Mobile Backend-as-a-Service offers scalability, automatic RESTful API generation

By Suzanne Kattau

August 2, 2012 — (Page 2 of 2)
As companies begin to look beyond the deployment of lightweight applications to more complex ones that require greater integration with their back-end systems, there is renewed focus on the server-side infrastructure, in particular where innovating tools and platforms are moving to the cloud, wrote Yankee Group senior analyst Chris Marsh in “The Cloud Pushes Enterprise Mobile Applications Up a Gear." “These mobile Backend-as-a-Service infrastructures are evolving a new model for how mobile applications store, secure, push and synchronize data,” he wrote. Marsh’s white paper was sponsored by FeedHenry, a company that offers a mobile BaaS platform.

So is it more cost-effective for developers to use a mobile BaaS, or to just build their own app back end? It really just boils down to what you need. Bansod said Sencha’s mobile BaaS is currently in beta, and as such the company hasn’t announced pricing yet. When they do announce it, he said the service would be billed on a usage/metered model such that you will pay for what you use of the service.

Apigee said its pricing structure is customized to the needs of the customer as there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Scott Regan, vice president of marketing at Apigee, said its app service is free as a service for developers up to 1 million API requests/hour, and is also available as an open-source distribution for companies that want to host it as their own service. Developers can sign up for the public beta here.

FeedHenry’s m obile BaaS pricing is based on API requests and storage per month. Leonie Tierney, marketing manager at FeedHenry, said that this is similar to some of the other vendors’ mobile BaaS pricing models. She said the number of users or developed apps does not limit pricing, and pricing is on a monthly fee basis with a starter plan that is free of charge.

There are two further developer plans that allow for more storage and API requests at US$199 and $499 per month. And for some unique requests, security, private cloud deployments and complex legacy system integration, she said there are enterprise plans that are priced on request.

Some of the other mobile BaaS providers clambering for the top spot include Appcelerator, Applicasa, Buddy, CloudMine, CloudyRec, iKnode, Kinvey, Parse, Scotty App, StackMob and yorAPI.

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