Oct 2014, Bellevue, WA –

Puget Sound Business Journal announced that Akvelon was ranked #50 on the top 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State list for 2014. The 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington state were honored at this sold out flagship event. To make the list, companies must have recorded revenue of at least $500,000 in 2011 and demonstrated revenue growth through 2013. The firms are privately held during the reporting period and headquartered in Washington state. They cannot be subsidiaries of other companies. Also, the chief executive officer or chief financial officer must submit in writing — and personally vouch for — company revenues for the past three years.

More details here: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/health-care-inc/2014/09/washingtons-fastest-growing-private-companies.html

 

 

Sept 2015, Bellevue, WA –

Akvelon, Inc. is thrilled to announce that our software engineers, together with Apache Cordova and Microsoft, have brought the support of Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 apps to the Apache Cordova framework, a highly popular platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

“Modern browsers offer outstanding performance and web standards support so we see a growing tendency to build cross-platform apps with HTML5. This approach has both positives and negatives when compared to native app development that can, and should, influence decisions when making a choice for development. The most appealing benefit of this approach is the ability to build and manage one app instead of several different versions of the same app, deploy it across multiple platforms for maximum market exposure and to reduce development cost and time. With the Apache Cordova framework, Akvelon is able to leverage our existing HTML5 skills to deliver a high quality app experiences that many companies including Microsoft, Intel, IBM, RIM, Google, Salesforce, Dropbox and Telerik actively support and use.” – stated Toby Rawlinson, Akvelon’s Partnership Manager.

The Apache Cordova 3.6 release has been inspired by the idea of Building universal Windows apps. It introduces a new unified ‘windows’ platform to build apps targeting Windows 8.0, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1. Note, Windows Phone 8.0 still remains as a separate ‘wp8’ platform due to different implementation.

 

 

Microsoft blogged about it as did MS Open Tech in a more detailed post.

Open source SDK provides access to a new set of Office 365 OData based services for Exchange Mail, Contact, Calendar as well as Sharepoint files and lists. Except for a small authentication wrapper, Exchange SDK code is automatically generated based on OData metadata and is exposed via Java Proxy (reflection) classes that provide JPA in a simple way to interact with a structured object model.

An infrastructure has been developed to generate SDKs based on any OData V4 compliant service metadata. SDK has been released to Maven Central repository. SDK and demo application, showcasing the SDK, have been presented at the SPC 2014 conference. Through the project, code contributions were made to ODataJClient OSS project and ADAL (Azure Active Directory Authentication Layer) OSS project. The contributed code has been moved to Apache Olingo project which has evolved from incubation, to a top level Apache project in a little over a month.

Akvelon engineering team has been working on Android Office 365 SDK in collaboration with the MS Open Tech team and we are happy to see it is finally released.

 

 

Bellevue, WA 2015 –

Akvelon, Inc. recently became one of only a select few companies to participate in The Microsoft  Supplier Program (MSP). The MSP is designed to make it quick and easy for Microsoft employees to identify and work with a pre-qualified, select group of suppliers. Microsoft researched and evaluated thousands of companies, interviewed their internal buyers to understand their needs, and analyzed performance data to select only the best companies for MSP.  As a result, over 80% of Microsoft’s annual spend is with MSP suppliers and MSP suppliers account for only 10% of Microsoft’s total active supplier population.

Akvelon is very excited to work with Microsoft on this and other initiatives and looks forward to being a primary reason for increasing the lion’s share of contribution from suppliers.