16 March, 2015

Why Start-Ups Should Go with ColdFusion?

Normally, small businesses and startups prefer using open source technologies to reduce the development cost of web and mobile apps. But a number of reports have highlighted the rapidly growing popularity of Adobe ColdFusion among startups, despite being a commercial web application development framework. Adobe further frequently updates ColdFusion application server to provide a single platform for creating both web and mobile applications. There are also a number of reasons why small companies and startups should go with the most recent version of ColdFusion.

What Makes ColdFusion Popular among Small Businesses and Startups?

Create Modern Applications with Limited Resources
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Unlike large companies, the startups have to create and deploy applications with limited resources. ColdFusion enables them to create, test, deploy and market both web applications and mobile apps without deploying a large team. The latest version of the platform also comes with several features to bring down the development time and cost by making programmers more productive. The developers can use the platform to create modern and user-friendly apps by using mails, PDFs, PDF Forms, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, FTP, web services and SharePoint.

Availability of IDEs and Frameworks
The ColdFusion developers also have option to curtail development time by using several IDEs, open source projects and libraries. According to their skills, the programmers can use several IDEs including ColdFusion Builder, CFEclipse, Coda, Dreamweaver, Textmate, Notepad++ and IntellijIDEA. Likewise, they also have option to use a plethora of prebuilt tools including ColdSpring DI/IoC framework, Model-Glue MVC framework, MX Unit Testing framework, Transfer ORM framework, and CFUniform form framework.

Option to Integrate with Other Technologies
To deliver richer user experience, modern websites and mobile applications need to be integrated with a variety of technologies and services. The programmers can easily integrate ColdFusion with a variety of technologies including SOAP, JSON, and XML, Java objects, .NET assemblies, PDF Forms, SMS gateways, message queues and REST. At the same time, the platform also works seamlessly with major databases. In addition to supporting several widely used technologies, ColdFusion further enables startups to maintain these integrations without incurring any recurring cost.

Comes with a Set of HTML5 Features
As a futuristic standard on communication and interaction on the web, HTML5 has become an integral part of modern web and mobile development process. Adobe has also developed ColdFusion 10 with a number of HTML 5 features. So the developers can now easily optimize the performance of their applications by integrating interactive HTML5 charting, HTML5 video player and HTML5 web sockets. At the same time, they can also use other features like Adobe Flash Player, Hotfix installer and notification, Flex and Adobe AIR lazy loading.

Develop Applications for Various Devices
Nowadays, the small companies and startups have to develop applications that can be accessed by users across multiple devices. The ColdFusion 11 Enterprise Edition enables programmers to create mobile apps by leveraging their existing CFML skills. The CFML developers can further avail the built-in integration with Adobe PhoneGap Build to deliver their applications as installed apps for iOS and Android devices. At the same time, they can also use the built-in Weinre server to inspect the look and feel of both web and mobile apps across multiple devices. These features make it easier for startups to both internet and mobile apps with the same developers.

Based on their specific requirements, startups also have option to choose from three different editions of ColdFusion 11, i.e., enterprise, standard and developer. The enterprise edition is designed to speed up the development and deployment of web and mobile enterprise applications, whereas the standard edition can be used for developing end-to-end mobile apps. At the same time, the small businesses can also use ColdFusion 11 Developer Edition freely to create applications that can be hosted on the local server, and accessed simultaneously from two distinct remote IP addresses.

You can hire developers from top ColdFusion programming companies in India who can help you build your website within allocated budgets and time schedules.

We provide ColdFusion web development services. If you would like to hire ColdFusion programmer from our team, please get in touch with us at Mindfire Solutions.

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