Mobility - Let us engage Deliberately and not by accident!

As I meet many clients and team members I realized one thing, and that is:

 

Mobile  will not fix or bypass existing deficiencies in the enterprise, on the contrary Mobility will bring these concerns front and center to all Mobile discussions. So Mobility is NOT about an app running on a mobile device, but have far deeper implications when it comes to enterprise integration and mobilizing these services. I think our experience and out platform can serve as our competitive advantage in surfacing and addressing these in our Mobile Conversations. From a platform perspective competing products also have to have the enterprise DNA in them. ( More on this in next post)

Mapping Enterprise design points to Technical design points:

In the spirit of engaging with a purpose and deliberately, I wanted to discuss an approach that will lay the foundation and provide a structure before we get into product features. The approach I usually take is devising a “Enterprise Design points” and mapping to “Technical Design Points”. The idea with this approach is to  ensure we capture the LOB/Business design requirements and  use the tools at our disposal  to  define  a solution architecture to address the enterprise design points.

Enterprise Design Points:

a.     Deliberate and Intentional engagement

b.     Exposing back end services and data

c.     Data transfer and data growth considerations

d.     Bandwidth and TCP Socket chatter

e.     MEAP or MCAP?

f.      Enterprise Integration

g.     Security – enterprise and endpoint security

h.     Device and Platform support

i.      Legal responsibilities – Application store, client data and resulting exposure

 Which Maps to

Technical Design Points:

a.     Enterprise application integration (tools and libraries

b.     Device integration and peripheral support

c.     Application client runtime

d.     Device/OS platform support 

e.     Packaged mobile

f.      Hosting

g.     Architectural flexibility

As always I love to hear from you your critique and thoughts.

– Let us engage Deliberately and not by accident!

Have  a great week ahead.

;)

Nitin