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ClickSoftware (News - Alert) Technologies, a provider of automated workforce management and optimization solutions, announced that it is going to launch the ClickAppStore for mobile business applications which will include hundreds of ready-to-use mobile business apps, and a unique integrated development environment (IDE).

ClickSoftware asserted that the IDE will simplify the IT professionals’ job to assemble business apps into end-user solutions via no-coding drag and drop wizards. The store is stated to offer means to create user interfaces that are effectively device agnostic and enable its applications to run on just about any tablet or smart-phone. The company asserted that the launch of the ClickAppStore is a natural extension of the growing number of system integrators and clients’ IT staff that have joined its own teams in using ClickAppStore tools to adapt, configure, or extend the 'out-of-the-box' functionality of the ClickSoftware’s own mobility products.

The ClickApp Store will consist of five elements. They are: Apps Repository – contains functional and technical mobile apps that can be deployed independently or in tandem with others to realize an end-to-end workflow for mobile business users; Starter Kits – full working solutions that are designed to bring down time-to-market, cost of ownership, and level of technical skills required; Mobility Studio – a visual IDE for assembling business apps into end-user solutions; Outsourcing Services – the right to use mobile implementers in performing mobile application development and deployment; and Advisory Services – app developers will have access to training, guidance, templates, and best practices to enhance their final product.

Officials with the company stated that utilizing ClickAppStore to develop and deploy business applications for the enterprise, companies will shorten time to market, reduce the level of technical skill required, and lower the cost of ownership due to the ease of adapting new functionality and new devices. ClickAppStore is the first ‘Do It Yourself’ store for developing and deploying mobile business solutions by IT staff with minimal technical skills.