- Mobile proliferation has created costly fragmentation; iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone are all popular with consumers.
- This poses a challenge for developers who are forced to choose between selecting one platform for development and investing in costly parallel development efforts.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Unlike web and cloud development, there is no complete, mature solution, but organizations are seeking ways to move from traditional tools to the mobile space, and vendors are responding accordingly.
- Many niche players offer attractive feature sets that take advantage of mobile’s smaller memory footprint or offer newcomers an easier way to develop for mobile.
- Many development features are common across vendors representing commodity status. Differentiation is occurring through support channels, app management, integration, and performance capabilities.
Impact and Result
- Shortlist top Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) vendors and their products based on requirements for maturing enterprise development trends and performance-driven niche solutions.
- Save time and money by using Info-Tech’s Vendor Landscape to compare and contrast the major MEAP vendors, and then create a shortlist of the most appropriate vendors.