption of new operating systems and standards as they are introduced, while eliminating maintenance, upgrade and future development costs.

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