The power of mobile usability has brought success to AppStores of various mobile device manufacturers. Now, it is time to focus on the enterprise mobility imperative in the changing landscape of mobile device evolution.

Early enterprise mobile solutions were by and large, custom applications developed for mobile devices that suited a section of mobile users in an enterprise with specific need(s), with little or no ability to enhance or run them on newer devices, without incurring the cost of a major re-write of those applications.

The evolution of feature-rich mobile devices has accelerated the rapid adoption of newer devices by enterprise-users, often rendering the archaic non-portable mobile solutions useless, stressing the need for the development of an enterprise-wide strategy for mobile application development/deployment. Enumerated below are the top 10 criteria as per several recent studies that every enterprise should consider today, in order to ensure successful deployment of their enterprise-wide mobile solutions.

1. Point Solution Vs. Platform-based:

Point solutions are typical mobile-extensions provided by traditional back-office software vendors that enable use of their back-end application(s) on mobile devices. Usually, these solutions provide a quick path to mobile to enable a back-end application of a vendor while offering no flexibility to aggregate several back-office applications, which may be required for meaningful transactions in the field. Field-users often have the need to interact with more than one enterprise-back-end-application/data. So, there is a greater need for a platform-based solution, which besides offering the ability to aggregate and enhance several back-office applications/data for mobile-users, provides the flexibility to make field application(s) independent of the back-office software applications. Thus, giving enterprise the ability to control the features and evolution of field-applications based solely on its needs, and not limited by any back-office application.