Kony, Inc.

Kony
Private
Industry Software
Founded 2007
Founder Raj Koneru
Headquarters Austin, Texas (United States)
Key people
 Thomas E. Hogan, CEO
Website http://www.kony.com

Kony is a mobile application development platform for building mobile, tablet, desktop, and kiosk applications. Kony is one of several platform supports that developers can use to build mobile applications for consumers and enterprises. Kony is headquartered in Austin, Texas and has offices in the United States, Australia, Hong Kong, London, Germany and the Netherlands.[1] Its development center is located in Hyderabad.

The Company

Kony, Inc. is an American multinational technology software and services corporation, with headquarters in Austin, TX. Kony provides a cloud-based mobile application development software for the enterprise that spans across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The Kony Mobility Platform allows organizations to define, design, develop, deploy and manage multi-channel applications from a single code base. In addition, Kony has “Ready-to-Run” applications for consumer and employee users. Kony also offers an industry-leading MBaaS (Mobile Backend as a Service) solution that is front-end UI design agnostic.

Currently, Kony has over 350 customers worldwide and has been recognized as a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platform in 2013[2] and in 2014.[3]

History

Founded in San Mateo, California on January 1, 2007 by BITS, Pilani Alumnus and past CEO/Co-founder of Intelligroup, Raj Koneru. The company released its first product, the KonyOne Platform in 2009. In 2012,[4] it acquired Australian SAP consulting company Sky Technologies.[5] In May 2014, Kony announced its latest round of funding, $50 million.[6] Investors in the company include Softbank Capital, Hamilton Lane, Insight Venture Partners, Georgian Partners, Delta-v Capital and Telstra Ventures.

Products

Kony Mobility Platform

The platform is used by developers to write, deploy and manage mobile applications for native and web channels (also known as multi-channel app development). Kony supports iOS, Google Android, HTML5, Windows and Blackberry. Support for Blackberry 10[7] was announced in Feb 2013, support for Windows 8 in October 2012,[8] support for Apple iOS 6, iPhone 5 and Passbook in September 2012.[9]

Kony has been integrated with native platform SDKs to execute natively across devices. The run-time consists of a Mobile App Server, and a virtual machine that implements the scripting language (JavaScript) used by Kony, coupled with the library for each device platform – BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Java, Symbian, and browser clients.[10]

In June 2012,[11] Kony added JavaScript support to its platform, to allow development of both native and mobile web applications.

Kony Visualizer

Kony Visualizer allows users to immediately create click-through preview apps without manual software coding, and instantly view, publish and share the app preview on mobile phones, tablets and other mobile devices via the Kony Visualizer cloud collaboration services. Using rapid iterative design and development, Kony Visualizer reduces the effort related to app design and user experience testing, helping to quickly gain satisfactory approvals from business stakeholders. In addition, Kony Visualizer provides a seamless collaborative cloud environment for real-time feedback and iteration.[12]

Kony Studio

Kony Studio is a powerful development environment for building applications across various devices. Kony Studio's IDE software offers a wide range of features to help you build no-compromise native, web, and hybrid apps for phones, tablets, desktops, and the Internet of Things from a single code base.[13]

Kony MobileFabric

Kony MobileFabric is a pre-built back-end services for identity, integration, orchestration, messaging and location services (MBaaS). It also provides offline sync capabilities, along with full platform as-a-service productivity through seamless elastic provisioning, monitoring and analytics. The cloud-based platform ensures there are no delays in setup with instant elastic provisioning of not just back-end services, but also the full app platform environment. Kony MobileFabric also provides open Native and Multi-platform support, and integrates through open RESTful APIs with major mobile app development tools and frameworks. This includes support via a set of downloadable Software Development Kit’s for native iOS and Android, JavaScript and PhoneGap development.[14]

Kony Sales

Kony Sales is a “Ready-to-Run” mobile-first enterprise sales app that provides sales professionals with real-time information to manage sales opportunities, accelerate pipeline activity, provide visibility into account activity throughout the sales cycle, and measure performance via analytics. Because Kony Sales is model driven it is configurable and adaptable to meet specific sales requirements and business process, and it is pre-connected to back-end systems so it gives users access anytime, anywhere to business data from any multi-channel device.[15]

Kony Modeler

Kony Modeler is a visual toolset that can be used directly by business analysts to assemble and configure mobile-first apps from reusable, lightweight app models. This is a “no source code” solution that allows the business to directly build executable models of their application, which can be immediately deployed and updated via the cloud to end-users, and run on Apple or Android phones and tablets.

Kony Marketplace

Kony Marketplace is an online exchange allowing business users to use pre-built components from Kony and Kony’s partner ecosystem. Users can discover “Ready-to-Run” apps and app models that can be reused and assembled (using Kony Modeler) from Kony and its ISV and partner network.

Kony Management

Kony Management enables enterprises to manage mobile apps, devices, and content for BYOD or enterprise-owned programs with enterprise mobility management (EMM).[16]

Technologies supported

Native apps

Native applications are often the best choice for apps that require access to device-specific capabilities such as GPS, camera, address book, etc.

Mobile Web

Mixed mode

A version of a native application where some of the forms may be native or web based to take advantage of the best of both native and mobile web deployments.

Hybrid

An approach that embeds HTML5 within a native container and leverages the functionality of the browser to display and process the code locally on the device.

Awards & Recognition

Funding

On January 12, 2011 Kony Solutions (Kony,Inc) announced that it has secured $19.1 million in Series A financing from Insight Venture Partner.[24] In May 2014, Kony announced its latest round of funding, $50 million.[25] Investors in the company include Softbank Capital, Hamilton Lane, Insight Venture Partners, Georgian Partners, Delta-v Capital and Telstra Ventures.

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.kony.com/about/locations
  2. ↑ Wire, CMS. "IBM, SAP + Adobe Lead in Gartner MQ for Mobile Apps Development". Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  3. ↑ Beat, Venture. "Kony Named A Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms". Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  4. ↑ "Kony Solutions Acquires Australia-Based Sky Technologies". Finovate. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
  5. ↑ Benedict, Kevin. "Kony Solutions Acquires Long Time SAP Mobility Partner Sky Technologies". MobileEnterpriseStrategies. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
  6. ↑ Beat, Venture. "Kony Secures $50 Million Round". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  7. ↑ Marsh, Chris. "Kony Solutions Provides Support for BlackBerry 10". Mobile Application and Cloud Strategies. Yankee Group. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
  8. ↑ "Kony Announces Support for Windows 8 Operating System". Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Retrieved 25 October 2012.
  9. ↑ "Kony Offers Complete Support for Apple iOS 6, iPhone 5 and Passbook". Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Retrieved 12 Sep 2012.
  10. ↑ Pimple, Sayali. "What is Kony Mobility Platform ? Their Products?". Enterprise Mobility Blog. enterprisemobilityblog.com. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
  11. ↑ "Kony Renews Commitment to Open Standards and Web Technologies With Version 5.0 of KonyOne Platform". Reuters. Reuters.com.
  12. ↑ "Kony Visualizer". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  13. ↑ "Kony Studio". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  14. ↑ "Kony MobileFabric". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  15. ↑ "Kony Mobile Sales Suite". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  16. ↑ "Kony Management". Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  17. ↑ "2011 Mobile Star Awards™ Winners". Mobile Village.
  18. ↑ "2012 Mobile Star Awards™ Winners". Mobile Village.
  19. ↑ "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms". Gartner. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  20. ↑ "2013 Top 100 North America: Winners". Red Herring.
  21. ↑ "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms". Gartner. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
  22. ↑ "CTIA Announces 2014 MobITs Awards Winners". CTIA. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
  23. ↑ Beat, Venture. "Kony Named a Leader by Ovum for Mobile Application Development Platforms". Retrieved March 18, 2015.
  24. ↑ Wauters, Robin. "Kony Solutions Raises $19.1 Million For Mobile Application Platform". Techcrunch. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  25. ↑ Beat, Venture. "Kony Secures $50 Million Round". Retrieved 17 June 2014.
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