Services Tier Design for Mobile Applications
Best-of-breed mobile applications require careful design of the services layer. Just because an existing web app works well on a fat client doesn’t mean...
The Four-Tier Mobile Engagement Platform
A four-tier mobile engagement platform differentiates itself with a separate delivery tier to assist in solving key challenges associated with current delivery systems. The...
Big Data Analysis Is Like Measuring the Water in a Lake
One analogy for Big Data analysis is to compare your data to a large lake. I don’t mean a little subdivision runoff pond, but...
Avoiding Common Mobile Project Mistakes
The total number of mobile application users stood at 1.2 billion at the end of 2012. This number is forecasted to grow aggressively at...
Mobile Devices Will Change the Enterprise
There are few emerging technologies that will change the enterprise more than mobility. If you are as old as I am (Check out my...
The Journey to the Engagement Platform of 2023
In a recent Gartner study, mobile was ranked as the top most disruptive technology in the enterprise—above Big Data, social media, and the public...
With 8 Billion Mobile Devices in Use by 2016, Mobile Apps Are a Necessity
It’s safe to say that mobile devices are here to stay. A quick search will give you the statistics: 2014 will be the year...
Attention CIOs: Mobile has Raised the Bar on Web Architecture Requirements
It’s fair to say that 2013 was the year users began taking the wherever, whenever availability of their apps for granted. Self-service access to...
Rethinking Application Design for a Mobile World
Support for mobile applications is a key component of every company’s IT strategy today. For many companies, extending existing applications to support mobility can...
Evolution of the ESB Can Increase Responsiveness of the Organization
By Sean O'Shaughnessey
For about a decade, the acronym ESB—within the context of enterprise application integration (EAI) or middleware—has stood for enterprise service bus. It is...