Choosing an enterprise-level mobile platform: an independent platform or an integrated platform?

The rapid development of mobile Internet not only allows people to enjoy convenience and speed, but also gives birth to the entrepreneurial dreams of many people. Since the threshold of mobile development is not high, everyone wants to step into the entrepreneurial tide. However, the diversity of mobile terminals, the adaptability of APP development, performance optimization, etc. are all issues that mobile developers need to consider.

In the era of strong demand for mobile development, two different types of vendors have emerged to provide services: one is the emerging independent mobile application and platform vendors, and the other is the application software platform providers. However, in the future, the pattern of both parties in the enterprise mobile market will change.

The recent acquisition of Digital Paradise has triggered a great discussion in the field of mobile informatization. In terms of enterprise-level mobile informatization, should we choose an independent mobile platform with strong technical capabilities, or a traditional IT service provider that understands the enterprise business?

The key to mobile construction

At present, in terms of mobile informatization, enterprise CIOs usually focus on six key capabilities. The first is the rendering capability, performance expression and fluency of the terminal engine; the second is the device access capability, including QR code, map voice, and printer; the third is the ability to connect with existing systems; the fourth is the quality requirements of developers and the capabilities of development tools; the fifth is data storage encryption and transmission channel security issues; the sixth is mobile management issues, including mobile device management, mobile application management, mobile content management, etc. Generally, technical capabilities, solution integrity, and sustainable services are the three aspects that CIOs value more.

Luo Xiaojiang, general manager of the iUAP Center Business Department of UFIDA Group, said, "The biggest problem encountered by enterprises in the process of mobileization is that many enterprises do not know how to lay out their mobile strategies." In the past, many enterprises directly moved PC applications to mobile terminals, but encountered many problems when putting them on mobile terminals, such as interaction problems and mobile phone carrying capacity. Luo Xiaojiang suggested that enterprises should build enterprise mobility according to scenarios, rather than simply moving business applications to mobile terminals. In the process of moving from PC to mobile, it is necessary to break up enterprise businesses and redesign mobile businesses, and fully assemble fragmented mobile application scenarios.

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Luo Xiaojiang, General Manager of iUAP Center Business Department of UFIDA Group

What are the characteristics of enterprise-level APP

Early APPs were mainly mobile applications such as games, news, and books, and most of these were consumer-oriented. However, in recent years, APPs have also begun to be used in business, and some companies' mobile offices rely on APPs. So, what characteristics should enterprise-level APPs have?

Zhang Jianxin, general manager of the mobile platform product department of the iUAP center of UFIDA Group, believes that enterprise-level apps, no matter how small the application is, are no longer simple. Enterprise-level apps are not only 2E, but also 2B. With the subversion of management and business models, corporate employees will also have higher experience demands, and excellent experience will become a rigid demand. In addition, companies need to respond to changing needs, and component-based design and research and development will also become a necessity. In addition to rapid development, maintainability, scale development, etc. will also be considered. It is necessary to consider the separation of technology and business, and the separation of the presentation layer and the business logic layer. These are the characteristics of enterprise-level apps.

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Zhang Jianxin, General Manager of Mobile Platform Product Department of iUAP Center of UFIDA Group

With the development of technology, many new development modes and languages ​​are constantly emerging, such as Web development, native development, hybrid development, cross-compilation, etc., which also put forward higher requirements for development platforms, such as better human-computer interaction experience, more efficient development efficiency and publishing capabilities, etc. Zhang Jianxin said that by embedding complex content into a simple development process, developers can complete all tasks unconsciously based on the platform, which is also the goal of the UFIDA iUAP mobile platform.

However, the enterprise-level mobile platform also needs to handle the relationship between technology and business. How can the replacement of new technologies not affect the business of the enterprise, and how can the technology upgrade of the enterprise not affect the business? This requires separation of technology and business, and personalized design and on-demand assembly. The technology platform and the business platform need to be well integrated, and technology always serves the business.

Which development platform to choose?

With the acquisition of Digital Paradise, will independent mobile platform manufacturers gradually decline? UFIDA believes that it will be difficult for independent mobile platform manufacturers to survive in the future. An independent platform is only a technical platform, and it is difficult to survive without business encapsulation. Secondly, many corporate customers' information systems now use integrated software application platforms such as Oracle, SAP, and UFIDA. It is very difficult for customers on this basis to use other mobile platforms. Application software platform providers understand customer businesses better, so they have more advantages than emerging independent platform manufacturers in terms of mobile layout. In addition, after years of capability testing, they are relatively comprehensive in terms of platform functional integrity, technology accumulation, ecological improvement, service awareness, etc.

At present, people who do Internet development are relatively proficient in mobile technology, but are not familiar with internal enterprise applications. Enterprise IT departments understand internal enterprise applications, but do not understand mobile technology very well. Therefore, UFIDA launched the iUAP mobile platform, which has accumulated many enterprise application components. Only simple development capabilities are required to assemble and package applications and build relatively complete enterprise-level mobile applications.

UFIDA iUAP Mobile is a cloud-based unified platform covering the entire life cycle of mobile application development, management, security, integration, etc. It supports Web, Hybrid and Native application types, and supports a wide range of openness, standardization and cross-platform capabilities. From the past SMS platform and Wap application platform to the later mobile operating platform, the various versions of iUAP Mobile have solved the problems of cross-platform, resource usage, fragmented application assembly, rapid development and delivery, and excellent user experience, helping enterprises to quickly implement mobileization.

iUAP Mobile has six major features. First, draggable UI development makes development easier; second, Web technology is used as the main development skill, so that one-time development can adapt to multiple terminals; third, two-way data binding; fourth, automatic screen resolution adaptation; fifth, support for 100% Native UI development; sixth, support for native browsers and private browsers.

The iUAP Mobile platform includes mobile middleware, development platform, management platform, mobile desktop, and application store, covering a complete full life cycle solution from development and management to security and integration, from excellent experience to behavioral analysis, application distribution to sustainable services.

It is understood that the iUAP mobile development platform is provided free of charge to partners, and the mobile standard version is open to the public and is also completely free. In addition, the iUAP mobile platform is open source to partners, who can apply for source code for secondary development.