Mobile App Development Needs A New Approach
Mobile application development is a new animal, and IT leaders shouldn't expect to tame it using their same old tricks. Driven by the growing number of smartphones and tablets, along with higher capacity mobile networks, companies are looking at how they can use mobile tools to transform their core processes and business models. To get those results, IT must create an application life-cycle management approach that specifically addresses the unique problems mobility creates.
IT needs mobile application life-cycle management that addresses development, distribution, security, support, and enhancement. These are areas IT must plan out before starting the development process because they'll impact the app development approach organizations take.
And IT teams must deliver these new mobile capabilities in a rapidly changing environment. While mobile operators are rolling out higher speed services, they're also cutting back unlimited data plans. Many businesses are shifting away from devices the company buys to ones that employees own. This BYOD (bring your own device) approach means that IT has to support more platforms, providing security and management in this new, free-wheeling environment.
