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Evidently SAP’s (News - Alert) enterprise app development venture was moving too slow for Anirban Chakrabarti. He has built a team of software developers and entrepreneurs to launch AnyPresence, a very unique cloud-based platform for native mobile development that, if it performs as advertised, will significantly level the mobile playing-field.

Mobile development requires mastery of a wide variety of coding languages and deployment methods. Traditional software development benefits from a measure of universal standards by which virtually all deployment environments adhere. By comparison, mobile computing is the Wild West.

The relative youth of the mobile computing marketplace lends itself to a huge amount of variance in operating systems and hardware specifications. The result is that many existing IT systems are not presently mobile-enabled which makes them archaic as smartphones have become almost universal in most cooperate settings and tablet sales have far outpaced sales of netboooks.

AnyPresence has 2 primary goals:

• Dramatically accelerate time-to-market for customer (B2C) and employee-facing (B2E) mobile scenarios.
• Reduce mobile development and maintenance costs by assembling an app once and deploying it across multiple platforms including (but allegedly not limited to) iOS, Android (News - Alert), PC, MAC, SMS and Voice.

Additionally, AnyPresence is promising not to exclude non-smartphone mobile users by leveraging text messaging (SMS) and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions. The AnyPresence magic is in pre-fabricated template apps that are used to enable rapid, low-cost, self-service mobile development solutions.

In the case of custom business logic requirements, AnyPresence has committed to build any requested extensions to meet their customer’s needs. All of this happens with what AnyPresence calls, “zero-footprint” meaning their apps are 100 percent cloud-based and can be implemented without any installation.

While HTML5 is quickly becoming the benchmark technology for mobile web, solutions like AnyPresence are going to carry many corporations through the Wild West period of mobile computing and likely make a substantial profit while doing it. AnyPresence offers a wide range of services from training to custom development in addition to their self-service mobile app development.