Interactive Mobile Applications in the Enterprise: Are You Ready?
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- 1. Interactive Mobile Applications in the EnterpriseAre you ready?
Matt Van Bergen
Principal, CTO
[email protected]
312-673-6433 x111
September 22, 2010 - 2. Abstract
Interactive mobile applications can serve your users and customers in ways that traditional web-based applications cannot.Interactive mobile applications enable you to have a consistent and ongoing interaction with your users, allowing them to be more engaged and committed to your service beyond what is possible with a mobile web browser.
Being an IT leader in your organization, you must be ready to field questions and, as necessary, build applications and infrastructure to support the wave of mobile applications which will likely be demanded by your marketing, sales, operations and customer service departments.
This webinar provides an overview of how you can prepare for the mobile application demands of your organization and customers. - 3. Agenda
What are interactive mobile applications?
Whats all the fuss about?
Mobile applications and your organization
Top 5 ways you can prepare
Case Study: Extreme Scale Reference Mobile Architecture
How to be ready for your first mobile project - 4. What is a mobile interactive application?
Reside on the mobile device connecting organizations of all types to employees and consumers through a variety of continuous, entertainment-like contextual experiences.
Browser-based
Device installed - 5. Whats all the fuss about?
Worldwide mobile app downloads will exceed 21.6 billion by 2013 (Gartner)
Revenue from U.S. mobile application downloads alone could reach nearly $1.6 billion in 2010 and would hit $11 billion in 2014 (WSJ)
Employees prefer a smartphone over a laptop as their primary mobile device for trips under 5 days.
Mobile applications are seen as key strategy of building an organizations brand.
Mobile applications can provide a strategic advantage.
Mobile applications can be location aware and context aware.
Amazon sold over $1B via their iPhone App
eBay sold over $400M via their iPhone App - 6. Mobile Applications and Your Organization
Marketing
Mobile Advertising
Game or trivia driven application
Mobile coupons
Cross selling
Company information
Sales
mCommerce
Sales management
Customer management
Customer Service- Surveys
- 7. Support request
- 8. Location based search
- Executive dashboard
- 9. Enterprise monitoring
- How can you prepare?
Focus on building out a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Learn about the Cloud
Understand the top mobile devices
Understand mobile app development strategies
Understand mobile-related security topics - 10. #1
- 11. Prepare Back-end Systems for the Ubiquitous Client
#1
Establish a services oriented architecture initiative.
REST is the preferred method for mobile integration.
Design enterprise services as coarse grained services.
Secure services with SSL and Basic Authentication.
Be ready to scale if your services will be available to general public (Hint:see next slide if you have doubts).
Internet
Services Oriented Architecture
Internal
Application
Internal
Application
Database
Database - 12. #1
Prepare Back-end Systems for the Ubiquitous Client (continued) - 13. #2
- 14. Cloudy With a Likelihood of Mobile
Cloud computing platforms come in a couple different flavors:
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Software as a Service (Saas)
Pay for usage, no need to invest in costly hardware upfront.
Very important for consumer targeted mobile apps scalability important.
#2
Are you ready to scale for mobile?
In one month Shazam added 25 million users
Britains Got Talent app added 200K users in first 4 days.
Skypes iPhone app attracted 5 million users in first few days. - 15. #3
- 16. Understand the various mobile devices and their platforms
#3
iPhone OS
iPhone OS
Symbian OS
Android OS
Windows
Mobile
OS
BlackBerry
OS
Will your mobile applications be supported by all of these devices?
Are you going to limit the supported devices to only those that are supported by your organization? - 17. #4
- 18. Understand Cross-platform Mobile Development
#4
Native Application Development
Pros
Best performance
High interactivity (gaming)
100% support for device APIs
Best chance for app store approval (Apple)
Cons
Not-portable between devices
Can be steep learning curve
Cross Platform Development- Pros
- 19. Portable between most devices
- 20. Leverages known technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, etc.)
- 21. Installed just like a native app
- 22. Cons
- 23. Not sufficient for high interactivity (not yet)
- 24. May not support all device APIs
- 25. Sometimes risk in app store approvals (Apple)
- Understand Cross-platform Mobile Development (continued)
#4 - 26. Understand Cross-platform Mobile Development (continued)
#4
Example Cross Platform Frameworks
Develop using HTML5, CSS and Javascript
iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Palm support
Use xCode IDE for iPhone, Eclipse IDE for BlackBerry and Android, etc.
Decent device feature support
Develop using HTML5, CSS and Javascript (Python, Ruby, PHP possible).
More nativeness (
iPhone, Android and BlackBerry support
Proprietary IDE.
Very good device feature support
Catch CITYTECHs Jeff Schwartzs presentation on PhoneGap at the October 18th Mobile Monday Chicago user group meeting. - 27. #5
- 28. Make security a first class citizen in your architecture
Security is the #1 concern for deploying mobile transactional applications (Entrust survey in April, 2010)
The end to end wireless communication chain is the most secure element in the entire mobile application value chain.The device application and user should be of focus.
Traditional username and password strategies are common but also very vulnerable.Two-factor authentication is gaining popularity.
Comprehensive auditing trail and alerting based on non-standard behavior.
Educate your users on security risks and new technologies as necessary
Leverage best practices learned from web application development
Don't persist sensitive data (unless you have to)
iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry devices provide remote wipe capability in case a mobile device is lost or stolen.
Beware of HIPPA, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Payment Card Industry (PCI), etc.
Develop flexible security policies
#5 - 29. Case Study:Extreme Scale Reference Mobile Architecture
Cross platform, native mobile application (iPhone, Android and Mobile Web)
Back-end services hosted on Amazon EC2
Distributed, Grid Based Architecture
Massively scalable
High performance
In-memory storage
Technologies Used
Red Hat JBoss InfiniSpan
Red Hat JBoss AS
Red Hat JBoss Modeshape
Amazon EC2 Cloud
Amazon S3 Cloud Persistence
PhoneGap cross-mobile development framework - 30. Case Study:Extreme Scale Reference Mobile Architecture
- 31. Your First Mobile Project
Start with a small project.
Consider the level of security required.
Leverage existing backend services that are available elsewhere in your enterprise take abuilding block approach.
Know your users target mobile device(s)
Load test the backend services before going live (especially for a consumer mobile app).
Emphasize superior user experience - 32. About CITYTECH
Professional Services:Specializing in the design, development and execution of highly available and scalable enterprise applications
Consultants:Average experience of 10 years
Offices:Located in downtown Chicago, IL
Goal:Strive for long-term partnerships with partners and clients
Contact CITYTECH to setup a no cost onsite needs assessment to see how prepared your organization is for mobile interactive applications.
Matt Van Bergen
Chief Technology Officer
312-673-6433 x111
[email protected]
http://blogs.citytechinc.com/matt
http://twitter.com/mvanbergen
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