Mobile

A new mobile developer survey has come out and pundits everywhere are trying to decipher and give their insight into who is up and who is down in the mobile development space. What caught my eye was one of the bullet points that focused on tablets: While 71% of developers are very interested in Android […]

Quite a bit has been written in the great smartphone native app versus web-app debate.  For those of you in the audience who have never read about this great schism, here is the Cliff Notes version.  When starting out to create a mobile app, the developer must decide whether to build the application using the […]

I recently gave a presentation on Android Integration to a local Java User Group and I got to talking with one of the attendees after the presentation on some of the points I had brought up in the presentation.  One question was “How did I see enterprise mobile development different from how mobile development is […]

Reading a statistic from an Evans Data report, a survey showed that 73% of major enterprises were already in development or planning to develop mobile applications that extend the reach of their current enterprise software set (called “companion applications”, they offer an additional access path to a given enterprise application by exposing certain functionality within […]

A widely quoted statistic making the rounds of various technical websites and news sites such as CNN is that 1 in 4 applications downloaded to a smartphone is opened only once and abandoned (Source).  Industry pundits have been spinning those statistics in many different ways but what does that mean for our clients who are […]

Perficient has recently launched a new blog called “Spark”, dedicated to discussing innovations in technology. On that blog, I discussed the use of a sovereign posture for mobile applications in today’s post and when it might be a good strategy. The explosion of mobile has led to many more variations on context of use than […]

When talking about mobile applications, the concept of the software’s posture doesn’t come up often. Posture is essentially the program’s behavioral stance, or the way it presents itself to the user. Alan Cooper, in About Face 3.0, explains that desktop and Web applications can fit into four posture categories: sovereign, transient, daemonic, and auxiliary. You’ll […]

This week I was working with one of my clients helping review their mobile strategy and it motivated me to do some additional research. The focus of the meeting was to prioritize business, marketing, and technology goals of mobile commerce. Through this work session some interesting questions came up such as is a mobile web […]

Everytime I read another article on mobile statistics I am more and more amazed.  This article at mobiThinking has some pretty amazing statistics covering mobile commerce, SMS, subscribers, and much more. Some of the key statistics that really jumped out at me are: Google makes about $1 billion annually in mobile ad revenues. There are […]

I have been ignoring this white screen for the past week, intimidated by the idea of coming up with an interesting technical blog on something that I have become passionate about over the past 6 months, enterprise mobile computing.  The reason I qualify this latest buzzword term with the adjective “enterprise” is that CTOs are […]

Mobile BI is gaining a lot of attention with the huge increase in the demand for mobile devices. This topic routinely comes up in conversations with our customers as they (along with everyone else) want to be able to receive the same analytics and user experience they interact with on their desktop/laptop on their smart […]

This week, Oracle announced Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Client, an extension of the Oracle Application Development Framework. A component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle ADF Mobile Client allows developers to extend their existing skills into mobile devices. For more information follow this link. Additionally, you can find a white paper that discusses Oracle’s Mobile […]