Enterprise Mobile

Earlier considered just as ‘business as usual’, now enterprise mobility market is fully flooded with new techniques and advancement, driven by consumers worldwide. The end users are setting the trends and creating de jure standards, not only for the enterprise. Inappropriately for companies and organizations, their employees are customers too, leading to a demand for BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). As an outcome, enterprises started addressing mobility as a crude but effectual way of turning things at the project level, heading to duplication, inconsistencies and gaps across the applications. With the increase in pressure and demand, organizations started assessing their enterprise mobility requirements and acquiring technology and offerings from reckoned IT vendors claiming to cure issues with their MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) and Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions.

Need and Purpose of a Mobile Framework

The need to showcase content including graphics, images and videos continues to grow especially with the seamless expansion of enterprise information over the small screen. This led to a high demand and increase for reducing a little the content to mobile implementation cycle. For moving the content mobile, it’s advised to go for a mobility framework customization, and implement it effectively to gain better results. The main objective of a mobile framework is to make use of a standard based architecture, which leverages the existing information technology infrastructure and optimizes the return on investment. The customized mobile framework would get easily deployed, along with extending the enterprise content to end users with both good user experience and quality. The proposition of a mobile framework is relatively different from mobile application development tools needed in real to develop mobile applications. The customized frameworks help to amplify and enhance existing applications including customer relationship management to mobile personnel and related devices.

Use and Attributes of a Mobile Framework

Mobile applications has been tremendously used and demanded these days all across the world. Leveraging its usage in multiple applications, different features of a mobile framework are mentioned in brief in below.

• Graphical development tool – Used for visually mapping critical data and server logic to device resident applications
• User identity and secure access
• Flexibility and ability to integrate new code including Insignia, Mobile Media API,.NET
• Flexibility for customization
• Functionality for content syndication and transformation
• Availability of API extension used to enable other media applications including images, audio and video, along with transformation including Insignia mobile media framework, Java Mobile Media API
• Functionality and capability to render lightweight technology for mobile agent based distributed computing including Taco framework
• Tools for device detection

Benefits of a Mobile Framework

There are many advantages of integrating and using mobile applications like mentioned in below:

• Learn and grab more knowledge about how to select, synchronize and customize pocket PCs, mobile devices, notebook computers etc.
• Get to leverage your connectivity options wired, wireless, infrared, cyber cafe’s and much more.
• Make your professional and authentic data, emails, Microsoft office applications, files and documents ready to use and secure.
• Do more with less driving and guiding directions. Along with entertaining yourself and enjoying music, could manage your expenses and stocks on mobile phones.
• Assist your company to stay agile and effective with ERP, sales automation and other applications used and must for mobile employees.
• Learn and grab more on how to buy gadgets, clothing, accessories and more that aren’t just for fashion and style but could solve real-time business problems.
• Functionality and capability to render lightweight technology for mobile agent based distributed computing including Taco framework
• Tools for device detection

In all, a mobile framework has a wide spectrum of requirements, features, usage and benefits. Apart from this, enterprise mobility solutions assist the employees to work from anywhere without impacting the workflow and productivity of the company. Few advantages of deploying enterprise mobility solutions are as follows:

• Increase in employee productivity
• Optimum use of resources
• Smooth and better communication with the external party
• Safe and secure availability of data
• Reduction in operational and maintenance costs
• Improvisation in consumer support and satisfaction