How to Mobile Enable your Enterprise Application

How-To: Mobile Enable

Your Enterprise Application

24 April 2014

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Today’s Presenter

Today’s Host

As Director of Marketing, Sharon Lee heads the marketing

strategy and brand messaging for Alliance. With over

12 years of experience in both digital and traditional marketing,

she is focused on the effective use of media for compelling brand

messaging and creating successful marketing programs with

measurable results that impact revenue. Sharon holds a B.A.

from the University of Pennsylvania.

David Rader is Alliance’s CTO. He focuses on improving software

development teams and technology strategy for Alliance’s clients. David

has over 15 years of experience in software development and consulting

and is passionate about delivering great customer experiences and

business value. Prior to joining Alliance, David was a Senior Partner at

Fusion Technologies and has worked for a major retail brokerage and a

data analytics consultancy. David has a BA from Northwestern University

in Economics and Integrated Sciences.

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Topics in Today’s Webinar

• Identify the most important mobile functionality

• Leverage cross platform development tools

• Integrate with your existing applications

• Launch beta testing programs

• Leverage analytics to improve your application

• Automate testing across iOS, Android, phones,

and tablets

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BUILD THE RIGHT MOBILE APP:

IDENTIFY MOST IMPORTANT MOBILE

FUNCTIONALITY

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Who is the user?

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Employees?

Field personnel?

Customers?

Prospects?

Consumers?

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What does your user check on her phone?

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Do you need Offline support?

Read-only or Transactional?

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What should you skip?

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BUILD THE APP THE RIGHT WAY:

LEVERAGE CROSS-PLATFORM

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

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Why Cross Platform?

US - Oct-Dec 2013

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“Android” or Android“S”?

US - Oct-Dec 2013

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Cost of supporting multiple platforms

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Web Web&iOS Web&iOS&Android

3 Platforms Supported 3 Code Bases to Maintain 3 Full Testing Efforts Hard to Staff -- Need iOS, Java, and C# mobile skillsets

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Cross Platform Approach

REST Services

Model View Controller

Device Integration Layer

Business logic and Workflows

30%

40%

10%

20% REST Services

Model View Controller

Device Integration Layer

Business logic and Workflows

Up to 75% Code reuse

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Savings with Cross Platform

25 - 40% Lower Ongoing Maintenance

Cost

Lower Risk

25 - 33% Lower Initial Build Cost

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Na ve CrossPla orm

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Ok, which cross-platform tool should we use?

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or

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IT’S A MOBILE APP - DO I NEED A SERVER?

INTEGRATE WITH YOUR EXISTING APPS

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Do I need a server?

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It depends …

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You need a SPAAA:

• Scalable

• Publicly available

• “Always on” 24/7

• API (REST/JSON preferred)

• w/ Authentication

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So, the real question is:

Do you have a SPAAA?

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Have a SPAAA?

Just need an API?

Internal only?

Desktop? Other?

You’re good to go,

use the API!

E-BaaS!

Cloud M-BaaS!

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E-BaaS API’s

Shared Core

Native UI - iPad

Mobile Networks + Internet

Firewall

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HOW DO I GET THE APP TO MY BETA USERS?

LAUNCH BETA TESTING PROGRAMS

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• Corporate Account • Distribution Provisioning Profile • UDID • Accepting Certificate • Distributing Updates

• Send the .APK

* Or Apple Enterprise Distribution Profiles

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or

* Or Apple Enterprise Distribution Profiles

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EVOLVING THE APP OVER TIME

LEVERAGE ANALYTICS TO IMPROVE

YOUR APP

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What platforms?

What screens?

How frequently?

What errors?

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AUTOMATE TESTING ACROSS

IOS, ANDROID, PHONES, AND TABLETS

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On Mobile, Quality is Hard

5 OS VERSIONS 8 MANUFACTURERS×

3 OS VERSIONS 8 DEVICES×

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On Mobile, Quality is Hard

5 OS VERSIONS 8 MANUFACTURERS×

3 OS VERSIONS 8 DEVICES×

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27 SCREEN SIZES×

20 LANGUAGES×

20 LANGUAGES×

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SMART Mobile Application Testing Strategy Three-tier “SMART” Mobile Application Testing Strategy for end to end coverage,

automated solutions for each tier and testing on actual devices

Device Testing

Functional Testing

Business Workflow Testing

Automated testing of business workflows and backend application and enterprise using SOA and Integration testing

Automated function testing of mobile application using device simulators

Automated and Manual on actual device in

Alliance Mobile Test Lab and Cloud

SOA Testing

Integration Testing

Functional Testing Device Management Testing Security Testing Authentication Testing Integration Testing

Installation Testing Compatibility Testing Device Profiling UI Testing

Align to Business Objectives

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Shared scripts across platform

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Questions?

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Thank You David Rader, CTO

drader@allianceglobalservices.com

www.allianceglobalservices.com