This document discusses the challenges of managing mobile applications at an enterprise scale. As more employees use mobile devices for work, the number of applications a company needs to support grows exponentially. Managing hundreds or thousands of applications across different devices and operating systems is a significant challenge. The document recommends adopting a common application development platform to simplify management. It also advocates for tools that can remotely distribute, configure, update and remove applications over a device's lifecycle.
Driving Enterprise Mobility Solutions Demand: Understanding End User Requirem...VDC Research Group
VDC Research has been monitoring enterprise and government mobility user requirements through a series of targeted surveys. During this webcast, David Krebs, presented key findings from these 2010 end-user surveys. Some of the topics David addressed include: leading mobility applications enterprise and government organizations are investing in; adoption of/interest in next-generation form factors, such as slate tablets; leading mobile device functionality and form factor requirements; and mobile application development and distribution trends.
Enterprise Mobility Solutions: Enterprise operations on the moveSoftweb Solutions
The concept of mobility, the adoption and trends of mobility amongst the enterprises, the benefits acquired from implementing enterprise mobility solutions, and what advantages can be obtained from mobile solutions in the future by the businesses – are explained comprehensively in this White Paper.
White Paper - Securing Mobile Access to enterprise dataAppear
This document describes the security features of the Appear IQ mobility platform. It allows businesses to securely build, integrate and manage enterprise mobile applications. The platform uses encryption, authentication, authorization and application management to secure data on devices, in transit and in the platform. It integrates with enterprise directories to authenticate users and control access. The platform is hosted on Amazon Web Services which has obtained security certifications.
Future proof and extend your IAM to Mobile Platforms and any connected deviceAldo Pietropaolo
As businesses continue to leverage their existing investments in IAM, it's becoming increasingly critical that organizations future proof their security and IAM services. Doing this while establishing the utmost agility and delivering to the business is going to be most critical.
IBM is announcing new mobile capabilities across building, connecting, managing, and securing the mobile enterprise. This includes rapid support for iOS6, support for native and offline apps in IBM Mobile Foundation, improved app distribution and management with IBM Endpoint Manager, and increased accuracy in identifying mobile access security risks with IBM Security Access Manager. IBM is also extending capabilities to mobile through solutions like IBM Social Business, Commerce, and Analytics.
Smartphones like iPhone, Blackberry, Android,
etc. are a wonderful combination of computers and cell-phones.
They include many multi-media features that seem to be
capturing the interests of individuals. With the growing
popularity of these devices, enterprises have discovered them
to be useful for employees who are distant / dispersed from the
office. Therefore, developing smartphone applications for the
enterprises has become necessary. In this paper we describe
our methodology for smartphone enablement of enterprise
software systems. This comprises of a framework to assess the
business processes to identify the potential candidates for
smartphone enablement and also guidelines for re-factoring
the system architecture.As most of the enterprises are either
web applications and/or web services, the technical approach
will provide the details of developing the solution using web
technology. Based on our experience, we briefly discuss the
benefits and limitations of our approach. We conclude the paper
with a short note on the evolution of web technology in the
smartphone area.
Driving Enterprise Mobility Solutions Demand: Understanding End User Requirem...VDC Research Group
VDC Research has been monitoring enterprise and government mobility user requirements through a series of targeted surveys. During this webcast, David Krebs, presented key findings from these 2010 end-user surveys. Some of the topics David addressed include: leading mobility applications enterprise and government organizations are investing in; adoption of/interest in next-generation form factors, such as slate tablets; leading mobile device functionality and form factor requirements; and mobile application development and distribution trends.
Enterprise Mobility Solutions: Enterprise operations on the moveSoftweb Solutions
The concept of mobility, the adoption and trends of mobility amongst the enterprises, the benefits acquired from implementing enterprise mobility solutions, and what advantages can be obtained from mobile solutions in the future by the businesses – are explained comprehensively in this White Paper.
White Paper - Securing Mobile Access to enterprise dataAppear
This document describes the security features of the Appear IQ mobility platform. It allows businesses to securely build, integrate and manage enterprise mobile applications. The platform uses encryption, authentication, authorization and application management to secure data on devices, in transit and in the platform. It integrates with enterprise directories to authenticate users and control access. The platform is hosted on Amazon Web Services which has obtained security certifications.
Future proof and extend your IAM to Mobile Platforms and any connected deviceAldo Pietropaolo
As businesses continue to leverage their existing investments in IAM, it's becoming increasingly critical that organizations future proof their security and IAM services. Doing this while establishing the utmost agility and delivering to the business is going to be most critical.
IBM is announcing new mobile capabilities across building, connecting, managing, and securing the mobile enterprise. This includes rapid support for iOS6, support for native and offline apps in IBM Mobile Foundation, improved app distribution and management with IBM Endpoint Manager, and increased accuracy in identifying mobile access security risks with IBM Security Access Manager. IBM is also extending capabilities to mobile through solutions like IBM Social Business, Commerce, and Analytics.
Smartphones like iPhone, Blackberry, Android,
etc. are a wonderful combination of computers and cell-phones.
They include many multi-media features that seem to be
capturing the interests of individuals. With the growing
popularity of these devices, enterprises have discovered them
to be useful for employees who are distant / dispersed from the
office. Therefore, developing smartphone applications for the
enterprises has become necessary. In this paper we describe
our methodology for smartphone enablement of enterprise
software systems. This comprises of a framework to assess the
business processes to identify the potential candidates for
smartphone enablement and also guidelines for re-factoring
the system architecture.As most of the enterprises are either
web applications and/or web services, the technical approach
will provide the details of developing the solution using web
technology. Based on our experience, we briefly discuss the
benefits and limitations of our approach. We conclude the paper
with a short note on the evolution of web technology in the
smartphone area.
The digital workspace is emerging as the new end-user computing platform, securely delivering access to apps, services, and resources across devices. It empowers users with freedom of choice and mobility while giving IT control and security. As workstyles change with mobile workers using various devices, the digital workspace simplifies app delivery and management for IT and enables new processes and customer interactions for businesses. VMware provides solutions for the digital workspace across apps, devices, identity, and security to drive digital transformation for organizations and their users.
Mobile enterprise application platforms (MEAP) provide enterprises with complete control over mobile needs while providing tools and data access as demanded by mobile workers.
G05.2012 magic quadrant for mobile device management softwareSatya Harish
Enterprise mobile device management software helps companies manage mobile devices and address security and policy management challenges. While MDM features have become common across vendors, companies should also evaluate how well a vendor can support broader enterprise mobility needs. This Magic Quadrant evaluates major MDM vendors and their strengths and weaknesses in areas like security, management capabilities, scalability, and global support.
Why Mobile will Change your Business - ParmeleeProlifics
Mobile technology will fundamentally change businesses in the coming years. Leading companies are building mobile apps to unlock core business data for mobile uses and optimize the customer experience. To succeed, companies need to securely manage mobile devices and apps, integrate mobile with existing systems, and gain insights from mobile data to engage customers. IBM's MobileFirst platform provides tools to develop, secure, manage and analyze enterprise mobile apps across their lifecycle.
Mobile device management-Desktop CentralManageEngine
Mobile device management (MDM) solutions help organizations manage the growing number of employee-owned mobile devices accessing corporate networks and data. The document discusses the need for MDM to secure corporate data on employee devices, manage device inventory and software, and provide self-service support to users. It highlights key MDM features of Desktop Central such as device enrollment, profile management, security controls, and reporting capabilities. Desktop Central offers a holistic MDM solution that helps IT manage mobile devices and address BYOD challenges cost effectively.
The document discusses how IBM can help businesses become mobile enterprises. It provides five mobile trends with implications for businesses, such as mobile being the primary device and mobile enabling transactions. It then describes IBM's mobile portfolio including products for developing, managing and securing mobile applications. The portfolio addresses objectives like enhancing productivity and transforming customer interactions. Finally, it discusses how IBM's platform and analytics can help businesses deliver multi-channel mobile experiences and understand customer experiences.
Mobilizing Enterprise Data - Strategies to succeed in enterprise mobileAlex Zaltsman
This document provides guidance on developing a mobile integration plan for an enterprise. It discusses key components like adoption formula, usability, desirability, security, identifying stakeholders, staffing requirements, implementation options, and creating a project action plan. The adoption formula expresses that usability, desirability, and security are crucial for successful mobile adoption. It also outlines identifying information security plans, addressing threats like unauthorized data access, and solutions like encryption.
This document discusses the need for application modernization to address changing business needs and technologies. It notes that 78% of enterprise applications will need changes in the next two years such as upgrades or replacements. Application modernization, which maintains and extends existing applications, is becoming a preferred approach over costly replacement. Modernizing applications allows organizations to create new apps focused on specific tasks for smartphones and tablets without replacing back-office systems, lowering costs and risks while improving productivity.
Charts from the session at MWC2013 where I co-presented with Chris Frosk from AT&T about the new IBM-ATT partnership which is focused on accelerating our client's speed in delivering mobile apps to market with high quality.
MEAP's are comprehensive container platforms that addresses all the aspects of mobile IT enablement of enterprises for rolling out their mobility roadmap
Essential Guide to Becoming A Mobile App Rock Star - part II - Enterprise AppsDMIMarketing
This document provides guidance on creating a business case for developing a mobile enterprise application. It recommends breaking the process into three parts: 1) determining development costs such as staffing, testing, and integration; 2) determining operational costs like licensing, infrastructure, mobile data and updates; 3) calculating benefits, cost savings and potential revenue from increased efficiency, effectiveness and error reduction. Creating a strong business case is important for prioritizing projects, getting approval, and measuring success.
Pulse 2013 Mobile Build and Connect presentationLeigh Williamson
Presentation made at Pulse2013 about the new IBM MobileFirst brand and portfolio, especially focusing on our solutions to help clients build & connect their mobile apps.
Key Architectural Aspects of a Enterprise Mobility Solutionroshanjk
This document highlights key considerations for building robust enterprise mobility applications. It discusses targeting multiple platforms like iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile to achieve significant adoption. It also covers challenges like engineering costs, time to market, testing across many devices and platforms. The document emphasizes the importance of usability, security, enterprise integration, offline access, synchronization and supporting the applications. It stresses the need to go beyond a point solution and look at the larger ecosystem including analytics and testing.
Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a security application used by IT departments to monitor, manage, and secure employees' mobile devices. MDM solutions allow IT to deploy applications and settings to devices remotely, secure devices by blocking rogue apps and malware, locate lost devices, and audit device usage. The use of mobile devices in businesses is increasing rapidly, with forecasts of smartphone manufacturing doubling between 2011 and 2013, and the percentage of employees using company-provided smartphones rising from 28% in 2011 to 33% in 2012. As more employees use their own devices for work as well, MDM solutions help businesses reduce costs and security risks associated with mobile devices.
Yamana is our mobile device management service by which it gets easy to ensure that the Company’s employees use their mobile devices within the bounds of corporate policies.
Mobile technology has grown rapidly in the last decade and created challenges for organizations to manage an increasing number of mobile devices and platforms. The document introduces the Mobile Way framework which provides a total lifecycle management solution to address issues like mobile strategy, support for multiple platforms, BYOD policies, security, and asset management. It helps companies execute their mobile strategy and improve productivity through multi-OS device management and other features.
1) IBM identifies five trends in mobile with significant implications for enterprises: mobile is about transacting, enabling the Internet of Things, becoming primary, requiring continuous brand experiences across devices, and providing opportunities from insights into mobile data.
2) IBM has built capabilities for the mobile enterprise including over 200 apps, leadership in app design and services, and investments in security and analytics.
3) IBM's MobileFirst offering addresses analytics, security, management, applications, platforms, industry solutions, and services to help clients develop, deploy and manage high-quality mobile apps and connect them to enterprise data and services.
This document discusses key components for mobile device management (MDM) in both bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and company-owned device scenarios. It identifies 17 key components for MDM, including policy, risk management, configuration management, software distribution, security settings, and selective wipe/remote wipe capabilities. For each component, the document provides a brief description and rates its importance as either "must have", "optional", or dependent on individual organizational risk assessments. The goal is to help organizations understand essential MDM capabilities for managing diverse mobile environments.
Enterprise mobility refers to the execution of mobile application development as a strategy that addresses the particular requirements of a company. Mobile technology is used to connect people, processes, and information. Enterprise mobility can improve how consumers interact with items and services.
This document discusses the benefits of mobile applications for businesses. It outlines how mobility can improve processes like travel management and purchase order approval through more efficient access to information systems. While security concerns sometimes prevent companies from adopting mobile solutions, effective defenses are available through proper application development that prioritizes security. When mobile apps are used to optimize processes, companies can realize benefits like increased productivity, cost reductions, and easier process control.
SAP has realized significant business benefits from mobilizing its workforce of over 55,000 employees worldwide. It has over 40,000 mobile devices in use across its global operations. SAP established an early and strategic mobile foundation based on a device-agnostic platform and mobile-first approach to app development. This enabled SAP to deploy productivity and business apps that increased collaboration and access to information for employees and customers. SAP also built a strong mobile management infrastructure incorporating encryption, device lifecycle management, and a BYOD program to securely support its large mobile workforce.
The digital workspace is emerging as the new end-user computing platform, securely delivering access to apps, services, and resources across devices. It empowers users with freedom of choice and mobility while giving IT control and security. As workstyles change with mobile workers using various devices, the digital workspace simplifies app delivery and management for IT and enables new processes and customer interactions for businesses. VMware provides solutions for the digital workspace across apps, devices, identity, and security to drive digital transformation for organizations and their users.
Mobile enterprise application platforms (MEAP) provide enterprises with complete control over mobile needs while providing tools and data access as demanded by mobile workers.
G05.2012 magic quadrant for mobile device management softwareSatya Harish
Enterprise mobile device management software helps companies manage mobile devices and address security and policy management challenges. While MDM features have become common across vendors, companies should also evaluate how well a vendor can support broader enterprise mobility needs. This Magic Quadrant evaluates major MDM vendors and their strengths and weaknesses in areas like security, management capabilities, scalability, and global support.
Why Mobile will Change your Business - ParmeleeProlifics
Mobile technology will fundamentally change businesses in the coming years. Leading companies are building mobile apps to unlock core business data for mobile uses and optimize the customer experience. To succeed, companies need to securely manage mobile devices and apps, integrate mobile with existing systems, and gain insights from mobile data to engage customers. IBM's MobileFirst platform provides tools to develop, secure, manage and analyze enterprise mobile apps across their lifecycle.
Mobile device management-Desktop CentralManageEngine
Mobile device management (MDM) solutions help organizations manage the growing number of employee-owned mobile devices accessing corporate networks and data. The document discusses the need for MDM to secure corporate data on employee devices, manage device inventory and software, and provide self-service support to users. It highlights key MDM features of Desktop Central such as device enrollment, profile management, security controls, and reporting capabilities. Desktop Central offers a holistic MDM solution that helps IT manage mobile devices and address BYOD challenges cost effectively.
The document discusses how IBM can help businesses become mobile enterprises. It provides five mobile trends with implications for businesses, such as mobile being the primary device and mobile enabling transactions. It then describes IBM's mobile portfolio including products for developing, managing and securing mobile applications. The portfolio addresses objectives like enhancing productivity and transforming customer interactions. Finally, it discusses how IBM's platform and analytics can help businesses deliver multi-channel mobile experiences and understand customer experiences.
Mobilizing Enterprise Data - Strategies to succeed in enterprise mobileAlex Zaltsman
This document provides guidance on developing a mobile integration plan for an enterprise. It discusses key components like adoption formula, usability, desirability, security, identifying stakeholders, staffing requirements, implementation options, and creating a project action plan. The adoption formula expresses that usability, desirability, and security are crucial for successful mobile adoption. It also outlines identifying information security plans, addressing threats like unauthorized data access, and solutions like encryption.
This document discusses the need for application modernization to address changing business needs and technologies. It notes that 78% of enterprise applications will need changes in the next two years such as upgrades or replacements. Application modernization, which maintains and extends existing applications, is becoming a preferred approach over costly replacement. Modernizing applications allows organizations to create new apps focused on specific tasks for smartphones and tablets without replacing back-office systems, lowering costs and risks while improving productivity.
Charts from the session at MWC2013 where I co-presented with Chris Frosk from AT&T about the new IBM-ATT partnership which is focused on accelerating our client's speed in delivering mobile apps to market with high quality.
MEAP's are comprehensive container platforms that addresses all the aspects of mobile IT enablement of enterprises for rolling out their mobility roadmap
Essential Guide to Becoming A Mobile App Rock Star - part II - Enterprise AppsDMIMarketing
This document provides guidance on creating a business case for developing a mobile enterprise application. It recommends breaking the process into three parts: 1) determining development costs such as staffing, testing, and integration; 2) determining operational costs like licensing, infrastructure, mobile data and updates; 3) calculating benefits, cost savings and potential revenue from increased efficiency, effectiveness and error reduction. Creating a strong business case is important for prioritizing projects, getting approval, and measuring success.
Pulse 2013 Mobile Build and Connect presentationLeigh Williamson
Presentation made at Pulse2013 about the new IBM MobileFirst brand and portfolio, especially focusing on our solutions to help clients build & connect their mobile apps.
Key Architectural Aspects of a Enterprise Mobility Solutionroshanjk
This document highlights key considerations for building robust enterprise mobility applications. It discusses targeting multiple platforms like iOS, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile to achieve significant adoption. It also covers challenges like engineering costs, time to market, testing across many devices and platforms. The document emphasizes the importance of usability, security, enterprise integration, offline access, synchronization and supporting the applications. It stresses the need to go beyond a point solution and look at the larger ecosystem including analytics and testing.
Mobile Device Management (MDM) is a security application used by IT departments to monitor, manage, and secure employees' mobile devices. MDM solutions allow IT to deploy applications and settings to devices remotely, secure devices by blocking rogue apps and malware, locate lost devices, and audit device usage. The use of mobile devices in businesses is increasing rapidly, with forecasts of smartphone manufacturing doubling between 2011 and 2013, and the percentage of employees using company-provided smartphones rising from 28% in 2011 to 33% in 2012. As more employees use their own devices for work as well, MDM solutions help businesses reduce costs and security risks associated with mobile devices.
Yamana is our mobile device management service by which it gets easy to ensure that the Company’s employees use their mobile devices within the bounds of corporate policies.
Mobile technology has grown rapidly in the last decade and created challenges for organizations to manage an increasing number of mobile devices and platforms. The document introduces the Mobile Way framework which provides a total lifecycle management solution to address issues like mobile strategy, support for multiple platforms, BYOD policies, security, and asset management. It helps companies execute their mobile strategy and improve productivity through multi-OS device management and other features.
1) IBM identifies five trends in mobile with significant implications for enterprises: mobile is about transacting, enabling the Internet of Things, becoming primary, requiring continuous brand experiences across devices, and providing opportunities from insights into mobile data.
2) IBM has built capabilities for the mobile enterprise including over 200 apps, leadership in app design and services, and investments in security and analytics.
3) IBM's MobileFirst offering addresses analytics, security, management, applications, platforms, industry solutions, and services to help clients develop, deploy and manage high-quality mobile apps and connect them to enterprise data and services.
This document discusses key components for mobile device management (MDM) in both bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and company-owned device scenarios. It identifies 17 key components for MDM, including policy, risk management, configuration management, software distribution, security settings, and selective wipe/remote wipe capabilities. For each component, the document provides a brief description and rates its importance as either "must have", "optional", or dependent on individual organizational risk assessments. The goal is to help organizations understand essential MDM capabilities for managing diverse mobile environments.
Enterprise mobility refers to the execution of mobile application development as a strategy that addresses the particular requirements of a company. Mobile technology is used to connect people, processes, and information. Enterprise mobility can improve how consumers interact with items and services.
This document discusses the benefits of mobile applications for businesses. It outlines how mobility can improve processes like travel management and purchase order approval through more efficient access to information systems. While security concerns sometimes prevent companies from adopting mobile solutions, effective defenses are available through proper application development that prioritizes security. When mobile apps are used to optimize processes, companies can realize benefits like increased productivity, cost reductions, and easier process control.
SAP has realized significant business benefits from mobilizing its workforce of over 55,000 employees worldwide. It has over 40,000 mobile devices in use across its global operations. SAP established an early and strategic mobile foundation based on a device-agnostic platform and mobile-first approach to app development. This enabled SAP to deploy productivity and business apps that increased collaboration and access to information for employees and customers. SAP also built a strong mobile management infrastructure incorporating encryption, device lifecycle management, and a BYOD program to securely support its large mobile workforce.
SAP has adopted mobile technology extensively within its own organization to realize business benefits. It supports over 40,000 mobile devices for its 55,000 global employees. SAP established an early, device-agnostic mobile strategy and now supports BlackBerry, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone platforms. It has deployed various mobile apps for tasks like email, calendar, and business workflows to enable employees to work productively from anywhere. SAP is also a model for its customers by developing new apps for mobile first before the desktop.
SAP has adopted mobile technology extensively within its own organization to realize business benefits. It supports over 40,000 mobile devices for its 55,000 global employees. SAP established an early, device-agnostic mobile strategy and now supports BlackBerry, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone platforms. It has deployed various mobile apps for tasks like email, calendar, and business workflows to enable employees to work productively from anywhere. SAP is also a model for its customers by developing new apps for mobile first before the desktop.
Mobile application management (mam) in enterprise managementSoftweb Solutions
Mobile Application Management (MAM) provides security for apps on mobile devices in enterprises. MAM manages the entire lifecycle of apps, including distribution, updates, and retirement. It offers more granular controls than Mobile Device Management by focusing on specific apps rather than full device management. MAM maintains enterprise app stores by deploying apps, distributing updates, and addressing issues throughout the management of approved business apps on employee devices.
Make your Strategy Work for Your Mobile App SuccessKaspar Lavik
Portability has changed business until the end of time. It has expanded the sorts of gadgets (telephones, tablets, wearables) and the volume of gadgets that join with an organization's undertaking assets.
This document discusses enterprise mobile applications and their development. It defines enterprise mobile apps as applications that access and process workplace data from mobile devices. It discusses the types of enterprise apps, including business, supply chain, and communication apps. It also covers enabling technologies, platforms, approaches to developing enterprise mobile apps, concerns around security, connectivity and deployment, and the potential for growth in specialized vertical market apps.
Mobile enterprise application platforms (MEAP) provide enterprises with complete control over mobile needs while providing tools and data access as demanded by mobile workers.
The key business drivers for Enterprise MobilitySanjay Abraham
Big question is…Is mobility really going to change the way business is done. Will it radically improve the performance of the employees. Is it a fab or fad? There are still many doubts about the real value-add enterprise mobility would bring for enterprises.
- Key elements in developing a mobile strategy include utilizing a single mobile infrastructure that supports multiple devices and applications, avoiding multiple point solutions, and fully utilizing existing SAP processes and data.
- The mobile strategy should consider mobilizing common business functions like sales, service, marketing, and inventory as well as future mobility needs.
- The strategy must allow for applications to be deployed across various hardware platforms like BlackBerry, iPhone/iPad, Windows Mobile, Android, and Windows laptops.
- Introducing middleware risks not fully utilizing SAP as the master system and existing skills/infrastructure. The mobile strategy should select a mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) to support future needs across devices.
Enterprise mobility, strategy and execution approachRapidValue
Driver’s of Enterprise Mobility
Current Landscape
Mobile 1.0
Mobile 2.0
Mobile 3.0
Why do we need mobile strategy for enterprise
More penetration of smart devices
Rapid Deployment of BYOD
Need Real-Time information by CXO’s
Business Benefit Drivers of Enterprise Mobility
Approach to Enterprise Mobile Strategy
Identify Mobile Infrastructure & Security Requirements
Understand the Challenges in Enterprise Mobility
Identify Business Functions to Mobilize
Prioritize Requirements
Prioritize Applications
Calculate Return Of Investments (ROI)
Decide on the Application Framework & Technology
Technology Considerations
Execute and Deploy the Mobile App
Support and Maintain Mobile Applications
Mobilizing Enterprise Systems
Typical Components of Enterprise Mobile Systems
Enterprise backend system
Mobile Middleware
Mobile Application
Extending Oracle ERP to Mobile
Typical components of Oracle Mobile Suite
Oracle Apps ERP system
Oracle Fusion Middleware
Mobile Application
About Oracle ADF Mobile Application
Cross-Platform Development Framework
Benefits of Oracle ADF Mobile
Enterprise mobile app development projects are hurriedly taking place all around business world. But a mobile app developments commissioned with no full-grown scheme can hardly have impact on anyone who uses it.
How Can Enterprise App Development Help Your Business Growth.pdfXDuce Corporation
Enterprise application development is the process of creating and deploying scalable and
reliable apps to help enterprises streamline their business operations, improve productivity,
lower costs, and so on. Enterprise app development is possible to develop for both internal
and external use. Enterprise app development helps a business in many ways. The significant
advantage of enterprise app development services is that it provides the ability to store a
massive amount of informatio
The top 5 mobile myths that CIOs fall forAbhishek Sood
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.
Driving business advantage with enterprise mobilityMindtree Ltd.
This document discusses how mobile technology has become integral to business interactions and transactions. It poses challenges for mobile developers to create applications for multiple devices quickly. It also discusses SAP Fiori, which allows common SAP functions to work across devices, and Mindtree's mobile consulting services to help customers develop mobile strategies and optimize ROI while incorporating flexibility. Mindtree consultants also work on SAP Fiori product development to provide real-time information to customers via mobile.
How Can Enterprise App Development Help Your Business Growth.pptxXDuce Corporation
Organizations have seen growth in the demand for enterprise app development. It has made
developers build multiple apps that help their clients to grow business with enterprise
applications. Such as Automated billing systems, Payment processing systems, Email
marketing systems, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP), Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Enterprise Application Integration
(EAI), Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Messaging Systems (EMS), HR
Management
The document discusses the relevance and scope of business apps. It describes how business apps can replace laptops by providing key business functions like email, collaboration tools, and CRM capabilities from any location. It provides examples of popular business apps in India and discusses how the market for business apps is growing rapidly as smartphone and tablet adoption increases in India. The document also explains how business apps can perform CRM activities like providing customer data, feedback mechanisms, location-based targeting, and facilitating ordering and payments. It argues that business apps are an effective way for companies to interact with and service their customers.
Italya Posta Teskilatı Sybase Afaria KullaniyotSybase Türkiye
Poste Italiane equipped 44,000 mail carriers in Italy with mobile devices using SAP Afaria for mobile device management. This allowed the carriers to provide new services directly to customers and improved operations. SAP Afaria helped Poste Italiane maintain over 25,000 mobile devices with 99% availability.
SAP REAL TIME DATA PLATFORM WITH SYBASE SUPPORTSybase Türkiye
The document describes SAP's real-time data platform, which provides a single architecture for data management and applications. It offers benefits like IT landscape simplification, flexibility to innovate at an organization's own pace, and lower total cost of ownership. The platform includes the SAP HANA in-memory database, Sybase databases, and data management products to transact, store, process and analyze data in real time.
The document provides an overview of the SAP Sybase Event Stream Processor (ESP). Key points include:
- ESP allows for continuous insight and immediate response by analyzing events as they occur in real-time.
- It enables rapid application development through reduced dependence on specialist programming skills and faster implementation/deployment times.
- ESP has a non-intrusive deployment model that can adapt to existing data models and event-driven architectures.
- Key concepts of ESP include input streams, derived streams, windows, and continuous queries to filter, aggregate, and join streaming data.
- ESP Studio provides both visual and textual authoring capabilities using the Continuous Computation Language (CCL).
SAP Sybase IQ uses a technique called distributed query processing (DQP) that can improve query performance by breaking queries into pieces and distributing the pieces across multiple SAP Sybase IQ servers. DQP provides both intra-query and inter-query parallelism. It dynamically manages resources to balance workloads and avoid saturating the system. For DQP to be effective, the storage area network must have sufficient performance to support the increased parallelism.
To develop for the Android platform, developers need the Android SDK, which includes tools for developing, testing, and debugging apps. The primary programming language is Java. Developers create apps by writing code and designing user interfaces in XML layout files. Apps are tested on emulators and devices before being distributed via the Google Play Store.
Mobile device management provides security, visibility, and control for organizations using mobile devices. Without proper management, mobile devices face challenges including limited security, inconsistent connectivity, and a lack of centralized visibility and control for IT. Effective device management is needed to overcome these challenges, protect sensitive data, enforce compliance with regulations, and maximize the benefits of an organization's mobile workforce.
Sybase IQ is an analytic database management system designed for advanced analytics, data warehousing, and business intelligence environments. It can handle massive volumes of structured and unstructured data. Sybase IQ uses a column-oriented approach that stores and retrieves data by column rather than row, providing a 10-100 times performance boost over row-oriented databases. It also uses a shared-everything architecture that allows for massively parallel processing across an elastic computing grid for high scalability.
1. The customer asked the author to build an analytical platform to store data in a database and perform statistical analysis from a front-end interface.
2. The author chose an SAP Sybase IQ column-store database to store data, the open-source R programming language to perform statistical analysis, and RStudio as the front-end interface.
3. The solution provided a simple way to load and query large amounts of data, automated running of statistical models, and could be deployed in the cloud.
The Q2 2012 Appcelerator/IDC Mobile Developer Survey Report found:
1) Apple's iOS opened a 16% lead over Google's Android among developers who said which platform would win in the enterprise, at 53% to 37%.
2) Interest in developing for Android stabilized after declining in previous surveys, with 78% of developers saying they were very interested in Android phones and 69% in tablets.
3) Developers were cautiously optimistic about Windows 8 tablets, seeing opportunity for Microsoft to displace Android as the number two platform, though interest in Windows phones dropped sharply.
This document provides a comprehensive analysis comparing the data modeling capabilities of Sybase PowerDesigner 16.0 InformationArchitect and CA ERwin Data Modeler r8.1 Standard Edition. It examines how each tool supports key data modeling activities like creating different types of data models (conceptual, logical, physical), impact analysis across model levels, and model integration. The analysis finds that while both tools allow creating different model types and linking models, PowerDesigner provides more robust, integrated support through dedicated model types and built-in impact/lineage analysis. It concludes PowerDesigner better enables managing relationships across complex data modeling projects.
This document provides an executive summary of a white paper that reviews SAP Sybase IQ 15.4, a database platform designed to support business analytics and big data workloads. The white paper was sponsored by Sybase Inc. and conducted by independent analyst firm WinterCorp. Key points covered in the executive summary include:
- SAP Sybase IQ 15.4 aims to make the entire analytics process work smoothly and cost-effectively for both structured and unstructured data.
- It features a new analytic services layer, parallel processing with Hadoop, support for the R language, and expanded ecosystem support from third parties.
- At its core is a mature columnar database with data compression and query optimization capabilities designed for
14 Haziran 2012 tarihinde Sybase Türkiye tarafından yapılan PowerDesigner etkinliğinde, PowerDesigner'in SAP içindeki stratejik yol haritası hakkında temel bilgiler
This document discusses the importance of modeling and metadata management for businesses. It notes that 60% of IT projects fail or only partially succeed due to poor alignment between business and IT. Effective modeling helps ensure business goals, rules and requirements are met and that changes can be implemented with minimal risk, time and cost. Metadata management provides business agility, aids regulatory compliance, and forms the foundation for service-oriented architectures. The document promotes PowerDesigner as the leading tool for conceptual, logical and physical data modeling as well as enterprise architecture and metadata management.
This document discusses Replication Server - Real Time Loading (RTL) for replicating data from a source database in real-time to Sybase IQ for analytics purposes. It provides dial-in numbers and passcode for a presentation on the topic. The presentation will cover limitations of pre-RS 15.5 replication solutions to IQ, an overview of RTL, and the new RTL update capabilities in RS.
Mobile devices are proliferating globally, with over 1 billion smartphones and tablets expected by 2016. This rapid adoption of mobile represents a shift to new systems of engagement that empower customers, partners and employees through context-aware apps and services. For CIOs, developing a formal mobile strategy including designating a chief mobility officer is critical to coordinating investments to build these new systems of engagement across the enterprise through a "design for mobile first" approach.
Sybase SUP Mobil Uygulama Geliştirme Genel BilgilendirmeSybase Türkiye
Sybase Unwired Platform 2.0 enables companies to leverage web developers to easily and securely extend enterprise data to various mobile devices. It features a hybrid web container with Blackberry support and SAP security integration. The platform allows quick development of mobile apps for common business processes with lower total cost of ownership compared to traditional approaches. It provides integration with backend systems, manages the full app lifecycle, and enables push notifications across platforms.
What is an RPA CoE? Session 1 – CoE VisionDianaGray10
In the first session, we will review the organization's vision and how this has an impact on the COE Structure.
Topics covered:
• The role of a steering committee
• How do the organization’s priorities determine CoE Structure?
Speaker:
Chris Bolin, Senior Intelligent Automation Architect Anika Systems
Digital Banking in the Cloud: How Citizens Bank Unlocked Their MainframePrecisely
Inconsistent user experience and siloed data, high costs, and changing customer expectations – Citizens Bank was experiencing these challenges while it was attempting to deliver a superior digital banking experience for its clients. Its core banking applications run on the mainframe and Citizens was using legacy utilities to get the critical mainframe data to feed customer-facing channels, like call centers, web, and mobile. Ultimately, this led to higher operating costs (MIPS), delayed response times, and longer time to market.
Ever-changing customer expectations demand more modern digital experiences, and the bank needed to find a solution that could provide real-time data to its customer channels with low latency and operating costs. Join this session to learn how Citizens is leveraging Precisely to replicate mainframe data to its customer channels and deliver on their “modern digital bank” experiences.
Generating privacy-protected synthetic data using Secludy and MilvusZilliz
During this demo, the founders of Secludy will demonstrate how their system utilizes Milvus to store and manipulate embeddings for generating privacy-protected synthetic data. Their approach not only maintains the confidentiality of the original data but also enhances the utility and scalability of LLMs under privacy constraints. Attendees, including machine learning engineers, data scientists, and data managers, will witness first-hand how Secludy's integration with Milvus empowers organizations to harness the power of LLMs securely and efficiently.
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
- Discover ArgoCD, a declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes, and its role in deploying applications on edge devices.
4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
- Learn how to view and analyze Kafka messages stored in a data lake for better insights.
7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
The Microsoft 365 Migration Tutorial For Beginner.pptxoperationspcvita
This presentation will help you understand the power of Microsoft 365. However, we have mentioned every productivity app included in Office 365. Additionally, we have suggested the migration situation related to Office 365 and how we can help you.
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HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAUpanagenda
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The introduction of DLAU and the CCB & CCX licensing model caused quite a stir in the HCL community. As a Notes and Domino customer, you may have faced challenges with unexpected user counts and license costs. You probably have questions on how this new licensing approach works and how to benefit from it. Most importantly, you likely have budget constraints and want to save money where possible. Don’t worry, we can help with all of this!
We’ll show you how to fix common misconfigurations that cause higher-than-expected user counts, and how to identify accounts which you can deactivate to save money. There are also frequent patterns that can cause unnecessary cost, like using a person document instead of a mail-in for shared mailboxes. We’ll provide examples and solutions for those as well. And naturally we’ll explain the new licensing model.
Join HCL Ambassador Marc Thomas in this webinar with a special guest appearance from Franz Walder. It will give you the tools and know-how to stay on top of what is going on with Domino licensing. You will be able lower your cost through an optimized configuration and keep it low going forward.
These topics will be covered
- Reducing license cost by finding and fixing misconfigurations and superfluous accounts
- How do CCB and CCX licenses really work?
- Understanding the DLAU tool and how to best utilize it
- Tips for common problem areas, like team mailboxes, functional/test users, etc
- Practical examples and best practices to implement right away
HCL Notes and Domino License Cost Reduction in the World of DLAU
Mobile Application Strategy
1. SAP White Paper
Mobile Applications
Mobile Applications May Be Running the Business,
But Who’s Running the Apps?
The Challenges of Managing Mobility at the Application Level
2.
3. Table of Contents
5 Who’s Minding the Mobile Apps?
6 What Is Application Management?
Application Management
Challenges for Corporate IT
8 Scaling Mobile Business Operations
with Scalable Application
Management
What to Look for in an Application
Development Platform
Distributing, Configuring, and
Maintaining Mobile Applications
10 Service-Cycle Approach to
Application Management
Managing Application Development
Managing Application Use
11 Optimizing Mobile Operations
Through Application Management
4. Today’s enterprise mobility is a consumer-driven phenomenon. In
many organizations, it is workers bringing their own devices into the
workplace who are forcing the hand of IT policy makers. New devices
are coming to market faster than corporate IT can formulate policies
about them; companies often have no idea what software or data
their employees are accessing. As enterprise mobility evolves far
beyond mobile e-mail, application management is becoming a
fundamental mobility management challenge.
5. Reality Check in the Mobile IT World
Who’s Minding the Mobile Apps?
Why is mobile application management •• Many companies get started with
such a big deal? mobility by thinking in terms of a few
Here are several points that help illus- mobile applications for certain kinds
trate what is happening in the mobile IT of business operations. However, as
world: more and more employees push for
•• Many companies are allowing employ- mobile solutions, it is not always clear
ees to use their own smartphones exactly how many mobile applications
and tablets at work. These are called a company is supporting. Of course
employee-liable devices, and it makes the bigger question is, how many will a
sense for employers to allow them company ultimately need to support?
because it shifts some of the burden of Large enterprises use thousands of
mobility management to employees. commercial and internally developed
One company realized it didn’t know applications to run conventional busi-
how many of its employees had mobile ness operations.
connections to basic corporate ser-
vices like e-mail. It decided to use a As mobile operations spread through the
mobile device interrogation tool to see organization, how is it possible to man-
what business applications mobile age, support, and configure hundreds if
workers were accessing. As soon as not thousands of mobile applications for
the tool was turned on, the company employees who use different mobile
was surprised to discover 1,800 more devices and operating systems requiring
devices accessing e-mail services than different versions of the same
it realized. This had an impact on its applications?
e-mail software licensing agreement. There is a way, but before we get into
that, it’s important to understand what
application management is all about.
SAP White Paper – Mobile Applications May Be Running the Business, But Who’s Running the Apps? 5
6. Key Aspects from Acquisition Through Removal
What Is Application Management?
There are three distinct but interdepen- Mobile security includes extending Microsoft Windows client systems run-
dent aspects of managing enterprise corporate security practices and poli- ning a suite of office software, while
mobility. cies to mobile workers. Mobile security creative designers might prefer Mac OS
Mobile application management involves the use of both device and appli- systems.
involves not only acquiring, building, and cation management tools to enforce Enterprise mobility is different. When
customizing applications to make them security policies. Basic device controls it comes to supporting mobility, most
suitable for use in the business but also like remote lock and wipe, automatic data enterprises today support multiple
distributing them, configuring them, fading, activity logging, data encryption, mobile operating systems for all kinds
securing them, updating them, tracking and password protection are important of workers, and workers using different
their usage, and deleting them from tools for mobile security. The applications devices often need to run the same
decommissioned devices. themselves also become tools for enforc- applications. Furthermore, there may
Mobile device management is life- ing security, as the corporation controls be greater variation in the applications
cycle management that includes enabling who gets them, what data they access, workers carry on their mobile devices
devices for use in the business, device and how they handle data. than there is in the applications one
configuration and provisioning with basic would find on a typical desktop or laptop
software and data, monitoring business- Application Management system. This is because the smaller form
related device activity, having remote Challenges for Corporate IT factor of mobile devices makes them
device controls, and device decommis- ideal for smaller applications that are
sioning. As the trend toward “bring your In a traditional enterprise IT environ- more specific to a worker’s job functions.
own device” (BYOD) becomes the norm, ment, desktop and notebook computers Here’s an example. Let’s say business
some traditional device management often run the same operating system. unit managers want a mobile budget
functions, like device and service provider If there are different client operating sys- dashboard app that gives them a real-
selection, are shifting to workers. For tems, they are typically used by different time snapshot of their balance sheets.
more information about device manage- kinds of workers running different kinds Others in the organization would have
ment, see the SAP white paper Managing of applications. For instance, basic busi- no need for this app and therefore would
Mobile Devices in a Device-Agnostic World ness operations typically happen on not be running it. The company might
(registration required).
How is it possible to manage, support, and
configure hundreds if not thousands of mobile
applications for employees who use different
mobile devices and operating systems requiring
different versions of the same applications?
7. need to support five different versions ment tools. As the number of applica- Maintaining Mobile Applications
of this application because the business tions and devices increases in the Applications and business operations
unit managers all use different mobile organization, their management change. With a large portfolio of mobile
devices. becomes a nearly impossible task. apps, there will be continuous need to
Here’s another example. Let’s say your One of the most important ways to get revise and update apps, and it will be
business hires consultants to work on a handle on managing mobile applica- necessary to ensure that employees get
specific projects under contracts that tions is to enforce an application develop- these updates. Also, if employees change
have limited duration. While they are ment platform standard. All applications devices – for instance, if they switch
under contract, your company needs built on a common platform can be man- from an iPhone to an Android device –
them to run certain mobile applications aged with the same set of management they will need to be reprovisioned
that are integral to the operations they tools. with the appropriate versions of their
are involved in. When their contracts Another key advantage of applications applications.
end, you want to wipe those applications built on a common development plat-
and associated data from their mobile form is that they can all share data. This Removing Business Applications and
devices. Of course, these consultants has significant implications for the future Data from Mobile Devices
could be using any of a number of differ- of a mobility strategy that is expanding If a mobile device is lost, an employee
ent mobile devices. through an organization. It’s difficult to leaves the company, or a consultant’s
Multiply these scenarios by the hun- predict who will need what data in new contract ends, it will be necessary to
dreds or thousands of applications and emerging operations. However, if a remove business applications and data
needed to support enterprise mobility, platform standard allows all future appli- from those devices. If companies support
and it is quickly apparent that managing cations to share data, the need for data a BYOD policy, they must be able to per-
mobile applications presents a different transparency among different applica- form these tasks without touching the
kind of IT challenge. In this environment tions (or the lack of it) ceases to be an personal-use functionality of a device.
of rapidly proliferating applications, issue.
companies must resolve the following Companies can mandate that all in-
key aspects of mobile application house applications be built using a
management. standard development platform and
all purchased applications come from
Acquiring or Building Mobile vendors using the same development
Applications for Use in the Business platform. This is an important first step
Where do mobile business applications in application management.
come from? Most officially sanctioned
business applications are either pur- Distributing Applications to Employees
chased as out-of-the-box solutions or A fundamental task of mobility manage-
the company custom-builds them. ment is distributing applications to
Many companies have been slow to employees. This means getting the right
develop policies around the adoption of versions of applications onto the devices
mobile applications because they are of people who need to run them. It also
often specialized and touch compara- means doing as much preconfiguration
tively few employees. This has resulted as possible so users do not become
in IT being saddled with managing a mis- frustrated to the point of abandoning
cellaneous portfolio of applications that the application, and IT support is not
require different, incompatible manage- swamped with technical questions.
SAP White Paper – Mobile Applications May Be Running the Business, But Who’s Running the Apps? 7
8. Accommodating Both Business Needs and Evolving Mobile Technologies
Scaling Mobile Business Operations with
Scalable Application Management
Understanding what is involved in applica- •• The platform also supports HTML5 Figure 1: Container Concept
tion management is one thing, but how do and JavaScript (the standard scripting
you pursue an effective application man- language used to create Web applica-
agement strategy that is responsive to tions). This important capability is
the mobility needs of an organization? used to build hybrid mobile applica- Application with generic business logic
Workers are pushing for mobility tions. A hybrid application consists of
because the enabling technology makes a Web app that runs in a native app
it possible for them to work in better “container” installed on the mobile Android (or other) container
ways. Companies are turning to mobile device (see Figure 1). Hybrid applica-
devices because of the efficiencies and tions significantly reduce the cost of
productivity gains they realize by doing mobile application development while
Android-specific hardware functions
so. In many cases, a company’s mobility delivering the performance of a device-
infrastructure lags behind its mobility specific native application.
ambitions. An effective application man- •• The platform allows you to extend your
agement strategy needs to enable mobil- portfolio of mobile apps to new device Android-specific data storage
ity rather than obstruct operations, and types by adding new device-specific
it needs to accommodate changing busi- containers.
ness needs as well as evolving mobile •• All applications built on the platform
Access to back-end databases
technologies. tie into back-end corporate data and
What capabilities does an application support server-driven events, mes-
management strategy need to support? sages, and notifications.
•• All applications built on the platform
What to Look for in an Applica- support a single, consistent encryption
tion Development Platform across different devices.
An application development platform is Companies that mandate the use of a
the cornerstone of a scalable mobile single application development platform
application management strategy. Mobile for all their internally developed and
applications developed on a common vendor-built mobile applications will sim-
platform share data, and they can be plify near-term application management
managed with a common set of applica- and help ensure long-term compatibility
tion management tools. These are key for all the mobile applications in their
points in a business environment that can portfolio. This compatibility will be consis-
easily depend on hundreds or thousands tent across all devices, even new devices
of mobile applications. What makes for an that have not yet reached the market.
ideal application development platform?
An enterprise-grade mobile application Distributing, Configuring, and
platform will have these characteristics: Maintaining Mobile Applications
•• Applications built on the platform eas-
ily port to different types of mobile The heart of an effective application man-
devices. agement strategy is a robust application
•• The platform supports standard appli- management platform. This platform pro-
cation development languages like vides tools needed for application distri-
C++ and others. bution and configuration, managing who
9. gets which applications, and managing needs to provide visibility into devices applications on user devices, many
different methods of application distribu- enabled for business use. Dynamic business applications are best man-
tion (see Figure 2). Here are key capabili- device interrogation provides real-time aged through a company or enterprise
ties of an enterprise-grade application information such as what version of an app store. This enables employees,
management platform: operating system a device is running partners, and even customers to
•• Compatibility with the widest selec- so that the correct version of an appli- download applications as they need
tion of device types and mobile oper- cation is remotely installed on that them. An enterprise-grade mobile
ating systems – This is critical in that device. It can also monitor software application management platform will
it enables an organization to support usage for accurately managing soft- include an app store distribution
the most up-to-date mobile devices. It ware licensing agreements. model. Companies can organize their
also gives an organization greater flexi- •• Group policy management – An app stores so that users are only able
bility when creating a BYOD policy for enterprise-grade application manage- to install applications appropriate to
employees. ment platform enables a company to their relationship with the company.
•• Remote provisioning and control – preconfigure and distribute mobile
This enables companies to push appli- applications to users based on their A good application management platform
cations to remote devices over the device types, job functions, or other provides maximum control to the com-
phone service network. It also allows criteria. This helps ensure that the pany, minimizes user configuration
companies to remotely configure right people get the applications they headaches, and takes advantage of user
devices, and it provides remote and need, and it reduces time spent by self-service opportunities. This enables
automated security controls used to users configuring new applications mobility to scale within an organization
secure data on lost, stolen, or decom- installed on their devices. in a cost-effective way. With these appli-
missioned devices. •• Support for an “app store” distribu- cation management capabilities, it also
•• Dynamic device interrogation – An tion model – While companies need becomes possible to build and enforce an
application management platform to preconfigure and remotely install overall application management strategy.
Figure 2: Application Management Ecosystem
Corporate IT
Mobile application Mobile application
development management
platform platform
Company employees Partners and consultants
• Devices provisioned with basic apps and • Service-cycle app support
data at start of service • Group policy management to control
• Download of additional apps from Company app store access
company store
• “Push” distribution of updates
• App and data wiped at end of service
Partners and consultants
• Access to customer-facing applications
SAP White Paper – Mobile Applications May Be Running the Business, But Who’s Running the Apps? 9
10. Managing Application Development and Use
Service-Cycle Approach to
Application Management
With solid application management capa- Managing Application Use having physical access to the device.
bilities, it becomes possible to create a Over-the-air provisioning is an essential
platform-based application management A traditional device-centric approach to feature of effective enterprise application
strategy that is both manageable and IT management considers IT manage- management.
enforceable. ment tasks in the context of a device’s
There are two broad aspects of appli- lifecycle. Production
cation management that are manage- Enterprise mobility is different for sev- The production phase covers that period
able through rules and technology-driven eral reasons. Increasingly, people bring when a device is in active service. Work-
practices: their own devices into the workplace, and ers use applications appropriate to their
•• Development and maintenance of they take their devices with them when job functions. They may download new
applications they leave. Additionally, a company may applications from the company app
•• Deployment and use of applications provide mobile applications to partners store. Periodically, the company will push
who manage their own devices, and com- applications and application updates out
Managing Application panies may work with consultants who to users over the service carrier network.
Development need access to certain applications for An application management platform
the duration of a consulting engagement. allows IT managers to do this for individ-
In many ways, mobile application devel- Mobile application management is not uals as well as groups using group policy
opment conforms to management rules so much about the lifecycle of devices as definitions and dynamic device interro-
that govern the development of other it is about the period when a device is in gations. In this way it becomes possible
business applications. These include: service with the company. It is in service to quickly modify business processes
•• Defining a standard application devel- when an employee or partner is using it. and worker activities that depend on
opment platform that ensures device It is out of service when it is lost or sto- mobile applications.
and data compatibility len, an employee gets a new device or
•• Defining an application’s business takes the device with him or her upon Decommission
objectives leaving the company, or a contract rela- Decommissioning is the process of
•• Defining the application’s user base tionship ends. taking a device out of service by remov-
within the corporate ecosystem In a service-cycle approach to applica- ing all business applications and data.
•• Defining version and device support tion management, the service cycle Devices can go out of service because an
for the application consists of three phases. employee gets a new device or leaves the
•• Proceeding with a normal application company, a consultant’s contract ends,
development process Provision or a device is lost or stolen. An applica-
Provisioning involves preparing a device tion management platform with strong
To effectively manage mobile applications, for use in the business environment by security controls provides a number of
it is necessary to build the apps to a stan- installing essential security and business ways to manually lock and wipe a device.
dard that allows IT management to use applications. It may also include installing Devices can also be configured for auto-
one set of application management tools. a platform-integrated, device-specific matic data fading. Some of these same
This simplifies the process of configuring application container. This container controls work to delete all company
and deploying apps either directly to simplifies configuration of other business applications and data when a device nat-
devices or through a company app store. applications. It also helps separate a com- urally ends its service life. An application
pany’s business data and applications management platform enables IT man-
from personal and other noncompany agement to perform decommissioning
uses. With an application management functions over the air, and to manage
platform, IT managers can quickly provi- mobile business assets without touching
sion mobile devices over the air without personal data and applications.
11. Enhancing Productivity and Security
Optimizing Mobile
Operations Through
Application Management
In the past few years there has been an essential tools for executing business Learn More
enormous change in the types and capa- processes, they increasingly turn compa-
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bilities of mobile devices. As exciting as nies into real-time enterprises. The most
and managing mobile apps that are core
these developments have been, they are successful companies will be those to your business operations, contact your
merely the backdrop for an even more whose mobility implementations provide SAP representative or visit
disruptive trend. New application devel- the greatest, most secure usability for www.sap.com/mobile/mdm.
opment platforms and software technol- workers. Mobile application manage-
ogies like hybrid applications are causing ment capabilities help ensure smooth
mobile application development costs to mobile operations by:
plummet. Companies are finding it easier •• Allowing workers to use the mobile
to build mobile applications and easier to devices they prefer, which maximizes
make the business cases for developing their productivity
them. •• Simplifying the process of making
It’s not hard to see how these trends workers’ devices ready for business
are redirecting the focus of corporate use
technology managers. Many companies •• Supporting a large ecosystem of
are planning major deployments of new business-related users, including non-
mobile applications. The September employees like partners, consultants,
2011 white paper A Guide to Successfully and even customers
Deploying Enterprise Mobile Applications, •• Lowering the investment required to
commissioned from Yankee Group by produce and deploy useful mobile
SAP notes, “Key factors include the evo-
, applications
lution of higher-speed mobile networks, •• Minimizing software configuration
the explosion of smart mobile devices, issues by enabling distribution of pre-
users’ familiarity with apps and mobile configured applications so that they
app stores, and a decrease in the costs install ready to run
associated with developing, distributing, •• Increasing worker engagement
and maintaining mobile applications. through mobile applications specific
This has spurred companies to look to job roles, shared data, and the
beyond mobile e-mail and basic mobile convenience of a company app store
access to corporate databases and con- •• Providing robust security controls
sider other applications to liberate enter- that prevent accidental data loss,
prise data and more directly impact key enabling workers to perform critical
business processes.” That is just a warm- business operations in a “safe” mobil-
up for what is coming as companies and ity environment
employees aggressively pursue opera- •• Enabling IT to efficiently manage a
tional advantages afforded by enterprise large portfolio of mobile business
mobility. applications
Mobility makes people more produc-
tive by placing core information, and the Companies that have the best mobility
ability to take action, directly at the deci- implementations will be the ones that
sion point in a business process. As win in a world of real-time business
mobile business applications become engagement.
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