{"id":2493,"date":"2016-06-23T16:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b-consulting.com\/en\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2016-06-23T16:45:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:45:52","slug":"global-energy-leader-engie-selects-mobile-leader-kony-to-accelerate-its-digital-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/2016\/06\/23\/global-energy-leader-engie-selects-mobile-leader-kony-to-accelerate-its-digital-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Energy leader, ENGIE, Selects Mobile-leader Kony to Accelerate its Digital Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World\u2019s Top Independent Power Producer &amp; Energy Services Provider ENGIE Announces its Innovative Digital Factory Built Namely on Kony\u2019s Industry-leading Enterprise Mobility Platform<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>PARIS, France and AUSTIN, Texas. \u2013 June 23, 2016<\/em> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/\">Kony, Inc.<\/a>, the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced that it has been selected by ENGIE to participate in its innovative Digital Factory to accelerate the delivery of mobile applications for its customers, partners and employees, in France and globally, as part of the company\u2019s new three-year Transformation Plan.<\/p>\n<p>ENGIE\u00a0(known as\u00a0GDF SUEZ\u00a0prior to April 2015) is a French multinational\u00a0energy utility\u00a0company, headquartered in\u00a0La D\u00e9fense,\u00a0Courbevoie, France. ENGIE employs around 155,000 people worldwide and operates in 70 countries. Impressed by Kony\u2019s ability to quickly design, build and deploy secure, enterprise-grade mobile apps across multiple devices and operating systems, ENGIE chose Kony\u2019s Mobility Platform and solutions for its enterprise-wide Digital Transformation initiative. As part of ENGIE\u2019s new Digital Factory, Kony will help the Group build several consumer-facing and employee productivity mobile apps.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe global partnership between ENGIE and Kony was born from a desire to support our Digital Transformation initiative through new value-added services,\u201d said Isabelle Kocher, CEO, ENGIE. \u201cIt also aims to enhance the digital skills of ENGIE\u2019s teams and enable us to meet the needs of our business units to accelerate the time to market of mobile application projects for customers, partners and employees.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By fully adopting enterprise mobility across their organization, ENGIE is focused on achieving the company\u2019s business objectives of driving significant improvements in customer satisfaction, increasing market share and lowering costs through faster mobile application development cycles through the newly launched Digital Factory.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDigital will transform virtually all industries, companies, and geographies,\u201d said Thomas E. Hogan, chairman and CEO, Kony, Inc.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cIt will transcend and shape value, service levels, quality, and the customer experience.\u00a0 Companies will either lead, become a fast-follower, or perish.\u00a0 Fortunately for ENGIE and its customers, Isabelle Kocher has elected to assert ENGIE as a digital innovator and leader in the new energy world.\u00a0 Kony is thrilled to partner with this visionary leader and an iconic brand, and to leverage our market leading mobility solutions in their digital journey.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kony customers include top global energy companies, banks, healthcare payers and providers, automotive, manufacturing, travel, hospitality and retail organizations, as well as a large global network of more than 150 partners.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/products\/mobility-platform\">Kony Mobility Platform<\/a> is an open and standards-based, integrated platform for mobile app development and beyond. It supports the entire application software development lifecycle (SDLC) and operations (DevOps) lifecycle, empowering enterprises to quickly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/products\/visualization\">design<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/products\/visualizer\/enterprise\">build<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/products\/deployment-options\">deploy<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/products\/mobilefabric\">manage<\/a>\u00a0multi-edge app experiences. This full DevOps solution encompasses unique app UI design and development tools (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/products\/visualization#overview\">Kony Visualizer<\/a>), powered by Kony\u2019s mobile backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) and backend application development offering (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/products\/mbaas#overview\">Kony MobileFabric<\/a>), as well as testing and analytics. It extends fully to the end user through the addition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/products\/apps#overview\">Kony Apps<\/a>, which allow customers to deliver secure, enterprise-grade mobile apps faster to market. Leading enterprises worldwide rely on Kony to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deliver a full enterprise lifecycle and multi-channel mobile solution for advanced low code and unique visual design environment<\/li>\n<li>Provide unparalleled service level agreements guaranteeing support for new devices and operating systems<\/li>\n<li>Enable strong integration capabilities supporting a range of complex enterprise applications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kony was recently named a \u201cLeader\u201d for the fourth consecutive year, and positioned furthest for Completeness of Vision Overall and Advancement for Ability to Execute in the Leaders Quadrant, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/forms.kony.com\/WEB-2016-Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-Mobile-Application-Development-Platforms_1GoKony.html#_blank\">Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms<\/a> (MADP) report. In addition, Kony was named a \u201cLeader\u201d and earned the highest score in the current offering category in Mobile Infrastructure Services by independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc., according to The Forrester Wave\u2122: Mobile Infrastructure Services <a href=\"http:\/\/forms.kony.com\/PR-Q216-Forrester-Wave-2015_1GetReport.html\">report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>About Kony Inc.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/\">Kony<\/a> is the fastest growing, cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions company and an industry leader among mobile application development platform (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kony.com\/products\/mobility-platform\">MADP<\/a>) providers. Kony empowers organizations to compete in mobile time by rapidly delivering, ready-to-run, multi-edge mobile apps across the broadest array of devices and systems, today and in the future, with a lower total cost of ownership. Kony\u2019s cross-platform solution helps organizations design, build, configure and manage mobile apps to empower and better engage with customers, partners and employees.\u00a0Kony was named the first place winner in CTIA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supermobilityweek.com%2Fevents%2Findex.cfm%2Fctia-awards%23mobits&amp;esheet=51059824&amp;newsitemid=20150323005015&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=MobITs+Awards&amp;index=4&amp;md5=1443dcb4cd08ecbe621d2d4f962f9d94\">MobITs Awards<\/a>\u00a0in the Mobile Applications, Development &amp; Platforms category and included on the Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest growing private\u00a0companies in America. Connect with Kony on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kony\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KonyInc\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/324781\">LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>About ENGIE<\/h3>\n<p>ENGIE develops its businesses (power, natural gas, energy services) around a model based on responsible growth to take on the major challenges of energy\u2019s transition to a low-carbon economy: access to sustainable energy, climate-change mitigation and adaptation and the rational use of resources. The Group provides individuals, cities and businesses with highly efficient and innovative solutions largely based on its expertise in four key sectors: renewable energy, energy efficiency, liquefied natural gas and digital technology. ENGIE employs 154,950 people worldwide and achieved revenues of \u20ac69.9 billion in 2015. The Group is listed on the Paris and Brussels stock exchanges (ENGI) and is represented in the main international indices: CAC 40, BEL 20, DJ Euro Stoxx 50, Euronext 100, FTSE Eurotop 100, MSCI Europe, DJSI World, DJSI Europe and Euronext Vigeo (Eurozone 120, Europe 120 and France 20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s Top Independent Power Producer &amp; Energy Services Provider ENGIE Announces its Innovative Digital Factory Built Namely on Kony\u2019s Industry-leading Enterprise Mobility Platform \u00a0 PARIS, France and AUSTIN, Texas. \u2013 June 23, 2016 \u2013 Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced that it has been selected by ENGIE to participate in its innovative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,1524],"tags":[1526,418,1540,1529,1535,1536,1531,1533,1507,1525,1530,1506,315,1532,1541,1534,1527,1537,1528,1538,1539],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2016-en","category-kony-client-en","tag-app","tag-application","tag-apps","tag-banks","tag-device","tag-devices","tag-digital-transformation","tag-energy-services-provider","tag-engie","tag-forrester-research","tag-healthcare","tag-kony","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-application","tag-mobile-apps","tag-mobile-leader","tag-multi-channel-mobile-solution","tag-multiple-devices","tag-testing","tag-to-accelerate-the-time-to-market","tag-to-accelerate-the-time-to-market-of-mobile-application-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.b-comm.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}