Is there a magic formula for developing Enterprise Mobility Solutions? Turns out, there is!
With enterprise mobility you have to take into account your workforce apps as well as consumer facing apps. Both should complement each other and still have a very distinct security barrier to stop confidential company data from falling into the wrong hands.
The Asimov-like tenets of Enterprise Mobility state that an enterprise app should
- Engage customers in effective ways
- Boost up employee efficiency and connectivity
- Enrich the industry with innovative services
Here are the top 5 ways to developing successful enterprise mobility solutions –
- Know your workforce :- Your consumer facing apps will go to market successfully only if your workforce is on the same page, and collaborating irrespective of their physical work location. Hence, it is necessary to have a full-fledged suite of apps that run across the various devices that they use under your BYOD solution. It largely depends on the MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) that you choose to develop and host your apps.
- Prepare for scalability :- When your apps will be engaging, fostering productivity, and adding value to the life of your consumers, your app downloads and usage stats are bound to skyrocket. It is of utmost importance that your backend system sustains the sudden spikes in API requests and user registrations without any downtime required for scaling to higher storage capacities. Cloud – is the go to word. Host your whole infrastructure, even the in-house workforce apps on cloud (not on the premises) to enable a homogeneous storage environment that considerably speeds up your apps.
- Security through compartmentalization :- If you take our advice and take all your data to the cloud, security becomes extremely critical. Take cloud-to-cloud backups to ensure availability of data at all times. Encrypt every server communication and even the data stored on the user’s (consumer/employee) device so that even if an intruder manages to break into your system, there is absolutely no data that can be stolen. Also, within the cloud environment, it would be tempting to use the same API calls for both consumer and workforce facing apps, but the enterprise should refrain from doing so. All data and APIs should be completely independent of each other for the consumer apps and workforce apps.
- Think ahead, think inclusive :- When enterprises started developing iOS apps, there was an acute shortage of Android versions. Ultimately, they had to give in and include Android version for every app. In recent times, it is happening for the Internet of Things (IoT). Every enterprise should aim to include any new available device or platform under their services and make their upcoming and existing apps compatible, so that the users can enjoy a seamless experience. Any new additions to the device family should be anticipated, and included in the app planning scenarios.
- Support 24×7 :- With so many users depending on the functioning of your apps, it is necessary to provide constant support in all parts of the world. This will ensure that your users trust you enough to entrust their critical data to your apps’ care. It will also help control uninstall rates and retain your user base.
That said, every team has its own way of developing your enterprise app ideas into viable mobility solutions and it is best to understand them before signing them on as your development partners. Of late, hyper convergence has taken the enterprise mobility world by storm. It means having the same vendor for your hosting, computing, and virtualization needs.
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