 Hi, it's Jeff Frick from Silicon Angles, The Cube. We go out to the events, extract the signal from the noise, and we're starting a lot more mobile events now, going out to the companies where they are when they're making important announcements, when they have great news to share, as opposed to just being at the large events. I'm here at Accelerator today with Nolan Wright, the co-founder and CTO, and we're here today because they have a big announcement. They've got a live stream. Maybe you guys are on it right now, and they're announcing their Enterprise Platform launch. I've got the notes here, Nolan. It's a mobile-first enterprise SaaS platform built from the ground up for mobile. First off, welcome to The Cube. We've been at a lot of shows lately, and there's clearly three big transformative events that are happening that we've been covering. One of them obviously is Cloud, one of them is Social, and one of them is Mobile. But the other piece that kind of rolls all those up that we're seeing more and more is people's expectation around enterprise applications being driven by their experience with their regular applications that they work with. Somebody said at one of our last shows, kind of what I do on the weekend, I now want that to be what I do during the week. So talk a little bit about what's going on here at Accelerator and how that kind of fits into that. Sure. The first point you just made is I think a really critical point and we're seeing this too with our customers is that user experience really matters not just for consumer applications but for employee applications. And the other thing that's also driving that is trends like BYOD and BYOA. In the old days, IT could really dictate, mandate hardware and software, but with mobile and BYOD and BYOA, they can't really do that so much. So we're seeing enterprises really focus on great user experience for employee-faced apps as well as consumer-facing apps. So it's a big change, we view it as a good change and something we've been prepared for. Now back to the platform announcement. So yeah, we're announcing what we believe is really the first mobile first, not used first twice, but mobile first platform out there and we've always believed that mobile is driving fundamental shifts to every phase of the software development lifecycle and so this platform has been designed really from the ground up to help people create great apps, great user experience for both consumer-facing, business-facing or employee-facing. Do that quickly, do things like testing, have great visibility in your applications because obviously you need to know what's going on in your application to drive improvements into it and you need to do all this very quickly because one of the things we're seeing with mobile is that it's kind of an opposing force. One is users want apps delivered faster so release cycles have gone from months to weeks with frequent updates but at the same time the demand for innovation and quality has gone up and so our platform is really designed to really help you deliver great experience So, talk a little bit about the history of Accelerator. You guys have been around for a long time and I think it's probably an accurate assessment that most of the early mobile apps were games and kind of fun things and talk about how the company has changed as mobile has grasped really the enterprise side and then the second piece if you can when you're working with your customers how do you help them not just recreate what they've got on their desktop applications in mobile but really think through how a mobile application is completely different and rethinking the way they're trying to accomplish tasks with a mobile app. Good question. So, in terms of how we've evolved we've always seen this as an enterprise opportunity we've always talked about how it's similar to what BEA did for the web technology stack when the web came along the technology stacks were completely changed and BEA emerges a multi-billion dollar company to really redefine that. So we've always seen this as that type of opportunity it's just been a question of evolution and with a lot of big technology shifts they start in the consumer world and then they move on to the enterprise world and so knowing that certainly we focused early with consumer but the technology stack we were building was always meant to be focused very horizontally and to solve both consumer facing problems as well as enterprise applications and so that's always been the goal from the outset you have to evolve it over time. In terms of how we help customers deliver some of these really good mobile first experiences a lot of that's really deep in the technology itself so really it's about making it easy to build great user experiences a lot of reusability letting people build reusable components that they can take from app to app from app to app and so that's one part the other part too is we spend a lot of time with our customers evangelizing that the opportunity with mobile to imagine things from the ground up it's not about taking a web application simply moving it to mobile it's how do I really rethink business processes and some of the examples we use are more in the consumer world like with Uber Uber is a great app where I can now get a taxi through my iPhone and all the payments handle automatically and so we try to help our customers really think about their own business processes that way because that's the real opportunity and that's really what we try to promote and our technology is built entirely that's great okay so one last question I was listening to Jeff on the Ustream announcement and he talked a little bit about open source and what open source means to you as a company we were at OpenStack Summit a couple three weeks ago and it was really interesting hearing companies like Rackspace and even HP talk about how just an open source not only just reducing costs with their core components inside their own but really how it changes the culture of the company using outside contributors enabling you to bring people that are excited about a space into your company to work for you because they get to do some stuff talk about the open source culture here at Accelerator and how that's infected the company as you've grown it it's also a really good question so we really open source has been a part of the company since we started and it just gets back to a fundamental set of beliefs that Jeff and I have which is we don't want to be closed off to only the innovation we can do within the four walls of this company so we want to open things that we've always wanted to make things open and open source but also extensible so make it easy for people to not only work on our technology and identify issues and fix them but also extend the product and so every part of our stack from everything we've ever built is always open and extensible and it's just we just feel like that's where the world has been heading for a while and I think also the other thing is if you can build a really strong community of developers of ISVs and partners who are all leveraging the openness and the extensibility it's very difficult to compete with that it's a very defensible business strategy but at the end of the day I think for customers the benefit is you really get all this great access to technology you wouldn't get from just a vendor who's closed or proprietary and also to some degree you don't have to worry about locking so much because it is open source the codes out there and so you're able to make changes and do things like that so to us it's always been a fundamental part of our strategy from a business standpoint to where the world is definitely going and we've seen the fruits of that so much of the success we've had has been because of our ISV partners our developers and our integration partners so the strategy is really paying off that's great, well thank you so it's exciting times here at Accelerator check it out Nolan thanks for coming on theCUBE we're glad we could come out and cover the event we've got a couple more guest lines up so we'll be right back