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A Strategic Approach to Mobile Business Applications

Many companies have realized the need for deploying mobile emails for their workforce as the first move towards mobile applications deployment in business. However, most are hesitant to do this in back-office systems. Despite the success of these systems, a lot of companies hold back due to worry about security, complexity, deployment costs and unsuccessful early implementations. In addition, there is also user reluctance towards working with smaller devices. On the other hand, forward moving companies are deploying mobile applications often over existing infrastructure, in a short time and at very reasonable costs. The result is significant gains in business efficiency and end-user productivity.

What though is involved in enterprise network deployment of mobile applications? Companies wishing to go mobile should start with a strategic plan that is focused at what the users need to get their jobs done, future expectations of the business over the next few years and the infrastructure already in place that can be leveraged. When you consider the future business needs, any strategic approach taken by an enterprise should be flexible enough to accommodate future improvements. If this is not taken into consideration, then the mobile solutions that will be implemented will be unable to change to the growing needs of the company which will in turn mean a less-than-optimum investment. No company wants to deploy mobile applications and then rip and replace them over a short period of time.

Mobile wireless solutions, including email systems, can be implemented by extending their capability through back-office solutions. The ease of deploying these simple extended solutions makes it affordable for a variety of business needs. Any mobile applications strategy should also take into consideration the existing infrastructure for yet another reason. If the platforms, solutions and tools of such deployment fit in with the strategy, then it will mean less additional investment in teaching staff new technologies and tools and also the ease of finding targeted solutions on specific technology choices.

Any strategy that is chosen should focus on the needs of the end users. Most mobile applications fail because of poor implementations not from bad technology. In order to understand the end user needs, it is therefore imperative that companies involve the end user in the early stages of any solution design. This step, often overlooked, will help maximize productivity of the resultant application as well as ease of use to the end users. With such a holistic approach, any mobile solution can be successfully deployed.

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