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If you are involved in the creation of business applications for companies or organizations, this article that Dan Bricklin, the co-inventor of the spreadsheet and Alpha's new CTO published yesterday makes for important reading.

 

Dan's article is especially relevant given the article in FORBES this week, highlights of which are shown below. The FORBES article confirms that there is a fundamental and huge shift going on in the world of business computing.

 

The implications for developers is that it is critical to be able to build business applications for mobile devices as well as making sure that these business applications will run also run on personal computers, macs and  ultrabooks/laptops (including touch enabled devices) 

 

It is for this reason, that at Alpha we have spent over 3 years working on ALPHA ANYWHERE which we announced last week.

 

ALPHA ANYWHERE -  powered by Alpha Five v12 - is the first complete environment for rapidly building and deploying powerful business applications that run on personal computers and mobile devices.

 

Alpha Anywhere is designed to give developers a real competitive advantage in this new era of pc plus mobile computing.

 

Also check out  this video plus this video  plus this video .
More examples and information is shown here. 

 

PS. If you are an Alpha Customer, special upgrade pricing will be sent to you at the beginning of the week.

 
forbes
 
Forget Angry Birds - 
More Developers Are Making In-House Apps For Companies!
 
With more than 900,000 apps on Apple App store and 800,000+ on GooglePlay, it’s probably no surprise that mobile developers are now changing their focus from building apps for consumers, to companies and their staff.
 
What’s surprising is how significant the new demand is. A new survey shows a 43% increase in reports of developers creating apps for businesses and their employees in the second quarter of 2013, with some 63% reporting “increased” or “greatly increased” demand for enterprise apps in the past six months.
 
The services range from cafeteria apps that tell workers what food is on offer on any given day, to expense management apps and portals for finding customer information.
 
Larger corporations also tend to require a broad range of staff apps, which vastly outweigh their requirements for customers.
 
While a large brand like Kelloggs might have two or three consumer-facing apps, they might need 30-50 for their employees, or in the case of a company like Genentech, upwards of 100, [Genentech] expect to have 500 employee-facing apps by 2015,” .
 
Sincerely
Richard Rabins
Alpha Software Corporation