State of Enterprise Mobile App Development - 2017

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

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

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

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

What an Enterprise app should be

Hybrid Responsive Integratable Deployable

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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management app Monitoring dashboards CRM and ERP platform dashboards

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

Make the RAD-ical choice with WaveMaker