1. http://www.greymatterindia.com/mobile-application-development5 Top Mobile Application Development Platforms

2. Mobile application development is more important to theenterprise than ever before. Development organizationsare increasingly looking for a Mobile ApplicationDevelopment Platform (MADP) that can support theirneeds for both current and future projects. Its a broadfield and vendors offer a wide array of capabilities. 3. SAP Compared with other major independent softwarevendors (ISVs), SAP bet early on mobility. Its latestmobile offering, Sybase Unwired Platform (SUP), hasmatured rapidly since its initial release in 2010,providing a flexible application developmentenvironment with plug-ins for Eclipse and Visual Studio,along with a proprietary studio. 4. Syclo Acquired by SAP in June, Syclo initially specialized in fieldservice and enterprise asset management (EAM) applicationsfor ruggedized devices, but has over the years extended thereach of its platform to all popular mobile OSes. However,enterprises with needs around EAM and field-service-basedusers are likely to get the most out of Syclo. 5. Antenna Antennas Antenna Mobility Platform (AMP) is a good fitfor organizations that need to build multiple applicationsfor various types of mobile devices and deploy them as acloud service. 6. Kony When it first debuted in 2007, Kony focused onconsumer-facing applications, but has since added B2Ecapabilities, through organic growth. Konys platform is agood fit for projects that require the use of nativefeatures on an array of mobile devices. 7. Adobe Adobe Systems acquired Nitobi Software, maker of thePhoneGap framework, in the fourth quarter of 2011.PhoneGap is used to wrap HTML5 apps in nativecontainers, making it a strong choice for media-richenterprises with requirements for mobile clients, ororganizations that want to wrap mobile Web applicationsdeveloped with other platforms like Sencha, Dojo Mobile,jQuery Mobile and others.