Sencha Selected by AlwaysOn As An OnMobile Top 100 Winner
HTML5 mobile Web app development framework pioneer recognized for creating new opportunities in mobile technology.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.: Sencha, the leading provider of HTML5 frameworks and tools for desktop and mobile application developers, has been has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMobile Top 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnMobile 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and recognition that Sencha’s game-changing technologies are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. Sencha was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
Sencha and other OnMobile Top 100 companies will be honored on June 13th, 2012 at AlwaysOn’s OnMobile event, co-presented with OnMobile Global Ltd., held at The Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California. This two-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on how the top emerging mobile companies are creating new business opportunities in the hot, high-growth mobile market.
“With the quickly maturing mobile market, opportunities are opening up almost faster than entrepreneurs can respond. There is no question that mobile is becoming the new norm, with smartphone and tablet penetration increasing exponentially in both consumer and business environments. App developers are bringing their disruptive skills to the corporate and enterprise world as well, giving scope and purpose to mobile users in the business world,” says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “This explosive market is being driven in large part by the companies that made this year’s OnMobile Top 100 list. We congratulate the OnMobile 100, companies that our editors believe represent some of the highest-growth opportunities in today’s private company marketplace.”
The OnMobile 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders. The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2012 list. A full list of all the OnMobile Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website.
“We are honored to be recognized by AlwaysOn, and to be invited to participate at the OnMobile event,” said Michael Mullany, CEO of Sencha. “Events such as OnMobile provide a much-needed forum for exploring the pressing issues and opportunities that confront enterprises, marketers and mobile developers, and offer a terrific venue for connecting with customers, investors, and local talent.”
Enterprise and mobile developers converge on HTML5 and Sencha “open Web” technologies
As HTML5 increasingly becomes the accepted basis for next-generation applications, Sencha has experienced record growth in its developer community, with over 350,000 community members now registered and a global developer base of more than 2 million developers in 201 countries. Mobile developers lead the growth in adoption of Sencha technologies, with downloads of Sencha Touch, the Sencha framework for mobile HTML5, now approaching one million — adding to the nearly five million combined downloads of Sencha technologies.
At the same time, business application developers, looking for a way to transition from legacy technologies, have also migrated to Sencha. Top interactive agencies and development houses such as Universal Mind and Burrows (a Young and Rubicam Group company) are using Sencha Ext JS and Sencha Touch as the foundation for their projects.
Sencha was recently identified as a Visionary in the 2012 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms
About AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen Silicon Valley, and GoingGreen East. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.
