Choose the Right Development Platform for Enterprise Mobile Applications
While developing a mobile web app affords legacy carryover, you need to consider a native/hybrid app if you require access to device-specific features.
- Businesses realize the perceived value of implementing mobile applications in improving productivity and reach of day-to-day business and IT operations. As a result, business strategies and objectives are being directed towards mobile as seen in large initiatives.
- Mobile technologies have matured to a point where mobile devices and platforms can be used to execute key enterprise processes.
- Mobile devices are in your workplace and employees are actively looking for ways to integrate traditional enterprise apps with their device.
- Outsourcing mobile development to agencies has often been considered when internal skills, processes, and technologies were not readily available.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Incorporating mobile access with your existing traffic can stress your existing back-end infrastructure. The increased traffic will introduce new network scalability and security issues.
- Enterprise mobile applications require support from legacy applications and systems to operate. End users need the ability to view and access back-end data which presents integration and security challenges.
- Use a mobile web platform to minimize disruptions to your existing development process and technical stack while addressing business needs. If you have to go native for hardware access, then select a a hybrid development model to abstract away from coding language differences.
- Always map your future trajectory. Your mobile platform needs to grow lockstep with non-mobile initiatives to avoid architecture fragmentation.
Impact and Result
- Implementing mobile development on any platform requires analysis of the current technical stack to assess reusability with mobile technologies. Development teams must look for ways to leverage existing toolsets and mid-tier and back-end support in order to minimize costs and maximize ROI.
- Lessons learned from traditional web development can be applied to mobile development, maximizing reusability and operating within constrained budgets.
- Selecting the right development, testing, and deployment tools for mobile development can help reuse existing processes and technologies to catch and fix bugs and defects early in the SDLC.
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Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 5 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Decide if it is go or no-go to move forward with mobile platform selection and implementation
Get off to a productive start: Determine if your organization has the right fit for mobile development. Review your mobile platform selection and implementation project charter. Develop a strategy to secure stakeholder approval.
- Call 2: Gather mobile user stories and perform a use case review
Review your user stories and use cases: Discuss the key mobile functional requirements you need out of your target mobile platform. Info-Tech will also review your use cases and verify their clarity and value.
- Call 3: Design your target mobile platform and development tool chain
Assess your mobile architecture: Once you have compiled your technical requirements and identified your target state of your mobile stack, Info-Tech will review your architecture and discuss potential pain points, risks, and mitigations.
- Call 4: Create a mobile platform implementation plan
Review the major milestones in your implementation plan: Receive Info-Tech input on your strategy for project steps, such as integration, data migration, security, configurations, and end-user training.
- Call 5: Perform a mobile platform post-implementation review
Review your metrics monitoring and stack optimization plan: Discuss the lessons learned from the implementation and operations of your mobile platform and tips to optimize your mobile stack.
Choose Your Mobile Platform and Tools
