Chatty Apps plus SOA: reaching the holy grail of business applications
All enterprise and business applications face the challenge of “last mile personalization”. These applications are designed on the “80% Rule” which means that they do 80% of what the typical customer wants and leave the remaining 20% to customization, or have the customer do without it. Trying to deliver software that does 100% of what [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, SOA
Tags » business applications, Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, HTML5, orchestration, personalization, SOA, Web Applications, Web Services
Web Apps are Becoming the New Legacy Apps
A decade ago at the turn of the century the dotcom bubble was at its peak. Web applications of the day provided by “application service providers” were in vogue, and relegating well-established client/server applications to the category of legacy applications. These hosted Web applications became the modern applications and architecture, and billions of dollars were [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile Web Apps, Native Apps, Smartphones, Web Applications
Tags » app store, Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, client/sever, HTML5, iPhone, Mobile Application Development, mobile user interface, Mobile Web Apps, smartphone applications, Web Applications
Why Smartphone Apps need HTML5
In my previous post “The Rise of App Stores: Software Industry in Regression?” I discussed the reasons why the very successful app stores of major smartphone vendors are taking the software industry back to a model which does not bode well for innovation in the industry or for the consumer. There are three problems with [...]
Categories » Chatty Solutions, Mobile Web Apps, Native Apps, Smartphones, Web Applications
Tags » app store, Chatty Solutions, html, HTML5, iPhone, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, Silverlight, smartphone applications, Web Applications
The Rise of App Stores: Software Industry in Regression?
I was at a Microsoft Windows Phone 7 launch event last week where I was dismayed to learn that (a) Microsoft Silverlight will not be available in the Windows Phone 7 as a browser plug-in which was the raison d’être of Silverlight (to provide rich user experience to browser users) and (b) all Windows Phone [...]
Categories » Chatty Solutions, Mobile Web Apps, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications
Tags » Adobe Flex, app store, HTML5, iPhone, Mobile Web Apps, Silverlight, Web Applications, Windows Phone 7
Chunking Increases the Responsiveness of Smartphone Web Apps
More than other software applications, speed is the key to great user experience of mobile apps. Faster and more responsive applications result in better user experience as compared to those with a sluggish response. In the age of the Internet, speed and responsiveness have become even more important because of the short attention span and [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile Web Apps, Mobile enable SaaS, Native Apps, SaaS, Smartphones, smartphone enable SaaS
Tags » Chatty Solutions, chunking, Mobile Application Development, mobile user interface, Mobile Web Apps, smartphone applications, Web Applications
Mobile Web and SaaS App Users Need Device Switching Flexibility
As I noted in a previous blog “Smartphones in the IT Ecosystem”, smartphones are a part of the IT ecosystem and have to co-exist with other important players in the ecosystem such as laptops, desktops and mainframes. By working together and in harmony with these other devices and systems, smartphones can become far more powerful [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, Mobile enable SaaS, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications
Tags » bites, chat, Chatty Apps, chunking, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, SaaS, smartphone applications, Web Applications
Making Mobile Web Apps Suitable for Discontinuous Working Patterns
Mobile users, by definition, are on the move. That is why they need a mobile device instead of being content with their desktops and telephones which can do far more than a smartphone. Mobile users are often interrupted. They can lose connections, get a phone call, or need to focus on some other pressing issue. [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Electronic Forms, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, Mobile enable SaaS, Mobile enablement of SaaS, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications, smartphone enable SaaS
Tags » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, chunking, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, smartphone applications, Smartphones, Web Applications
Cross-platform Mobile Web Apps with Native User Interface
The rapid introduction of a new smartphones from leading vendors with different screen sizes and operating systems has created a dilemma for Web and SaaS application vendors. These application vendors already have existing or new customers who are buying smartphones in increasingly large numbers. Application vendors thinking about developing native apps have two choices. They [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, Mobile enable SaaS, Mobile enablement of SaaS, Native Apps, SOA, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications, smartphone enable SaaS
Tags » bites, chat, Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, chunking, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, SaaS, smartphone applications, SOA, Web Applications
What Mobile Web Apps can learn from Chat
Chat/Instant Messaging has been a hugely popular mobile application for a long time. Hundreds of millions of people were using it years before the mobile app craze which started in earnest only after the introduction of the Apple iPhone in 2007. The immense popularity of Chat as a mobile application stems from several important characteristic. [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, Mobile enable SaaS, Mobile enablement of SaaS, SaaS, Smartphones, smartphone enable SaaS
Tags » chat, Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, chunking, html, HTML5, instant messaging, iPhone, Mobile Application Development, SaaS, Silverlight, smartphone applications
Rich User Interfaces for Mobile Web Apps
In my previous post, Why Web Apps are the Future of Smartphones, I elaborated on the reasons why mobile web apps will eventually replace native mobile apps for smartphones, especially for business applications. One of the major advantages of native apps is that they offer very rich user interfaces and also access the hardware functions [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, Native Apps, SaaS, Web Applications
Tags » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, HTML5, Mobile Application Development, Mobile Web Apps, Silverlight, smartphone applications, Web Applications
SmartPhones: The Ultimate SaaS Platform
Two years ago I hated cell phones. They were intrusive, noisy and a pain-in-the-neck to use with their small keyboard and displays. I did have a cell phone which was given to me as a gift, but I rarely used it. My life without the cell phone was pretty rich, productive, communicative and busy, thank [...]
Categories » Electronic Forms
Smartphones in the IT Ecosystem
In my previous blog “Smartphones: The Ultimate SaaS Platform” I talked about how smartphones are destined to become the ultimate platform for SaaS.
As we witness the evolution of smartphones it behooves us to learn from the history of previous IT revolutions and see what worked in the past and what did not. When the Personal Computers [...]
Categories » SaaS, Smartphones
Tags » IT ecosystem, Mobile Application Development, smartphone applications
Why the Web is the Ultimate Platform for Smartphone Applications
As the smartphone application market explodes with tens of thousands of new applications coming online in the application stores of the major platforms (Apple, Google, Microsoft, BlackBerry, etc.), there is a silent but crucial debate going on in the market. The debate centers around the whether smartphone applications should be Web-based or native. And the [...]
Categories » Mobile Application Development, Web Applications
Tags » IT ecosystem, Mobile Application Development, SaaS, Web Applications, zero footprint
Challenges facing Smartphones as SaaS Clients
In a previous post SmartPhones: The Ultimate SaaS Clients I discussed why I am convinced that smartphones will be the ultimate SaaS clients. However, before they can assume the mantle of the ultimate SaaS clients, smartphone technology must overcome some serious hurdles. The PC platform is very rich in terms of user interface and has matured [...]
Categories » Electronic Forms, Mobile Application Development, SaaS, Smartphones
Tags » IT ecosystem, Mobile Application Development, smartphone applications, Web Applications
Handling the Diversity of Smartphones
In my last post Challenges facing Smartphones as SaaS Clients I listed five issues that smartphone applications must address before smartphones can become powerful SaaS clients. In this post I dig deeper in to the first of these issues, which is the sheer diversity of smartphones, and discuss the scope of this problem and how [...]
Categories » Mobile Application Development, SOA, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications
Tags » client/sever, Mobile Application Development, smartphone applications, SOA, Web Applications
Coping with Small Display Size of Smartphones
As I discussed in my previous post Challenges facing Smartphone as a SaaS Client , the small display size of smartphones is the second obstacle that has to be addressed before smartphones can become viable SaaS clients.. There is a vast amount of information out there that is generated by applications and web sites of all [...]
Categories » Electronic Forms, Mobile Application Development
Tags » Mobile Application Development, smartphone applications
Dealing with the Discontinuous Work Patterns of Mobile Users
By definition mobile users are on the move. They use smartphones for the very reason that they are out of their home/office and need a convenient device they can use for their communication and collaboration needs. One of the key characteristic of the mobile users is that they work in discontinuous and often short bursts. [...]
Categories » Mobile Application Development, Web Applications
Tags » Mobile Application Development, smartphone applications
Addressing the Bandwidth Limitations of Smartphones
Despite impressive increases in the speed of Wi-Fi, 3G and 4G cellular technology, smartphones still have lower network bandwidth as compared to the typical corporate network and high speed Internet connections. The vast majority of Web and SaaS applications in the market today were designed to run on desktops or laptops using these high speed [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile enable SaaS, Mobile enablement of SaaS, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications, smartphone enable SaaS
Tags » bites, Chatty Solutions, chunking, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications
Developing Web Apps that enable Device Change
Smartphone users do not use smartphones only. They use other computing devices such as full-screen laptops/desktops, or half-screen devices such as the Apple iPad and other tablets. Consequently, when working with SaaS or Web applications, smartphone users need a choice of the type of devices they can use. When they are out and about, they [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications
Tags » Chatty Apps, SaaS, smartphone applications, Smartphones, Web Applications
Web Applications need a new smartphone-friendly User Interface
To understand why Web and SaaS applications need a new smartphone-friendly user interface one has to only look at the remarkable success of the Apple iPhone as compared to the Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS in its various reincarnations. Microsoft has been in the mobile OS business for over a decade and has invested heavily in [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile enable SaaS, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications, smartphone enable SaaS
Tags » Chatty Solutions, iPhones, SaaS, smartphone applications, Smartphones, Web Applications, Windows Mobile
SOA an ideal enabler for Mobile Web Applications
Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) has become one of the most popular, if not the most popular, way for application integration. Indeed many enterprise applications use SOA as their core underpinning by exposing the services provided by their applications and then consuming, or enabling third-party applications to consume these services in a secure and meaningful way. [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile Application Development, Mobile enable SaaS, Mobile enablement of SaaS, SOA, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications
Tags » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, client/sever, Mobile Application Development, smartphone applications, Smartphones, SOA, Web Applications
“Chunking” Enables Better User Interfaces for Mobile Apps
Desktops applications designed for Personal Computers in a Microsoft-dominated era have become bloated in terms of their sheer size as well as their user interface. The availability of huge amounts of cheap memory, increasing CPU speed and large screen sizes encouraged application developers to create huge applications that aimed to provide a lot of information [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile enable SaaS, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications
Tags » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, chunking, Google NexusOne, iPhone, SOA, Web Applications, Windows Mobile
Why Web Apps are the Future of Smartphones
Native apps are the rage for smartphone users today. Every smartphone user wants native apps to download, and almost every software and services vendor is craving to have a native app for their product or service. Already the market for smartphone apps is in the billions of dollars and is forecasted to be hit fifteen [...]
Categories » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, Mobile Application Development, SOA, SaaS, Smartphones, Web Applications
Tags » Chatty Apps, Chatty Solutions, chunking, iPhone, Mobile Application Development, smartphone applications, Smartphones, SOA, Web Applications