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Building the mobile enterprise – integrated, secure and productive

Mobility is now a business fact of life. Will your organization be one with mobile capabilities or a truly mobile enterprise? The new IBM white paper “Building the mobile enterprise: integrated, secure and productive” explains the difference and offers a checklist of eight key items to consider when planning your mobility initiatives.

The Total Economic Impact of IBM’s Worklight Mobile Application Platform

How much can organizations expect to save by investing in a mobile application platform? IBM commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that enterprises may realize by deploying Worklight. Using an established methodology and based upon actual customer experiences, this report breaks down the economics of the Worklight mobile application platform and the key factors that informed Forrester’s conclusion of a 363% Five-Year ROI.

A Mobile Application Development Primer

This white paper focuses on a comprehensive approach for the development of mobile business applications. The technique described combines best practices for collaborative software lifecycle management with newer requirements unique to the creation of mobile applications. It is intended to provide value for all of the roles involved in mobile enterprise business application development projects.

Mobile App Platform Technology Overview: IBM Worklight

IBM Worklight software can enable organizations to extend their business through HTML5, hybrid and native applications ("apps") for a variety mobile devices. IBM Worklight supports the entire application lifecycle from development, back-end integration and authentication, to post-deployment management.

Bring ROI to your BYOD – Forrester documents benefits of managed mobility

IBM recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment that companies realized by implementing an IBM "bring your own device" program. Read the study and find out how these companies earned measurable benefits including: ROI, increased productivity and lower support costs.

Stop Guessing, Start Measuring: How to Use Mobile Analytics to Deliver the Best App ROI

Where the business performance of their mobile app portfolios are concerned, most companies are flying blind. While traditional application portfolios are held to all kinds of ROI measure, the investment plan for mobile apps – increasingly the more crucial bet – is made by guesswork and dart-throwing.

This interactive e-book investigates how mobile is driving the need for app and portfolio measures unlike any we saw in the days of web. Good mobile analytics must deliver leading indicators of user experience to drive business investment. Includes the five mobile analytics no organization should be without.

APIs & MBaaS: How to Extend Your Enterprise Architecture for a Mobile World

“Mobile,” as Forrester Research observes, “is pushing aging web architectures to the brink.” A good mobile architectural tier requires:

• Elastic scalability
• Prebuilt, mobile-optimized APIs
• A robust capability for building custom APIs
• Seamless synchronization
• Security & governance

Download this whitepaper and learn how each of these requirements can help you seamlessly mobilize your enterprise data to improve your mobile apps.

Three Principles of the Mobile Era or Mastering the Mobile Shift: Three Keys to the New Enterprise

Companies positioned to win the Age of Mobile have grasped the following principles:

• Apps are different from applications
• APIs are the lifeblood of mobility
• Analytics eliminate the guesswork in mobile success

In this whitepaper, you will learn the tools, technologies and strategies that are necessary for a mobile-ready IT to master the three keys to the new enterprise. Read on to see why 70% of Fortune 100 companies use Appcelerator for their mobile projects.

Ten Answers Regarding Mobile App Testing

This white paper digs deep into the reasons testing mobile apps is fundamentally harder than traditional web or desktop applications. A collaboration by Tina Zhuo and Dennis Schultz from IBM along with Yoram Mizrachi from Perfecto Mobile and John Montgomery from uTest, these experts explore the complexities of mobile test environments, the value of the mobile device cloud, the unique role crowd sourcing can play, and how teams can leverage automation to help deliver quality apps.

Know the Big Three

How do you protect your mobile applications? Check out this whitepaper on three of the top mobile application security threats facing businesses today and recommendations on how to mitigate the risk.

Designing a defense for mobile apps

Mobile apps may be a threat, but they don't have to be. Download this whitepaper to review the various considerations for defending mobile applications-from the mobile application architecture itself to the myriad testing technologies needed to properly assess mobile applications risk.

Mobile Application Security Study: 2013 Report

Mobile applications represent a growing threat to the enterprise. But how big of a threat? HP Security Research leveraged HP Fortify on Demand Mobile to scan more than 2,000 mobile applications from more than 600 companies to find out. Download this report to see the alarming realities regarding the sheer number of applications vulnerable to attack, as well as the most common and easily addressable vulnerability errors.

How Cloud, Mobile & Video will increase enterprise bandwidth needs through 2017

This Gartner white paper forecasts changes to enterprise network capacity over the next five years by evaluating the impact of cloud, mobile, video and BYOD using a range of scenarios. It presents results gathered using Gartner’s bandwidth estimating model, useful to network planners and architects for both benchmarking and planning. It looks in depth at key challenges that enterprises will face in regard to major changes in capacity, usage, technology and network architecture through 2017.

10 essential elements for a secure enterprise mobility strategy

Mobility and bring-your-own device (BYOD) are transforming the way people work and the way organizations support them. There’s more to mobility than simply enabling remote access - and mobile devices are far more than limited-use gadgets. Capable of accessing, storing and transmitting applications and data like traditional computers, smartphones and tablets can be used for almost any business task. To unlock the full potential of enterprise mobility, IT needs to allow people the freedom to access all their apps and data from any device, seamlessly and conveniently.

5 Easy Steps to Adopting an Enterprise App Store

Employees are demanding access to apps and data that make them productive on-the-go. But as untrusted devices flood the workplace, IT must ensure security and compliance requirements are met. To meet this need, an enterprise app store should be part of your enterprise mobility strategy.