Top ten considerations for choosing a mobile platform

Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Mobile Platform

Jonathan Kempel

Business Development Executive – IBM Mobile Enterprise

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© 2012 IBM Corporation

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Mobile Platform Mobile Security Device Management

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US Mobile Commerce

Mobile Commerce Growth

US

EU

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Mobile payment trans - $670B by 2015

Source: Juniper Research 2011

Mobile Payments Growth

Focus areas for mobile computing

61% of CIOs put mobile as priority

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And is becoming a mandatory transformation


Source: 2011 IBM Tech Trends Reporthttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/techtrends/entry/home?lang=en

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increased productivity with mobile apps45%

of companies will support BYOD by 201490%

Business to ConsumerBusiness to Enterprise

With enormous opportunities


• Improve customer satisfaction

• Deeper customer engagement and loyalty

• Drive increased sales through Personalized offers

• Customer service

• Competitive differentiator

• Improve brand perception

• Deeper insight into customer buying behavior for up sell and cross sell

• Improve in store experience with mobile concierge services

• Increase worker productivity

• Improved claims processing

• Increase revenue with sales engagements

• Extend existing applications to mobile workers and customers

• Reducing fuel, gas, or fleet maintenance costs where relevant

• Increase employee and business partner responsiveness and decision making speed

• Resolve internal IT issues faster

• Reduce personnel cost (utilizing personal devices instead of corporate devices)

But also with some unique challenges

How do you quickly:

• Engage with anyone, customers, partners or employees, no matter who owns the device

• Extend to anything, from instrumented machines to a broad spectrum of smart devices

• Execute business anywhere, with


Top Mobile Adoption Concerns:

1. Security/privacy (53%)2. Cost of developing for multiple

mobile platforms (52%)3. Integrating cloud services to

mobile devices (51%)

Source: 2011 IBM Tech Trends Reporthttps://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/techtrends/entry/home?lang=en

• Execute business anywhere, with ubiquitous, trusted and secure transactions

200 Millionemployees BYOD

(bring your own devices)

Databases

� Higher infrastructure costs

� Longer mobile development time

� Inability to support all required device types

� Higher administrative and maintenance

Potential Issues:

Today application mobilization is complex when unstructured


Enterprise

Applications

Web Services

� Higher administrative and maintenance costs

� Overall increase in risk

� Security issues due multiple points of entry into the network

� Limited or no ability to respond to changes in devices and backend systems

� No consistency across an enterprise portfolio

Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms help build, manage and integrate more easily - to maximize the opportunity value of enterprise applications

Databases

Worklight Mobile Enterprise Application Platform


Enterprise

Applications

Web Services

Top 10 considerations for choosing a mobile application platform

� Don’t compromise on user experience

� Support multiple development approaches

� Build for performance

� Enable collaboration and efficiency

� Ensure proper authentication and address security concerns

� Close the HTML5 gap


� Close the HTML5 gap

� Connect your back-end and cloud-based services

� Manage mobile apps, devices and data

� Evaluate supporting services

� Protect your investment

1. User experience is a key adoption factor

� Apps are extensions of your brand

� They operate in a unique context; on the go, offline, touch, thumb

� Different mobile OSs have unique functionality and design their users are familiar with and expect

26% of apps downloaded in 2010 were used once


are familiar with and expect

� Consumerization of IT

� Gamification of business processes

� Employees = Customers

Localytics survey 2011 - http://www.localytics.com/blog/2011

2. Support multiple development approaches

� Native? Web? Hybrid?

� Depends on audience, functionality,

budget, timeframe, available skills

� One company, multiple apps

� Multiple apps, one platform

72% will deploy 1-5 mobile apps in the upcoming year. 18% said 6-10.


BI Goes Mobile on iPad and iPhone – Forbes Dec 210

3. Build for performance

� Desktop or mobile, users expect

the same performance

� Test your application

� Collect usage data

Key features:

Gartner: Mobile To Outpace Desktop Web By 2013


Key features:

� Comprehensive testing features

� Slim data transfer protocols

� Background activities

� Network identification capabilities

� Server-side mash-ups

� Support offline accessibility

4. Enable collaboration and efficiency

� Multiple development teams

� Iterative process

� Different knowledge and skillsets

� Different tools

� Different locations

Modern mobile development is not a one man show


Key features:

� Centralized build mechanism

� Collaboration tools

� Source control management

� Testing and error reporting

� Concurrent development

� Integration with 3rd-party tools

5. Ensure proper authentication and address security concerns

� Mobile commerce to reach $31B by 20161

� 50% of online transactions via mobile by 20152

� Mobile regulations – A question of when. Not if.

� Leverage your existing infrastructure and processes

Key features:

Top mobile concerns: 53% of respondents name security/privacy


Key features:

� Secure client/server communication

� Encrypted offline cache

� SSL Identity verification

� Client code attestation

� Remote updates and disable

� Custom authentication processes

� Device identification and secure provisioning

6. Close the HTML5 gap

� Commitment from all major vendors

� Active standardization efforts

� A growing-ecosystem of 3rd-party tools

� Technological advancements in modern mobile browsers

� Ongoing fragmentation of devices

79% of mobile developers will integrate HTML5 in their apps this year1


But… gaps remain

Key features:

� Leverage current benefits

� Augment current capabilities

� Evolve with the standard

7. Connect with back-end and cloud-based systems

� Apps are not independent entities

� Back-end integration determines performance, cost, scalability, time-to-market, regulatory compliance, etc.

Key features:

� Single integration layer

Developing the application’s client side is just the tip of the iceberg


� Single integration layer

� Mobile-optimized middleware

� Flexible integration framework

� Connect and manage hybrid worlds

� Centralized monitoring

8. Manage apps, devices and data

� Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – A blessing or a curse?

� Sensitive data outside the firewall

� Data stored on theft- and hack-prone devices

� Ongoing application updates and patches

� Multiple application versions

� New sources of data to be analyzed

60% of companies offer BYOD today. 90% will do so by 20141


� New sources of data to be analyzed

Key features

� Device and application-level management

� Extensive security features

� Direct update and remote disable

� Data collection, reporting and analytics

9. Evaluate supporting services

� Business expansion and transformation

− On the business level

− On the IT level

Key features:

� Design a mobile strategy

Enterprise mobility is about more than just the app


� Design a mobile strategy

� Discover unique requirements

− Vertical

− Business

� Support execution

� Train and educate

10. Protect your investment

� Mobility is becoming mission-critical

� The mobile market is young and changing

� Evolve with the change, avoid technology lock-in and don’t limit your solution to today’s challenges

Key features:

Your business has commitments and vision – So should your vendor


Key features:

� Defined strategy

� Product roadmap

� Financial stability

� Customer references

� Avoid tech lock-in

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standards-based and future ready


business processes and systems are completely integrated from the mobile access points to the back-end systems

proactive end-to-end security; centralized deployment, management, maintenance and support for applications, devices and infrastructure

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