INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Google announced today that it is buying AppSheet, an eight-year-old no-code mobile-application-building platform
The company had raised more than $17 million on a $60 million valuation, according to PitchBook data
The companies did not share the purchase price.With AppSheet, Google gets a simple way for companies to build mobile apps without having to
It works by pulling data from a spreadsheet, database or form, and using the field or column names as the basis for building an app.It is
integrated with Google Cloud already integrating with Google Sheets and Google Forms, but also works with other tools, including AWS
DynamoDB, Salesforce, Office 365, Box and others
Google says it will continue to support these other platforms, even after the deal closes.As Amit Zavery wrote in a blog post announcing the
functionality, scale, and performance of AppSheet
working alongside workflow automation, application integration and API management.No code tools like AppSheet are not going to replace
sophisticated development environments, but they will give companies that might not otherwise have a mobile app the ability to put something
