Enterprise App Development Trends 2013

Businesses are just beginning to understand the benefits they may get using mobile technologies.

Its High Time To Make Business Mobile

The percentage of mobile app developers working on B2B and employee B2E applications has increased from 29.3% in Q410 to 42.7% in Q213 In Q410 70.7% of developers planned to build primarily B2C applications, meanwhile in Q213, this number dropped to 57.2%. The demand on enterprise apps contributed to a 3.3% year over year growth in the apps market.

Q2 2013 Mobile Developer Report by Appcelerator& IDC

Enterprise Apps Are In Trend

While an enterprise may have only a couple of customerfacing apps, it will likely have requirements for tens or hundreds of employee and partner-focused apps (expense reporting, dispatch and routing).

Q2 2013 Mobile Developer Report by Appcelerator& IDC

Customs Business Apps Are Alive

"Enterprises spend about the same on custom-developed business applications as on packaged business software." Forrester'

Business Software Spendings

49% 25%

26%

Packaged apps Custom software Other

Hybrid App Development

Enterprises should consider how applications can be enriched or improved by the addition of native device capabilities and evaluate development frameworks that offer the ability to develop native, hybrid and Web applications using the same code base. Where possible, development activities should be consolidated via cross-platform frameworks. Van Baker, research vice president at Gartner

50% of mobile apps deployed by

2016 will be hybrid.

Usability
What Users Want Experience Availability Performance Scalability Adaptability Security
What Business App Should Have Users should feel app's usefulness and usability. The app should be ready to perform its functions if and when needed. The fast speed of app performance is an essential requirement to meet. The app should handle the increasing or decreasing volumes of services, transactions, and data. The enterprise application can be easily changed or extended. The mobile solution is to support the security properties of confidentiality, integrity, authentication, authorization. The company should have an opportunity to minimize the cost of building, operating, and changing the app without comprising its business value.

Economy

Componentization
Componentization will enable app delivery teams to blend the best elements of custom-built apps and components and off-the-shelf-components for functions such as loan origination and know-your-customer apps.

Email sending

Geo location Analytics

RSS feed

Mobile app components

Other

Tablets: Emerging App Platform

Placing equal priority on tablets and smartphones (81.34% vs. 84%, respectively), most of app developers consider tablets to be the next emerging app platform.
The developer interest and enterprise use of tablets are challenging the traditional PC-based business processes and the quantity and quality of customers and employees' points of contact.

Internal Enterprise App Stores

"Most enterprises are keen to control and govern the software content -- apps and add-ons -- from which their employees, administrators, or subsidiaries can choose. This is driving demand for internal enterprise app stores or private "views" of approved content in public and mobile app stores. (Forrester) According to Gartner, Inc, 25 % of all world enterprises will have an enterprise app store for managing corporatesanctioned apps on computers and mobile devices by 2017.

Putting Strategy Before Development

Before Building Your Mobile Enterprise Strategy Think About:

Problems youre trying to solve

Workflow issues you hope to streamline

The end-users requirements

Technical requirements

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