During the last year I worked almost exclusively on this. Kidozen, the world’s best cloud-based platform for building mobile applications with enterprise capabilities.

Now, after a very successful private beta period we are announcing public availability. I’ll go deeper on what kidozen is and why is the world’s best cloud-based enterprise mobility platform, but I’d like to start talking about the experience of building this amazing product.

First of all I have to say that this is the kind of product in which I always wanted to work on. Why? Well, first because Kidozen is a platform for developers: APIs, SDKs, services and tools that developers will use, and second because is cloud-based and cloud computing is one of my favorite topics. Also, as you can imagine, build a whole cloud-based platform requires a lot of engineering work which was very interesting and enriching to do.

Kidozen’s core was built using Node.js and a bunch of cloud services, so you can imagine how “cloud” is it’s spirit. We built the whole platform from scratch, it took a lot of effort and it could only have been done by a talented team like the Tellago Studios team. At this point I want to thank to the whole team: Gustavo, Silvio, Christian, Soledad, Jose (that is not here anymore but devoted a lot of effort to the project and put in place many of the cornerstones of it) and Jesus (the man with the vision) for the tremendous talent, the passion, the work over nights and basically for let me share with them this amazing experience that was building Kidozen.

What is Kidozen?

Imagine that you are a company that needs to build mobile applications for your employees or your customers. You will need to resolve things like data storage, logging, notifications, configuration etc. You also will need to resolve how to secure your data, maybe using your company directory credentials, Active Directory for example,  outside of the boundaries of your company or your Google Apps account. And what about distribute those apps? and manage them?. Well, Kidozen is here to solve all those problems for you.

Now, I’ve said that Kidozen is the world’s best cloud-based platform for doing enterprise mobility, why? because Kidozen not only provides data storage, push notifications, messaging, sms, email, configuration, logging, queues and many other backend services in a simple and secure way, it also provides an standard way of build, manage and distribute you company mobile applications.

We give you an app-centric model in which you have all those services isolated and ready to use with a single line of code, in a secure way using your company credentials (Active Directory) or web providers like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc…

We also provide a marketplace for your company that allows you to centralize the distribution of your applications, a management portal where you can create, manage, configure and publish your applications and SDKs for all the popular mobile platforms: Windows 8, iOS, Android and we also have a JavaScript SDK and hosting for HTML5 applications.

Why is the best one for developers? let me say it in this way, this is all the code you need to authenticate your Android users against your company AD, outside of your LAN:

And this is all the code you need, to authenticate against your partner AD in the same application:

Or this is all the code you need to send push notifications trough all your iPhones or iPads:

Did you get that? It is really simple but at the same time powerful.

Why is the best one for architects? Because it provides a simple, unified and standard way of building all you company applications, the final result is more maintainable and standardized applications.

Why is the best one for managers? Because now, with Kidozen, you can apply all your workforce in to build feature-rich business applications without having to spend time in to solve technical problems.

So that is Kidozen, our way of democratize enterprise mobile applications development. Give it a try!

Next steps

We are already working on the next version of Kidozen, expanding one of our key features “Line of Business APIs”, with this feature you will be able of integrate your on-premise services with your mobile applications in a secure way, with a single line of code.

If you want more information about kidozen don’t hesitate in to contact us!