Mobility

Looking back at 2017, it has been an eventful year for Halosys product engineering. Halosys, as a platform, now has a richer list of features on optimization and usability.

Here’s brief bird eye view of the list of new and enhanced features: -

1. Support for Bulk CURD operations -
   Support for CURD operations on bulk data for databases like Postgres, HANA, MySQL via CSV files and JSON helps increase performance by miles wherever bulk data is involved.
2. Support for calling service function from service -
   This helps users to write complex custom logic while orchestrating the workflow between various services on Halosys.
3. Support for distributed cache Redis -
   Halosys supports distributed caching using Redis, this allows the platform to scale horizontally seamlessly.
4. Data source usage Logging and Analytics -
   All the third-party API access details are logged for the auditing purpose makingdebugging third-party connectors very easy.
5. OAuth/SAML Authentication available for admin console -
   Logging into Halosys admin console using third-party authentication providersvia OAuth or SAML protocol is now possible.
6. Available Microsoft Appsource -
   Halosys app got listed on Microsoft Appsource for new prospects to try out Halosys with a 15 days free trial account.
7. Custom Authentication for Apps -
   Users of apps developed on Halosys platform can now be authenticated using any service provided by the client’s team. This make the integration of Halosys authentication faster with legacy apps. A Timesheet App for a leading global Marketing and Media Company uses multiple authentication provider services on Halosys platform.
8. 8. Mongo DB connector -
   NoSQL DB connector for MongoDB support has been added.
9. Microservice SDK -
   Microservices can be developed faster using inbuilt API’s. We have JAVA SDK’s which can be bundled with standaloneapps to access Halosys API in quick time. This extends the inbuilt services functionality a step further and removes constraints of having services on Halosys platform itself.
10. mEvent App for Window -
    App for windows with Xamarin support is now available.

Keep watching this space for upcoming features like API gateway and a revamped AppBuilder in 2018. For more information please visit www.halosys.com.

The number of mobile phone users globally is expected to cross the 5 billion mark by 2019. What this means for enterprises is that this revolution is already sweeping into companies as more firms take advantage of mobile technology to better engage with and empower employees, boosting their efficiency, making location irrelevant and streamlining processes.

Additionally, the surge in flexible and remote working has contributed to the mainstreaming of BYOD culture, apart from the rise in IoT and wearable devices in the enterprise. All of this adds up to one thing – mobility is going to play a bigger role in our lives and the workplace is no exception to this. So, what are some of the key enterprise mobility trends that will play out in 2018?

Artificial intelligence and Machine learning

If the year 2017 was about the coming of age for artificial intelligence, then 2018 will see the full-blown adoption of AI and machine learning in widespread applications, including mobility. AI-based machine learning systems have the potential to empower cyber security to an always-on preventive state as they go beyond standard rules to detect anomalies in patterns. With the rise and rise of BYOD and IoT, robust security for such devices ensure IT departments stay ahead of the game in securing personal devices better.

Apart from security applications, the marriage of AI with enterprise mobility also promises gains in workforce productivity and efficiency to unprecedented levels. Employees can continue their workflow with an assistive functionality that will all but eliminate errors and gaps in of any process using artificial assistance – from field service operations to first responder situational awareness. Gartner predicts that by 2020, AI will be among the top 5 investment priorities for more than 30% CIOs, with spending expected to grow to $47 billion from $8 billion in 2016, IDC has projected.

Continued growth of IoT

Enterprises are rapidly adopting Internet of Things technology and IoT devices are likely to surpass mobile phones worldwide by 2018 as the largest group of connected devices. Businesses are using IoT devices for data to base important business decisions on. IoT’s ability to derive data from a user’s daily habit and map these patterns has become a powerful tool for businesses, who use Solution Analysis based on the data derived.

The rise of the IoT and enterprise mobility along with connected wearable devices will play a big role in the growth and productivity of businesses going forward. Predictions are proving that IoT’s influence in different lines of businesses will become stronger as reliance on it grows.

Cloud computing

The convergence of enterprise mobility with Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics and Social Media is transforming how businesses operate. What this has done for businesses is make critical business data, complex analytics and reports available to decision makers and executives on-the-go. Enterprise Mobile Device Management (MDM) through cloud technology enables business executives, with anytime-anywhere access to business data for quick decision making, better customer servicing as well as engaging with their own employees. This trend is helped by the evolution of Platform-As-A-Service models, accelerating the process of migration of enterprise solutions to the cloud.

Location-based enterprise applications

Mobile devices are already on their way to lowering dependency on workplace computers as the primary device on which work gets done. Better hardware integration with mobile devices and the growing proliferation of commercial applications will improve the mobile user experience and consequently boost mobiles as primary work devices. Growing development of business apps for enterprises and the advent of location - based service applications will greatly benefit service businesses. Real Time Location Systems and IoT are likely to make a powerful combination that smoothens operations and enable real-time asset management.

Enterprise Mobile Management

Enterprises have already done great work in unlocking the potential of mobility for applications in business. Moving business processes to mobile devices has empowered employees to a hitherto unseen degree, enhancing real time management, improving communication, and enabling quick decision making that give businesses the edge they need in today’s digitized world. While security concerns over enterprise mobility have existed, enterprise mobile management has matured to a great extent and will see further enhancements going forward in 2018.

All in all, exciting times ahead for mobile technologies!

While the age of the desktop was already well and truly over, smartphones are fast becoming the go-to enterprise device to do business. GlobalStats, a research arm of the web analytics company StatCounter, reported in November last year that Android was now the primary OS used by nearly 40% of businesses worldwide, while Windows dropped down to 36.07%.

The significance of this coup underscores the rapid ascendancy of the mobile phone as the enterprise device of choice, especially when one considers that Android OS had a market share of only 2.4% in the enterprise space, just five years back. The trend, therefore, is quite evident.

What brought about this smartphone revolution in enterprises, who only a few years back were struggling to come to grips with the Bring Your Own Device trend? Three factors stand out – people, design and technology. Additionally, as businesses come under continued pressure to do things faster and cheaper, while building a competitive advantage, enterprise mobility is increasingly being seen as a solution to this.

The Global BYOD and Enterprise Mobility Market 2017-2021 report forecasts that the global BYOD and enterprise mobility market will grow at a CAGR of 24.12% during the period. This BYOD trend is being dictated by users who are reacting to the blurring of lines between work and home life. Such devices give workers flexibility and choice, allowing them to work from devices that work best for them.

Apart from the cost savings that companies make, the mobile platform positively affects productivity, eliminating massive inefficiencies in workflows, transaction times, and standard operating procedures. In fact, employees will increasingly become the arbiters when it comes to determining which technologies are 'deployed' in the enterprise, due to this.

For instance, one of our clients, a leading global marketing and media company built a timesheet mobile app for its 10000+ employees spread across various locations and partner companies, using Sonata’s Unified Mobile Platform Halosys. By enabling its employees to fill in time sheets on the go, through their mobile, the company was able to improve compliance, thereby ensuring more accurate billing and payroll.

Recent advances in UI and UX design have meant that using mobile devices for enterprise applications is a breeze. Simplified and streamlined User Interfaces found on both Android and iOS devices empower the employee to handle any task, at any place. E-mail, photo-editing, document writing, file transfers and more such tasks can all be performed from your phone, through the use of mobile apps.

Technologies that empower employees has always driven adoption. Disruptive technologies such as augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are influencing the enterprise mobility wave, giving rise to applications like Digital Assistants/Virtual Personal Assistants, Chatbots, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, Wi-Fi beacons, motion sensing and recognition, mobile health monitoring and shared mobility. Such technologies have wide applications across industries from financial services, retail, manufacturing, construction, warehousing & logistics, broadcast, publishing, telecom and even agriculture.

Enterprises that will thrive and power forward into the future are the ones that have embraced mobility to reimagine their core functions from customer services to basic operations, and even functions like HR, marketing and sales.

To work towards making their enterprises truly mobile enabled, organizations can benefit from having a robust and scalable enterprise mobility solution that allows for seamless integration and dissemination of data. Our Halosys platform is designed to do just that because it enables you to build, deploy, secure and manage mobile apps, and ensures a reliable way to execute your mobility programs at scale.

Write in to us at [chankey.a@sonata-software.com] to know more.

With smartphones becoming ubiquitous, perhaps the biggest trend we are seeing is the proliferation of mobile apps. A report by released by App Anni in mid-2017 found that smartphone users access over 30 apps on a monthly basis. From ordering groceries to filling in time sheets to losing weight, people are using apps for practically everything. On their part, businesses are launching new apps at an unprecedented pace.

This explosion in mobile apps is also driving a huge transformation in the way that apps are developed and disseminated. While a number of apps were hitherto running on bulky backend architecture and legacy software, this model is proving to be highly inconvenient in an era where the speed at which apps are released and upgraded often dictates their utility.

For example, one our clients, a top general contractor in the United States, opted for an ‘App Factory’ framework based on our Halosys​ platform to quickly deploy custom apps. Each app was developed in an average time frame of just five weeks - from requirements gathering to production deployment. Businesses are increasingly seeking a similar pace of app development today.

In general, mobile app architecture design is made up of the following standard layers – the presentation layer, business layer and data layer. Each layer plays a specific role. The presentation layer holds the UI components. The business layer takes care of workflows, and business entities, while the data layer handles the data components. These layers could either lie on the on the device or the backend depending on whether you are building a rich or thin client.

The decision as to where which layer resides depends on factors such as utility, network connectivity etc. For example, for sales persons who are constantly on the road, they need to be able to feed in data into the app even when they are not connected to the Internet, with a provision to sync whenever data becomes available. If there is processing required at the user end, then it will have to be a rich client app.

But whatever the specifics might be, the speed of app development and deployment matters. This has resulted in a huge movement in favour of microservices based environments.

Here are some of the top reasons why a microservices based architecture makes sense:

Complexity:
Given the complexity of applications, rewriting the entire code from scratch for every single new application simply isn’t feasible given the time and resource crunch that most organisations grapple with.

Resource Management:
With the rising demand for mobile app developers and the lack of available talent, it's important to build systems with reusable components. That's only possible with MBaaS, which lets you reuse microservices across various apps and cuts down the time required to build a new app.

Standing on the shoulders of giants:
By reusing available code, you have an opportunity to take your code much further because you don’t have to focus on reinventing the wheel.

Coping with the Pace of Change:
Given the pace at which requirements and technologies evolve, it is difficult to foresee how your application will run eventually – on which device or which platform. A microservices can be device and technology agnostic, ensuring their usefulness irrespective of the way the need eventually evolves.

Sonata’s Halosys platform takes a microservices approach and brings a Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (mBaaS) option, which dramatically simplifies and accelerates App development, deployment and management.

Kindly reach out to us @ Halosys-mobility@sonata-software.com for more information.

Over the last year, the buzz around AI seems to have reached a crescendo. Every day, we’re seeing new applications and innovations around AI. AI or cognitive computing is quickly becoming all pervasive. Being the next generation of computing systems, cognitive computing allows organisations to make strategic decisions, augment, accelerate and scale human expertise, by enabling unprecedented levels of human-machine collaboration.

Cognitive systems use data inputs and establish understanding to form hypotheses, consider arguments and prioritize suggestions. They are capable of continuous learning and accumulate data and insight through human interactions.

Gartner predicts that by 2020, AI technologies will be present in almost every new software product or service. Given this trend, it is quite obvious that AI will have a profound impact on enterprise mobility as well.

Already, organisations are leveraging the many benefits of mobility such as improving productivity, eliminating massive inefficiencies in workflows, transaction times, and standard operating procedures. Combined with the power of AI, enterprise mobility solutions have the power to take business operations to the next level. In a sense, it will create a sort of ‘apps on steroids’ situation where mobile apps are more powerful than ever before.

Here are some of the many applications:

AI Chatbots

Organisations are increasingly leveraging the power of AI to make humans more productive. While technology can perform simpler tasks, organisations can free up employees to interact with customers and solve their complex issues. An AI chatbot is one such application where the chatbot is equipped to handle routine/standard queries independently, so that only complex queries require human intervention. This can be even more valuable for a mobile workforce since chatbots can provide a realistic experience and be available on a 24/7 basis.

Complex Administrative Tasks

Cognitive computing/ AI can work great to simplify complex administrative tasks, thereby relieving humans from the burden of paperwork and tedious form filling etc. From an organisation point of view too, AI can study previous service events, suggest appropriate plans and locate best resources for a job based on their current location and bandwidth. From creating a service plan, to ensuring better coordination among the mobile workforce and deploying qualified technicians to ensure work success; AI can bring tremendous benefits.

Optimising Efficiency and Productivity

A combination of advanced analytics and AI can help draw useful inferences based on a huge variety of variables that would be impossible to process manually. From determining the best route for delivering goods to judging the optimum quantity of raw material based on current levels, to finding the right team to address an on-ground issue based on location and skill levels, AI can help bring great efficiencies in operational processes. Because employees get useful readymade insights, and spend lesser time on trying to process un-necessary information, they can be far more productive in getting work done and delivering better quality to consumers.

Better Customer Experience

By studying patterns and past experiences, AI can help the mobile workforce to recognize potential problems and recommend solutions before an issue arises. AI can analyse the situation in real time and allow the organisation to automate the process of putting out service calls and routing jobs to the correct technician, to ensure that the issues are addressed before the customer even notices them. All of these eventually result in minimal downtime and better customer experience.

For optimal performance of AI tools, a platform approach for mobile workforce management solution is imperative because it allows your enterprise to build, deploy, secure and manage mobile apps by seamlessly expanding enterprise systems and users to mobile devices. It simplifies, accelerates and ensures a reliable way to execute your mobility programs at scale. To know more about how Sonata’s Halosys platform can help enable this, download the brochure. Write in to us @ Halosys-mobility@sonata-software.com to know more.

Have you thought about how you want to build mobile apps more efficiently and quickly? Can a Single Unified Enterprise platform that works to – Integrate, Secure, Manage, Build and Deploy mobile applications be your pillar? Is there such a platform that fits across verticals and ties in with the Mobile methodology of B2B and B2C enterprises and yet future proof? A platform called Halosys is where I found answers to the Qs.

At the outset, I would like to say that the enhanced technical competence of the platform is enriched by beneficial features, such as, our US Patented context aware notification rule engine, support for writing custom business logic in multiple languages, batch services for scheduling any operation, audit trail of all actions and transactions etc. These help assess the mechanical aspects of the methodology, when applied to your business.

The platform is simple, extensible enabling quick wins, providing great value of money. To be more explicit, I find it to be so simple that it actually fast tracks the mobile application development process. Secondly, it’s expeditious in terms of time-to-market, percentile standing at 40(%); thirdly, there is a 15-40% reduction in overall cost and 50% cost reduction in app upgrades! Lastly, the platform’s technological crucible carries, “as a service” and on-premise models, supported technologies, such as Android, iOS, Windows, etc., and also uses HTML 5 and cross platforms allowing it to be technologically sound.

You may ask, what is the purpose of an MBaaS platform like Halosys? What difficulties does it eliminate? Purpose is to provide a convenient and consistent way of managing data, which eliminates the need for developers to re-develop the backend for each of the services where the apps require accessibility. The platform decouples frontend from backend development skills – two distinctly different competencies, and focuses predominantly on building the mobile app on a Backend as a Service (MBaaS) platform.

Several organizations can benefit from this platform, where they can build, secure and deploy mobile apps that are within reach and realize savings. Any size organization can reap the benefits of the platform, allowing internal stakeholders to be a part of the app building process.

With respect to integration, existing or legacy technologies can be wrapped In standard models, enabling accessibility to all systems for the client using a common approach, such as, using pre-built connectors to AX, Oracle, SAP and other popular business systems (such as Salesforce) ease the complexity of integration. Similarly, with security – there is role based user management enabled through SAML, LDAP, Oath or custom readily available authentication, where only assigned data to a particular user will be available based on his role.

Lastly, the platform’s ability to dovetail and work across several verticals such as Travel, Retail and Distribution provides them with the flexibility to explore new options for achieving their digital business goals via mobile apps. For a more comprehensive view of our platform, Halosys.

As the key focus remains on digital transformation through Mobile devices, enterprises are having a hard time fulfilling business needs. Adding to this, mobile technology is fast changing, with rapid roll-outs of mobile applications becoming key for business impact realized through these technologies. Inadvertently, it is a fact that realizing digital transformation through Mobiles at an enterprise level, is still a complex and challenging process.

Major challenges include:

• Mobile Web applications lack native features, have lower response,often result in poor user experience and hence low adoption
• Developing apps for all major mobile operating systems can enhance the cost
• Server-side development which provides the foundation (data integration, authentication, offline sync, etc.) is often underrated, but is important for app performance, end-user experience/adoption, and account for 60% to 70% of the effort and expense.

A mobile application consists of two main parts. The first part is the user experience which we can call as “front-end.” This is the App UI which the users interact with.Then, there is a back-end infrastructure that hosts the logic and provides data. Most mobile applications are dependent on services such as APIs, deployment of the back-end, offline sync, user and data management, file storage, push notifications, etc.

Much of the complexity of mobile application development is in providing the back-end, owing to the heterogeneous IT landscape in a typical enterprise – either through proprietary products or bespoke applications with its own complexity in terms of integration, security, and infrastructure.

Such an IT landscape leads to building your own back-end to mobile applications using custom frameworks by leveraging multiple open source tools and plug-ins – which will eventually increase complexity and costs. These tactics - devoid of strategy - often make sense to get started cheaply, for simple applications, or for extending a web application to the mobile device. But as you realize the power of mobile applications, this can quickly become complex and costly - due to a variety of reasons, such as: data integration challenges, limited scalability, security and patchwork of custom code for integration.

Akin to web applications requiring specific architecture to handle the demands of web-based applications, mobile applications also require a specific architectural pattern. These include: mobile-optimized system integration and data transformation, multi factor authentication, off-line sync, notification, etc., application development architecture for efficient code reusability and maintenance, built-in security, user management, analytics and SDK-level integration to major native mobile OSs like iOS, Android and Windows.

A typical MBaaS addresses all the challenges mentioned above, by seamlessly integrating all the capabilities a development team needs to build, secure, and manage their application resulting in a faster, more efficient development process. So instead of setting up a database, push-notification server and user-management system, which you would have to manage, opting for an MBaaS platform helps cater to all these out-of-the box.

MBaaS empowers developers by completely abstracting the back-end infrastructure which in turn lets them focus on delivering better user experiences instead of dealing with complex integrations.

In the absence of an MBaaS platform, all that is required for “back-end,”must be custom built. What needs to be custom built will depend on the complexity of your app idea. As you can visualize, there are quite a lot of things you will need to take care of, before you even start working on the app itself.

Also, if you plan for more than one application as part of your strategy, there will be a need to reuse many of the above custom built back-end services – especially notification, off-line sync, integration to different systems, etc.

Using MBaaS, you will be able to setup the back-end integrations with zero to minimum code, and concentrate more on the UI/UX frond-end which matters the most, and reuse the setup for future applications

• To summarize, here are the major advantages MBaaS provides:
• Faster time-to-market: Minimizes the operations overhead and reduces difficulties in deploying the mobile applications on Cloud
• Improved efficiency: Reduces the back-end system development time & costs (including maintenance cost)
• Security and Scalability: It provides an infrastructure package that deals with security, performance, scalability, and other operational headaches
• Reusability: Reuse most of what is set up for the first application, across other applications – providing 40-50% reusability

Mobility is a core element in modern business which is necessary to remain relevant and competitive. And yet many businesses are still struggling to keep up. The quality of both web and mobile apps depend on budget, skill set, and end-user requirements. Initial attempts at a mobile presence have fallen short of both business and customer expectations for many enterprises. MBaaS is the solution to this dilemma. It addresses primarily the server-side development and challenges of building apps for driving a competitive business. Add to that, the Analytics and user management and it’s evident why finding the right MBaaS solution is so important to any Company’s mobile strategy.

Enterprise mobility is a notion that affects the business sector to a great extent. The concept is being adopted by different industries as part of their digital transformation journey. Enterprise mobility has been widely appreciated due to the drastic improvement in employee productivity. Organizations continue to leverage new mobile technologies to increase productivity, reduce expenses, safeguard information, and enhance staff experience. Each year there are new technologies that get launched. Some of the enterprise mobility trends that could have a greater effect on organizations are given below:

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is no longer a concept and is widely being used by various organizations. It is anticipated that AI deployment will see a more advanced stage, making companies more effective and productive. AI helps with data governance, making information clearer, easy to understand and ready to use aiding better decision making.

Security

Security is the most important requirement of any technology. Mobile Treat defense will not only be a necessity but also a popular trend in 2019. Previously, mobile phones have been the main target of phishing attacks and as a result enterprises are likely to concentrate more on MTD.
In 2019, MTD will have newer capabilities such as malicious link detection. Enterprise mobility is well on its way to achieve the latest trend of zero trust cybersecurity.

5G Technology

5G technology adoption by enterprises will be a key trend in 2019. Although the 5G rollout will be slow and available only in selected areas, enterprises will have to get ready for the adoption. 5G will enable enterprises to get the most out of its devices and the data collected by them. Speed and efficiency offered by 5G will have great impact on how enterprises function.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

The adoption of Bring your own device (BYOD) concept is likely to increase in 2019. As per recent reports, BYOD market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of more than 17% in the next 4 years. One of the main reasons for BYOD adoption is the increased mobile security. IT leaders have supported the concept of BYOD due to cost savings and better productivity that it brings in.

Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)

Considering the need for more secure mobile devices, the concept of United Endpoint Management (UEM) is likely to be adopted by more enterprises. According to a recent survey, nearly 40% of enterprises said that they will be exploring the UEM solution in the near future. The technology enables the endpoints to be connected through safe and secure platform, which helps better management of enterprises. By adopting UEM, enterprises can achieve long term cost savings.

It is important that enterprises adopt to these new trends at the earliest which could have a significant influence on its growth.

The widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) by Companies, has already had an intense impact on the way enterprises utilize connected devices to change how they conduct business. After all, IoT promises a new level of digitization that will impact how businesses interact with their partners and suppliers and add value to customers. his includes managing and securing a far more extensive network of interconnected devices rather than mere smartphones. It also creates an opportunity for enterprises across the world to reimagine their products and services, collect new types of data, power new front-ends, develop new business models and improve customer experiences. Enterprise mobility is becoming more modern because of IoT, through a mix of mobile devices, wearables, and other connected devices enabling users to be more collaborative.

Gartner forecasts that by 2020, 20 billion connected devices will be used worldwide. So, the task of making real-time sense of the incoming information is daunting. IoT has an increasingly critical role to play in determining the success of an enterprise’s digital transformation journey as such. The biggest barrier to incorporate IoT strategies is that most enterprises do not know how to use this technology and create automated intelligence systems. The massive amounts of data generated by these devices is creating the potential for an entirely new level of integration and usage of data into strategic business decisions. Often, the pure scale and inherent complexities are underestimated when it comes to making efficient and user-friendly enterprise applications, which can be leveraged across all functions of the Company as needed.

The lines have blurred between Internet of Things and Mobility, the two next gen technologies driving changes in businesses across industry verticals. Mobility facilitates improved employee productivity and increased profit because of piggybacking with the increased connectivity of IoT. Additionally, IoT is enabled by enterprise mobility because companies rely on the connected devices These elements optimize process and therefore cause workers to make better strategy decisions. The combination of IoT and enterprise mobility is beneficial for enterprises, as the two complement each other in ways that enable cost-effectiveness and increased revenue.

Apps play a crucial role in a successful adoption of IoT. For each device, there can be multiple apps capable of connecting to multiple back-end systems and devices. This enables a business to be more strategic and efficient, as well as provide opportunities for additional revenue or cost savings. A new generation of development tools and APIs enable apps to streamline business process management and automation. The promise of Mobility and IoT can only be realized if the business value is demonstrated. To reap the rewards of an inter-connected business, enterprises need to use big data analytics to make intelligent decisions.

When dealing with large amounts of data across multiple data sources, using business logic to analyze data and arrive at conclusions isn’t cost effective or practical. The more data sources we connect to collect data for decision making, the harder it is to arrive at best answer. At the end of the day, the objective is for your IoT network or devices to do something thoughtful and useful. IoT complemented by machine learning mimics human thought, finds patterns across disparate data sets, and makes human-like decisions that cannot be achieved using business rules engines. Enterprises planning to invest in IoT need to look beyond simple data collection and analytics. They need to look at how they can consume contextual information from mobile devices, direct data from sensors, and other data from 3rd party sources to make intelligent decisions. At the end of the day, to reassert, the objective is for IoT network or devices to do something thoughtful and useful.

IoT takes enterprise mobility to new levels. Together, they unleash unlimited opportunities for businesses with the ingenuity to consume the insights. Multiple IOT devices connected in managed ecosystems will bring vital data from any location to mission-critical applications.  As a result, employees, partners and customers can gain the critical business information they need for performing their roles successfully. Enterprises will need to develop and manage a host of new mobile apps designed to control these newly connected endpoint devices, ranging from shop-floor sensors to smart eyeglasses used by field technicians. Although automated machine-learning based capabilities may be critical in many IoT discussions, the reality is that human involvement will always play a significant role. The importance of App security is relevant more than ever when IOT and apps which control them, take center stage.

Enterprises need to start thinking about how IoT can fit in with their strategic goals as part of their digital transformation journey. Pairing IoT with mobility can slash downtime, improve safety, increase productivity, improve quality and enhance customer experience. As the Internet of Things (IoT) continue to mature, the focus of IoT initiatives is shifting to the development of pioneering new business models and innovative technology-based products. With strong links to Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics, and big data analytics, IoT’s influence spans across the entire organization. Though IoT is newer technology, it is symbiotic with enterprise mobility. Both being used in conjunction with each other, opens possibilities for process optimization, employee engagement, and customer satisfaction. The impact of IoT and enterprise mobility technology used together is an influx of innovation and growth, creating a new stage of the mobile revolution.

Question is, are you a part of it? Read on for more clarity and check out our other blog pieces in this space.