I use it for. browser based systems for my own clients.
Enables you to boost your sales by displaying customized upsell offers to your customers when they are more likely to accept them on the add-to-cart or checkout option
Alpha Software's Alpha Anywhere platform is a complete business application development and deployment environment that enables users to quickly become proficient in creating mobile business forms and applications that run across all devices. Alpha Anywhere has the unique capability to rapidly create offline capable, mobile-optimized forms and business apps that can easily access and integrate with existing databases and web services, and can exploit built-in role-based security.
Alpha Anywhere is used for internal business apps as well as a few public-facing search portals.
Once you get through the learning curve, you can do a lot with it. It's very flexible.
It's a little dated, and it's a small community. If you need assistance, your only options are their forum and their help file, and that's pretty much it.
At times, it's a little buggy.
It can be slow to develop, and it's repetitive. There are many repetitive things.
They have been working on a calendar control for two years, and it's still in beta, which in my opinion is a bit excessive. They appear to be dispersed now that they have added this new product, Alpha TransForm, which has diverted some of their attention away from Alpha Anywhere, which they will deny.
I have been using Alpha Anywhere for eight years, since 2014.
We keep it up to date. We are using the latest version.
The stability of Alpha Anywhere could improve, especially from version to version. There have been several complaints that they should conduct more testing before releasing a version.
It throws random errors.
We have a few hundred people who depend on this solution internally.
Their technical support is their CEO, and he responds directly at all hours of the night.
I would rate the technical support a five out of five.
They are very knowledgeable. They are not as open to feedback, as they once were.
The initial setup was straightforward. It was not difficult to set up.
I would rate it a four out of five.
It took anywhere from a few hours to a day to deploy.
We need two people to deploy and maintain the solution. The maintenance is straightforward. It has a significant learning curve.
Prices vary, and they will enter into different contracts with different people.
We use the on-premises version. Their Alpha Cloud version is fully hosted in AWS, which means you get the full servers, all the resources, and everything you need.
When I compared them with other solutions, I would rate them a five out of five.
They are very affordable.
Make sure you understand the deployment models and select the best one from the cloud or on-premise.
If you're going to be developing for multiple end users, or even multiple customers, and deploying on their servers, you will need a server license for each location where you deploy. If you can run multiple instances for different customers on a single server, you can use a single license.
I would rate Alpha Anywhere a seven out of ten.
