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The growth of Mobility in the enterprise is rising day by day mainly because of the growing mobile workforce. Other important factors responsible for growth in the mobile applications include the evolution of higher speed mobile networks, occurrence of smart phones in the market, user’s familiarity with mobile applications and mobile app stores, and decrease in the cost of development, distribution and maintenance of mobile apps. Enterprise Mobility solutions if implemented within the enterprise enable them to change the way they do business with their employees, partners, and consumers. Softweb Solutions innovations in mobility solutions try to help users to communicate with partners and customers, monitor key performance indicators and make decisions based on the visibility to the right information.

Enterprise Mobility Solutions: Challenges & Strategy Implementation

Our comprehensive framework covers every stage for successful deployment of mobile solutions. This comprehensive practice includes design, planning of strategies, security, management, implementation, integration, deployment, and support. The enterprise mobility solutions delivered by Softweb helps our clients to get most out of their investment. Our expert team has total knowledge of the latest technology and emerging trends that help to maximize response times, productivity, and customer service levels.

As more and more powerful mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, Android based smartphones, Blackberry; and higher speed networks are coming to the market gradually, the demand and need for business applications on the mobile devices is increasing.

Internet has greatly enhanced the accessibility of enterprise mobile applications. New evolving business applications will increasingly take advantage of the capabilities of new evolving mobile devices.

For the purpose of taking full advantage of what mobility can do for business operations and to mobilize the total enterprise, the organizations need to think outside the department. They need to consider mobility strategies that not only provide access to business information across the enterprise, but also capture valuable business data at its source. Selecting a perfect partner to design a customized strategy can help the organization in implementing mobility solutions overcoming the enterprise challenges.

Implementing a mobility strategy overcoming the challenges

The concept of mobility offers new dimensions to the enterprise, but the way towards adopting it is full of challenges. It can be challenging as the industry standards, government regulations, security threats, protocols, and customer demands constantly evolve. The most important challenge is –developing an effective and productive enterprise mobility strategy. Once the strategy is decided, it is necessary to determine – how to manage, implement and secure new technologies in the wide range of devices and carriers.

The important business challenges that are needed to be dealt with at the time of implementation of the mobile solutions are –

Enterprise Mobility Challenges

How to produce secured and robust architecture? Security of enterprise network, mobile devices and applications is a paramount. In addition with security, organizations also need to consider tools and functions to be used to extend their security policies to the mobile network.

Data synchronization and Integration of mobile technologies or different mobile applications with other enterprise resources and systems.

Developing an intelligent application to address multimodal interaction.

Supporting different flashy mobile devices like Blackberry, iPhone, and others adds some complexity to the enterprise.

Limiting the use of unauthorized and unsupported tools and applications on the mobile devices for the enterprise workers.

How to provide enough coverage and capacity for multimedia services in an unpredictable signal environment?

How to provide employees of the enterprise with the mobile devices they need to do their work without spending lavishly on communication products?

Ability to access data from multiple sources simultaneously useful for making real time decisions

Ability to access KPIs on the move

Using the real time information for competitor analysis, market research and quality monitoring

Presentation of data and information from multiple sources into easy to use, visually appealing and secure format

Real time screening of news and updates

Improvement in service quality and increase in the reliability of services

Mobile technology is evolving since early 80s which also included wired LANs, and much more. Later in the year 2003, we were introduced to the wireless internet connection technology.

Mobility totally changes the way of performing business activities. The way now customers and workers use the business information is different. This is majorly because of the better access, deeper insight and convenience of getting information “at your fingers” with mobile solutions. Business information is the most important data that is required by everyone involved in the business for performing different business activities that mainly includes – remote operations, customer related activities, financial activities and taking financial decisions, field sales reporting, and others. With Mobile solutions, the core information and sources get immediately accessible to the relevant person who is dependent on it for taking decisions or for performing some task.

Enterprise Mobility solutions have a measurable impact on workforce flexibility, employee responsiveness, and the ability to share knowledge or data with others.

Mobility provides workers of an enterprise an edge. It permits them to do more and to deliver better services or results. All this is possible with better information available to them at any point of time anywhere.

Also, when enterprises provide their employees with right mobile technologies and tools helping them to work effectively, they respond with healthier dedication and commitment. This in return reduces the staff maintenance and acquisition costs of the enterprise in addition to more productive and creative employees.

Quick review of effective benefits obtained from Enterprise Mobility –

Business Impact

There is always a big debate when it comes to make a choice between the native apps and the web solutions. Mobile native and web applications offer different benefits and serve different group of audiences. But now the difference between the capabilities of both of them is narrowing down rapidly.

The only technical difference between the two is –

Native apps are specially designed to run on the device’s operating system and machine firmware. It needs to be personalized for different mobile devices.

While on the other hand, web apps that are also known as browser apps can be accessed from all web-capable mobile devices.

Native Mobile Applications and Mobile Web Applications

Native Mobile applications are platform specific and that is why when its decided to build it, we need to select the platform from various options that include BlackBerry, Android, iOS, Windows, Symbian, etc. But apps prepared for some particular OS can make optimum use of the platform capabilities. The development and maintenance costs of native apps compared to web apps are also much higher.

Web mobile applications are served from a central location that is, Web Server and is accessed thru a web browser. To run a web mobile apps, technically we require only mobile devices enabled with GPRS or WAP and a mobile web browser that usually most of the mobile phones has these days.

When do we opt for Native Apps over Web Apps? When do we opt for Mobile Web Solutions?

When the application to be built requires high When the application to be designed has large graphics or some native capabilities like backend and it is necessary to take advantages Bluetooth, camera, etc from cloud technologies

Audio and video capabilities requirements in the No need to download or upgrade versions of the application applications.

Native apps can be run in offline mode too. So When there is a requirement from the company when there is a need to access the app without that it wants to develop a app once for all that using internet, building native apps is the only runs on any platform choice.

Certain common apps like Banking apps, Online When there is a need that the app to be built has ticket booking apps, online reservations, etc are to interface with other native apps or basic usually desirable to be built under this categoryfunctionalities of the mobile device like calendar, contacts, etc.

Benefits:

Quick benefits of Native Apps –

How to make a choice?

If we think in terms of device and platform independent usage, mobile web solutions is the best. But if we want the application which can take full advantage of the platform and hardware capabilities than native apps should be considered.

Mobile Web Solutions provides immediate advantages like –

Larger audience

Low cost and easy to maintain

Instant updates availability for users

Less time needed for marketing

Support for wide range of mobile devices

More making of revenue

No entry costs

Access to dynamic data

Easy integration to other web content

Accessibility even in offline mode

Fast access to the data of application

Rich graphics and animations due to direct deal with hardware APIs

Speedy data communication

Rich user experience and integration with native features like camera, contacts, address books, etc.

Easy to be found in the mobile apps store

Improved performance

Our Enterprise Mobility solution covers multiple industries and domains. Our solutions start from the assessment to solution conceptualization and implementation. Some areas concentrated by us are discussed below. These areas can be addressed across different industries and domains.

Leading through examples

Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industry:The mobile apps developed by Softweb for healthcare industry helps to optimize their productivity by managing information and resources. Mobile apps for healthcare industry can lead to faster diagnosis, better patient care, and higher standard of living.

Education Industry: We have an experience of working on mobile apps that has online quiz, interactive learning, m-learning thru audio or video. Benefits obtained from education mobile solutions are students can browse courses; latest news or updates can be posted on the app, students information can be obtained and maintained, and many more.

Finance Industry: Large financial firms have mobile solutions that help users to manage their online accounts, pay bills, transfer funds, and perform trading. We have developed many finance related mobile apps on different mobile platforms that also include one comprehensive banking application built on Android OS.

Utility Industry: The mobile utility applications developed by us allow enhanced connectivity and increased productivity. With our solutions, simple as well as advanced tasks can be done with ease, speed and efficiency. Some advanced features like driving log book, management of incoming calls, scientific calculator, task manager, and many others can be also developed within the app by choosing us.

Advertising Industry: Softweb Solutions has enabled few of its clients from advertising industry to create not only business apps but also some of the best productivity apps integrated with Mobile Ad platform such as Apple iAd and Google Admob for the mobile and tablet devices. We can also develop interesting games and integrated advertising networks.

In short, the selection to be made between them both totally depends on where actually the application trying to reach and what characteristics of mobile devices are important to make it work smoothly. But it should be always kept in mind that unless and until native apps are a requirement, clients should choose web apps so that the solution is accessible on maximum mobile devices to reach maximum customers.

Softweb Solutions being a leading provider of wireless enterprise mobile solutions offers the best industry specific solutions for all the industry verticals. We are globally recognized as the performance leader, proven in most of the areas and industries across all systems, networks and devices.

To know more about our Mobile Enterprise Solutions, Mobile Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Mobility Consulting, Business Mobility Solutions, and Enterprise Mobility Management, contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com.

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