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Next wave of mobile apps target the enterprise

Next wave of mobile apps target the enterprise

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The new offerings will help developers from enterprise and born on the web companies quickly design, deliver and deploy secure mobile apps – helping to prevent data leaks and vulnerabilities – with the same speed and simplicity that consumers have come to expect, at enterprise scale.

"As mobile apps become a primary touchpoint with clients, the stakes run high to delight consumers. At the same time, the cost of a poorly designed app can significantly impact both the brand and bottom line," said Marie Wieck, General Manager, IBM MobileFirst. "IBM’s mobile platform, apps and studios are designed to help businesses accelerate the adoption of a mobile strategy for business growth."

The IBM MobileFirst Application Development portfolio comprises complete range of tools for developers to create, deploy and manage mobile apps, on-premise or in the cloud. The portfolio, which includes IBM Worklight, Cloudant and BlueMix technologies and services, enables developers to quickly build and deploy mobile apps.

IBM Worklight is a mobile enterprise app development platform deployed on a client’s IT infrastructure, while BlueMix delivers similar capabilities as cloud-based services. Both can be used with Cloudant, IBM’s NoSQL distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for mobile apps.

With the latest portfolio, IBM has addressed the evolving needs of mobile app developers by redefining the mobile application development platform. This redefinition includes offering enterprise-grade security and integrated quality assurance, so clients can build better, more secure apps faster. The platform also features a new app scanning capability to identify potential data leaks and vulnerabilities.

A updated version of IBM Worklight integrates additional mobile app lifecycle capabilities, expanding the definition of a mobile application development platform. IBM Worklight now allows enterprises to optimize mobile user experiences by supporting both native (via SDKs) and hybrid development models, as well as add new capabilities such as the USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) protocol for mobile money solutions in emerging markets. The BlueMix Platform-as-a-Service provides composable app creation and deployment capabilities in an open, common environment to reduce complexity. Both IBM Worklight and BlueMix offer mobile quality assurance capabilities to help developers track user experiences and provide sentiment analysis, crowd sourced feedback submissions, and in-context crash reports that identify problems for rapid resolution.

The IBM MobileFirst Business Acceleration portfolio offers IBM Ready Apps, a suite of industry-specific, pre-configured apps that can save clients up to 60 percent on time and resources. Whether an organization is just getting started or has multiple successful mobile projects underway, the IBM Ready Apps streamline design and enable organizations to customize their app once and deploy it to any platform or device. Organizations can also tailor the look and feel of apps and add features using built-in integration with common industry APIs.

IBM Ready Apps include those for banking, retail, healthcare, insurance, travel and transportation, government and connected devices.

For example, IBM Ready App for Industrial, Connected Home enables users to control and configure devices throughout their home such as setting the thermostat, arming the in-home alarm system, turning lights on or off, and setting/adjusting appliance settings. In addition, users can also view the amount of energy being used by a specific home device or in an aggregated view of all devices in the home.

IBM Ready App for Retail, In-Store Associate will help retailers benefit from the use of an in-store performance dashboard to track productivity, look up inventory and view store maps to analyze in-store foot traffic to prioritize customer service.

IBM MobileFirst studios expand IBM’s mobile ecosystem, providing clients direct access to local teams of IBM mobile experts including designers, developers, architects and consultants in locations around the globe. Clients can work side-by-side with IBM mobile professionals to quickly conceive, design, build and deploy working prototypes.

www.ibm.com/mobilefirst

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