The Mike Miranda Column – Enterprise Mobility Platforms

Mike MHow to Pick Enterprise Mobility Platforms

Does your company have an app? If not, you should invest in enterprise mobility software and get busy creating one of your own. Here’s what to look for.

Intuitive Development

If you pick anenterprise mobility platform that isn’t easy to use, you’ll soon regret the money you invested in it. Worse would be spending months trying to learn the ins and outs of a program only to finally give up and admit defeat after both time and money have gone down the drain.

What you need to do is take the time to find a solution that will feature intuitive controls made so that anyone can essentially install it and get to work. After all, that’s the whole point of this type of program in the first place. They’re designed so that people like you and me without any real technical skills can still make high-quality apps. Anything that gets in the way of you and that objective should be forgotten immediately.

Seamless Integration

Another important factor to consider is how well the application you build will be able to work with your company’s internal system. Right now, your company runs on a structure of core logic that needs to be protected. You don’t want to go in there and try manually mapping it with the app you build.

Far easier would be just picking an app with an agile API that will be able to handle this demand on your behalf. You definitely can’t leave the mapping step out. If your app can’t work with the core of your company’s system, you’re going to be giving up a lot of functionality, to say the least.

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Reliable Security

It should probably go without saying that whether it’s your app or some other digital feature of your company’s infrastructure, you need to invest in security you can rely on. Security always needs to be a priority these days. Unfortunately, there are just too many people out there bent on doing bad things to people who shop up online.

However, your app will represent a much greater risk than anything else so far. Not only will your app give a hacker a direct line into your internal systems, but you’ll also provide them with countless access points—more than ever before.

Application Management Capabilities

Finally, you need to have total control over the app you create. No matter how great your enterprise mobility platform is, you’ll most likely find that the first version of an app you put out falls a little short of expectations. That’s not the end of the world if you can manage your app properly. Then, all you have to do is update it and release the new version to all the devices that it was downloaded on.

You can also use management controls to monitor who has access to your app and how much of it. There are many other examples that justify the importance of this feature, but the point is that you can’t expect to have something this important and powerful without properly harnessing it.

Now that you know what to look for in this kind of software, go out there and find a platform that meets your needs!

Mike Miranda writes about enterprise software and covers products offered by software companies like www.rocketsoftware.com about topics such as Terminal Emulation, Legacy Modernization, Enterprise Search, Big Data and Enterprise Mobility.