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Contributed article by Andrew Cohen, co-founder and CEO, PowWow, Inc.
2015: The Year of Rapid Mobile Development
The stage has been set. Enterprises over the last
four decades have been busy building and buying thousands of business
applications. At the same time the growing wave of BYOD and corporate led
mobile initiatives has led to an explosion of the number of mobile devices in
the enterprise. The
reality of today's business environment means workers are mobile, and apps must
be too. There are new approaches to creating mobile versions of these
enterprise apps, and this coming year we predict we will see six major
developments in the area of enterprise app mobilization:
1) The mobile enterprise market continues shift from device
management to mobilizing and deploying applications.
2) Rapid mobile development tools start consolidation and
pure interface modelers lose to mobile backend-as-a-service (Mbass), virtualization
and other back end players.
3)
DaaS is DOA. Enterprises will move to a mobile and app-centric
virtualization model.
4) Android gains market share from iOS with tablets; Windows
gains market share with smartphones and tablets.
5) Google will implement standards around OS and hardware
for Android to curb device and OS fragmentation or risk losing developers and
the enterprise.
6) Microsoft, Google, and Apple will declare themselves as
fully mobile first.
Driven by a need to extend the life and use of their
enterprise apps, as well as placate the needs of their ever-growing mobile
workforce, IT will look to innovation to mobilize key business apps. I predict these
six developments will help the overall market support this revolution in
mobilization.
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About
the Author
Andrew Cohen combines vision and strategic
leadership with a rich background in innovative technology solutions. Over the
last 12 years, he has taken on startup leadership roles in enterprise sales,
strategy services and first customer product releases. Cohen has 10 years of
leading-edge R&D in mobile work, collaboration and product design, with
multiple patents, presentations and publications to his name.