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Comparing KidoZen vs. Competitors Series: Comparing
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KidoZen vs. Competitors: Comparing
KidoZen and KonyOne
This paper is part of a series of articles that compare KidoZen with traditional enterprise mobile
application platforms. These papers are intended to help organizations make an informed decision
when evaluating KidoZen against some of the existing enterprise mobile solutions in the current
market.
KidoZen
KidoZen is the market’s first enterprise mobility platform delivered completely in a platform as a
service model. KidoZen provides organizations with the backend infrastructure, programing
frameworks and tools that enable the development, distribution and management of enterprise
mobile applications.
More concretely, KidoZen provides a backend as a service infrastructure that enables developers to
incorporate and manage backend capabilities to their enterprise mobile application in a matter of
minutes. Additionally, KidoZen provides an enterprise application center that enables organizations
to distribute and manage enterprise mobile applications. Conceptually, you can think of KidoZen as
four fundamental components:
 Enterprise Mobile Backend as a Service API: KidoZen provides a diverse set of services
that automate some of the most important back features in enterprise mobile applications.
KidoZen provides a simple, interoperable, multi-tenant service platform that provides
enterprise mobile capacities such as authentication, storage, integration, logging, messaging
and many others. Developers can immediately use these capabilities through our different
SDKs without the need of any on-premise infrastructure setup.
 Mobile SDKs: KizoZen provides a series of SDKs to make it extremely simple to add
backend capabilities to your enterprise mobile applications using a very simple syntax. Our
SDKs include platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8, PhoneGap and
other emerging mobile development technologies.
 Mobile Enterprise Application Center: KidoZen’s application center provides a secure
and robust mechanism to distribute and manage your enterprise mobile applications. Using

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KidoZen’s application center users can launch the applications that are available to them
based on their corporate permissions. In addition to the application distribution frontend,
KidoZen’s application center provides IT professionals with rich analytics and management
capabilities in order to efficiently operate an enterprise mobile infrastructure.
 Hosted HTML5: To provide a complete development experience, KidoZen allows
organizations to securely deploy and host their mobile web, HTML5 based applications to
their private instance of the KidoZen cloud. Using this mechanism, organizations can avoid
the headaches of trying to provision and manage mobile web applications inside their
corporate environments.
KonyOne Overview
The KonyOne platform is one of the technologies that are typically considered by organizations in
order to implement enterprise mobile solutions. Provided by Kony Solutions, this platform follows
the traditional model pioneered by BlackBerry years ago based on an on-premise enterprise mobile
server and a number of proprietary development tools. Similar to other enterprise mobility
platforms, one of the hallmarks of the KonyOne model is the ability to implement multi-platform
applications from a single code base.
From an architecture standpoint, the KonyOne platform is comprised of four fundamental
components:
 KonyOne Studio: This is the exclusive development tool of the KonyOne platform. Using
KonyOne Studio, developer can implement applications in a single code base and compile it
to the different mobile platforms such as Android or iOS. From a practical standpoint,
mastering KonyOne Studio requires a fairly intensive learning curve that typically includes
the use of professional services.
 KonyOne Server: This component is the backbone of the KonyOne platform.
Conceptually, the KonyOne Server is a set infrastructure server components that abstract
important features such as security, storage, etc. Similar to other enterprise mobile
technologies, KonyOne Server requires a significant infrastructure footprint that results in
expensive maintenance and upgrade overhead.
 Sync Server: Arguably the least used component of the KonyOne platform, sync server
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business systems. This component represents another piece of infrastructure in addition to
the KonyOne Server.
 Application Manager: The management side of the KonyOne platform. This component
provides certain management capabilities to the mobile applications developed in the
KonyOne platform.
Comparing KidoZen and KonyOne
KidoZen and KonyOne take two fundamentally different approaches to provide an enterprise
mobile infrastructure for organizations. In some sense, KidoZen was born to try to address some of
the limitation of platforms like KonyOne by providing a simpler, more open, affordable and scalable
enterprise mobile platform. Marketing aside, when evaluating KidoZen in comparison to the
KonyOne platform there are a few aspects that should be considered:
Development Process
 KonyOne: The development of applications on the KonyOne platform requires the
exclusive use of the KonyOne Studio. This factor obviously requires organizations to invest
in training developers in the KonyOne’s proprietary tools and frameworks in order to
implement applications on the KonyOne platform
 KidoZen: KidoZen focuses on the backend aspects of enterprise mobile applications
providing a tool and framework agnostic model that allows developers to leverage the IDEs,
frameworks or tools of their preference when implementing enterprise mobile applications.
Backed Capabilities
 KonyOne: The KonyOne platform provides a series of connectors that facilitate the
integration of KonyOne apps with enterprise systems or protocols such as SOAP, REST,
etc. When evaluating KonyOne, it is important to notice that these connectors can only be
leveraged from KonyOne applications.
 KidoZen: KidoZen provides a backend as a service infrastructure that includes APIs for
dozens of enterprise mobile backend capabilities. By leveraging these APIs and the mobile
SDKs, developers can incorporate infrastructure capabilities or integrate with enterprise
systems in a very easy manner. KidoZen mobile backend APIs can be consumed from any
programming language or framework which facilitates the KidoZen integration with
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Required Infrastructure
 KonyOne: Delivered as traditional on-premise software, KonyOne requires organizations to
invest in the necessary hardware to deploy and configure the KonyOne Server and Sync
Server infrastructures. Additionally, organizations typically need to train their devops in the
management and maintenance of KonyOne’s server side infrastructure. Organizations also
face an ongoing hardware, software and personnel cost to maintain their KonyOne
environment.
 KidoZen: KidoZen is completely delivered as a platform as a service model which requires
no infrastructure on the customer’s premises. In this model, organizations can start building
enterprise mobile applications using any mobile development tools or frameworks by simply
provisioning a KidoZen account. Complimentarily, KidoZen can also be delivered as an on-
premise solution with a very small infrastructure footprint.
Platforms Supported
 KonyOne: KonyOne provides support for all major mobile platforms via the KonyOne
Studio IDE.
 KidoZen: KidoZen provides SDKs for several development platforms including iOS,
Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8, JavaScript and PhoneGap. Additionally, KidoZen’s
SDK interoperate with all major programming languages and frameworks.
Management Experience
 KonyOne: KonyOne provides a portal that enables the management and operational
monitoring of the different components of the platform such as KonyOne Server and Sync
Server.
 KidoZen: KidoZen offers an enterprise mobile application center that enables the
provisioning of mobile application in the enterprise as well as the management of the
backend capabilities of those applications. The application center includes experiences for
both mobile and tablet devices.
Professional Services
 KonyOne: Given the complexity of its infrastructure, KonyOne implementations typically
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that need to implement applications using KonyOne tools as well as IT professionals
responsible for managing those solutions.
 KidoZen: KidoZen provides a simple, open and highly interoperable infrastructure that
allows any organization to implement enterprise mobile applications without the need of
professional services or training. More importantly, KidoZen offers a tool agnostic model
that allows organizations to leverage their preferred mobile application development tools or
frameworks and leverage KidoZen’s SDKs to enable the backend capabilities or those
applications.
Pricing
 KonyOne: Typically, KonyOne implementations range on the six or seven figures an
engagement which includes professional services and training. The software is delivered in a
traditional on-premise model and subsequent upgrades will be added to the initial price over
time.
 KidoZen: KidoZen is priced in a subscription based model that typically ranges between
hundreds or low thousands of dollars monthly subscription depending on the size of the
customer enterprise mobile infrastructure. KidoZen’s price typically takes into consideration
three fundamental factors: number of users, number of API calls and infrastructure
consumed by the customer’s enterprise mobility solution.

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About the Author
Jesus Rodriguez is a co-founder and CEO of both Tellago Studios and
Tellago, two fast growing start-ups with a unique vision around software
technology. Jesus spends his days working on the technology and strategic
vision of both companies. Under his leadership, Tellago and Tellago
Studios have been recognized as an innovator in the areas of enterprise
software and solutions achieving important awards like the Stevie Awards’
American and International Business Awards.
A software scientist by background, Jesus is an internationally recognized speaker and author
with contributions that include hundreds of articles and sessions at industry conferences. Jesus
serves as an advisor to several software companies such as Microsoft and Oracle, and is the only
person who currently holds both the Microsoft MVP and Oracle ACE technology awards. Jesus
is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to software technology and entrepreneurship. You can
gain valuable insight on business and software technology through his blogs at
http://jrodthoughts.com and http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx .