Backend as a Service Blog company

Welcome to the world of contradictions. Today Kinvey released our first mobile app, but we are a platform company – not an app development company. Further, the app we released mobilizes data residing in Salesforce CRM™ systems, yet Salesforce.com itself just announced they are entering our space. Sometimes start-ups can seem unnecessarily confusing.

We are thrilled to introduce the Kinvey Enterprise Edition platform. Just as Kinvey allows individual and agency developers to rapidly prototype, publish and manage consumer apps, we are now bringing that same power to enterprise developers that are responsible for equipping an increasingly mobile workforce with powerful business apps. The new Kinvey platform allows enterprise developers to build and maintain secure mobile apps that can “mobilize” data from virtually any data source.

I’m very excited to be joining Kinvey. Even more so than the fact that I find the work interesting, and think that Kinvey is at the right time and place to be an important part of the future of mobile technology, I’m excited because of the nature of the company itself.

Undoubtedly, Kendall Square has a thriving startup tech scene. But what about Boston proper? How’s the “scene” in the “Hub”? Several up-and-coming neighborhoods in the heart of the city boast a vibrant tech scene. In fact, we’d argue it’s just as lively and flourishing as the neighborhood across the Charles. That’s why Kinvey just moved to Boston from Kendall Square. To celebrate Boston’s thriving startup scene, we’ve created a map that visualizes the locations of startups in the city’s various neighborhoods.

This week, Kinvey will be attending, exhibiting and speaking at Apps World North America. Apps World is two days of engagement, high level insight and discussion around one of the largest growing industries – mobile apps. Which, needless to say, is right up our alley. We can’t wait to meet developers and innovators with a shared passion for mobile apps and technology. Check out the top reasons we’re pumped to attend Apps World.

Just six months ago, the backend as a service (or BaaS) category was small and relatively unknown in the general tech community. Now, though not quite a household term, BaaS is gaining recognition thanks to lift in media / analyst coverage and a surge in new companies entering the space. Today we’re pleased to share the third version of our BaaS Ecosystem Map, complete with new entrances and new data points.

Since as long as I can remember, I’ve been interested in technology. My family got its first computer when I was five, and I’ve been looking to the future ever since. Back in a time when going online meant using a modem to dial a phone, and when the web was in its infancy, I was fascinated by what the future would hold as computers got smaller and more powerful, and wondered where the amazing pace of innovation would take us.

It’s that time of year again, folks. Holidays, eggnog, Santa hats, cookies, presents, etc. may come to mind for you. But for me, it’s that time of year to create a new holiday music video.

Our integration with Facebook, available today, is the first solution that enables all developers — even those without deep pockets or big teams — to connect their native mobile apps with Open Graph. If you are an individual developer or part of a dev shop, Kinvey is your ticket to Zuckerberg’s grand vision of “building an entirely new class of social apps.”

A few months ago, my friend and former HubSpot coworker Brian Whalley announced that he had begun work at Kinvey.  I curiously started to look into what kinds of problems Kinvey was solving, and found myself impressed, interested, and hungry to know more.  Brian introduced me to Sravish, Kinvey’s CEO, to have coffee and talk about the future. To make a long story short, today is my first day in the office at Kinvey, a freshly minted employee and new Client Services Manager, and I could not be more excited.