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Click Labs: Deploying Secure Enterprise Solutions with Ease

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Most CIOs today lose sleep over time and money being spent in integrating mobility within the corporate structure, apart from data security breaches facilitated by integration of mobile devices. To ward off this challenge, a comprehensive plan accessible to system administrators and managers, inclusive of training and implementation of practice period for employees is imperative. Click Labs, a mobile application development company headed by Founder and CEO, Samar Singla, addresses this concern by developing applications natively, ensuring security by encrypting cached data, which is crucial for most enterprises.

Click Labs, headquartered in San Francisco, builds mobile apps based on three core principles.

"When we create a mobile app for an enterprise-based client, we focus on three core ideologies: security, scalability and reliability," Says Singla. With regards to reliability, the company ensures native application development done directly on C code with objective C language in iOS and on Eclipse in Java for Android, facilitating accurate coding methodologies. Click Labs uses technology which fits the specifications of any project, rather than using mediocre specifications to fit outdated technology. The company uses Node JS, Nginx, Postgres and Ruby for backend application infrastructure security. Finally, for scalability, they build on a strong foundation of a reliable data frameworks-Cassandra and Hadoop, which give the company an edge over other enterprise app developers.

Catering to Customer needs and Internal Requirements

In working with enterprises, the company focuses on solutions catering to customer relationship needs, while solving internal problems in parallel, thus making business processes more efficient. Since most companies have security issues while integrating an internal mobile strategy, the Click Labs team develops a mobile device management system to ensure the blur between personal and professional boundaries at BYOD companies are more defined and easier to manage.

With its detailed customized enterprise solutions, Click Labs tailors the implementation of a company’s new mobile strategy so the new technology is intuitive and easy to use. So instead of offering one-size-fits-all solutions, they opt for ones that are fully customizable. The company at present is focused on Make a Move, their first enterprise-based solution which helps moving companies connect with potential customers via a free, interactive quoting system, whereby the user files data of items in a user-friendly interface. Combined with time-saving and efficient user interface that gets rid of communication problems across distances, Make a Move helps create the company’s interest in other enterprise solutions. Other products in they’re focusing on include Bistro, Teacher’s Assistant, and Taxi Hawk.

Looking Ahead

While continuing the successful deployment of customized enterprise solutions for businesses like restaurants, day care centers, food chains, pharmacies, and schools, Click Labs has set its eyes on researching and developing backend software for the Internet of Things. Moving forward, the company has set its vision towards continuing to emphasize on customer relationship needs and solving internal problems while making the client’s business processes more efficient.

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