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Citizen developers pull the rug out from under IT with RMAD tools

RMAD tools spur the trend of citizen developers in the enterprise, as professionals are impatient with IT taking too long to deliver mobile business apps.

With FileMaker, an application development platform that does not require any coding, Benedict built Apple iOS apps that employees of his home carpeting and flooring company use to track inventory, check prices, log customer information, integrate calendar and email, and more.

“It takes about a day or two to build one single-purpose app,” said Benedict, owner of Ruggs Benedict in Avon, Colo. “You can build these apps to do just what you want, but then you can tie them all together. We use them to run the entire business.”

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Estimote uses their new mesh network of BLE beacons to decorate a yuletide tree | TechCrunch

Source: Estimote uses their new mesh network of BLE beacons to decorate a yuletide tree | TechCrunch

Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network. Estimote, a beacon company, has given us the last thing by creating a small mesh network of wireless beacons that they proceed to hang on a Christmas tree.

The new beacons run Bluetooth Low Energy and connect to each other automatically. They last for years on one battery and can be programmed to expand a BLE network throughout an entire area, each beacon handing off to the next as necessary.