Enterprise organizations that are looking to deploy multiple applications to leading mobile device types should make the strategic investment in a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP)
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The most effective strategy for mobilizing enterprise systems and providing reliable data access from a variety of device types is a platform-based approach. With a platform, you can easily manage the entire mobile enterprise and integrate mobile and legacy environments in a seamless, flexible and cost-effective manner.
What is MEAP? According to Gartner*, “Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms (MEAPs) provide tools and client/server middleware for mobile (targeting any sort of mobile application) and multichannel (highly device/OS- and network-adaptive) thick (offline) enterprise AD [Application Development].”
Gartner* says, “We believe that more than 95% of organizations will be choosing MEAP or packaged mobile application vendors as their primary mobile development platforms through 2012.”
Deploying a single mobile enterprise application platform will deliver new business value, including increased productivity and improved efficiencies, while protecting your current investments. It also enhances the value of your existing business systems by making them accessible to users anywhere, anytime.
Sybase can provide the ideal mobile platform for your business. It should:
Be flexible, open and standards-based. Easily integrate with, optimize and enhance your existing enterprise IT infrastructure and IT assets.
Simplify secure, timely information delivery to your mobile workers based on their pre-defined and evolving requirements.
Provide a single administrative console, so you can centrally manage, secure and deploy mobile data, applications and devices.
Empower developers with the ability to design once and easily deploy applications to a range of mobile devices, including Windows Mobile, Windows 32 (laptops/tablets), RIM BlackBerry, and iPhone.
Scale to support growing numbers of users, devices and applications.
Increase your ROI.
Have proven effectiveness and reliability in demanding, real-world situations.
As your IT systems change and business needs advance, use of a mobile platform enables your mobile solutions to remain connected to all your business critical data and processes. Additionally, a platform satisfies mobility needs across the entire enterprise, regardless of device type preference, and prevents creation of disparate mobile solutions that are difficult to manage.
*Magic Quadrant for Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms, Publication Date: 16 December 2009, by William Clark and Michael J. King, ID Number: G00172728.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 16 December 2009 by Gartner, Inc., and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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