Enterprise Mobility Journey


Do you have a roadmap for your enterprise mobility journey? Here is a quick overview of the most salient areas of concern that you would need to address throughout your journey:

  1. Establish a Product Plan: Focus on user experience to devise the most viable approach to achieving the intended goals for your mobile app. Begin with an MVP approach and evolve toward a more feature-rich solution in the long run. The look and feel of each platform should be maintained throughout the design process.
  2. Choose the Most Suitable Framework: Native, cross-platform native, hybrid, or possibly a multi-experience development platform. Choosing a dev framework has longstanding implications and must be carefully evaluated based on the short and long-term needs of the project. 
  3. Robust Architectural Design: Focus on maximizing app performance through data caching/memory management and multi-threading processes. Create the most optimal approach to an efficient and easily maintainable code base—effectively using design patterns best suited for the dev framework and the existing back-end infrastructure.
  4. Engage Third-Party Dev Tools: For code analysis, security, and optimization.
  5. Establish Security Protocols: For app security and secure back-end data integration.
  6. Back-end Data Integration: With third-party vendors, systems of record within the enterprise or cloud services are used for storing app data. Focus on reducing app latency through back-end data aggregation methods and API optimization.
  7. Utilize Testing Tools: For unit and automated testing to ensure app quality across a wide selection of devices and all the release cycles.
  8. Operations Ecosystem: Establish fully integrated environments for development, unit testing, automated testing, regression testing, and production releases spanning the app lifecycle.
  9. Establish CI/CD Process: To ensure the integrity of the app releases and provide the capability to isolate and merge the development processes across a team or teams of developers.
  10. Determine a Suitable Cadence for Releases: From a minimum of 4 to a maximum of 12 app releases each year to maintain continuity. 
  11. Analytics: Measure app performance, usage, and reliability by building an analytics solution into the app utilizing the collected data to enhance and improve app performance.


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