Being the third largest start up country after USA and UK, India is boosting the growth of business around the mobile eco system as more and more people are depending on smartphones for their daily needs. There are a number of reasons behind this growth on the dependency of mobile phones. An increasing number of e-commerce startups in India have encouraged the growth of businesses around the mobile eco system.
The e-commerce revenue supposed to hit $38 Billion this year. With the advancement in mobile, businesses are also instrumenting Mobility strategy to increase the profitability. The use of desktops, laptops, mobile phones, smartphones, tablets to wearable appliances is increasing day by day to gain advancement in the business. Mobile applications are the core of these devices.
Organizations have geared up for introducing new applications for clients as well as employees. Organizations are following some trends to increase profitability.
Enterprise apps will be continually ‘the desirable’
According to a prediction, by 2017, the demand for enterprise app development will be increased than last year. As per the experts, the enterprise software applications will be mobile-optimized. All this indicates the need of developed skill to create enterprise apps. Skills especially security, integration, design and development will be the top most priority.
The Universal Apps
There was an emergence of many iOS devices previous year, which include iPad Pro, Apple TV, Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This is the only example of the rise of iOS devices being used and able to run on numerous screen types and devices. With the gradual use of universal apps, developers are looking forward to create an app which will be able to run on any device.
The introduction and availability of various mobile devices, with various sizes and types, for the apps it has become extremely important to be run on any device possible. Developers have to brainstorm while creating an app for different devices because its look and its working will vary according the device.
Smart Personal Assistants
For the past few years, developers have tried to drag more from Siri, Google Now and Cortana. Having great potential of being more productive Cortana and Google Now is expected to be favorite of all as a smart assistant in 2016. Because of the latest OS versions being introduced, the search capabilities have been enlarged to start supporting the capability to find information or take actions. For example, with the use of iOS, HomeKit it can be possible to control lighting, heating and security systems by using Siri, without opening the apps.
Slippy UX app design more in use
In the introductory days of apps, developers created ‘sticky’ apps, only to make an experience especially designed to keep people engaged in apps for as long as possible. In the case of a free app this has become a priority because of the advertising point of view.
With the advancement of the mobile operating systems on the base level, enable apps to work better in the background, enabling interactive notifications, background monitoring and data usage, interapp linking and new location-based enhancements driven by advances to both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies.
But in 2016 the emphasis will be on the slippy UX app design, which will allow users freedom to do what they need to do in a simpler way.
Bluetooth to become key technology
With the characteristics of longer ranges, greater speeds, lower latencies and mesh networking, Bluetooth will reign 2016. Most importantly the new Bluetooth, distinguished to Wi-Fi or cellular IoT, will be cheap and will be able to utilize license free spectrum. Bluetooth 4.2 will become the attention seeker technology for the smart grid and within Internet of Things applications.
Increase in spending on mobility programs
Companies spending on the upgrades to their infrastructure and middleware allowing mobility across their organization will continue in the coming year too. The increasing importance to the programs, rather than projects is the highlight in the companies today.
Companies are supposed to spend more on mobility programs in 2016, taking help from the consultancy to decide which priorities they should handle first. Soon, Mobile to become an essential part of any digital or business transformation.
Algorithms will be in the limelight
For successful digital companies algorithms are essentials, processing data in ways that benefit both their end users and internal operations. With tons of data mobile producing every day, companies from every industry are paying attention towards algorithms as part of their backend infrastructure and cloud based processing of data. The increased intelligence in the apps, success depends on the investment in algorithms to process data, at the same time delivering value to the users.
Security will be all-important in IoT
There have been many attentions seeking IoT hacking issues witnessed last year, which will result in more emphasis on the security because of the enterprise deployments of IoT will generally have a higher level of security than consumer deployments. The more connected the business will become, the more important factor will be the security.
As more and more apps are taking place of people as to get things done, vast amount of sensitive data is flowing through them. That is why; it is becoming more important factor for the companies to watch out what kind of apps are getting access to the company servers and systems inside the company. Most importantly the internal app development must happen with security protocols as the prime concern.
So, the Enterprise apps are big business today, which will go bigger than this in the coming year. According to a survey, the demand for mobile app development services by 2017 will outdo internal IT resources to deliver them by a factor of five to one.
Enterprise Application Development Trends To Foresee
