What if you could build out your next generation mobile cloud at a fraction of the time and cost,using the development resources you already have, with lower risk, that can reliably scale with your user adoption?
Appcelerator Cloud Service(ACS) is a cloud based service that offers a fast and easy way to build connected mobile applications. Just like SaaS offerings provide ready-to-use applications over the cloud without installing any software, ACS o!ers ready-to-use services that can be consumed by the mobile apps in a similar manner. ACS also shields you from managing server hardware and storage or dealing with virtualization and networking.
ACS also provides numerous other benefits:
1. Library of pre-built, commonly used services
These proven, robust services provide commonly used mobile application services which reduce both integration time and risk, while enabling you to build your next generation apps.
Popular services include:
-User Management – which allows the application to create usernames and passwords, authenticate users on login and manage sessions
-Push Notifications – which enables the delivery of popups and messages to different users
-Check-Ins and Status Updates – which allows users to associate a time and place with information such as a photo or comment
-Photos – which enables the uploading of photos and the automatically resized delivery to devices
-Custom Objects – which facilitates the creation and management of your own custom objects (e.g product, SKU, car, etc.) along with attributes which can be stored and queried
-Social integration – which helps you connect your users with popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
-Access Control – which provides fine-grained control over which app users can read and write data stored in the cloud.
2. Client-side APIs for any development platform
All API services are exposed (and fully documented) via a REST API and SDKs for iOS, Android, and JavaScript, making the invocation quick and easy from the client-side, regardless of the underlying mobile platforms. This allows organizations to take advantage of the more pervasive skill sets of web and native application developers rather than the less common and more expensive server-side developers.Although you can use ACS with any mobile development platform, you can realize significant benefits by using Titanium Studio, including:
-Richer application functionality due to the 5,000 APIs and Marketplace modules.
-Increased productivity due to a single environment for both client development and
backend services.
-Reduced cost of development by leveraging common JavaScript skills.
-Reduced training and support costs.
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. Extensibility, to build your own custom services for all your mobile apps
. Extensibility, to build your own custom services for all your mobile apps
There will likely be instances where you need your own custom services, for example to access your internal corporate enterprise systems and data sources. ACS provides you with the ability to easily create these services. Once created, they act like any of the pre-built services and are consumed in exactly the same way as detailed above.Tailored extensions can be built that are industry specific (e.g., telco, finance, insurance, government, travel) or technology specific (e.g. security, ERP/CRM).Since these capabilities are enabled via Node.js,development of the services is done using JavaScript, one of the world’s most popular programming languages. Using Titanium Studio therefore provides users with a unified mobile development environment for both the client side apps as well as the backend cloud services, which o!ers significant benefits regardingproductivity, skillset re-use and training time.
4. Elastic scale to support user adoption
ACS automatically distributes the load from the mobile application tra”c to ensure a highly elastic environment. As your user adoption grows the back-end will transparently ensure the right amount of resource are allocated.
5. Flexible delivery models
ACS can be consumed in a variety of ways depending on your organization’s desired level of security and control.
-ACS Public Cloud: The back-end is hosted and managed by Appcelerator in the cloud
-ACS Virtual Private Cloud: The back-end is hosted and managed by Appcelerator in the cloud, but with dedicated infrastructure and VPN access for increased security and control
-ACS Private Cloud: The back-end is hosted and managed on your premises or data center, for maximum control and access to local data sources.
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