Venerable Analyst to Help Appcelerator’s Enterprise Customers Scale their Mobile Initiatives

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – JANUARY 25, 2012 – Appcelerator®, the leading mobile platform company, today announced former Gartner analyst Michael King has joined the Appcelerator team as principal mobile strategist. A recognized authority in mobile, King will help Appcelerator’s more than 1,000 global customers to scale their mobile strategy using Appcelerator’s cross-platform solution.

“The majority of enterprises are still in the early days of developing a complete mobile strategy, which leverages cloud services and device capabilities to deliver employees and customers a rich cross-platform app experience,” said Michael King. “As someone who has spent the past 17 years specializing in mobile enterprise strategy, I am thrilled to bring this expertise to Appcelerator to help our clients build an end-to-end mobile strategy that transforms their customer relationships and empowers their mobile workforce.” 

In addition to helping Appcelerator’s enterprise customers define and implement their mobile strategies, King will help guide the company’s internal product strategy, ensuring Appcelerator’s Titanium platform and integrated services meet the highest standards for building intuitive, cloud-connected content-rich applications for mobile, tablet and desktop platforms. He will also provide strategic sales support, partner enablement, as well as market research/analysis and product evangelism.

An IT industry veteran, King spent the past 11 years at Gartner, most recently as research director, where he managed all U.S.-based wireless data research, specializing in mobile enterprise strategy. He has authored Gartner’s Magic Quadrants for MCAP (Mobile Consumer Application Platforms) and MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms) since their creation, as well as the Magic Quadrants for Wireless LAN, U.S. Wireless Carriers, and the Packaged Mobile Applications Market Scope. King is also a frequent speaker on mobile, app development and enterprise technologies at influential industry conferences. Prior to Gartner, King held marketing and research positions at Neopoint and META Group.

“We are delighted that Appcelerator’s customers can now benefit from Michael’s deep expertise in the mobile enterprise,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “As businesses seek to define how best to expand to various devices and to leverage mobility plus the cloud, Michael will ensure they do so in the smartest, most cost-effective, and most impactful way. We are delighted to have him on board to help ensure customer success as we broaden and deepen the capabilities of Appcelerator’s platform.”

Gartner projects over one billion smartphones and media tablets will be sold globally by 2015, forcing enterprises to define how to best deploy, secure, manage and support apps on these devices. According to Gartner, CIOs fully expect to support up to three mobile operating systems this year, with 20% of devices employee-owned. Further, Strategy Analytics predicts the mobile SaaS market is growing to $3.7 billion by 2016, (a five-year compound growth rate of 25.8%), with accelerated SaaS adoption in the corporate business environment driven by the ability to integrate business applications on smartphones, tablets and other wireless devices.

Read King’s latest blog, “A CIO’s Top Five Mobility Questions” at http://appcel.us/8Fd9Q.

Join King as he hosts his first Appcelerator webinar, “Where Are You in Your Mobile Maturity, and Where Do You Want To Be?” at http://appcel.us/8FdJq.

About Appcelerator
Appcelerator is the leading mobile platform company for thousands of companies who are seizing the mobile opportunity with more than 35,000 applications on 40 million devices. Appcelerator’s Titanium Platform leverages over 5,000 mobile device and operating system capabilities to create native iOS and Android apps as well as HTML5 mobile web apps. Customers who standardize on the Titanium Platform get to market 70% faster and can quickly optimize mobile business results with analytics–driven insights into user behavior and app performance. The open and fully extensible Titanium Platform makes it easy to incorporate data, content and services from a variety of sources into mobile applications for best–of–breed capabilities. Appcelerator’s worldwide ecosystem includes 1.6M developers, and hundreds of ISVs and integration partners. Visit http://www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator Inc. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.

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Titanium Platform Finalist for Best Consumer Mobile Service and Best Cloud-based Technology

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – January 24, 2012 – Appcelerator ®, the leading mobile platform company, today announced GSMA has selected Appcelerator Titanium as a finalist for its Global Mobile Awards in both the Best Consumer Mobile Service and Best Cloud-based Technology categories. The awards recognize excellence, achievement and innovation in mobile communications, and winners will be announced at GSMA’s Mobile World Congress February 28th in Barcelona, Spain.

The Best Consumer Mobile Service award recognizes cross-platform, browser-based mobile web sites and mobile services for users in the areas of entertainment, as well as shopping, cloud-based storage and streaming services, messaging, location based services, mobile banking and more. The Best Cloud-Based Technology award recognizes an organization using cloud-based technologies to significantly change the mobile environment for GSM based service providers or end users. These should be innovative, smart solutions which improve the cost base for operators or provide new and enhanced services for users.

“Reflecting the intensity of competition and innovation across the mobile ecosystem, we saw a record 600 entries and an exceptionally high quality field of contenders vying for this year’s Global Mobile Awards,” said Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer, GSMA. “It is a significant achievement to have made the shortlist, and our warmest congratulations go to all the nominees announced today. We look forward to the unveiling of the winners at the Mobile World Congress next month.”

Appcelerator’s Titanium Integrated Mobile Platform is an open-source, JavaScript-based platform that enables companies of any size to quickly create rich, cloud-connected, cross-platform mobile applications using their existing Web development teams. The fully extensible Titanium Platform leverages over 5,000 native features for creating native iOS and Android apps as well as HTML5 mobile web apps.

“We are delighted that GSMA has recognized Appcelerator as an innovator and leader in the mobile development space,” said Jeff Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator. “As companies look to extend their mobile strategy, it’s integral that they be able to seamlessly develop cross-platform apps that integrate with the cloud and third-party solutions. Appcelerator is proud to help some of the world’s leading brands succeed in developing the next generation of mobile applications.”

About Appcelerator

Appcelerator is the leading mobile platform company for thousands of companies who are seizing the mobile opportunity with more than 35,000 applications on 40 million devices.  Appcelerator’s Titanium Platform leverages over 5,000 mobile device and operating system capabilities to create native iOS and Android apps as well as HTML5 mobile web apps.  Customers who standardize on the Titanium Platform get to market 70% faster and can quickly optimize mobile business results with analytics–driven insights into user behavior and app performance.  The open and fully extensible Titanium Platform makes it easy to incorporate data, content and services from a variety of sources into mobile applications for best–of–breed capabilities.  Appcelerator’s worldwide ecosystem includes 1.6M developers, and hundreds of ISVs and integration partners.  Visit http://www.appcelerator.com.

About the GSMA

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning 219 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as the Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Congress.

About the GSMA’s Global Mobile Awards

The Global Mobile Awards is the most highly sought after awards in the global communications industry. Established in 1996, the Awards attract entries from across the world and are judged by a panel of independent, highly respected experts. They are presented at the Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry’s annual gathering of around 60,000 senior industry leaders, executives, media, analysts and influencers.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator Inc. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.

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Company Adds Geographic and Executive Breadth to Empower Customers to Scale their Mobile Strategies Worldwide

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – January 19, 2012 – Appcelerator®, the leading open platform provider for rapid and rich mobile innovation, today announced the opening of its EMEA headquarters in London and expansion of its management team to support the company’s accelerating growth.

EMEA Headquarters Leads Global Expansion

The European mobile app market is experiencing explosive growth, expected to grow from $1.2 billion in 2009 to $8.4 billion by 2015. In addition, U.K., Spain, Italy, Germany and France are expected to drive mobile ad revenue to more than a billion dollars by 2014, and almost $2 billion by 2016. Appcelerator has experienced this growing regional demand as well, increasing its user base by more than 110% over the last six months and landing significant customer wins throughout Western Europe.

Appcelerator announced the opening of its EMEA headquarters in London, U.K., and the appointment of Doug Norton-Bilsby as Vice President and Managing Director of EMEA. In this position, Doug will lead Appcelerator’s sales and operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, rapidly expanding a core team for sales and delivery in the region.

Doug comes to Appcelerator with vast multi-national experience taking several start-ups through hyper-growth cycles. Most recently, Doug headed EMEA and India sales and marketing Experian. Prior to that, Doug was Vice President, International for Endeca, where he wasresponsible for sales, marketing, telesales, sales engineering, business and channel development contributing significantly to their global growth, and Vice President of EMEA at Infor which during his tenure grew from $100 million in annual revenue to $2.6 billion. Doug has also held various sales positions at Cognos, Thomson Financial Software and Dun and Bradstreet. He is a graduate of Open University, with a post-graduate diploma in management, specializing in business.

Appcelerator Adds Vice Presidents of Engineering and Product Management

Carl Orthlieb joins Appcelerator as the new Vice President of Engineering, where he will be responsible for leading the development of Appcelerator’s integrated mobile platform products. Carl is a software engineering veteran, with 25 years of experience with mobile, desktop, enterprise and SaaS solutions, including 17 years at Adobe. Prior to Appcelerator, Carl was Vice President of Engineering, Product Portfolio Management at CA Technologies, and Director of Engineering at Pure Digital Technologies. He also served as Ariba’s Vice President of Applications Engineering. Carl has a Bachelor’s of Science in Systems Design from the University of Waterloo, and has completed advanced courses in project management and computer science at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.

Jo Ann Buckner comes on board as Vice President of Product Management, where she will oversee the company’s mobile platform strategy, planning and roadmap. Jo Ann has extensive experience driving revenue growth and customer success with mobile, SaaS and desktop businesses.  During Jo Ann’s 12 year tenure at Adobe, she was responsible for business model innovation on the $2 billion Creative Suite business and most recently served as Director of Product Management, Touch Tooling and Creative Cloud. In this position, Jo Ann defined the strategy and led the transformation of the creative workflow with mobile apps and cloud-based services. Prior to Adobe, Jo Ann was Vice President of Product Management and Development at Pointshare, now Siemens Medical. She also held product management positions at IDX Systems, now GE Healthcare and Precedent Systems. Jo Ann holds a B.A. in Economics from Gonzaga University.

“We are thrilled to add these seasoned technology executives to Appcelerator’s leadership team,” said Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator CEO and Co-Founder. “Appcelerator is experiencing 500% annual growth as enterprises look to expand and scale their mobile initiatives. These new team members have vast technology and leadership experience to ensure Appcelerator customers can transform their customer relationships and empower a mobile workforce with rich mobile apps.”

About Appcelerator
Appcelerator is the leading open platform provider for rapid and rich mobile innovation, powering more than 35,000 mobile applications reaching 40 million devices. Appcelerator’s Titanium Platform is used by over 1.6 million developers worldwide to create native iOS and Android apps as well as mobile websites.  Customers who standardize mobile initiatives on the Titanium Platform are able to get to market 75% faster than with native development.  The fully extensible Titanium Platform makes it easy to incorporate data, content and services from a variety of sources into mobile applications for best-of-breed and dynamic experiences. Visit www.appcelerator.com.

Appcelerator is a registered trademark of Appcelerator Inc.  Appcelerator Titanium is a trademark of Appcelerator Inc. All other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.

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