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New Relic provides developers within enterprise businesses with full-stack insights and tools to optimize the application development.
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New Relic empowers enterprise application developers with a comprehensive, data-driven approach to planning, building, deploying, and running software. Our unified data platform consolidates all telemetry data, offering robust full-stack analysis tools that provide deep insights into every stage of the development lifecycle. Designed for large-scale operations, New Relic helps identify and resolve issues swiftly, ensuring optimal performance and enhancing reliability. Streamline workflows and uncover the underlying causes of problems, enabling continuous improvement and innovation. With New Relic, deliver exceptional customer experiences, accelerate development cycles, and drive growth with unmatched capabilities tailored for enterprise application development.
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NXT1 LaunchIT is the developer’s platform to build and operate secure SaaS. Go from code to published SaaS in just 15 minutes.
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NXT1 LaunchIT is the developer’s platform to build and operate secure SaaS, enabling instant availability by automating cloud infrastructure management – simply code and deploy. LaunchIT is Secure by Design, providing a direct path to FedRAMP-compliance readiness at a fraction of the traditional time and cost required – out of the box.
Built on Zero Trust principles, with integrated CI/CD management, multi-account and multi-region support, comprehensive performance management and observability, full ecommerce support, and GitHub integration, LaunchIT accelerates time to revenue for technology startups, legacy application migrations, enterprise expansions, systems integrations, and independent software development.
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Designed to maximize productivity, IntelliJ IDEA is a full-featured IDE for Java and Kotlin development
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IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE, is designed for productive Java and Kotlin development. IntelliJ IDEA helps you stay productive with a suite of features for efficient development, such as intelligent coding assistance, reliable refactorings, instant code navigation, built-in developer tools, web and enterprise development support, and much more.
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Fast and powerful cross-platform .NET IDE, that also offers the ultimate game development toolset for Unity and Unreal Engine.
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Rider is a powerful .NET IDE that also offers the ultimate game development toolset for Unity, Unreal Engine, and more. Based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper, Rider empowers you to deliver quality code faster than ever by providing tons of intelligent code-editing features for most languages used in .NET development: C#, F#, Razor/Blazor syntax, JavaScript, TypeScript, XAML, HTML, CSS, and SQL. It is cross-platform, so you get the same development experience on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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Zoho Creator is a low code application development software that helps you build custom, mobile-ready business apps 10X faster.
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Zoho Creator is a low-code application development software platform that enables you to create custom applications through visual development. With Creator, you can collect data, automate business processes or workflows, visualize data, and even integrate with other external applications without worrying about IT-related challenges like maintenance, hosting, and scalability.
Currently, 13,000+ customers have built 6M+ applications on Zoho Creator, a testimony to the power of the platform.
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X-Analysis is an Application Discovery and Understanding tool used to manage RPG, COBOL, and CA 2E Synon applications on IBM i.
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X-Analysis is an IBM i analysis and productivity tool that provides capabilities to maximize the value from RPG, COBOL, and CA 2E Synon applications. It offers a comprehensive set of tools to fully manage your IBM i applications. X-Analysis extracts metadata from your objects and source code in order to graphically visualize dependencies in your application. The diagrams in X-Analysis dramatically reduce the time required to understand an application and are useful in every step of your software development lifecycle. X-Analysis will provide you the insight and confidence needed to accelerate modernization or onboard new developers to your team. Key features include automated documentation, impact analysis, data model extraction, design and quality metrics, business rule extraction, business process mapping, as well as automated code and database conversion. The suite helps companies manage, understand, and evolve IBM i applications while aligning IT with business needs.
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JSON and XML development environment for modeling, editing, debugging, and transforming all JSON and XML technologies.
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JSON and XML development environment for modeling, editing, debugging, and transforming all JSON and XML technologies.
XMLSpy is AI-ready with a built in AI Assistant to enhance developer productivity and creativity.
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The easiest way to build custom portals and tools with your data— just a few clicks, no coding required
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Softr.io lets you create client portals and internal tools for your business in minutes, without code.
Use Softr with your favorite data sources: Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot and SmartSuite.
Softr combines the simplicity of no-code with powerful features. Collaborate with your colleagues, collect payments, create memberships, or add your custom code!
Join more than 400,000 teams building portals for their clients or partners, employee intranets, project management tools, dashboards, CRMs, and many more.
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Thinfinity Virtual UI is a web-enabling SDK to turn your proprietary Windows applications into web apps without recoding.
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With Thinfinity Virtual UI, you can take your proprietary desktop app to the web in minutes without recoding. Just add a single line of code and keep all your existing functionalities intact. You'll be able to integrate your application with native web resources to join the cloud world without losing the functionality that made your app great in the first place.
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OutSystems is a high-performance low-code platform that achieves serious productivity, creating serious apps with continuous innovation
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OutSystems is a high-performance low-code platform that achieves serious productivity, creating serious apps with continuous innovation. Visual development tools and automation powered by AI help customers tackle strategic challenges such as application modernization, workplace innovation, business process automation, and customer experience transformation. OutSystems ensures that solutions are secure, resilient, cloud-ready, and built to scale.
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A no-code platform that helps businesses transform their Excel spreadsheets into web applications with no IT support.
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SpreadsheetWeb is a no-code platform that helps businesses translate their collective Excel expertise into robust web applications, empowering them to create secure, responsive, database-driven applications directly from their spreadsheets. This provides companies with a higher level of governance for critical information and combined with built-in workflow and reporting capabilities offers an end-to-end platform for business users seeking to create and manage their own web applications.
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No-code/low-code mobile application development platform for enterprises to build apps & dashboards using on-premise & cloud data.
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Bezlio is a no-code/low-code mobile development platform designed for midsize to large enterprises to provide real-time access to ERP data in easy to use applications or dashboards wherever you need iton mobile devices, desktop, or the plant floor.
Build applications that connect in real-time to on-premise or cloud data sources, without needing to synchronize any of your data or open firewall ports.
Other features: Read+write access, native device features, notifications & offline mode.
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Tool for Agile Software Development, Design, Project Management, Test and Issue Management with Timesheet, Audit log and Reporting.
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Take control of app development! Juno.one offers the a full palette of customised tools and workflows. Issue & bug tracking, testing module with integrations (GitHub, multiJira), and more.
Oversee the development progress across projects, plan and track time, build reports, set detailed permissions, make use of powerful tools for test management, stay in control with audit log and more.
Juno.one is a secure tool with a polished UI that has all you need for effective application development.
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Diffblue Cover uses AI to autonomously write and maintain entire unit test suites for Java applications, with no developer intervention
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Diffblue Cover is a fully autonomous AI-powered unit testing solution that writes and maintains entire Java unit test suites autonomously, with no developer intervention required.
With the ability to write unit tests 250x faster than a human, Cover can rapidly build unit test suites at scale, increasing code coverage and accelerating large-scale projects such as application modernization.
Cover's AI maintains the unit test suite and allows developers to catch regressions as early as possible, increasing your code quality.
Cover operates on-prem and behind your firewall, and is available as a CLI tool, as a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA and as a CI/CD integration.
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A versatile framework for web development offering robust UI components, advanced data management, and seamless server-side integration
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SmartClient is a powerful framework for building high-performance web applications. It offers a rich set of customizable UI components and a robust data management system, simplifying the creation of complex applications. It supports automatic data binding, client-side caching, and advanced data manipulation features. SmartClient seamlessly integrates with any server-side technology like Java, .NET, or PHP, allowing easy incorporation into your existing tech stack.
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Optimize your software testing process with TestRail test case management which integrates with Jira and other application development
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Boost your software testing with scalable, customizable test case management. Efficiently manage manual and automated test cases, plans, and runs. Get real-time insights into testing progress with informative dashboards, metrics, and activity reports plus email notifications. Integrate with your issue tracking and/or test automation software to trigger tests and share results. Install on your own server or choose our cloud-based/SaaS solution. Available in standard and enterprise editions.
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Jira Software is a work management tool for application development teams that need to organize and track their work.
Jira Software is a powerful work management tool for application development teams that need to organize and track their work. With Jira's planning and roadmap tools, teams can easily manage stakeholders, budgets, and feature requirements from day one. Jira can be customized to your team¿s workflow, meaning teams of all kinds can enjoy increased productivity and visibility as they march towards releasing amazing apps and products.
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GitHub Repos, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Actions, GitHub packages and our suite of security tools enable a fully managed DevOps cloud.
We have a suite of tools that enable a fully managed Application Development workflow. GitHub Repos enable open-source culture and best practices in your organization. GitHub Codespaces is a cloud dev environment that lets you code from anywhere. Use GitHub Actions to automate everything, including CI/CD. GitHub packages allow you to host packages and code in one place. GitHub provides a fully managed DevOps platform.
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Visual Studio is Microsoft's integrated development environment for building applications on Windows.
Visual Studio is an integrated development environment for .NET and C++ developers on Windows. It provides developer tools and services to make application development easy. The IDE offers intelligent code completion, diagnostics, source control integration, and cross-platform app development support. Visual Studio aims to boost productivity at every stage of software development with its fast coding experience.
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Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes.
Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes.
Across every industry, leading enterprises trust Airtable to power workflows in product management, marketing operations, project & portfolio management, and more – all with the power of AI built-in. Central IT leaders deploy Airtable as a citizen development platform that empowers business users to build their own AI-powered applications.
That’s why more than 500,000 organizations, including 80% of the Fortune 100, rely on Airtable for collaborative work management and citizen development to help transform how work gets done. The result? Faster innovation, happier customers, enterprise governance, and a modern work experience for teams and departments.
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Cloud-based service that allows you to create anything from simple websites to complex applications for businesses of all sizes.
Google Cloud Platform is cloud-based service that allows you to create anything from simple websites to complex applications for businesses of all sizes in all industries. Google Cloud Platform offers a scalable data warehouse powered by cloud storage and machine learning, as well as relational databases for transactions, complex queries, and more.
New customers get $300 in free credits during the first 90 days after exhausting free usage which is available across 20+ different products.
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A free text code editor that supports various languages and uses Win32 API and STL.
A free text code editor that supports various languages and uses Win32 API and STL.
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Azure is a comprehensive computing platform, providing cloud infrastructure, services, developer tools, and innovations in data and AI.
Azure is a comprehensive computing platform, providing cloud infrastructure, products and services, developer tools, and innovations in data and AI. Azure has unique on-premises, hybrid, multicloud, and edge capabilities that offer you the flexibility to innovate anywhere.
Developers can use their favorite languages, open-source frameworks, and tools to code and deploy. Modernize your IT, grow your business, and unlock insights from your data with the scale and security Azure provides.
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Create Your App and Website with AI. Try for Free!
App Builder Appy Pie is a Do It Yourself (DIY) app builder, allowing you to create your own app without any coding skills; Just Drag & Drop to create your app in minutes. Voted as the best mobile app builders by its clients on over 10M apps, Appy Pie lets you to create stunning Android or iPhones apps with easy to integrate plugins and features like push notifications, Hyper Local Integration, CRM Integration, App Analytics, Virtual & Augmented Reality, Taxi calling, Chat and many more.
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Application development tool that allows multiple selections, customizable key bindings, split editing, cross-platform usage, and more.
Application development tool that allows multiple selections, customizable key bindings, split editing, cross-platform usage, and more.
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Application Development Software Buyers Guide
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What is application development software?
Application development software aids the development and deployment of software applications by managing all aspects of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Using these systems' powerful visual tools, software developers can easily assess the progress of development projects and allocate resources to different steps in SDLC. Application development software platforms work with a variety of common programming languages and software programs.
The benefits of application development software
- Ease of coding: Application development software replaces traditional keyed coding with a drag-and-drop graphical interface. This allows users of varying technical backgrounds to contribute to in-house software development projects without having to rely on third-party development.
- Quality control: By utilizing automated debugging, the software can detect coding errors and automatically present them to the user for correction. Application development software also proactively assesses how an app will run on multiple device types and operating systems before it is deployed.
- Better collaboration: Application development software allows you to create development project teams and assign permissions, controls, and task lists to team members. It can also integrate with existing ERP or CRM packages to allow collaboration with end users, customers, and administrators outside of the development team.
Typical features of application development tools
- Graphical user interface (GUI): Provides a visual way of interacting with the software by using items such as windows, icons, and menus.
- Integrated development environment: Combines source code editing, compiling, and debugging into one application development software.
- Access controls/permissions: Allows users to define levels of authorization for access to specific files and folders.
- Debugging: Automatically detects coding errors and notifies the programmer.
- Compatibility testing: Provides a preview of how the app will function on multiple device types and operating systems.
- Code-free development: Uses a drag-and-drop/visual interface that allows non-tech users to build without writing code.
The application development tools directory lets you filter by feature(s) to view only options that meet your business needs, which can help you narrow your software shortlist.
Considerations when purchasing application development tools
- Multiple application development methods: Application development platforms can support a variety of different programming methodologies. For example, some apps are designed specifically for software development lifecycles (SDLCs ) that use Agile or rapid application development (RAD) , whereas other apps may be better for managing projects that use the Waterfall development lifecycle. Make sure the app you choose works best for your company's development environment.
- CRM and ERP integration: It's possible that your current CRM or ERP system comes with application development tools built in (or available as an additional module). Such integration provides the added benefit of connecting development teams to additional project members that may not necessarily be a part of the SDLC. Additionally, CRM integration allows developers to communicate directly with customers during application testing.
- Keep your coders happy: With so many offerings on the market, it's important to choose a product that best suits your coding team's intended output. For example, some application development tools are better suited for the development of Android apps, while others excel in the iOS development space. Additionally, some packages attempt to replace hard coding with GUI-driven programming.
Relevant application development software trends
- The conversational user interface will change how we code: Considering that 68% of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are using, or plan to use, conversational user interface technology within the next one to two years, it's important to consider how this trend will affect how we code. Software developers will increasingly move toward code-free, object-oriented programming that uses a combination of graphical and conversational input.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) will make automated debugging more powerful: With 53% of SMBs planning to implement AI technology in the near future, there's no doubt that we will see advances in "smart" debugging in the application development software space. Application development platforms will not only use AI to identify bugs automatically but will also be able to correct them and create protocols to automatically patch software across user groups.
