PALO ALTO, CA — (Marketwired) — 11/07/13 — Inc., an award-winning digital technology and marketing firm, announced today that it is sponsoring the 2013 . The SVBA Awards recognize the best achievements in business app development and facilitate the growth of the developer community by emphasizing best practices and strategies. Awards will be given for both individual and group accomplishments. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at the Historic Del Monte Building in Sunnyvale, California. The Keynote Speaker at the event will be Dr. Nikhil Balram, President and CEO, Ricoh Innovations Corporation.

Serving on the SVBA panel of judges are industry experts who have made significant contributions to the advancement of mobile technologies:

, President and CEO of Ricoh Innovations Corporation
Director at IHS
Group Manager, QuickBooks Web and Mobile at Intuit
Sr. Director, World-wide Business Development, Synopsys
Chief Product Officer at PlayPhone
, President of Grio
, President of LearnStreet
, Product Innovation and UX Design at Samsung Innovation Labs
Director, User Experience at DocuSign

Awards will be given for Best Overall, Best Social Business, Best Management, Best Finance, Best Productivity, and Best Business Utility. These awards will recognize outstanding accomplishments by development teams during each stage of the development process. In addition audience at the event will vote to select the Popular Award.

Based on participating applicants, Regalix will create and publish a series of comprehensive case studies spotlighting the best practices and strategies for planning, creating, releasing, and maintaining a successful mobile app.

The demand for mobile apps has surged as adoption of mobile devices has accelerated both at home and at the office. Industry forecasts show the global installed base of smartphones and tablets exceeding that of desktops and notebooks this year (Source: Morgan Stanley Research).

Only 16 percent of the eBusiness professionals participating in Forrester Research-s Global Maturity Online Survey do not have a mobile app, and eighty-eight percent of those surveyed either have or plan to have native applications for iOS by the end of 2013, and 74 percent either have or plan to have native applications for Android. Forrester comments that “Building native applications, especially in their native languages, is challenging: Developers must learn not only mobile best practices but also new programming languages.”

“We established the SVBA Awards to encourage developers to adopt and share best practices as they strive to make business apps that are both productive and engaging,” said Vikas Sharan, Regalix Chief Executive Officer. “In addition to highlighting the success of the winners, we designed the event to be a venue for developers and businesses to collaborate and share ideas that will advance the industry.”

: Regalix is an award-winning Global Co-Innovation company that leverages technology and marketing to help companies overcome challenges and grow. We create successful ventures with our clients through an idea-driven framework that inspires companies to think about their core business differently. Through our client partnerships, we have brought ideas to life by envisioning new companies, developing brands, engineering products, and designing platforms that allow ventures to scale profitably.

Founded in 1998, Regalix is based in Palo Alto. Our Silicon Valley setting has enabled us to stay ahead of emerging trends in digital technology and marketing. Web, mobile, and social are our primary channels; we see these paths emerging right here in Silicon Valley – our playground for ideas and ventures. For more than a decade, we have provided full marketing services – Search, Social, Mobile, Content, Multi-channel Campaigns, Technology Development, and Analytics – to companies such as CA Technologies, Citi, Apple, eBay, Cisco, VMWare, NetApp, Cypress, LSI, Keynote, and MetricStream.

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Wynne Ahern Kokka
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(510) 658-8870

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