Enterprise Mobile Development: Trends, Platforms, and Tools
Ovum Plc
March 2, 2011 27 Pages - SKU: OV6196645
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Introduction
The new-generation smartphones and tablets are satisfying a sea change in consumer demand for mobile devices, a market that Apple's iconic iPhone initially created. Businesses are beginning to react to this change but how best to harness this opportunity for productivity benefit is not always clear.
Features and benefits - There is an unmistakable shift from feature to smartphone as apps make the latter more desirable and in turn drives more developers to the platform
- Developers are pivotal to the mobile apps explosion, driving demand for MDEs that can cover the leading smart devices.
- Mobile application development is fragmented but de facto industry standard platforms are rapidly emerging.
Highlights
The feature phone has the current mass market at over 3 billion users but the future is in smart devices, from new generation phones to tablets.
Your key questions answered - Which tools support mobile development across all the popular mobile OSs?
- Which enterprise mobile development environments are available?
- Which technology will win out in the mobile space?
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- SUMMARY
- Impact
- Ovum view
- Key messages
- MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT IS FRAGMENTED BUT STANDARD PLATFORMS ARE EMERGING
- Smartphones and tablets are where the mobile development action is
- Development perspective
- Native versus web: the new fault line for mobile application development
- Adobe Flash
- Oracle Java
- Microsoft Silverlight
- HTML5 and WebKit
- MOBILE DEVELOPMENT IS ACTIVE IN OPEN SOURCE AND WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGY
- Developers make platform decisions for the long term
- Open web-based standards are a sound long-term choice for mobile development
- Development characteristics of key smart device OS platforms
- MOBILE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS REDUCE THE COMPLEXITY OF TARGETING MULTIPLE DEVICES
- A new tool market has grown to support mobile development
- Development tools for smart devices - enterprise-level MDE market
- Adobe Flash Professional, Flex, AIR
- Antenna Software AMP
- edge IPK edgeConnect
- IBM Rational Rhapsody
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone
- Pyxis Mobile Application Studio
- Service2Media M2Active
- Sybase Unwired Mobile
- Syclo AGENTRY
- Development tools for smart devices - general MDE market
- Appelerator Titanium
- FlexyCore iSpectrum
- Genuitec MobiOne Studio
- Mosync
- jQuery
- PhoneGap
- Sencha Touch
- Squace
- Volantis
- WorkLight
- Mobile development: additional services
- RECOMMENDATIONS
- Recommendations for enterprises
- Recommendations for tools vendors
- APPENDIX
- Further reading
- Author
- Ovum Consulting
- Disclaimer
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