Mobile Application Development

mCoE / Internal Enablement

Mobile Center of Excellence (mCoE) / Internal Enablement

Mobility is growing exponentially and rapidly, mandating the need for alignment of vision between the IT teams and various lines of business in the enterprise. This is important to ensure efficient mobility implementations across the enterprise. Today is the world of a plethora of Devices, Platforms (such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows, Mobile Web, Tablets etc. ), and technology options creating a bigger dilemma. This creates a opportunity for a concrete mobility strategy for the enterprise which Endeavour aims to help you achieve.

Endeavour’s Mobile Center of Excellence (mCOE) offering help your organization in centralizing governance, standards, and activities around a set of principles – organizational and architectural – to ensure effective and efficient use of mobile technology across the enterprise. In essence, the mCOE allows the enterprise to bring mobility best practices inside by leveraging Endeavour’s experience in this field spanning over a decade.

Endeavour’s Mobile Center of Excellence focuses on accelerating mobility deployments within your organization through

  • Defining mobility specific standards, technology and security policies

  • Assisting business leaders in defining their mobile strategy

  • Conducting thorough reviews and evaluation of ongoing mobility projects

  • Providing training and technical support to establish best practices within your organization

  • Providing thought leadership through constant updates on mobile technology

The three of the most commonly addressed areas of mCoE relate to architecture, security, and operations.

Architecture:
  • Defining the approach for mobile application development viz. native client, HMTL5 app, hybrid app, mobile browser, text messaging, and others

  • Defining mobile user experience guidelines

  • Aligning mobility with other organizational initiatives such as enterprise 2.0, SOA, cloud, collaboration, and others

  Security:
  • Ensuring compliance with mandatory and optional requirements for security – authorization, authentication, and auditing (AAA), data at rest, data in motion, and so on

  • Establishing processes and infrastructure to get the desired level of security and visibility for supporting both company owned and employee owned devices

  • Enforcement of country and region-specific data privacy regulations

  IT operations:
  • Managing mobile assets (devices and applications) across their lifecycle (from provisioning all the way through refresh)

  • Automating processes through support tools to reduce the burden on IT

  • Service-level agreements to support devices and applications facilitating in building in-house skill sets to support mobility

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Resources

 

Interesting session on Agile and how it fits in the Mobile Application Development lifecycle.

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