In 2017, 71% of enterprises prioritized mobility, with expectations for the global enterprise mobility market to reach $430 billion by 2021. Key challenges include a shortage of mobile developers, the need for security, and the trend towards mobile-only application and SaaS cloud delivery. Low-code platforms are emerging as beneficial for enterprise app development, promoting rapid innovation and integration while providing customizable and responsive app solutions.

1. State of Enterprise
Mobile App Development - 2017

2. The Mobile Application Market
• 71% of enterprises regard mobility as a top priority, and Nasscom
estimates the global enterprise mobility market to be worth $140
billion a year, by 2020.
• 77% business owners found enterprise apps advantageous
according to an Adobe study
• 66% are increasing their investment further. Also 430 billion
enterprise app market is expected by 2021

3. Challenges of Enterprise Mobility
• Future companies look at a mobile only application approach from a
mobile first
• SaaS+ Cloud is the new mantra for app delivery
• Shortage of Mobile developers have given rise to citizen developers
• Micro services and short/ companion apps within larger apps
• Security

4. 2017 Enterprise App Expectations
• Crunch for more than generic apps - companion apps
• BYOD and MDM becomes a trend
• Legacy app migration
• Mobile ready apps for all levels of enterprise
• API readiness
• Rise of smart apps and responsive AI with experimenting with new
technologies and IoT

5. Low-code platforms benefits
• Business-IT Alignment
• Clear IT backlog
• Democratization of application
delivery
• Consumer grade business apps
• Speed innovation
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Scope of RAD and Low-code
• Evolution from development to
deployment and hosting
• Increase capabilities around
DevOps integration, code
Branching, automated testing, cloud
deployment, real time integration
etc.
• IoT platform integration
Dealing with the expectations

6. What an Enterprise app should be
Hybrid Responsive Integratable Deployable
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7. Hybrid
• Design hybrid mobile apps using
beautiful mobile templates and themes
• Use inbuilt ready to use mobile app
templates like dashboards and login
pages
• A large array of themes to enhance UI
elements
• Better page animations to create an
immersive mobile experience moving
through pages.

8. Responsive
• Apps once built maintain a native
experience at every step with native
themes and UI controls
• Apps once built will be compatible on
any device irrespective of device OS
• With offline storage, ease and
performance of data by storing and
accessing data on the client device
• Use device features like camera,
location, network, battery, contacts,
local storage and more in your app.

9. Integratable
• Provision for apps to connect
with backend mobile services
like AWS mobile services and
Azure mobile services.
• Allows easy integration with
web services APIs (REST and
SOAP) and enables API-
based app development.
• Easy database integrations
allowing edit or create the data
model, relationships and
database constraints

10. Deployable
• Easy preview of applications on multiple
resolutions and devices.
• Options of deploying with a single click or export
for manual deployment
• Package apps to platform specific installers that
can be readily submitted to Google, Apple and
Microsoft app stores.

11. Trending use cases for Enterprise apps
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Banking and insurance
Healthcare and
pharmacy
Energy and utilities
Information technology and
services
CRM apps Patient management app
Business process
management apps
Legacy app modernization
Loan approvals app
Accounting and invoicing
app
CRM apps
Business process management
apps
Insurance management
app
(Read case study)
Laboratory information
management app
Monitoring dashboards
CRM and ERP platform
dashboards

12. WaveMaker RAD
Open
standards with
no vendor
lock-in
Great looking
Apps
out of the box
Mobile ready
with Hybrid
Apps
API integration
made easy
Extensible &
maintainable
code base
Full cycle,
continuous
delivery
• Industry standards based Java code
• Reuse/extend code using any IDE
• Fully portable code via Open Stack
• VCS integration
• Single-click deploy to Cloud
• Lower TCO with Docker
• Integrate with any existing DB and
libraries
• Human readable code generation
• Extensible frontend and backend
• Drag-n-drop widgets
• Page layout, themes, custom styles
• Automatic responsive multi-device
• Build once, for any device/platform
• Hybrid Mobile Apps
• Mobile templates & layouts
• REST API driven development
• API designer
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