Mobile applications are an imperative in today’s business world—enabling strong connections with customers and other stakeholders. But designing an application that lives outside of your corporate firewall and immediate control presents a host of challenges.

Mobile applications require different design considerations than a typical enterprise application. Mobile devices’ processing power and user interfaces are much more limited, and security and data access take on even greater importance.

Technology architecture has a strong bearing on how well your mobile applications deliver against goals and expectations.

• Are you considering application performance early enough in the development process?
• Do your mobile applications incorporate vendor guidelines for usability?
• Are you providing the proper level of data security and access controls?
• Are you able to provide online and offline access according to user needs?

Considering current standards and best practices for mobile application architecture early in the development process not only saves time and potentially costly rework down the road; it enables you to speed the benefits of a well-designed mobile application to your users

We know—and apply—mobile architecture best practices.

Our experienced mobile application development team works with you to make sure your applications apply the standards and best practices for mobile architecture. More importantly, we make sure development plans address these mobile architecture issues at critical, early stages of the development process.

We optimize five critical aspects of mobile architecture:

• Performance—in simple terms, we make sure that the application relegates complex processing off of the mobile device when possible and only retrieves the data needed, when needed.
• Usability—one of the factors that can make or break user acceptance. We apply vendor specifications and guidelines and address considerations such as limited screen real estate, use of summary/detail/edit screens, lighting conditions, and appropriate sizing.
• Data access—using a secure, web service front end that enables access while protecting the information that resides in your databases.
• Security—including authentication procedures that both protect systems and databases and secure data that resides locally on the device, itself.
• Connectivity—enabling devices to switch frequently between different types of connections (e.g. Edge, 3G, or WiFi) with wildly varying speeds, as well as establishing offline access when necessary.