Enterprise mobile application development: A CIO strategy guide

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  CIOs: Pay heed to mobile business apps

  Mobile business apps have the potential to make or break IT departments. CIOs must prepare for when marketing inevitably requests custom-made applications for mobile devices. Read Now

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  The secrets to crafting a mobile app strategy

  As the number of mobile devices on the market multiplies, CIOs are faced with to devising a mobile application strategy that suits both employees and customers -- and that won't be easy. Read Now

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  Build your own mobile app? It depends

  A developed-in-house mobile app can provide small businesses with a competitive advantage, but the build-your-own-app route won't suit every organization. Read Now

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  When it comes to mobility, CIOs must be ready to compete

  Achieving competitive advantage by undertaking a mobile app strategy was no easy feat at a statewide bank, but an early jump and committed follow-through made the difference. Read Now

1Mobile application development: A video tutorial

These videos provide guidance on application performance management, mobile apps stores and designing apps for tablets.

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  Application performance management can make or break your brand

  Application performance management is more difficult and necessary than ever to the business. This webcast advises CIOs on how to get APM up to snuff. Watch Now

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  Dell IT wrangles consumerization with mobile apps store

  In this video interview, Adriana 'Andi' Karaboutis talks about how her 'Ellis Island' team helped get rid of shadow IT by building a mobile apps store. Watch Now

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  Guess CIO designs a great iPad app for store buyers

  Guess CIO Michael Relich had a change of heart about the iPad as a business tool. The fashion retailer's buying team is glad he did.  Watch Now

2Mobile application development methodologies

Once an enterprise has determined that it will pursue mobile application development, a host of development methodologies present themselves, each with its own advantages and drawbacks. In this section, determine the application development approach that best fits your organization's mobility needs.

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  When mobile app dev meets Agile

  Some organizations are embracing Agile best practices as they build mobile apps that adjust to changing business needs. Read Now

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  Random acts of mobile and user-first approaches

  Expert J Schwan says that a lack of communication is marring mobile channel strategies. His recommendation? Put users first in your app dev philosophy. Read Now

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  Does speed-to-market trump quality in mobile app dev?

  In mobile application development, what's the priority: being first to market or being the best? We polled three experts on the topic. Read Now

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  How to develop five-star apps

  In this Ask the Expert, Forrester analyst Jeffrey Hammond explains how to tweak mobile efforts toward developing a five-star app. Read Now

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  How to produce purpose-built mobile apps

  Hammond runs down a list of dos and don'ts for enterprises looking to develop their own purpose-built mobile applications. Read Now

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  How to evolve enterprise culture to promote mobile app dev

  Hammond tackles how to redirect the development culture to support mobile application development. Read Now

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  Forrester: Use mobility to drive business innovation

  This tip provides a step-by-step guide for using mobility to drive business process transformation in the enterprise. Read Now

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  Mobile device management with an eye toward apps

  MDM is vital to a larger enterprise mobility strategy, but mobile application management is a key component as well. Read Now

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  Three experts explain how to monetize a mobile app

  A series of experts share the secrets behind monetizing their mobile apps and provide advice on how CIOs can get in the game. Read Now

3Learn mobile application development lingo

Mastering enterprise mobile application development starts with understanding some of the more popular app dev terms in use today.

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  mobile application development

  Mobile application development is the set of processes and procedures involved in writing software for small, wireless computing devices such as smartphones or tablets. Read Now

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  mobile application management (MAM)

  Mobile application management (MAM) is software that secures and enables IT control over enterprise applications on end users' corporate and personal smartphones and tablets. Read Now

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  mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP)

  A mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) is a development environment that provides tools and middleware to develop, test, deploy and manage corporate software running on mobile devices. Read Now

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  application sandboxing

  Application sandboxing, also called application containerization, is an approach to software development and mobile application management (MAM) that limits the environments in which certain code can execute. Read Now

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  app wrapping (application wrapping)

  App wrapping is the process of applying a management layer to a mobile app without requiring any changes to the underlying application. Read Now

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  continuous software development

  Continuous software development is a blanket term that covers several aspects of an iterative application development process based on making each change when it is ready, rather than wrapping many changes into large batches. Read Now

4Enterprise mobile applications in action

What lessons have your fellow CIOs learned in the course of developing mobile applications? In this section, we present case studies profiling real-world mobile app deployments, digging into the good, the bad and the ugly of getting mobile apps off the ground.

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  Three steps to re-envisioning enterprise mobile applications

  American Airlines' mobility guru provides his garnered-from-experience advice for launching a successful mobile application program. Read Now

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  Analytics on a iPad? We built an app for that

  Guess? Inc. CIO Michael Relich delivered a mobile analytics app for the iPad that had employees bringing their own devices into the workplace to give it a whirl. Read Now

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  A mobile app buoyed by big data designed for digital users

  Kaplan Inc.'s chief digital officer places a premium on mobile app design when considering and shaping content, and CIOs should similarly consider the mobile user experience. Read Now

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  A concierge in your pocket, thanks to an app

  A mobile app takes hotel customer service to a whole different level, but it required constant adjustments and a heavy-duty dose of promotion. Read Now

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  Sonic Automotive takes mobile BI on a test drive

  Mobile business intelligence and advanced analytics are evolving the BI program at a national auto retailer committed to providing on-the-go data. Read Now

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  Bank leaders liberated by bevy of mobility offerings

  Deploying trendy mobile technologies is easy, but try saying the same for mobile solutions that actually improve the business. Here's one CIO who figured out how. Read Now

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  The mobile app payoff comes after the launch

  Learn how mobile application performance management software can stymie lackluster apps from leaving your users sour. Read Now

5Enterprise mobile application development: Test your knowledge

In the age of digital businesses, a mobile application development strategy is a must. Review our recent SearchCIO coverage and take our quiz on enterprise mobile application development to make the most of your mobile strategy.

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  Does your mobile applications development strategy have what it takes?

  In the age of digital businesses, a mobile applications development strategy is a must. Take our quiz to find out how to make the most of mobile apps. Read Now

6Mobile application development trends

Social networking, analytics, cloud computing -- all have an effect on your mobile application strategy, and CIOs must consider application lifecycle management in the proper context. This section looks at mobile application development trends as they relate to broader digital strategy initiatives that are transforming business models and industries as a whole.

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  The connected car reshapes mobile business as usual

  Enterprise mobility is spreading to entities far too large to fit in your pocket. The connected car is just one example of disruptive mobility trends. Read Now

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  How to hone your enterprise's digital strategy

  Is a digital strategy the responsibility of the IT department? What about marketing? Online experts offer advice on deciphering this difficult, far-reaching question. Read Now

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  Mobile personalization: The promise and the peril

  The future of mobile personalization goes far beyond recommending the next movie you should catch in the theatre or where to get the best pizza nearby. But super-targeted apps have a creepy side, too. Read Now

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  A deep dive into the application economy

  CIO expert Harvey Koeppel takes a good hard look at the modern application economy and, several cups of black coffee later, emerges with some pertinent advice for CIOs. Read Now

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  From smoke signals to SMAC, digital business is here

  Koeppel analyzes the ways in which social networking, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) have evolved both in-house and customer-facing business communications. Read Now