A study released by Accenture Monday 24 February, for which nearly 1,500 C-level executives were surveyed, has revealed mobility to be the number one digital priority among large-scale enterprises.
The Accenture Mobility Insights Report 2014, which has collected data from companies across 14 countries worldwide, is designed to highlight the use of mobility as an enabler of digital technologies for businesses.
Download this write-up for a detailed look at the most prominent statistics and trends to emerge from this research, as well as commentary from Jin Lee, Global Managing Director of Accenture Mobility, and Craig McNeil, Global Head of Strategy for Accenture Mobility.
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The question then remains how are you going to actually get these enterprise mobile apps built fast, cost effectively and with the resources you have.
There are some key considerations that you need to take into account and it is critical to recognize some of the fundamental needs which mobile apps have and which are laid out here.
- Need to integrate easily with disparate corporate data from multiple existing systems
- Need to support robust offline operation with intelligent conflict resolution
- Need to factor in security requirements on both the front end and the backend
- Need support for full CRUD operations with multi table hierarchical data
- Need to run across multiple brands of devices with a modern mobile user experience
- Need to responsively adapt to different screen sizes and orientation
- Need to take full advantage of the media capabilities that the camera & microphone affords
- Need to allow for marking up media with electronic ink and annotation
- Need to speed up data entry by eliminating the “soft” keyboard that keeps “jumping up and down” by the use of custom editors that are optimized for filling in each field type
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