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
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“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
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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
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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 [...]
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Tags » Chatty Solutions, iPhones, SaaS, smartphone applications, Smartphones, Web Applications, Windows Mobile
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 [...]
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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
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
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
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
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