Convertigo
Convertigo, an independent software vendor operating in Europe and in the United States, is headquartered in Orsay, France. Operating principally in Europe and USA, the company does business from its office located in San Francisco. Convertigo currently employs twenty-five people.
Convertigo is a Open Source software vendor providing Mobile Enterprise Application Platform, Enterprise Mashup and Web Scraping technologies. Customers include, Carrefour, Darty, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Club Meditérannée and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
History
The company started in 2009 from existing assets of a company called Twinsoft founded in 1994 as a terminal emulator independent software vendor. The success of its Minitel emulator, Twintalk, gave it the means to invest more heavily in R&D. Twinsoft’s subsequent product, Carioca, would strengthen its presence on Minitel for years to come.
In 2009, Auriga Partners invested $4.5 million in Convertigo’s mashup platform, Convertigo.
In 2010, Convertigo launched the first Enterprise Mashup platform operating on the Cloud as stated in the "Le Monde" journal.
In 2011 Convertigo, decided to adopt an OpenSource Strategy and published Convertigo Community Edition on Sourceforge, therefore contributing to some open source projects such as GateIn with exo platform and Red Hat
In 2012, Convertigo seeing a significant growth rate for mobile projects, decided to enhance Convertigo Mashup platform to build the first Open Source Mobile enterprise application platform featuring server side mashup technology for back end integration.
Products
As one of the most complete mobile enterprise application platforms, Convertigo provides business developers with numerous tools to make the most of reusing existing IT assets to create new mobile composite applications displayed on mobile devices or portals. Among 'classic' SQL and web service connectors, Convertigo features powerful connectors such as the Web HTML connector and the Legacy Mainframe connector allowing to integrate applications to mobility even if they do not provide APIs.
Convertigo Studio
Convertigo Studio allows developers to create new composite mobile applications, from preexisting data and applications. Rewriting data takes time; developers can save both time and money in reusing the data and the applications that are already available to them. This is done in a non intrusive way, meaning Convertigo will not modify a company’s data sources or application.
Convertigo Server
Convertigo Server runs the mobile applications developed in Convertigo Studio. This server can read the majority of data sources and business applications, including HTML Web applications and Mainframe applications. Server handles security, deployment, executes additional business logic and orchestrates the different data source handled by the connectors.
Convertigo Cloud
Convertigo cloud provides all services needed for Enterprises to deploy mobile application and on a Secured and monitored Cloud "Mobile Platform as a Service" (MPaaS). Convertigo also runs on IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise and on Microsoft Azure
Convertigo Mobilizer
Convertigo Mobilizer is a MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) allowing developers to mobile enable business applications without the need to rewrite them. This solution allows developers to create a functional application on: iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry and other mobile devices connected to strategic back end business applications. Convertigo Mobilizer can connect and interact with business applications even if they do not provide APIs. See Convertigo Mobilizer MEAP
Community
Convertigo publishes the code of its core modules under the Affero GNU Public License
Partners
- i-Cubed
- Red Hat
- exo platform
- Sogeti
Competitors
Convertigo competitors are :
- Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms: Sybase Unwired Platform, Rhomobile, IBM Worklight
License
Convertigo uses the Affero GPL licence for the Convertigo Community Edition and the Convertigo Enterprise Licence for Convertigo Enterprise Edition and Convertigo Cloud Edition
External links
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