MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwired) — 08/22/13 — the leading mobile platform company, announced today that it has acquired Singly, a Silicon Valley innovator in API integration management. The acquisition bolsters Appcelerator-s capabilities for opening data sources to make them readily consumable by mobile apps running on any device.
“APIs are the lifeblood of mobility, giving developers access to the data and services needed to build amazing apps,” explained Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “With Singly-s API integration management joined to the Appcelerator product line, customers can much more easily unlock public and enterprise data sources, making available a rich layer of services on which to build transformative native apps that run on any device.”
To access data sources and services, mobile apps require a different programming interface than traditional web applications. Mobile APIs must deliver payloads optimized for consumption on smaller screens, and must translate traditional interface formats such as XML into modern ones such as JSON. Battery and bandwidth considerations drive the need for rate limiting as well.
Singly-s chief aim is delivering data portability for mobile. The company-s DataFabric product normalizes data on behalf of the apps it serves, functioning as an abstraction layer for a large number of APIs, including LinkedIn, Yammer, PayPal, DropBox, Google Calendar, Facebook, Twitter and many others. This abstraction layer also shields developers from having to adjust their apps every time something changes in one of these underlying APIs. Singly also provides a palette of pre-built API integrations, and will soon release an SDK so developers can easily develop their own. These capabilities, in conjunction with Appcelerator-s portfolio of pre-built mobile cloud services, dramatically reduce the time, complexity and cost of connecting apps to both public and private services and data sources.
“Bringing Singly-s API integration management into Appcelerator-s product line means great things for app builders of all types,” said Simon Murtha Smith, CEO and co-founder of Singly. “The combination allows mobile apps built with Appcelerator-s technology to connect even more seamlessly to an ever-increasing set of data sources. For Singly customers, Appcelerator-s resources mean greater support and scale, including the innovation energy of Appcelerator-s broad developer ecosystem.”
Appcelerator plans to integrate Singly capabilities across its product line by early 2014. This includes Titanium, the open source development environment adopted by nearly 500,000 mobile developers, and the Appcelerator Platform, which enables companies to build native mobile apps at the speed of web, mobilize any data source, and to drive success with real-time analytics — all from a single, cloud-based platform.
Appcelerator® offers the only platform built for a Mobile First world. The Appcelerator Platform enables enterprises to create, deliver and analyze their entire mobile application portfolio. With nearly 60,000 mobile applications deployed on over 150 million devices, the Appcelerator Platform helps enterprises accelerate their time to market and deliver exceptional mobile user experiences. Appcelerator also provides an award-winning open source mobile development environment, Titanium®. Appcelerator-s worldwide ecosystem includes more than 490,000 mobile developers and hundreds of ISVs and strategic partners, among them SAP, Cognizant and CSC. It is the mobile platform of choice for thousands of companies including eBay, Tui Travel, Merck, Mitsubishi Electric, ZipCar, and Pay-Pal. For more information, visit .
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