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A CIO's essential guide to mobile business strategy
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Improved user experience driving enterprise mobile app development
Technologies such as AI and big data are contributing to the rapid advancement of mobile apps' capabilities. Learn about the key mobile application development trends that are set to take the enterprise by storm. Read Now
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Is it too expensive to build an enterprise mobile app?
When faced with the decision to build or buy an enterprise mobile application, it's important to weigh the cost of building the app against its overall business benefits. Read Now
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CIOs become more hands-on in mobile application development
Mobile apps for employees, business partners and customers are cheaper and quicker to develop and deploy than enterprise apps, but they still must work securely and in concert with the company's overall IT infrastructure. As a result, CIOs increasingly want IT more deeply involved in mobile app products, even when they're still owned by business units. Read Now
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Mobile apps today: Competitive advantage; tomorrow, table-stakes
Corporate employees and customers alike are turning to their smartphones or tablets as their primary device of choice. In this webcast, analyst Kurt Marko explains the many competitive advantages mobile applications offer businesses. Watch Now
Editor's note
The days of "bring your own device" strategies and corporate-issued BlackBerrys seem quaint when compared to today's hyper-connected businesses and their employees. Today, IT professionals tasked with managing the organizations' mobile business strategy find themselves having to monitor security, cloud computing, the internet of things, app development and mobile productivity, to name a few.
As a result, enterprise mobility best practices have come to involve wide-ranging and diverse IT processes. This makes ensuring that mobile processes run smoothly very complicated for CIOs, as they struggle to balance mobile integration projects, application quality assurance and mobile data protection.
In this Essential Guide, explore TechTarget's news coverage and expert advice to help CIOs manage their companies' mobile business strategy. Learn about topics such as how mobile applications are revolutionizing business processes, the innovation benefits of the mobile cloud and how business mobilization requires new approaches to data security. Taken together, the information will help CIOs implement a successful -- and profitable -- mobile business strategy.
1The power of the mobile cloud
Mobility and cloud computing are becoming increasingly intertwined, as evidenced by the influx of mobile cloud services. In this section, learn the ins and outs of mobile cloud services and how turning to the cloud can help boost innovation and tackle mobility-related challenges.
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Mobile cloud services: What you need to know
In this video from analyst Kurt Marko, learn about the available mobile cloud services and how they can benefit your business. Watch Now
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The perks of hosting mobile apps in the cloud
Enterprises developing and managing mobile applications often choose the public cloud as their infrastructure backbone because of benefits such as increased scalability, speed and on-demand access to development tools. Read Now
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Mobile cloud computing architecture enabling modern employees
Mobile cloud computing architecture helps workers be more productive on the go. Learn about the myriad benefits of some of the most important cloud technologies for mobile organizations, including enterprise file sync and share and mobile backend as a service. Read Now
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Got mobile app development challenges? Cloud can help
Marko explores the challenges involved in the mobile app development process and how the cloud can help mitigate them by allowing the staff more time to focus more on innovation. Watch Now
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Egan: Today's innovation hinges on mobile and cloud computing
Consultant Bob Egan explains that companies need to invest in mobile cloud not just because it's valuable to productivity but because it's essential to keeping up with competitors. Read Now
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Perkins School turned to cloud for its mobile bus stop app
Cloud computing is a natural fit for Perkins School for the Blind's bus stop app for people with visual impairment. The school's director of products explains why. Read Now
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A primer on mobile backend as a service
Mobile backend as a service is ideal for running business logic and data analysis. Learn the features, benefits and deployment options of cloud back-end services. Read Now
2The dos and don'ts of mobile application development
Application development and quality assurance have become increasingly important to vital business processes and, of course, enterprise mobility best practices. Mobile application development remains a delicate process for businesses, however, and many questions need to be answered to ensure apps are top quality. In this section, learn about mobile application development strategies, including who in the organization is best equipped to lead the mobile app charge and how to overcome challenges associated with cross-platform app development.
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Enterprise mobile app development: Who should be in charge?
O.C. Tanner Co. CTO Niel Nickolaisen shares his views on who should be shouldering the responsibility of developing enterprise mobile applications and how to get started. Read Now
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Mobile apps: Types and modus operandi
In this CIO Minute video learn the key differences between mobile-only apps and enterprise apps developed for mobile devices and how development decisions and techniques vary for the two. Watch Now
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Mobile app development skills: To hire or outsource?
In sourcing mobile application development skills, should a CIO hire an in-house team or should they rely on outsourcing? Experts weigh in on the pros and cons of both and highlight the factors that guide such decisions. Read Now
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Google Glass: The journey into the enterprise
Tech developers typically try to understand a business problem first then invent the technology to solve it. Unless, of course, the developer is Google and the technology is its Google Glass device. In this SearchCIO Searchlight News Analysis, learn how Google Glass finally found a use case in the enterprise. Read Now
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How to build cross-platform apps on the cheap
Cross-platform apps are the future of enterprise software, but deploying these apps can be expensive. Learn how to develop secure cross-platform apps with less cost by using low-code development tools. Read Now
3Security essentials for mobile business strategy
Data security has become a concern for all of digitized companies' business processes, and enterprise mobility is no different. In this section, learn how to ensure security becomes integral to your enterprise mobility best practices.
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Mobile security tech advances create pros, cons for companies
Advances in mobile security technology are helping to counter vulnerabilities, but cutting-edge, automated solutions could create unforeseen vulnerabilities. Read Now
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Think big to protect the mobile enterprise
Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has seen a splurge in connected devices in the recent years. CISO and assistant vice president Karl West explains how the organization creates a delicate balance between enabling tech innovation and assuring mobile security. Read Now
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Mobile security: Examine risk first, then prescribe controls
The balance between risk and control is exacerbated when applied to mobile devices, so how can CIOs help deliver security? Niel Nickolaisen says they should take a cue from the great psychologist Abraham Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs.' Read Now
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CIOs adding to security portfolios to offset mobile vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity has become a top priority for enterprises, but a majority of leaders say mobile vulnerabilities are a big contributor to already heightened risk profiles. In response, IT executives are introducing more layers of security to their mobile environment. Read Now
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User behavior redefining mobile data security
People are indiscriminately using their smartphones and tablets for business and personal use, toggling between apps to check on customer data, personal social media profiles, data analysis tools and emails. To meet today's mobile security demands, organizations must balance business and user needs, Gartner's Dionisio Zumerle says. Read Now
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Mobile security: Start by identifying risk source
In this CIO Minute, O.C. Tanner Co. CTO Niel Nickolaisen lays out a commonsense approach to mitigating mobile security risks that begins with identifying the sources of risk, then determining the likelihood of them happening. Watch Now
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Mobile security issues and solutions
Mobile technology is driving massive changes in the role of IT and the way business is conducted. Unfortunately, mobile's growing use and sophistication is occurring in parallel with an increasing velocity of privacy and mobile security issues. Here's how CIOs must combat data security issues to stay ahead in the mobile-dominated business world. Read Now