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 Infragistics, the software company responsible for the UI and UX solutions powering applications for the world’s largest enterprises and software developers, today announced the launch of App Builder™ On-Prem. App Builder is a cloud-based, drag & drop tool that enables UI designers and developers to collaborate in a single working environment to speed app creation from design to code. The on-premise edition of the widely adopted tool can now be used by large scale designer-developer teams, as well as developer-only enterprise teams.

The biggest challenge in app development today is streamlining app creation from design to code. According to a recent Infragistics survey, only 23% of developers work with a design team – leaving more than 3 out of 4 developers to also act as UI designers. Seventy percent (70%) of developers say that working with HTML/CSS and designing screens slows them down the most in terms of web app building.

To create mission critical enterprise apps, low-code apps must prioritize user experience (UX) by beginning the app creation process with user interface (UI) design. App Builder achieves this by bringing together the core components of the app creation process. App Builder is included with the Ignite UI for Angular and Blazor web-based toolkits and eliminates the complexity of user interface design and development so developers can build business apps up to 80% faster.

App Builder On-Prem offers all the features and benefits of the cloud version of the App Builder software. The product brings the low-code tool to enterprise organizations that have not approved the use of cloud-based SaaS solutions or those with sensitive design work that can’t go beyond a company’s firewall. It can be installed on an organization’s server and behind its server firewall. It is runnable on any infrastructure and accessible only by internal personnel, ensuring data and designs are safe from any outside influence. 

The release of App Builder™ On-Prem is part of Infragistics’ Ultimate 22.1 rollout, which includes new design-to-code features and capabilities for both versions of App Builder, including: 

• OpenAPI / Swagger Support – Easily connect Swagger definitions for Web APIs or Entity Framework models to App Builder, offering live access to real data (cloud-based or localhost), or auto-generated mock data based on schemas in app design.  This live data access support builds on the OData & JSON data binding features shipped earlier this year, allowing complete flexibility to connect to data during the app building process. 
• Data Visualizations & Charts – with over a dozen Chart types to choose from, designers and developers can include updated visualizations in their apps to enable data & analytics in any screen.  With a simple point and click, chart type, data series, colors and interactions can be customized for any type of data visualization experience in an app.
• Design System Updates – The Indigo.Design System, the backbone of App Builder, adds to the Material UI Kit with brand new UI Kits for Bootstrap, Fluent and Indigo. This gives design teams the ability to target any popular design system, customizable to the themes, screen parts and UI patterns that seamlessly handoff to App Builder for pixel-perfect apps and code generation for Angular or Blazor. 
• New Controls, Updated Code Generation – The App Builder Toolbox gets more than 10 new controls, including new data bound controls, new Navigation controls,  plus updated and improved code-generation for both Blazor and Angular apps.
• App Templates & Screen Layouts – A library of 12 App Templates and 15 Screen Layouts can kick-start app design and help build responsive pages in a single click. These new templates alleviate the hardest part of app development for developers – hand-coding responsive CSS for the web and creating complex, interactive layouts with real UI controls bound to real data.

App Builder is also included with Indigo.Design, a complete design-to-code platform that integrates UI prototyping, design systems, user testing, app building and code generation to eliminate design hand-offs and reduce costly iterations — enabling true UX design-development collaboration.

Infragistics, the software company responsible for the user experience and interface (UX/UI) solutions behind the world’s largest enterprise applications, today announces the launch of its $50M Innovation Fund and Lab. The fund will create freedom for internal inventors to experiment with innovations beyond the company’s core UI/UX products, without an immediate need to generate revenue. The fund’s Innovation Lab arm was introduced by Infragistics founder and CEO Dean Guida, and will be led by Tobias Komischke, PhD, an expert in the field of Usability Engineering and head of data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning at Infragistics.

The new fund is part of Infragistics’ larger commitment to nurturing a culture of innovation and cultivating the same entrepreneurial spirit responsible for its longevity in the technology arena. After years of funding innovation products informally, the fund introduces a formal delineation between Infragistics’ revenue-generating products and its pre-market growth products. 

All Infragistics employees are encouraged to pitch ideas that leverage their collective expertise in artificial intelligence, analytics and digital product design. Projects can make use of any programming frameworks and require the most advanced technologies available, including data science and machine learning (DSML), AI-informed design and collaboration work streams. 

Under Komischke’s guidance, the Innovation Lab team has developed a proprietary and structured innovation process to prototype, test and thoroughly assess new ideas for market viability. Projects that make it past internal and external reviews will be provided experimental capital to take the innovation from concept and prototype all the way to market.

The decision to formalize the Fund and introduce a dedicated lab comes as Infragistics embarks on its fourth decade in business. Founder Dean Guida bootstrapped Infragistics 31 years ago and has since grown it to a multi-million dollar company without accepting outside funding. The company now has 250 employees and offices in the U.S., Japan, Uruguay, Bulgaria, UK and India. Its client roster boasts 100% of the S&P 500, including Intuit, Exxon and Morgan Stanley, and its enterprise-ready UX and UI toolkits are in use by more than two million developers worldwide.

The Innovation Lab is located in the company’s 74,000 square-foot New Jersey headquarters. The Lab is part of Infragistics’ $22M investment in converting a vacant, two-story warehouse into an open work environment. 

The Innovation Lab leadership team is currently responsible for two new in-market products, Indigo.Design and Reveal, and one pre-market product, Slingshot, which will be released in Q4 of 2021.

Indigo.Design is a complete design-to-code system that has allowed Infragistics to move outside of the enterprise and work directly with UX designers across industries  and company sizes. Through Indigo, Infragistics was one of the first companies to enter the emerging low-code space in 2018. The platform generates production-ready code for Angular, with React, Web Components and Blazor coming soon. Infragistics UX Principal George Abraham leads the Innovation Lab’s Indigo.Design team.

Reveal is an analytics and data visualization software platform that can take the world’s most complex data sets and transform them into actionable insights. Organizations that thrive on precision and continuous intelligence, such as the Japanese Railway Group and Baker Hughes, now rely on Reveal to organize, understand and act on their business intelligence. Seventeen-year Infragistics veteran and SVP of Developer Tools, Jason Beres, leads the Innovation Lab’s Reveal team.

Soon-to-launch Slingshot is a digital workplace that boosts team results, no matter where they are, by giving them the ability to make better, quicker decisions with data analytics, as well as improving their workflow. Slingshot eliminates disruption caused by constant app-switching, and introduces a structured approach to project organization, task prioritization and communication in context. Slingshot is a culmination of on-the-ground best practices culled by Infragistics over its three decades working with hundreds of companies. Guida and Innovation Lab Director Dr. Tobias Komischke, are currently leading Slingshots’ pilot tests. 

Dr. Komischke, Director of the new Innovation Lab, spent seven years working at Infragistics before accepting a role as Global Director of User Experience at Honeywell in 2015. In 2020, he returned to Infragistics to lead the new Innovation Lab.

As part of his work with the Innovation Lab, Dr. Komischke also developed an Innovation Fellowship with Rutgers University, which contributes a regular stream of insights that help the company shape its ongoing innovation.

For more information about the Infragistics Innovation Fund and Lab, please visit: https://www.infragistics.com/about-us/innovation   

Infragistics, the software company responsible for the UI/UX solutions powering the web, mobile and desktop applications of the world’s largest enterprises, today announces the official release of its Ignite UI for Angular 11. This release is a fast follow to its Angular 10.2 release in late October 2020 and Angular 10.1 release in August 2020.  As of its early launch to its customers on Wednesday, November 11, Infragistics was the only vendor with Angular 11-compatible UI components. 

Infragistics’ Ignite UI toolkit for Angular 11 includes a complete library of Angular-native UI components, material-based components and 60+ high-performance charts and data grids. The new release includes significant new additions, including updates to all of the Angular grids (Data Grid, Tree Grid, Hierarchical Grid), Export to Excel, Accessibility / ARIA  and more across all of the controls in its enterprise-grade toolkit.

Infragistics’ Ignite UI for Angular 11 includes more than 75 UI controls and 60+ Chart types, including: 

• Angular Data Grids & Lists — Designed to load and render high volume, real-time data, the virtualized tabular grid, hierarchical grid and tree grid can handle unlimited rows and columns of data. With inline editing, full end-user interactions and export to Excel, the grids can handle any enterprise app demands.
• Angular Charts — Build expressive dashboards, apply deep analytics, and render millions of data points with 60+ real-time Angular charts. Includes the most-asked-for financial and category charts to fulfill any line-of-business and fintech need.
• Angular Maps — Display data that contains geographic locations, geo-spatial data loaded from shape files, GeoJSON files or tile sources and geo-imagery from vendors like Azure Maps, MapBox, ESRI and more.
• Angular Spreadsheet – Create, read or load Excel spreadsheets, or access the full Excel API without installing Excel on your machine. Includes everything from Workbooks and Worksheets to cell editing, conditional formatting, selection, clipboard support and chart support.
• Angular DockManager – A first on the Web, the Angular DockManager delivers a complete windowing experience, including splitting complex layouts into smaller, easier-to-manage panes, plus multi-monitor support in the browser.

Infragistics’ Ignite UI for Angular release is a fast follow to its recent releases of Ignite UI for React and Ignite UI for Web Components, as well as Ignite UI for Blazor in October.

Infragistics has spent the past 31 years building UI and UX tools that companies like Fidelity, Exxon, IKEA and others rely on to build their core customer experiences.

The company’s expansive portfolio of Web UI and UX solutions borrow from more than three decades of experience building enterprise-grade solutions that empower high-performing teams at the largest companies in the world. 

Infragistics’ Ignite UI web components are also available for frameworks including Blazor, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, React, Web Components and more.