Intuit Announces Beta Release of New QuickBase Web Development
Platform
Unlocks Small Business Market Opportunity for Web Developers
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Business Wire EON) April 17, 2008 --
For the first time, developers and independent software vendors will
have the ability to easily design, deploy and market on-demand
collaborative and productivity applications to millions of small
businesses.
Today, Intuit (Nasdaq:INTU) QuickBase®
launched the beta release of the QuickBase Development Environment and a
new QuickBase
Developer Program. This new Platform-as-a-Service will allow
developers to rapidly create rich Internet applications, or RIAs, which
work with QuickBooks®
using a new toolkit that leverages the Adobe®
Flex®
open source development framework and QuickBase’s
proven on-demand database, application and workflow capabilities.
“We are now enlisting the help of an enormous
community of talented developers to create innovative, rich Web-based
solutions to important business problems,”
said Bill Lucchini, vice president and general manager of Intuit
QuickBase. “To ensure developers can continue
to innovate we’re also providing them with
the fastest and easiest way to build a profitable Software-as-a-Service
business.”
Leveraging the QuickBase Developer Program, developers can:
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Rapidly Develop RIAs that Work with QuickBooks: Intuit has
created a complete application development environment based on the
Eclipse™ IDE that integrates QuickBase
functionality with Adobe Flex and packaged connections to QuickBooks
data files that are automatically synchronized. Demonstrations of how
quickly applications can be developed and connected to QuickBooks are
available here.
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Focus on Innovation, Not Infrastructure: Developers can now
leverage the power of the QuickBase platform for user authentication
and permissions, database management, e-mail notifications, reporting
and more using the QuickBase API. Developers need only to build
applications and QuickBase will host them on its enterprise-class,
highly scalable and reliable infrastructure.
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Reach Millions of Potential Users: Developers will be able to
reach a potential market of nearly 25 million employees within small
businesses using QuickBooks®.
Applications built on the platform will be featured on the Intuit
Solutions Marketplace, which reaches millions of small businesses
looking for QuickBooks add-ons.
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Benefit from Utility-based Billing. Once applications are
deployed, QuickBase will only charge developers for the computing
resources their applications use. QuickBase will also manage customer
billing so developers can focus on creating great solutions, not
moving money.
“Adobe RIA technologies are rapidly becoming
the standard for creating engaging business applications delivered as a
service,” said Michele Turner, vice president
of product marketing and product management at Adobe. “Intuit
is now enabling tens of thousands of developers to create compelling
user experiences with Flex that easily connect to powerful QuickBooks
financial software for small businesses. In the future, added
capabilities will allow these same RIAs to be deployed on Adobe AIR,
which will enable developers to extend their Web applications right to
the desktop.”
Adobe Flex Builder™ 3 is a highly productive,
Eclipse-based development environment for building and maintaining
expressive RIAs that deploy consistently on all major browsers via Adobe
Flash® Player, and
on the desktop with Adobe AIR™. Applications
built using Flex are highly interactive and dramatically enhance the
user experience, increasing customer satisfaction and user productivity.
There is no cost to join the QuickBase Developer Program and no cost
during application development. In addition, developers building on the
platform will receive the QuickBase Developer SDK, which includes the
toolkit for Adobe Flex, a free QuickBase developer account and training
resources.
Several developers have already begun building Web applications using
the QuickBase Development Environment and will be demonstrated in the
QuickBase booth (#421) at Web
2.0 Expo San Francisco from April 22-25, 2008.
Program Registration
The QuickBase Developer Program is now available in closed beta to a
limited amount of participants. The beta program is intended to gather
feedback from developers. For more information about the QuickBase
Development Environment or to apply for early access to the program,
please visit: http://quickbase.intuit.com/partners/developer-program.
About Intuit Inc.
Intuit Inc. is a leading provider of business and financial management
solutions for small and mid-sized businesses; financial institutions,
including banks and credit unions; consumers and accounting
professionals. Its flagship products and services, including QuickBooks®,
Quicken® and TurboTax®
software, simplify small business management and payroll processing,
personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. ProSeries®
and Lacerte® are Intuit’s
leading tax preparation software suites for professional accountants.
The company’s financial institutions
division, anchored by Digital Insight, provides on-demand banking
services to help banks and credit unions serve businesses and consumers
with innovative solutions.
Founded in 1983, Intuit had annual revenue of $2.67 billion in its
fiscal year 2007. The company has approximately 8,000 employees with
major offices in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and other
locations. More information can be found at www.intuit.com.
Intuit, the Intuit logo, QuickBooks and QuickBase, among others, are
registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in
the United States and other countries. Adobe, Flex, Flex Builder, Adobe
AIR and Flash are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe
Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Other
parties’ trademarks or service marks are the
property of their respective owners and should be treated as such.
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