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We are in the business of awesome user experience, software engineering, mobile products, and web design. Our award-winning solutions leverage new technological developments to propel our clients to new heights. With today’s competitive technology industry, we know the importance of software developers for our clients’ success. We want to provide the best of the best for our clients. To ensure we are doing so, our company joined Clutch to see how we stack against the competition in our industry.

Clutch, a B2B ratings and reviews platform, evaluates companies across various industries in order to help businesses choose the best service provider. They analyzed Mobomo based on our services offered, client base, and case studies of projects we’ve executed for former clients. More importantly, they spoke directly with our former clients in phone interviews to obtain an accurate and verified understanding of their experience working with the Mobomo team. The interviews have been an incredibly valuable resource for our clients to provide their feedback on our service, and for our own team to reflect on how far we’ve come as an agency.

You can find these former client reviews on our Clutch profile. Here’s a glimpse of the praise so far:

 

“[Mobomo] has extremely talented developers with a knack for finding the most efficient solutions.” – Branch Chief, Government Agency

 

“Because of Mobomo, things run much smoother and more efficiently now.” – Website Project Manager, Nonprofit

 

“The team is responsive to all inquiries, questions, and concerns.” – Program Analyst, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

 

These rave reviews, combined with our excellence in other areas of Clutch’s research methodology, scored us positions as a global leader in two development categories. In the ultra-competitive development space, we have been recognized as one of the top global 15 mobile app development companies, more specifically for iPhone development, and as one of the best WordPress Developers in the world.

Our ability to deliver has not only propelled us to the top of the development space, but we have been featured in Clutch’s inaugural listing, The Clutch 1000. The Clutch 1000 is their most selective list of the most highly ranked B2B service providers. B2B companies with the strongest brand reputation, clientele, and reviews were selected from a pool of over 50,000 global agencies, and we were placed in the top in the top 60!

Lastly, Clutch is not the only platform that gave us praise for our development prowess. The Manifest named us as a top-20 leading web development firm. The Manifest is a database of industry reports, how-to-guides, and top service provider lists across various industries.

In conclusion, we want to say thank you to all of our clients and partners; your support allows us to do what we love. We’re proud of our high rankings so far, and we can’t wait to keep pushing the boundaries of next level development with you.

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NVTC Tech 100

We are honored to announce that Ken Fang, President of Mobomo, was named as one of the 2018 NVTC Tech 100 Executives of the Year. The NVTC Tech 100 recognizes companies and individuals who are driving tech innovation, implementing new solutions, and leading growth in the Greater Washington region. Ken Fang is a mobile, web, and cloud Subject Matter Expert who works closely with clients to create solutions to meet their strategic needs. He is adept at developing solutions on all major web, mobile, and cloud platforms, overseeing large-scale application and infrastructure deployments at NASA, NOAA, USGS, Commerce, NIH, and other federal agencies.

“We are all continually impressed with Ken Fang’s uncanny work ethic, technical knowledge, and positive leadership skills that have propelled Mobomo to the company that it is today,” said CEO, Brian Lacey.

About the NVTC

The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia and is the largest technology council in the nation. Its membership includes companies from all sectors of the technology industry including information technology, software/hardware, Internet, ISPs, telecommunications, biotechnology, bioinformatics, aerospace, and nanotechnology, as well as the service providers that play an important role in supporting these companies. In addition, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies are members and take an active participation in meeting NVTC goals and objectives.

 

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Mobomo is honored to announce that the USO's mobile application has won a Silver Davey Award!

“David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock – the sort of thing small agencies do each year. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the “Creative Davids” who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than stratospheric budgets.”

Mobomo was able to recognize the USO and the mobile application that we partnered with them to create.  This application fosters greater discoverability of locations where USO provides services and programs offered by the USO through its distributed locations and online.  Prior to discovery, USO was seeking to design, develop, and deploy a cross-platform mobile application that introduced an additional channel for United States military service members and their families to better engage with USO centers and programs.  Currently, there are 200+ USO locations that all create their own content. We were able to pull the CMS data and integrate it into the app so that the service member receives the content from the service center that they are physically at or that is most adjacent to them.

This mobile application launched in the spring of 2017 as part of a series of deployments on a fixed schedule starting with a limited beta release to 15 USO centers.

About the USO

The United Service Organizations or better known as the USO strengthens America’s military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation. USO, a private, nonprofit organization, serves the men and women in the U.S. military and their families throughout their service – from the moment they join, through their deployments and as they transition back to their communities. Over time, the USO has become the vital bridge between Americans and their military service members. The USO provides programs, entertainment and services at more than 180 USO locations and hundreds of other military sites worldwide, including Afghanistan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Italy, Japan, Guam, South Korea, Djibouti and the United States.

About Mobomo

Mobomo builds elegant solutions to complex problems. We do it fast, and we do it at a planetary scale. As a premier provider of mobile, web, and cloud applications to large enterprises, federal agencies, napkin-stage startups, and nonprofits, Mobomo combines leading-edge technology with human-centered design and strategy to craft next-generation digital experiences.

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Award Program Showcases Outstanding Examples of Digital Experience Delivery

Vienna, VA – October 24, 2018 – Mobomo today announced it was selected along with NOAA Fisheries as the winner of the 2018 Acquia Engage Awards for the Leader of the Pack: Public Sector. The Acquia Engage Awards recognize the world-class digital experiences that organizations are building with the Acquia Platform.

In late 2016, NOAA Fisheries partnered with Mobomo to restructure and redesign their digital presence. Before the start of the project, NOAA Fisheries worked with Foresee to help gather insight on their current users. They wanted to address poor site navigation, one of the biggest complaints. They had concerns over their new site structure and wanted to test proposed designs and suggest improvements. Also, the NOAA Fisheries organization had siloed information, websites and even servers within multiple distinct offices. The Mobomo team was and (is currently) tasked with the project of consolidating information into one main site to help NOAA Fisheries communicate more effectively with all worldwide stakeholders, such as commercial and recreational fishermen, fishing councils, scientists and the public. Developing a mobile-friendly, responsive platform is of the utmost importance to the NOAA Fisheries organization. By utilizing Acquia, we are able to develop and integrate lots of pertinent information from separate internal systems with a beautifully designed interface.

“It has been a great pleasure for Mobomo to develop and deploy a beautiful and functional website to support NOAA fisheries managing this strategic resource. Whether supporting the work to help Alaskan Native American sustainable fish stocks, providing a Drupal-based UI to help fishing council oversight of the public discussion of legislation, or helping commercial fishermen obtain and manage their licenses, is honored help NOAA Fisheries execute its mission.” - Shawn MacFarland, CTO of Mobomo 

More than 100 submissions were received from Acquia customers and partners, from which 15 were selected as winners. Nominations that demonstrated an advanced level functionality, integration, performance (results and key performance indicators), and overall user experience advanced to the finalist round, where an outside panel of experts selected the winning projects.

“This year’s Acquia Engage Award nominees show what’s possible when open technology and boundless ambition come together to create world-class customer experiences. They’re making every customer interaction more meaningful with powerful, personalized experiences that span the web, mobile devices, voice assistants, and more,” said Joe Wykes, senior vice president, global channels at Acquia. “We congratulate Mobomo and NOAA Fisheries and all of the finalists and winners. This year’s cohort of winners demonstrated unprecedented evidence of ROI and business value from our partners and our customers alike, and we’re proud to recognize your achievement.”

“Each winning project demonstrates digital transformation in action, and provides a look at how these brands and organizations are trying to solve the most critical challenges facing digital teams today,” said Matt Heinz, president of Heinz Marketing and one of three Acquia Engage Award jurors. Sheryl Kingstone of 451 Research and Sam Decker of Decker Marketing also served on the jury.

About Mobomo

Mobomo builds elegant solutions to complex problems. We do it fast, and we do it at a planetary scale. As a premier provider of mobile, web, and cloud applications to large enterprises, federal agencies, napkin-stage startups, and nonprofits, Mobomo combines leading-edge technology with human-centered design and strategy to craft next-generation digital experiences.

About Acquia

Acquia provides a cloud platform and data-driven journey technology to build, manage and activate digital experiences at scale. Thousands of organizations rely on Acquia’s digital factory to power customer experiences at every channel and touchpoint. Acquia liberates its customers by giving them the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.

For more information visit www.acquia.com or call +1 617 588 9600.

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PHP 5.6 will officially be no longer supported through security fixes on December 31, 2018. This software has not been actively developed for a number of years, but people have been slow to jump on the bandwagon. Beginning in the new year, no bug fixes will be released for this version of PHP. This opens the door for a dramatic increase in security risks if you are not beginning the new year on a version of PHP 7. PHP 7 was released back in December 2015 and PHP 7.2 is the latest version that you can update to. PHP did skip over 6; so don't even try searching for it.

Drupal 8.6 is the final Drupal version that will support PHP 5.6. Many other CMS's will be dropping their support for PHP 5.6 in their latest versions as well. Simply because it is supported in that version does not mean that you will be safe from the security bugs; you will still need to upgrade your PHP version before December 31, 2018. In addition to the security risks, you have already been missing out on many improvements that have been made to PHP.

What Should You Do About This?

You are probably thinking "Upgrade, I get it." It may actually be more complicated than that and you will need to refactor. 90-95% of your code should be fine. The version your CMS is may affect the complexity of your conversion. Most major CMS's will handle PHP 7 right out of the box in their most recent versions.

By upgrading to a version of PHP 7, you will see a variety of performance improvements; the most dramatic being speed. The engine behind PHP, Zend Technologies, ran performance tests on a variety of PHP applications to compare the performance of PHP 7 vs PHP 5.6. These tests compared requests per second across the two versions. This relates to the speed at which code is executed, and how fast queries to the database and server are returned. These tests showed that PHP 7 runs twice as fast and you will see additional improvements in memory consumption.

How Can Mobomo Help?

Mobomo's team is highly experienced, not only in assisting with your conversion, but with the review of your code to ensure your environment is PHP 7 ready.  Our team of experts will review your code and uncover the exact amount of code that needs to be converted. There are a good number of factors that could come into play and affect your timeline. The more customizations and smaller plugins that your site contains, the more complex your code review and your eventual conversion could be. Overall, depending on the complexity of the code, your timeline could vary but this would take a maximum of 3 weeks.

Important Things to Know:

  1. How many contributed modules does your site contain?
  2. How many custom modules does your site contain?
  3. What does your environment look like?
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Hyattsville Zombie Run

Mobomo was thrilled to sponsor the third annual Hyattsville Zombie Run 5K on October 13th! The event is hosted by the Hyattsville Elementary School PTA and proceeds support HES, including the purchase of art supplies, musical instruments, coats for students, field trips, teacher professional development, and more.

This Zombie themed 5K race is USATF certified and timed, and the 1 Mile Kids’ Challenge and 1K Family Fun Run are opportunities for everyone to participate. People dressed up as a zombie or any Halloween costume that added to the fun! All races started and finished at Magruder Park. It was a great, family-fun event and it was a great way to start a Saturday. Our CEO, Brian Lacey, left the rest of Mobomo team in the dust and completed his 5k in just over 23 minutes!

We can't wait for next year!

 

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The 13th Annual W3 Awards were just announced and two Mobomo projects were selected by The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts as Silver winners! We are honored that The USO was selected in the mobile app category and www.NASA.gov was selected as a government winner in the web category. These awards celebrate digital excellence by honoring outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, Video, Mobile Sites/Apps & Social content created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide. These awards are also the first major competition that is accessible to companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 companies to small startups.

The USO

Mobomo was able to recognize the USO and the mobile application that we partnered with them to create. This application fosters greater discoverability of locations where USO provides services and programs offered by the USO through its distributed locations and online. Prior to the discovery phase, USO was seeking to design, develop, and deploy a cross-platform mobile application that introduced an additional channel for the United States military service members and their families to better engage with USO centers and programs. Currently, there are 200+ USO locations that all create their own content. We were able to pull the CMS data and integrate it into the app so that the service member receives the content from the service center that they are physically at or that is most adjacent to them.

NASA

In addition, Mobomo also entered www.NASA.gov under the government category. In 2013, our team migrated www.NASA.gov —a site with over 250,000+ pages, 1.4 million assets, and 3 TBs of data—from a proprietary data center and content management system (CMS) to Amazon Cloud and Drupal 7 without downtime or service interruption. This was a colossal task: Mobomo completed the entire effort in just 13 weeks. The results were so colossal, in fact, that www.NASA.gov has won a multiple, highly coveted Webby Awards. Mobomo has continued to work with NASA in order to create a dynamic, user-centric, mobile-first site that simplifies the experience for every visitor. We can’t wait to see what the future holds for www.NASA.gov!

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