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S T E V E D E G O S S E R I EM O B I L E I N C E P T I O N

M O B I L E I N C E P T I O N

Founded in May 2013 Based in LLN, Belgium

“Enabling the mobile enterprise”

#Mobile #Cloud #UX #Security #Analytics

#Xamarin Experts

Growing number of clients in Belgium

– G A R T N E R ( A N D E V E R Y O N E O N T H E I N T E R N E T )

“Every company is a software company.”

– A N D R E E S S E N H O R O W I T Z , V C F I R M“Mobile is eating the world.”

“WP is a failure, Microsoft has become irrelevant”

“Forget the iPhone / iWatch, Apple is building a car”

“Android is winning”

S O LV I N G T H E M O B I L E S T R AT E G Y C O N U N D R U M …

“Tablet sales are stalling”

“I want financial executive dashboards on my iPad ”

“Welcome to the Post-PC era”

“>95% of Apps on Google Store are malwares”

“Google Glass is the future”

“iPads are too expensive & fragile for field workforce”

“Mobile is so uncool, IoT is the new Black”

T H E M O B I L E C H A L L E N G E

• Fast-moving technology-landscape

• Data Security & User Privacy

• Support multiple devices / form-factors

• Manage employee-owned devices

• Integrate with existing IT portfolio

• Lack of resources / expertise

• Drive User Adoption of mobile apps

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3 approaches

• Silo (native) : Build native app per platform

• Lowest common denominator (html5 / hybrid) : Build once, run everywhere, limited set of features

• Cross-platform native (Xamarin) : Build native apps, shared source code, mixed w/ platform-specifics

X A M A R I NA B R AV E N E W ( M O B I L E ) W O R L D ?

• Xamarin Platform : Build native mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows & Mac

• Xamarin Test Cloud : Test your apps on +1.000 mobile devices in the cloud

• Xamarin Insights : Real-time monitoring for your apps, detailed crash reports & insightful usage analytics

• Build native UIs per platform

• Native performance & features

• Reuse >95% of source code

• Leverage existing skills

• Complete suite of development tools

“60% of mobile users will abandon your app if it doesn’t load within 3 seconds”

• Automated UI test library

• Use any device features

• Run on +1.000 real devices

• Review detailed test reports

• Realtime detailed error reporting for faster issue resolution

• Session and user monitoring to understand how users are interacting with your apps

• Integrates easily with existing development tools

N O T J U S T S M A R T P H O N E S & TA B L E T S

X A M A R I N R U N S O N 2 . 6 B I L L I O N D E V I C E S

Q & A

C R E AT I V E C O M M O N S P I C T U R E S

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