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Marketers are starting to use the second screen (smartphones, tablets, PCs) to complement the first screen (TV). While it’s still early days—with tactics so far ranging from basic to innovative—this report highlights the potential here for brands, with examples to illustrate.
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Economic models for reinventing telco webcast by vision mobile, apigeeSlashData
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According to Gartner analysts, spending on mobility is among the top five priorities for most CIOs – but some common mobile myths can lead these same CIOs astray when it comes to building a mobile strategy. Are you falling for one of these misconceptions?
Today’s featured resource dispels five myths surrounding mobility and mobile apps. Also inside, find out why so many organizations struggle to overcome mobile problems (and learn what you can do differently). Read on to get started now.
Things to be expected at Apple WWDC-2015
- iOS 9 and iOS X 10.11
- Apple Music Streaming Service
- Apple Pay reward
- Homekit updates
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- Apple Watch Native SDK
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- iPad Split Mode Screen
3.3 Billion active mobile accounts worldwide. That’s 1 phone for every 2 people on the planet. Broadband, “real” web browsing, widgets, social extensions, and streaming television are changing the marketplace, requiring us to write new best practices.
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Authored and published by VisionMobile
Part funded by webinos under the EU FP7 ICT program
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- Key trends driving the smartphone market
- The economic models behind app stores & platforms
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Slides from the Mobile Monday Boston event, "Compelling Mobile Business Models" on January 12, 2009, generously sponsored by Bain Capital Ventures.
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QuoteUnquote with KK
www.kapilkhandelwal.com
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For more info and in-depth data, drop us a line at hello (at) visionmobile.com
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According to Gartner analysts, spending on mobility is among the top five priorities for most CIOs – but some common mobile myths can lead these same CIOs astray when it comes to building a mobile strategy. Are you falling for one of these misconceptions?
Today’s featured resource dispels five myths surrounding mobility and mobile apps. Also inside, find out why so many organizations struggle to overcome mobile problems (and learn what you can do differently). Read on to get started now.
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- Apple Music Streaming Service
- Apple Pay reward
- Homekit updates
- Proactive Siri
- Apple Watch Native SDK
- Maps Transit Directs
- iPad Split Mode Screen
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Authored and published by VisionMobile
Part funded by webinos under the EU FP7 ICT program
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- Key smartphone platform metrics
- Key trends driving the smartphone market
- The economic models behind app stores & platforms
- Development experience for each of the platforms
- The effect of HTML5 on the mobile industry
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Slides from the Mobile Monday Boston event, "Compelling Mobile Business Models" on January 12, 2009, generously sponsored by Bain Capital Ventures.
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My fortnightly column, A Dose of IT that discusses the The 5 Ps Of Universal Healthcare Access
Kapil Khandelwal
QuoteUnquote with KK
www.kapilkhandelwal.com
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Highlights:
- The full promise and potential of managed mobility services for enterprises
- The various business models for operators looking to capitalize on enterprise mobility offerings
- How ANTENNA and IBM can enable carriers to rise to the top of the list for a preferred managed mobility provider
Today, even the most popular brands in the market are using mobile apps for building brand awareness, increasing sales and for direct marketing.
https://www.raybiztech.com/blog/mobile-development/2018-trends-to-watch-out-for-in-mobile-app-develop
WiFi Offload Strategy for Telcos-OperatorsGreen Packet
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Vision mobile cross-platform_developer_tools_2012SlashData
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For more info and in-depth data, drop us a line at hello (at) visionmobile.com
2014 top mobile trends. Discover which trends are shaping what marketers will need to know in the coming months and years to take advantage of the mobile opportunity.
A must-read before finalizing your marketing plans
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The mobile is moving well beyond its role as a communication device, becoming an enabler for a wide range of experiences from TV viewing to shopping to banking. And mobile connectivity is disrupting industries from retail to auto to finance and beyond. The consensus is that change is occurring at an astonishing scale and speed.
In this report, JWTIntelligence outlines key trends in evidence at the GSMA’s Mobile World Congress, held in Barcelona in late February, along with examples that illustrate these developments and implications for brands. The report also incorporates insights from interviews with several mobile experts and influencers.
In this Digital Darwinian era, The mobile app development trade has already picked up its speed between millennials and their handsets to amass an area and ease their modus vivendi.
Businesses and publications have been wrestling with “mobile publishing”
for a relatively short time. Apple’s iPhone was introduced in 2007, and
the iPad tablet in 2010. Other portable devices, like laptops, have been
around much longer. However, the modern smartphone/tablet phenomenon —
and the pressure created by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend — have
created a sense of urgency that’s hard for businesses to ignore.
The Future of Mobile App Development in Kolkata Trends and PredictionsWebcraftzs Technologies
Welcome to the vibrant city of Kolkata, where innovation and technology collide to shape the future of mobile app development. With its rich history and progressive mindset, this thriving metropolis has emerged as a hub for cutting-edge technology solutions.
SMAC is upsetting the domain. No CIO dialogue is accomplished devoid of considering influence
of SMAC on industry and business. Rapid developments in this technology pile are accumulating
value to complete breadth of businesses and industries. Rewards are several and appear very
captivating, with assurances being made as big as - forecasting future (Analytics), accessible
everywhere (Mobile), everything is so easy and networked (Social), and at a very low cost (Cloud).
This fresh technology pile has begun changing tomorrow's organization and has influence on every
part of a business, therefore consequently on the every software applications being utilize inside
the company and by the company.
Infowind is a leading IT staff augmentation and technology services provider in India. With 500+ IT experts, Infowind offers the best IT staff augmentation services to help you achieve your goals.
10 Mobile Trends for 2014 and Beyond (May 2014)Karen Sanchez
This is an abridged version of the 124-page report. Go to JWTIntelligence.com/trendletters to see the full report, including recommendations for brands
JWT’s third annual report on trends in the mobile sphere spotlights key themes that came out of this year’s Mobile World Congress, Consumer Electronics Show and South by Southwest Interactive, and builds on trends spotlighted in previous reports. The report covers significant drivers and manifestations of these developments, and their implications for brands. “10 Mobile Trends for 2014 and Beyond” is based around on-the-ground research at the MWC in Barcelona and SXSW in Austin, as well as desk research and insights gleaned from interviews with several mobile experts and influencers.
This is an abridged version of the 124-page report. Go to JWTIntelligence.com/trendletters to see the full report, including recommendations for brands
JWT’s third annual report on trends in the mobile sphere spotlights key themes that came out of this year’s Mobile World Congress, Consumer Electronics Show and South by Southwest Interactive, and builds on trends spotlighted in previous reports. The report covers significant drivers and manifestations of these developments, and their implications for brands. “10 Mobile Trends for 2014 and Beyond” is based around on-the-ground research at the MWC in Barcelona and SXSW in Austin, as well as desk research and insights gleaned from interviews with several mobile experts and influencers.
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The world of technology and mobile app development is demanding developers to have a more future-oriented mindset. The future of mobile apps is heavily dependent on the evolution of technology. As technology grows, its use cases will create more dynamic change within the app development world. Mobile app technology is diverse and can help break barriers of personalization and convenience. These technologies have immense potential, and when hiring app developers, app development companies have to ensure compliance with these changes. For developers, it is essential to gain expertise concerning these technologies to ensure their applications are competitive and set industry standards.
What is the Future of Android App Development for 2023 & Beyond.Techugo
Businesses must be aware of the rapidly changing trends in Android application development to survive in today’s digital age. App development will continue to grow as more people adopt the latest technologies.
Smartphone users typically have 35 apps installed on their phones. However, they don’t like those apps that slow down their devices. Therefore, while building your own digital solution, ensure that your technological partner makes a robust app that will bring many more opportunities to your door toward successful thriving.
While connecting to the best android app development company in USA, you can definitely build an efficient app having a dynamic technology stack.
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A Platform for Mobile Enterprise Management: Build, Run and Manage Your Mobile App Strategy
1. Executive Brief
Business Mobility: Now in Full Colour
To offer a truly differentiated and engaging mobile experience
for employees or customers, you need to consider the full
spectrum of what mobility has to offer. AMPchroma™ provides
the overarching paradigm for achieving mobility excellence
and is the only mobile cloud platform that enables you to
deliver on this promise.
Published on February 20, 2012
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2. Executive Brief
A Revolutionary Beginning
The story of AMPchroma™ begins with two seminal
moments in the history of modern technology.
January, 1993. The launch of the Mosaic web browser. An event which ushered in the era of the
popular (and populous) internet. There will be 1 billion smartphone
January 2007. The launch of the Apple iPhone. An event which began the terraforming of the mobile
customers by 2016, with 257
landscape and heralded the mobile age as we know it. million smartphones and 126
million tablets in the US alone.
But what was it that made these events revolutionary? After all, the Internet had been around since
the 1960s—long before Mosaic—and the first ‘smartphones’ had emerged in the 1990s. The answer
Of those worldwide billion
is the same in both cases: they became phenomena because they radically improved the user mobile devices, Apple, Google
experience — leading us away from monochromatic, text-driven screen-scapes to a promised land and Microsoft will control some
of multi-chromatic, highly graphical click/touch interfaces. More importantly, both phenomena
demonstrated that it is possible to influence the behavior of millions of people by improving, rather
90% of the market with their
than reinventing, ‘the wheel’. respective platforms. Business
users will factor heavily into
The Mobile Wheel
Today, at the start of 2012, the mobile wheel is well and truly spinning – driven in large part by smartphone
these numbers, with some 350M
and tablet users’ seemingly ever-increasing app-etite. The availability, simplicity, and power of apps employees using smartphones.
have allowed them to infiltrate an international consciousness and become part of the zeitgeist. Of
course, apps are still only a single spoke of that mobile wheel, one source of the channel’s over-arching – Forrester Research, 2012 (Mobile Is The
New Face Of Engagement)
strength; the other spokes—mobile websites, web-apps, and private app stores—are also gaining in
importance. And yet — enterprise mobility’s own seminal moment has not seemed imminent.
Consumerization of the Enterprise
If anything, it seems farther away than ever, as the diversity of hardware and software platforms
available to consumers proliferate month on month. Increasingly consumers as employees are
demanding access to corporate content and systems on their personal devices to improve their
productivity and effectiveness – a trend known as ‘the consumerization of the enterprise’. Across
companies large and small, IT, marketing and business unit heads are struggling to maintain visibility
and control over an increasingly fragmented portfolio of customer focused and employee related
mobile projects. At the same time, employees, starved of rich business content on their mobile
devices, remain frustrated by the strategic and technological shortcomings that prevent enterprises
from distributing that content effectively.
When businesses are able to reach any device with every mobile app and website they create, when
IT departments are able to handle all seven stages of the mobile development lifecycle (design,
build, integrate, publish, run, manage and analyze) all from one management console, when they
are able to realize their mobile projects in a matter of minutes, and when they are able to see
their commitment to mobile summarized on a single corporate dash board as well as being able to
review usage and results – in short, when they too reach the promised land of multi-chromatic user
experiences – enterprise mobility will have reached its pivotal moment.
Enter AMPchroma.
2 Business Mobility: Now in Full Colour
3. Executive Brief
Driving the need for
AMPchroma™
In a moment we’ll look at exactly what AMPchroma is,
but before we do that, it will be instructive to review the
confluence of trends and technologies that have driven the
need for a radically improved mobile ‘wheel’.
The rise of the mobile web
Native app development (using Objective-C for iOS, or Java for Android, for example) is being de-
emphasized. It is losing ‘mind share’ as the standards of web-based languages like HTML5, CSS, The total global mobile
and JavaScript evolve to better accommodate mobile development. This shift has also been driven by
applications market is expected
programmers’ widespread familiarity with these languages. Although there will always be a place for
native development, it is already possible to see that web-based technologies will come to dominate; to be worth US$25 billion by
the preoccupation with the idea of apps as native-only has long since gone. 2015 out of which the Apple
App Store will account for nearly
The need for flexibility
The pace of change in the business world, especially where digital assets are concerned, means 20.5% of the total revenues.
that the majority of companies are now looking for mobility solutions with flexibility built-in. Native,
hybrid, and web apps each involve different levels of complexity and carry different cost of ownership – MarketsandMarkets,2010 (World Mobile
Applications Market 2010 – 2015)
consequences. For example, native apps can do anything you want, but they are expensive to build
and maintain. At the other end of the spectrum, pure web apps are suitable for lighter transaction
applications, but they also typically have lower cost and resource requirements. What matters to
business leaders and IT decision makers is having the flexibility to employ the appropriate app
technology for their requirements.
By 2013, more people in the
Every content type, everywhere
More and more of us are consuming content primarily through our mobile devices — using them as
world will access the Internet on
our ‘window’ onto the world. Crucially, apps are only one aspect of this tablet-supercharged trend, a mobile device than on a PC.
with office files, videos, images and other digital content required by mobile users on a minute-
by-minute basis. And the complexity of meeting this need is further enhanced by the difficulty of – Gartner, 2010 (Gartner’s Top predictions
2010)
delivering content to an ever-increasing array of device types in a multitude of shapes and sizes —
especially as that content must be delivered in the most effective way possible.
Content boom
The single biggest frustration for users and developers alike is in app discovery — how to get the
right apps to the right user. Today, app stores from Apple and Google control the lion’s share of app
15% of new mobile apps will be
distribution. However, in the future, businesses are certain to want to stamp their own authority on
the channel, meaning that users will be able to get their apps, as well as content, across a wide range based on HTML5 by year’s end
of specialty mobile stores. (2012)
BRING-YOUR-OWN-DEVICE MOMENTUM – IDC, 2011 (Predictions 2012: Competing
The consumerization of IT, or the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon, has certainly for 2020)
changed the expectations of mobile users. At one time employees were happy being able to get
3 Business Mobility: Now in Full Colour
4. Executive Brief
email on their phones. Today, workers want and expect much more – in particular mobile apps and
content to help them to be more productive and efficient. As a result, enterprises need to address New technologies such as media
the needs of various work groups—from information to task oriented workers – as well as everyone
tablets and advances in mobile
in between. IT can use mobile device management (MDM), which is an active management model,
to control devices and policies, or mobile application management (MAM), a sub-category of MDM will have a disruptive impact
which provides a passive management model that allows users to download pre-approved apps. on many industries, requiring
Regardless of the method, the demand from users is clear—they want to use their own mobile
changes to existing processes
devices and they want all the help they can get.
and propelling business
Unifying architectures transformation.
With the economic uncertainty of the past few years, CIOs and department heads are struggling
with tighter budgets and leaner resources. Accordingly, it is no longer feasible or desirable to meet – Gartner, 2012 (Top Industry Predicts 2012:
the costs and demands of several one-off mobile projects on separate platforms, with different Industries Face intensified Consumerization
and Technology Disruption)
development teams and suppliers. Business leaders everywhere are looking to unify their mobile
strategies. Whether aimed at employees or consumers or both and whether they utilize native, hybrid
or web technologies, mobile deployments should be addressed by a single platform in order to reduce
costs and complexity. Consolidation of technology not only includes mobile app development, but
also other important mobile products that must be intertwined — such as device management, app
store solutions, and analytics.
Moving to the Cloud
Spurred on by consumer applications of its power, businesses are finally showing signs that they are
ready to adopt mobile cloud services and make the cloud their primary hosting local. For enterprises, Mobile computing, cloud services,
relying on mobile backend services in the cloud enables faster time-to-market and greater scalability.
They can take advantage of a specialized mobility infrastructure, which is constantly being enhanced
social networking, and big data
rather than wait or pay to build their own. By doing so, they can reduce the TCO of core mobility analytics technologies is growing
requirements and pay only for what they use while taking advantage of a future-proof architecture at about 18% per year and is
that evolves with their business and the marketplace.
expected to account for at least
Unprecedented Analytics 80% of IT spending growth by
Mobility is providing a whole new level of insight into user behavior – one that will ultimately transform 2020. 80% of new commercial
businesses. The convergence of real-time mobility and geo-location, coupled with context awareness
and social sharing, is now enabling a deeper level of understanding regarding mobile device usage
enterprise apps will be deployed
to drive more revenue and greater efficiencies. Never before has so much actionable and detailed on cloud platforms.
data been available for businesses to analyze and harness.
– IDC, 2011 ( IDC Predictions 2012:
Competing for 2020)
Multichannel World
At present, the number of contacts businesses make with consumers is at an all-time high and
likely to keep climbing. In this environment, the most impactful campaigns are those which employ
multiple, combined approaches. Businesses can use mobile apps, websites, SMS/MMS, videos,
podcasts, and more to make contact. But the task is complicated once again by the vast array of
devices that we use day in and day out to receive these contacts. Mobility is not just about reaching
the user on the go; it’s also about reaching the user wherever they happen to be. Unless a mobile
platform can do this, it will be unable bring about a true revolution in the space.
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Introducing AMPchroma™
One unified mobile cloud platform that lets you manage the
entire mobile lifecycle, from design and build through to
analysis. It radically simplifies how businesses engage users
with apps and content on any device to drive greater profits.
AMPchroma is Antenna’s new mobile cloud platform that radically simplifies how businesses engage
users with apps and content on any device to drive greater profits through the mobile channel. AMPchroma gives you the ability
AMPchroma is modular and scalable; it can be used holistically for a cross-enterprise mobile strategy,
to control, measure, adapt and
or tactically by a business unit for targeted mobile apps and websites. All design, development,
management, and analytics functionalities are presented as a suite of software modules accessible future-proof all of your mobile
via a user-friendly web interface. strategies for employees, partners,
and customers — in one place.
With AMPchroma powering your mobile connected world, you can easily create, publish and
manage mobile apps and websites and connect them to a suite of powerful cloud-based services.
These services include content management, integration with web feeds and enterprise systems,
distribution through branded storefronts, management and control of devices, apps and content,
and sophisticated real-time analytics. AMPchroma gives you the ability to control, measure, adapt
and future-proof all of your mobile strategies for employees, partners, and customers in one place.
However, AMPchroma is more than just technology. AMPchroma—as the name implies—embodies
the full spectrum of a virtuous mobility lifecycle: Design, Build, Integrate, Publish, Run, Manage and
Analyze.
The Mobile Lifecycle
Analyze Design
Manage Build
Run Integrate
Publish
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Mobility is about more than just one-off projects. To offer a truly differentiated and engaging mobile
experience for internal or external audiences, you need to consider the full spectrum of what mobility
has to offer, which is captured in the seven major phases of the mobility lifecycle. By adhering to the
best practices of each phase, you ensure that your mobile strategy will offer users a highly optimized
and branded experience, all controllable and measurable by the enterprise.
AMPchroma™ provides the overarching paradigm for achieving mobility excellence, and it is the only
mobile cloud platform that enables you to deliver on this promise.
AMPchroma™ Mobile Cloud Suite
AMP Hybrid Client
AMP Mobile Web AMP Native Client
AMP Consumer Storefront
AMP Builder
AMP Web Server AMP Enterprise Storefront
AMP Management Console
AMP Studio
AMP Analytics
AMP Enterprise
Gateway
AMP Architect
AMP Cloud
AMP Enterprise
Connect
Enterprise Systems Public & Private Clouds
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The Mobility Lifecycle and
AMPchroma™
1. Design
Designing for the mobile experience is quite different to designing for any
other form of UI. There is the matter of smaller screen real estate, thousands
of different device OS and browser combinations, capabilities unique to mobile
(e.g., camera, GPS), and the issue of different UI controls and behaviors across
devices.
In addition, mobile design expertise is not commonplace. Designers are still
developing and refining their mobile development skills. The device landscape
is still fragmented and the pace of innovation and change rapid, which further
exacerbates the design challenge. Given that the attention span of mobile users
is so short, driving adoption and achieving competitive differentiation relies on
getting the design phase right, first time round.
AMPchroma™ Design
To jumpstart the design process, AMPchroma provides a wide range of
pre-built, device-agnostic application templates. These templates are
easily branded and configured by non-technical editors in AMP Builder
and are fully customizable by developers using AMP development tools. In
addition, Antenna offers expert services with specialization in the mobile user
experience and user interface design.
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2. Build
Because of device fragmentation, developing mobile apps and sites is the most
resource intensive and costly part of the mobile lifecycle. Device fragmentation
will continue, but the good news is that Web technologies are already playing
a major role in decreasing development costs.
Apps that look and feel like native apps can be built using web technology,
while mobile browsers are becoming powerful enough to handle more complex
apps in terms of UI and transactions. Although web technologies can be used
to build apps that meet the majority of use cases, natively coded apps will still
be important because they offer the tightest level of integration with the target
device hardware and the ability to leverage the latest device-specific capabilities
and APIs.
Building is just the beginning of the lifecycle. Ongoing testing, plus site and
app maintenance, needs to be effortless. New devices need to be easily and
seamlessly supported and basic UI and content changes should require zero
coding.
Moreover, apps and sites need to stand out from the competition. Whichever
development approach you take, your apps need to leverage the best of each
device platform. In a rapidly evolving space like this, relying on a trusted partner
in the Build phase is becoming business critical.
AMPchroma™ Build
Some development tools claim a write-once-run-anywhere approach.
However, these tools are often “Jack-of-all trades, and master of none”—
leaving you with apps and sites that run across multiple devices, but that
don’t look compelling on any single one of them. With AMPchroma, you
have purpose-built tools to easily create rich content apps, complex business
process automation apps, and every kind of app in between.
AMPchroma lets you choose your weapon: native, web or HTML5.
Development can be done using a no-code WYSIWYG editor in AMP Builder
or with the Eclipse-based tool, AMP Studio, using HTML with extensions.
All apps are built to run across multiple device platforms and can leverage
an extensive library of AMP UI controls, including some controls not native
to a device (such as a unique 3D carousel control across iOS, Android and
BlackBerry). Building on AMP provides you with the most powerful and
flexible tools to do the job right.
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3. Integration
Integration is often the phase that is given the least thought, and as a result
requires more effort than expected. It could be that people expect mobile
transactions to work just like the wired world. The truth is, wireless transactions
are inherently not reliable. There are many potential points of failure from the
backend through to the mobile device. Wireless connections are spotty and
variable so data needs to be tracked for delivery. Additionally, compression and
security are required for optimal performance.
Robust integration to enterprise backend systems and public or third party
systems is critical. In particular, heterogeneous backends that require different
(sometimes arcane) methods of interfacing pose complex integration challenges.
Data synchronization and integrity must be built into the mobile architecture.
AMPchroma™ Integrate
AMPchroma allows you to plug into AMP cloud-based services for
integration with any back-office systems, social media applications,
location-based services, web services, RSS and Atom feeds, for
dynamically updated and content-rich mobile apps and sites.
At the core of the AMPchroma cloud is our high-performance AMP
Enterprise Gateway for carrier-grade security, transaction processing,
and guaranteed message delivery. It enables data compression, store
and forward data delivery, and message encryption in order to ensure
guaranteed delivery of transactions and minimal latency over unpredictable
wireless networks.
AMP Enterprise Connect is the component that directly interfaces with
your systems to allow secure and reliable transactions to and from the
gateway. This approach minimizes the impact on the host systems and
enables optimized data flow from the backends.
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4. Publish
A new generation of workers is entering the workforce. They have grown up
with SMS, MMS, mobile email and apps and they expect to easily get apps and
content on their mobile device for work. You need to empower these workers,
while at the same time mitigate the impact that rogue apps may have once
downloaded. By offering an enterprise controlled mobile storefront, you can
achieve both objectives.
Crucially, because app discovery is a huge challenge, private mobile storefronts
can delivery your brand and content directly to your customers, giving you control
of the consumer mobile experience beyond simply the apps themselves. Curate
your own branded app store and provide access to apps and digital content. You
can also enable targeted delivery and set-up subscription services to achieve
greater intimacy with your consumers.
AMPchroma™ Publish
AMP Enterprise Storefront lets you create and manage branded
enterprise app stores for employees to access certified native and web
apps – whether your own or from a third party — and digital content such
as training videos, sales collateral, podcasts, expense apps, company
directories, and more.
AMP Consumer Storefront lets you upload, manage and deliver apps and
other digital content — such as ads, videos, images, music, games, and
more — to consumers through an entirely branded mobile experience.
AMP Storefronts have robust BPEL-based workflows that can be used
to submit, approve and publish the apps and content in a completely
enterprise controlled environment. No longer beholden to third-party app
stores, you are the master of the mobile experience for all your users.
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5. Run
Running a truly compelling mobile experience means that it must be optimized
for every single device. Users expect the best experience for their given device,
rather than a ‘least common denominator’ approach. Device proliferation and
fragmentation are the greatest challenges to optimized user experiences, but
different mobile client approaches for different purposes can help maximize
each experience. Whether web, hybrid or native, a well-considered approach
that serves specific user requirements will deliver the best user experience, while
minimizing costs and risks.
AMPchroma™ Run
AMPchroma lets you design, test, deploy, and maintain mobile apps and
websites that look great on any device on the market today – whether that
device is the oldest feature phone or the newest tablet or smartphone.
AMP Web Server is a highly scalable device-aware mobile web server,
supporting devices from feature phones through to smart phones and
tablets, even non-phone devices like IP-TV’s and kiosks. Using patented
technology, it supports thousands of transactions per second and
has been implemented for deployments that count millions of users.
Moreover, AMP Web Server houses a regularly updated device database
of over 10,000 devices, with over 1,000 attributes tracked per device.
AMP Web Server is unmatched in its capabilities and the benefits of it
are superior performance and an optimized user experiences across any
device.
In addition to mobile web apps, AMPchroma offers two options for
device-resident apps: AMP Hybrid Client and AMP Native Client. The
AMP Hybrid Client approach uses common web technology to generate
a native app package or a web app that can run within a native app
container. AMP Native Client apps are native apps, using 100% native
code. These apps are built with the powerful AMP Architect Eclipse-
based plug-in that generates AMP Native Client apps across multiple
platforms and supports high-end native user interfaces.
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6. Manage
Once a mobile app is deployed, the hard work begins. For internal apps designed
for employees, you need to maintain control and visibility with a unified view
across the entire mobile deployment. The ability to monitor and troubleshoot
system issues is also imperative to help ensure maximum uptime. Administration
tools should be easy to use and allow for role-based management by user groups.
Securing both corporate-issued and personal devices in the work environment is
becoming a necessity. Employees are increasingly using their personal devices in
the work place; as a result there is an increased risk of losing devices along with
highly sensitive enterprise data. A comprehensive management policy should
include remote management for over-the-air updates and administration.
Mobile apps and content are also proliferating. The solutions for keeping
everything up-to-date is to centrally administer apps and content from a single
source using workflow driven processes for review, approval and versioning.
AMPchroma™ Manage
The AMP Management Console is the central access point to administer
the entire AMPchroma deployment. With the ability to set various levels of
role-based administration, you can provide complete or targeted visibility of
the processes relating to the enrollment and provisioning of apps, users and
devices.
AMP Device Manager is the part of the AMP Management Console that
provides mobile device management (MDM) capabilities to secure and
control corporate-issued or personal devices in the work environment. And
to manage content, there is the AMP Content Manager, a mobile content
management system (CMS) built from the ground up and available if you
choose not to integrate with your existing CMS.
On top of the technology, Antenna offers monitoring services that deliver
proactive 24x7 monitoring of your mobile deployment along with expert
troubleshooting of any app, device and network issues.
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7. Analyze
Mobility offers unprecedented access to understanding user behavior. Not
only can you get information in near real time, but you can also dissect the
information based on the user’s location, device profile and other opt-in
information. This treasure trove of data can be used to increase business agility
in sales and marketing programs, and to help drive overall business process
improvements.
AMPchroma™ Analyze
AMP Analytics is a window into your mobile users’ behavior: what’s working
and what’s not, and provides overall monitoring of the mobile environment
– all in real time. Working in combination with the other components of
AMPchroma, it monitors and tracks transactions with a meta-data trail.
By analyzing opt-in user geo-location and profile information and in-
app usage—screen-by-screen and click-by-click—you can drive real-
time business intelligence to enhance your context-aware marketing and
business processes and workflows.
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AMPchroma™ for Mobility
Excellence
Apple’s iPhone poured gas on a mobile bonfire and forever changed the business and technology
landscape. It opened our eyes to a new way of conducting business and created new channels
of growth. But it’s not just about mobile devices; it’s multi-channel (laptops, tablets, IPTV, M2M).
It’s not just about apps; it’s videos, images, and other digital content. It’s not just about native;
it’s web, hybrid, and all shades in between. Mobile is a colorful place, and smart businesses need
an integrated suite of software that recognizes how they operate.
Antenna has been a leader in mobility since 1998, and AMPchroma is the culmination of all our
expertise and technology innovation applied to this new world order. Unlike other mobile enterprise
application platforms (MEAP) that are focused on one or two aspects of the full mobility spectrum,
AMPchroma is the first and only MEAP to address the complete lifecycle of mobility and enable
a foundation for strategic mobility across an entire organization—from C-level to business units to
IT and developers.
No other vendor offers cloud-based app design, content delivery, publishing and management from
a single, unified platform for greater visibility, measurement, and control throughout the lifecycle of
all mobile initiatives. Only Antenna gives companies the ability to control, measure, adapt and future-
proof all of their mobile strategies for employees, partners, and customers in one place. Whether for
one or one hundred apps, AMPchroma delivers greater productivity, connectivity and engagement
for happier customers, partners and employees.
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