Enterprise Mobility: A Promise To The Future

Everyone talking about Enterprise Mobility so what is this? Enterprise Mobility defines access to data (enterprise), process and information anywhere, anytime, on demand and on any device. The future of Mobility has already derived.

Organizations should stop trying to predict the future and starts preparing for “the future that has already happened” by identifying major events that have already occurred and will have predictable effects in the next decade or two.  

    By Peter Drucker, The Late Management Guru

Statistics

Let’s see what big analytics giants say about this,

• All companies they work with expect to deploy more than 25 applications within the enterprise in next 2 years and providing mobile access to CRM, ERP to all its users. (Source: Mckinsey)

• Current Smartphone users across the globe: 1 billion (Source: IDC); percentage of Americans who use their personal mobile device for work: 81% (Source: Forbes)

• Increase in number of Smartphone users per year globally: 46.5% (Source: Gartner)

•  Smart phones and tablets sold previous year: 821 million; projected sales of Smartphone’s and tablets in this year: 1.2 billion (Source: Gartner)

• Increase in employee productivity when using mobile apps: 45% (Source: IBM Research)

• Personal mobile devices expected to be in use by 2020: 10 billion (Source: Economist quoting Morgan Stanley)

What is happening

There is no doubt that mobility is transforming the enterprise. It is also disrupting the enterprise by creating new business models and destroying old ones. The problem is that many businesses are scrambling to create a mobile strategy; hamstrung by unrealistic expectations, vague requirements and organizational inertia.

Early adopters of enterprise mobility are realizing significant business benefits and envisioning new and creative ways to extend competitive advantage. Many organizations, however, are employing a wait-and-see strategy to learn from the implementation experience of others before developing mobility roadmaps.

Although there is high level of complexity in development of Windows, iphone, Android meeting the platform challenges from use cases to deployment, continuous up-gradation and providing security. Mobile application development will outnumber any other application development in next 5 years.

Everyone has a question in mind, do I have Enterprise Mobility Strategy for next 1-2 year to drive the market expectations and support the increased demand from customers using mobile devices (42% app.)

Are you ready?

Options you can go for

•  Native Application.
•  Hybrid Application.
•  Browser based Application.
  

We recommend Hybrid Application as the Build Once Deploy Many trend is taking space in market.

Frameworks which are available in market:

1. PhoneGap is a mobile development framework produced by Nitobi, purchased by Adobe Systems in 2011.It enables software programmers to build applications for mobile devices using JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3, instead of device-specific languages such as Objective-C. The resulting applications are hybrid, meaning that they are neither truly native. The software underlying PhoneGap is Apache Cordova. PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for the platforms you care about.
   
2. Oracle ADF Mobile (A Java & HTML5 Based Framework for Developing Mobile Applications) enables developers to build and extend enterprise applications for iOS and Android from a single code base. Based on a hybrid mobile architecture, ADF Mobile supports access to native device services, enables offline applications and protects enterprise investments from future technology shifts.
3.  Appcelerator Titanium – An open, extensible development environment for creating   beautiful native apps across different mobile devices and OSs including iOS, Android, and      BlackBerry, as well as hybrid and HTML5. It includes an open source SDK with over 5,000         device and mobile operating system APIs, Studio, a powerful Eclipse-based IDE, Alloy, an                MVC framework and Cloud Services for a ready-to-use mobile backend.Titanium is the leading mobile development environment of choice for hundreds of thousands of developers. With more than 69,000 mobile applications deployed on 220,000,000 devices, the award-winning Titanium environment helps organizations get to market 60% faster and achieve a significant competitive advantage.                                                                                            In February 2013, Business Insider estimated that 10% of all smartphones worldwide ran Titanium-built apps.[34] As of 2013, Titanium had amassed nearly 500,000 developer registrations.

Path, which you can set for

·    Providing security as the BYOA and BYOD is taking pace day by day. BYOA can be taken at preference.

·         Mobile Social Networking.

·         Mobile Advertising.

·         Mobile Analytics.

Challenges we are facing        

1. Employees everywhere are using cloud services developed for consumers such as Dropbox, SkyDrive, Evernote, and iCloud to make their lives more efficient. The drawback is that many of these systems do not have enterprise-grade security: a big problem when dealing with confidential data on a daily basis.
2. BYOD automatically calls for increased need for security, which is now, seems to be changing to BYOA employees are bringing their own applications to work more efficiently and be more productive.
3. Trying to implement EM strategies by oneself calls for high capital investment and high risk of complete implementation failure. Therefore most enterprise choose to hire service specialist.

           After looking at both the sides of this coin, We have a high expectations that enterprise mobility will emerge as a game changer in next few years and will definitely create tremendous amount of opportunities. 

        

Thanks Notes

Oracle Open World 2013
TechEd 2014
EnterpriseMobilityExchange
InformationWeek

Tushar Gupta (Titanium App Developer)

References

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/02/11/four-ways-to-build-a-mobile-app-part3-phonegap/

http://www.sap.com/pc/tech/mobile/experts/community.html

http://www.economist.com/node/21531109

http://www.aberdeen.com/Aberdeen-Library/7282/RB-enterprise-mobility-management.aspx

http://www.cognizant.com/InsightsWhitepapers/Mobilizing-the-Enterprise.pdf

http://www.cioinsight.com/it-management/expert-voices/the-future-of-enterprise-mobility.html

http://www.enterprisemobilityexchange.com/content/blog/global-state-enterprise-mobility-look-past-present-future

http://www.enterprisemobilityexchange.com/content/blog/7-future-trends-enterprise-mobility



If you have any queries or concerns, feel free to contact me @ vaibhavtiwari260@gmail.com(please mention perspective in subject line).
Thanks for your time :) Stay connected.  

Leadership In Action

Leadership (Part -2 ) :Work the Talk

You don’t need to be great to get the work started but you can become great by doing that work.

“Always deal in your core competency area. If you are into manufacturing, do that, don’t try selling but know your core competency area as well.”

        By – Ram Charan   Indian-American business consultant

“We need Leadership at Organization level, Country Level with Global Mindset. Be Optimistic, Do best at whatever you do. We need to bring people up by giving training to unemployed and making them hirable this will serve our CSR with broad vision.”

                                 By-Mrs. Rajashree Birla Former Chairman of Aditya Birla Group

“Success is very easy to get but to come out of failure, it takes lot of efforts and failure is a great teacher.”

“Unless you fail you never realizes importance of success”

                                  
                                 By- Amitabh Bachchan

“There is a vacuum of qualified and motivated people with practical competence at grass root level we need to bridge that gap.”

            By-Pawan Munjal             Managing Director and CEO of Hero Motocorp

How to do things is major question than what to do. Any work should be started only after proper planning. Once started no procrastination should be made. Challenges will definitely come in between.

                    By-SS Mundra Chairman and Managing Director of Bank of Baroda

Leaders delivers result but they also build capabilities with people who deal in influencing and building future. They identify and seize the opportunities as it arrives.

Guys, just for a minute think of three business leaders in your company (who not only create the vision but also work the talk) what three things they do?

1. ...........
2. ............
3. ............  

Once you are done with the answer, you will get to know what you need to do.

The most important characteristic that a leader must demonstrate is 

CLARITY

and
SPECIFICITY

RIGHT PEOPLE
and
WORK ETHICS

LASER SHARP DOMINANT PRIORITIES

REVIEW AND DIALOGUE

FOLLOW THROUGH

 DO PRACTICE YOUR WORK RIGOROUSLY SO

 DO  

                      PRACTICE >> PRACTICE >> PRACTICE 

                    

                                               

• They are clear and specific: they have their priorities clear.

                   Eg: Airtel

1.     Get the largest number of people in network.
2.     How to get price lower at large number of people.

• They get the things done. In other words they serve the commitments at the same time leveraging the knowledge of others.

• How to choose Right People

It is only up to you. You have to define three things required to succeed in job.

What is the natural talent of a person[not degree and psychometric test ]
How good he is fit in option 1 and option 2.
                   Noting overcomes a wrong person. He will flush out everything.

It’s really very important to get the right product at the right time even when your market share is declining to keep moving forward.

• Review and Dialogue
  

Operational reviews are very important; it gives a mirror how you conducted.

                People always wander what content it should have, so here is the answer

                  1)    It should foster values, integrity and ethics.

2) What did you do better in the competition?[By working the talk]
3) Analysis what happens to behavior and nature

My personal suggestions would be

• Don’t wait for the year end. Be specific and clear throughout the year.
• Never perform meeting closure without confirming who will do what.
• Closure is important for Accountability.

Always remember Young Millionaires are coming you have to bring them from 50,000 feet to 50 feet. Never ever, degrade them or underestimate them.  

References and Thanks Notes:

•  International Management Conclave
•  IIM Indore
•  Indore Management Association  

To be Discussed

Let's discuss this year =>

Learnings @ IMA Conclave 2014 (16-17 Jan)

Please find pics of the Conclave @

Official DotNet Page

and

Conclave Album

which is my technology FB page

Guys soon I will post discussion that we had at IMA conclave, Indore

I am a Developer, why I should touch the Sales stuff(March 2014)

1. It is an integral part.
2. Importance of Technology Marketing.
3. Targeting your audience.
4. Identifying the blue ocean and dive into it.

                                   

Mobilizing Your World(April 2014)

The next generation technology stack CASM

1. Cloud
2. Analytics
3. Social
4. Mobile

Ten reasons why you fail in identifying the  opportunities

Brand & Marketing

Every Thing is Image, Image is Every Thing

I am making good products, Why should I invest in marketing ?

                     You are right, save your money but if you really want to generate sales in multiples of thousands and hundreds you have to advertise.

In your first two or three years of business, you will be faced with the same question whether I want to create a brand or business.

It’s a very though question as branding calls for investment that may or may not have returns but business generate immediate results.

Have you ever tried to think, What is that piece of communication is trying to communicate. It is an attempt to manage the perception, trust and finally to generate the sales.

When consumer mindset is limited we need to struggle to get share of it.

The more is the sales volume you are able to generate the better you are the Brand Manager.

For me Brand has only one meaning, you capability to charge higher for the same product

You get premium on every thing. But to achieve that you have to be on top of the ladder, which requires efforts.Then only you can claim to have the ultra premium luxury.
So, get the Get the mindshare before you get the market share

 How many times you have been faced with questions
 from your business partner :

1. What is your VISION ?
2. What STRATEGY you opt for?
3. What are your next 2-3 year plans ?
4. Is your cow able enough to generate enough revenue to keep your business on.

 Ohh, if these are the questions you are facing, we are going to discuss it in depth and breadth this  Friday, stay tuned.