We are witnessing accelerated advancements in the field of mobility. Enterprises are realizing that harnessing these technologies to their advantage is the paramount of their success. This shift is propelling an increase in adoption of enterprise mobile applications.
Lately, enterprise apps have become a necessity for businesses. In fact, most of the business organizations are not even hesitating towards hiring the services of a highly proficient enterprise app development company for getting the enterprise apps developed and taking their business to the next level.
One of the primary reasons why the enterprise apps have become significantly more effective is because it has brought significant improvement in the efficiency of the employees, increase in the mobility of the work and enhancing the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend.
Enterprise mobile app development drivers
Mobile technologies are enabling business executives to be highly productive regardless of their workplace or location, which is further fueling growth in mobility. Mobile app development companies treat this as a great opportunity to launch enterprise mobile apps to boost employee productivity. There is an influx of enterprise apps in various app stores, enough care should be taken to ensure that the end-user experience is not compromised. There are a few important success drivers that must be considered during mobile app development. Let’s explore some:
Configurations
Enterprise mobile app configurations simply provides options to choose a theme, change avatar, reorganize menu items or form fields. They are important as business executives in various industry verticals operate in dynamic business environments, where change is inevitable. Hence, there must be flexibility to modify screens, forms and workflows as per changing business scenarios. Successful organizations seamlessly adapt to changing business dynamics, the same agility must be passed on to their mobile apps. Further, features that allow executives to customize their mobile apps empower them to adapt to changes. These executives do not consider abandoning the mobile app due to their users.
Security
The most critical part of developing a mobile app is ensuring the safety and security of customer data, process details, critical information, reports etc that are stored in the app. A mobile app with robust encryption, authentication and secure data management features is always preferred by enterprises over an app that lacks these. There are essential security architectures for mobile apps which must be in place before releasing the application on the app store.
Updates
Over the air (OTA) updates should be handled coherently with backward compatibility for all user. On multiple occasions, apps collect user feedback, behavior analytics etc which developers should use to improvise and roll out improved versions of the app. All the app updates must be simple and clear without disrupting the user experience irrespective of the device or platform. Apart from this, mobile app updates routinely assures the user and enhances their experience. In today’s world, outsmarting competition using innovation in mobile space can have a positive impact on business growth. Without an app update strategy, mobile applications might just become outdated on the app store.
Availability
While most mobile apps rely extensively on Wi-Fi connectivity to function smoothly, it is good practice to provide basic functionality without relying on internet. Irrespective of internet connection, mobile apps should be able to function in a limited way. Moreover, when a user downloads and installs a mobile app, the app developer should meet certain basic expectations of the user. Simultaneously, provisions should be provided so that the mobile app can function even in an offline or airplane mode, which helps in user retention.
Conclusion
To summarize users can accomplish complex and time-consuming processes in a few simple clicks by following these four cornerstone concepts. An enterprise mobile app must provide consistent and simple services.
At Copper Mobile, we care for enterprise expectations and offer mobile solutions that align with organization’s goals.
