Mobile

Azure Mobile Engagement is a SaaS-delivered, data-driven user-engagement platform that enables real-time and fine-grain user segmentation, app user analytics, and context-aware, smart push notifications across all connected devices. You can maximize your app usage, retention, and monetization with this powerful platform. It allows developers, app owners, and line-of-business decision makers to directly contact app users […]

IBM Commerce and Silverpop launched a new product this year to the general public: The IBM Marketing Cloud. This flagship product alters the way organizations can engage with their customers and is built to personalize and automate engagements across all channels. One of the key components of the cloud is mobile which enables organizations to […]

I’ve been noticing more interest in blockchain technology this year, from Bitcoin sessions at the Internet Retailing Conference and Exposition (IRCE), to active conversations at OSCON. In some circles cryptocurrency such as bitcoin, are linked to issues of government surveillance, libertarian ideals and personal freedom. While those topics can generate a lot of discussion, I am more interested in […]

This post describes and contrasts responsive web design and portal page variants then offers best practice recommendations around them with respect to WebCenter portals. Wikipedia describes responsive web design (RWD) as “an approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across […]

Last year at Dreamforce, Salesforce announced their Community Builder, a new tool that empowers companies to quickly launch self-service communities using one of three templates: Napili, Koa, Kokua. At the time, the product was in Beta and lacked key extensibility features required by more enterprise customers. The product showed great promise, but few people adopted […]

My colleague Heather Bowman recently wrote about mobile trends in B2B selling on our IBM Blog: MCommerce in the B2B World A recent study done by Regalix found that a lot of B2B companies are looking to focus on development of mobile websites and apps: The study also demonstrates what their top priorities are for the […]

More and more people are using smart mobile devices. That means an increasing amount of people will be accessing content on mobile apps. In this episode of Here’s Why, Mark & Eric rundown the fascinating insights of Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst Mariya Moeva. Mariya told us the benefits that mobile apps can bring for a publisher, […]

Unlike most traditional program products or IT solutions, mobile development is very dynamic. You must follow the evolutionary change of mobile devices regularly to keep up. Usually, faster response, adaptive planning, early delivery and flexible response to change are the keys to providing a successful mobile app solution. An agile software development style, such as SCRUM, […]

Client Headquartered in Denton, TX, Sally Beauty is an international specialty retailer and distributor of professional beauty supplies with revenues of more than U.S. $2.6 billion annually. Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the company sells and distributes to more than 4,000 stores, including approximately 200 franchised units, throughout the United States, […]

Wearables have been in the mobile space news again lately, with the news that iWatch sales have slipped significantly. However, one of the other facets of mobile space and one that has greater enterprise applicability, Internet of Things (IoT) and in this case, beacons have made a number of quiet but significant advances lately. The […]

CMO.com has an article outlining the price paid by companies who haven’t updated their sites to support mobile.   They are making reference to the fact that Google updates their algorithms to give preference to sites that support mobile vs those that don’t. Indeed, companies that weren’t ready for the so-called “Mobilegeddon” have lost up […]

CMO.com has an article outlining the price paid by companies who haven’t updated their sites to support mobile.   They are making reference to the fact that Google updates their algorithms to give preference to sites that support mobile vs those that don’t. Indeed, companies that weren’t ready for the so-called “Mobilegeddon” have lost up […]