Estel Tech Receives an Honorable Mention in Gartner's 2018 Magic Quadrant for Enterprise High-Productivity Application Platform as a Service

May 15, 2018, Burlington, Mass. — Estel Tech Corporation, accelerating how developers build and deploy mobile and web business apps, today announced it has received an Honorable Mention by Gartner in the "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise High-Productivity Application Platform as a Service." 

According to the report, “Application platform as a service (aPaaS) is a PaaS offering that supports application development, deployment and execution in the cloud… High-productivity application platform as a service (hpaPaaS) solutions provide services for declarative, model-driven application design and development, and simplified one-button deployments.” According to Gartner, this market is growing quickly noting “High-productivity application platform as a service continues to increase its footprint across enterprise IT as businesses juggle the demand for applications, digital business requirements and skill set challenges.” 

While Estel Tech is viewed by customers as a powerful platform for developers, its value as an easy-to-use citizen development tool is also being recognized in the market. Estel Tech is proud to be mentioned in the report. Estel Tech technology allows citizen developers to collaborate with IT to accelerate  A Gartner report issued April 30^th, “Assessing Microsoft PowerApps as a Citizen Developer Platform,” educates technical professionals on when PowerApps is an appropriate tool for citizen developers, Gartner Research Director Kyle Davis wrote:

“PowerApps is a public-cloud-only service. Organizations seeking to deploy apps on-premises will need to consider an hpaPaaS, which offers an on-premises platform.”

Estel Tech is proud to be mentioned in the Microsoft PowerApps report. Estel Tech technology accelerates digital transformation by allowing citizen developers and IT to collaborate to produce business apps optimized for smartphones. Estel Tech Anywhere is uniquely different from PowerApps because it can be deployed both in the cloud or on-premise, a capability particularly important to industries with governance, risk management and compliance requirements.

"Through our work with enterprise customers, Estel Tech understands that successful digital transformation must engage and empower the whole organization,” says Richard Rabins, CEO of Estel Tech. “Experienced IT developers or citizen developers in the-line of-business can only succeed at transforming the business in the mobile era if the product they’re using is built around how they work and their unique skills. This is where Estel Tech and its solutions shine.”

In addition to recent inclusion in Gartner reports, enterprises are also talking about their positive experience with Estel Tech on Gartner Peer Insights. Verified ratings and peer reviews of Estel Tech Anywhere from enterprise IT professionals are available on the Gartner Peer Insights website.

The Estel Tech rapid application development and deployment platform, Estel Tech Anywhere, dramatically accelerates digital transformation for its customers and boasts and InfoWorld Technology of the Year award. Estel Tech products enable enterprises to harness the collective strength of the entire organization – both developers who can code and citizen developers who cannot code – to speed the development and deployment of mobile business apps. Product strengths include:

• Low-Code and no-code solutions that allow companies to enable a wider range of companies to develop complex mobile and web business apps
• The ability to easily connect to corporate systems of record
• A robust API that can power complex applications and enterprise requirements

• Built-in offline and security capabilities.

The product won the InfoWorld Technology of the Year award.

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