Presented at the App Conference, October 2012

1. Cloud Services for App
Developers
AppConference / GMIC
October 18, 2012
11am, Winchester room

2.  Steve Guengerich, Co-founder and VP -
Appconomy, Inc.
 Steven Citron-Pousty, Developer
Evangelist - Red Hat
 Alan Knitowski, Chairman and CEO -
phunware
 David McLauchlan, Co-founder and CEO -
Buddy.com
Today’s Speakers

3. A computing platform allows you and
others to accomplish the following less
expensively than if they did it on their own:
 Continuously gain new customers
 Introduce new services
 Integrate with other services (and allow
them to integrate with you)
◦ in reliable, predictable ways
◦ usually via 1 or more APIs
What *is* a “platform?”

4. Lions & tigers & platforms, oh my...

5. Social, local, mobile …& global

6.  cross platform nuances
 data storage
 user management and authentication,
 push notifications
 analytics
 …and much more
A smorgasbord of issues

7. Kind of like Amazon, right? Nope.

12. WHITE CROSS CLOUD
LABEL PLATFORM SERVICE
10,000+ developers building apps for mobile, desktop, SmartTVs, tablets, cars, etc…

14. CUSTOMERS
FORTUNE 1000 PROFESSIONAL
& AGENCIES DEVELOPMENT
By building their apps using
STUDIOS
Buddy, corporates/agencies get Buddy helps professional
best-in-class marketing data on developers build better apps faster
app usage. & cheaper.
PARTNERS
SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY
INTEGRATORS PROVIDERS & OEMs
Buddy is a white label toolset Buddy drives usage of (and adds
ideal for system integrators to value to) data infrastructure
sell-in. products.

15. How to reach us, via twitter:
 SteveG: @sguengerich
 StevenC-P: @TheSteve0  zero, not “O”
 Alan: @alanknit
 Dave: @DaveMacMS
Questions anyone?