The future is in cross platform mobile app development. Businesses must be able to create mobile apps that work on any device with a common user experience.
Unless they move to cross platform mobile app development, they’ll spend too much money to build apps and lose flexibility. They’ll create inconsistent user interfaces. They’ll also lose out to their competition.
So concludes the Gartner report, “Technology Insight for Multi-experience Development Platforms.”
The report starts by explaining that “Great companies don’t just build apps, they build experiences.” Only in that way will they draw and retain customers.
The report says application leaders need a cross platform app “development platform to deliver distinctive user experiences that span multiple devices." These solutions can also provide interactive experiences efficiently and rapidly.
Companies need a single tool to develop for multiple platforms, the report concludes. It cites three primary reasons:
- “Siloed app creation is hard to scale, leads to inconsistent user experience (UX) and ultimately impacts the product’s value.”
- “Customers and employees expect a seamless experience across multiple apps, but application leaders struggle with investing in fragmented technologies and finding requisite skills, especially for new modalities like immersive and conversational.”
- “Business and IT development teams lack a unified development platform to effectively collaborate, deliver and manage the life cycle of multi-experience digital products.”
There’s another reason as well. The types of apps they need to create are different than those of the past. They need to be more immersive.
It’s too difficult to create separate web apps and mobile applications for different operating systems, the report says.
The report explains, “36% of participant organizations had already deployed a conversational platform or planned to within 12 months. If these conversational platforms are not connected to web and mobile app development, then they will become silos of development over time.
“Through 2024, organizations with an established multi-experience strategy will outperform competitors in customer experience employee experience satisfaction metrics.”
The report concludes that cross platform tools “should serve as one of the cornerstones to support a future of applications strategy.”
Doing this will “improve collaboration with the business in designing, building, and managing apps and experiences.”
It will “accelerate app delivery by increasing developer productivity across multiple digital products.”
Cross platform tools will also “support better application architecture” and “reduce the total cost and time of development.”
And they will “enable faster release cycles and continuous improvement by utilizing DevOps practices.”
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