<p>By Adrian Bridgwater, May 25, 2013 Telerik Icenium is an alternative to Facebook/Parse, Salesforce.com, and Heroku</p><p>Telerik has advanced its Icenium application management product with new cloud-based mobile back-end services designed to remove the need to manage complex servers and infrastructure.White Papers More >>Reports More >>Webcasts More >></p><p>NOTE: According to estimations Gartner, by 2016, 40% of mobile application development projects will leverage cloud mobile back-end services although this claim would appear to many to be a comparatively low estimation and one would expect the figure to be closer to 90 plus percent, the point is still made.</p><p>Telerik Icenium sets out to create a path for developers to make a transition to the cloud by providing a mobile application development platform for iOS and Android applications, using JavaScript and HTML.</p><p><a href="http://www.drdobbs.com/cloud/the-only-way-is-a-cloud-mobile-back-end/240155596">Keep reading...</a></p>