Looking for strong indicators that enterprise mobile apps are on the rise? Consider this: evolutionary changes in the way mobile applications are developed and integrated with back-end, legacy software mean projects take days, not months or years, to complete. This opens up brand new opportunities for solution providers to deliver significant benefits inherent to mobile very quickly, tapping their expertise in vertical markets to develop tools that mobile-enable legacy line of business applications.
A well-designed mobile app offers lots of user benefits, including better efficiency and productivity, by delivering the most in-demand business practices and workflows right to the point of need.
Mobile App Trends
To be successful, a mobile app must operate on top of a strong foundation. This includes ensuring client environments include devices (owned or BYOD), mobile OS, a robust security platform, a network, enterprise mobility management, and a payments module, if needed. Then solution providers can leverage the following trends to write apps that make mobile workers – these days, that's everyone — more efficient and effective.
Rapid Mobile App Development
Some critical mobile apps demand a full-scale global IT development effort. But many apps that drive productivity don't need that kind of complexity. You can look at the database you've got, use the web services and the reports you're already generating, and even the web-facing apps you've already got and extend those to mobile users particularly around the workflows and best practices that are relevant in that environment, and do it at a low cost and quickly and simply.
This approach enables solution providers to easily layer mobile onto existing legacy line of business apps extending their value. Mobile toolsets have made development so fast that they're exposing new opportunities for solution providers in temporary applications.
Mobile First
Mobile enterprise apps used is to be watered down versions of desktop apps. Now with mobile devices so pervasive, that's been flipped on its head. Smart developers are starting with the worker and the business process, then designing simple mobile applications with a tablet or phone (or watch!) experience in mind. Mobile users don't want every feature and function, just the ones that get the data and transactions they need quickly, without having to look in multiple places.
Cross platform
A key decision point is whether to develop native apps on each of the platforms favoured by users, or developing once in a cross-platform tool or html5.
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