Kapow Mobile Katalyst:
Overview
Kapow Mobile Katalyst™
Introducing a revolutionary solution for rapidly extending business applications to mobile platforms
With traditional methods of application mobilization, projects can take years, cost millions – and often end up being abandoned. Kapow Mobile Katalyst changes the game, enabling you to mobilize any business app as much as 10x faster and 90% cheaper.
Kapow Mobile Katalyst enables the rapid mobilization of existing packaged or proprietary business applications, whether they have APIs or not. It is built on Kapow Katalyst™, the leading enterprise cloud and application integration platform proven and trusted by more than 500 customers. The unique power of Kapow Katalyst is the ability to extract, transform, integrate and migrate data without requiring application programming interfaces (APIs). This enables you to perform enterprise mobilization projects with Kapow Mobile Katalyst, fast, easily, cost-effectively. Projects that were once abandoned as too lengthy, expensive and disruptive now can go from idea to launch 10x faster and 90% cheaper with Kapow Software.
Fast track to mobility as a competitive advantage
The world is going mobile – in fact, nearly 80% of us are already there, using over 5.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions globally. Business is behind the curve on this one, according to Forrester: "A majority of companies either do not have a mobile strategy or are only just starting to build one. Forrester believes that they must integrate mobile as part of their overall corporate strategy as a matter of some urgency."1
One of the hold-ups for business is the huge challenge of mobilizing existing apps, especially ones that have been around a while, were modified over time, and now have no "mobile ready" web service API. The problem is that most business apps lack APIs that expose the data and business logic you want to deliver to mobile devices. Adding a service-level interface to a legacy app is a complex development project requiring an extensive rewrite – including years of planning, coding, testing, spending, disrupting and, too often, abandoning. Kapow Mobile Katalyst changes the game by letting you repurpose existing apps as mobile apps, leaving the underlying systems untouched.
The picture illustrates the challenge. Just to be clear, we are not a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP). MEAPs are development frameworks to create the front-end for mobile apps for specific handsets and OSes. But first, before that can happen, you need to solve for "X". The red X represents the data and functionality from the existing app that you want to provide in real time to mobile users. How do you get that out of the old app and ready to be tailored for the front end to the appropriate mobile form factor? That's the sticking point with traditional approaches when there's no API. Enter Kapow Software.
With Kapow Mobile Katalyst, essentially, you create a new web service interface "wrapper" without re-writing any of the existing code. The solution combines an application integration platform, a visual flow-chart development environment, a purpose-built integration browser and a collaboration platform to give you easy-to-use tools for extending any existing B2E and B2C business application to the mobile platform. With Kapow, instead of writing APIs you visually build flow-charts and data mappings to control the app's business logic through its existing web interface, then deploy the mobilized app with one click into a production environment. Projects that took months or years are now possible in weeks or days.
For example, Pearson, the world's leading education company, thought it would take one to two years to mobile-enable its websites for students, with an unsustainable budget and significant disruption to existing websites. Thanks to Kapow Software, Pearson completed the project in two weeks.
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1 Thomas Husson and Julie A. Ask, "2011 Mobile Trends," Forrester, January 24. 2011.