You will need to support multiple devices.

Employees are driving the mobility trend for the enterprise. They're bringing their smartphones and tablets to the workplace, and they expect to use enterprise applications on their device of choice. This is tough for IT...

That is why the Agile Platform™ creates Mobile Web Applications using standard technologies, like HTML5 and CSS3. This allows you to build a single version of the application that works on the most popular mobile platforms, like the iPhone, Android and Windows 7.

And don't forget the browser either. A big part of us are going mobile, but a lot of back-office processes are still managed on desktops and laptops. What you need to build is a Universal Application - an application that runs across your desktop, tablet, and smartphone.

Learn what exactly is a Universal Application and why you need one,

Mobile Applications for the enterprise need to be maintainable.

There's big hype around AppStores and native applications - applications that are built specifically to run on a particular device. But for Enterprise Apps, native is not the best choice.

Enterprise Mobile Applications need to be cross platform and easily changed. The answer lies in mobile web applications. Here are the top 3 advantages you get by building a Mobile Web Application instead of going native:

• Develop once, run everywhere: Native apps force you to develop a different version for each mobile platform. On the other hand, mobile web apps run on all devices that support web standards;
• Deploy fast: Because you don't need to go through the AppStore approval process, you can deploy your app whenever you want. All you have to do is get the application running in your web server.
• Always up-to-date: When you release new versions of a native app, your users need to download and install that version to be up-to-date. With mobile web apps, your users are running the latest version as soon as you deploy to production.

Learn why Mobile Applications for the enterprise need to be browser based.

You need to be ready for change.

60% to 80% of an enterprise application's cost goes to maintenance and new features after the first release. And this applies to Enterprise Mobile Apps too. Soon you'll get to a point where changing your mobile app will just cost too much.

Adding new functionality to your custom applications must be fast (days or weeks instead of months), safe (to be sure you don’t break what’s already working) and cost effective.

With the Agile Platform™ you'll deliver applications that are built-for-change, and where the cost of change is stable across the application life-cycle.

Learn more about rapid application development with the Agile Platform

When you have to go native, go hybrid.

Sometimes you really have to go native. Either because your marketing department really needs you to put your app in the AppStore, or because you need to access a feature from the device that web apps cannot access - like the camera or the address book.

But that doesn't mean you need to go full native! There's a mixed solution called Mobile Hybrid Applications. The idea is that you quickly build a Mobile Web Application using the Agile Platform™ and then wrap it in a super thin native shell, so that you get the extra features of native without losing the advantages of mobile web apps.

See how you can create a native shell around a Mobile Web Application

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Mobile has never been easier with the Agile Platform™. All the tools you need are at your finger tips to build, and deploy highly maintainable, cross platform mobile applications for your enterprise.

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