By Stephan Romeder
Mobile enterprise app development is both an opportunity and a challenge for IT departments.
By supporting employees working in the field using smartphones and tablets, IT can help companies gain a competitive edge by creating new efficiencies and superior customer service. But in order to support a mobile workforce, IT needs to make real-time information, including product, financial, and customer data, available from a wide variety of business applications. And it gets even more complicated. Because of the plethora of devices used by employees, IT needs to develop mobile apps for multiple platforms including iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, and others.
In addition to the challenges related to mobile applications, there are the more familiar IT development hurdles that need to be overcome, including budget constraints, pressure for quick delivery, and the need to adapt to fast changing business processes and user habits.
Here are two ways that code-free mobile application development platforms can help enterprises meet these challenges.
