Building Enterprise Ready Mobile Apps: A Developer Deep Dive
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Jesus Rodriguez discusses building enterprise-ready mobile apps in the real world. He covers that enterprise mobile development is more complex than consumer apps due to additional considerations like data storage, identity management, push notifications, integration with cloud/enterprise systems, and MDM/MAM integration. The presentation provides solutions to common problems in enterprise mobile development through technology patterns and best practices.
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Building Enterprise Ready Mobile Apps: A Developer Deep Dive
- 1. Building Enterprise-Ready Mobile Apps in the Real World: A Deep Dive Jesus Rodriguez, KidoZen
- 2. About Me • • • • • • • • • • Hackerpreneur Co-Founder KidoZen, Inc Co-Founder Tellago, Inc Advisor to software companies(Microsoft, Oracle….) Microsoft MVP, Oracle ACE Board member Speaker, Author http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx http://jrodthoughts.com http://kidozencom
- 3. About Today • A quick view of enterprise mobile development • Consumer vs. enterprise mobile apps • Enterprise mobile development patterns and techniques
- 4. About Today • Is about real world solutions, no theoretical exercise • Is about architecture best practices, not product pitches
- 5. A Quick Story of Building Enterprise Mobile Solutions
- 7. And Obvious
- 8. We Can Build Apps I want an app!
- 9. And Be Rock Stars
- 10. After All….
- 11. We Have Great Mobile Development Stacks
- 12. Let’s Build Mobile Solutions
- 13. Not so fast…
- 14. Just a few things to consider…
- 15. Storing Data
- 17. Cross platform push notifications
- 18. Integration with cloud services
- 19. Integration with enterprise systems
- 20. Integration with SaaS technologies
- 23. Manage and secure mobile business data
- 24. How to efficiently distribute and test my enterprise mobile app
- 25. What should I used to monitor the performance of my enterprise mobile apps?
- 27. As it turns out, building enterprise ready mobile apps is a bit more complex than just building mobile apps
- 28. Consumer vs. Enterprise Apps Consumer Apps Enterprise Apps
- 29. Do you need an enterprise mobile strategy?
- 30. Ways to think about an enterprise mobile strategy • The excuse my idiot CIO used to delay the mobile project • The 300 page document we are paying <name your favorite analyst firm here> for • The latest buzzword our executives care about • A series of technology and architecture building blocks and processes used to enable the implementation of enterprises mobile solutions
- 31. The Building Blocks of an Agile Enterprise Mobility Strategy
- 32. A Few Helpful Mobile Tech Trends • • • • Mobile device management Enterprise app stores Enterprise mobile backend as a service Mobile test clouds
- 33. Mobile Device Management • Problem: How to I manage and control mobile devices in my organization? • Manage and secure connected devices • Apply security and access control policies at the device level • Cloud or on-premise deployments • Interesting players: Airwatch, Good, Mobile Iron, Citrix Xen Mobile, Mocana…..
- 34. Mobile Application Management • Problem: I would like to manage the enterprise mobile apps distribute in my enterprise • Enterprise app stores • Manage and control distribution of enterprise mobile applications • Natural evolution for MDM technologies • Interesting players: Apperian, Airwatch, Citrix Xen-Mobile
- 35. Mobile Frontend Development • Problem: What do we use to build mobile apps? • Native, hybrid and mobile-web models • Built-once, deploy anywhere models: hybridinterpreted, cross-compiled • Interesting players: Appcelerator, PhoneGap, Sencha, Xamarin….
- 36. Mobile Backend Infrastructure • Problem: How do I integrate my mobile apps with my enterprise systems? • Mobile middleware platforms • Horizontal mobile capabilities • Cloud and on-premise deployments • Interesting players: KidoZen, FeedHenry, IBM Worklight
- 37. Mobile Testing • Problem: How do I test and distribute my enterprise mobile applications? • Unit, functional and end-user testing • Carrier, networks and device testing • Manual and automated • Interesting players: uTest, Perfecto Mobile
- 38. Mobile App Performance Monitoring • Problem: Can I know how my mobile app is working? • Performance, usage and app crash monitoring • Consumer and enterprise based • Cloud deployments • Interesting players: Crittercism, NewRelic for mobile apps
- 39. Building Enterprise Ready Mobile Apps: A Problem Solution Approach
- 40. Problem: All my enterprise mobile apps need to store data and my DBA hates me
- 41. Solution: Leverage an per appisolated storage model
- 42. Per App Isolated Storage My Cloud Mobile Services Storage Storage Service Storage Storage String theObject = "{JSON PayLoad}"; _application.getObjectSet("name").Save(theObject);
- 43. Problem: I would like users to authenticate to the mobile app using their corporate credentials but my mobile developers can’t spell Active Directory
- 44. Solution: Use a mobile-first identity federation pattern
- 45. Mobile-First AD Authentication My Cloud Services Auth Service u Tr st NSString * uN=@"John Doe" NSString * psw=@"secret" Identity * userIdentity = [application Login:@"ADFS“ user:uN andPassword:psw]; Corp Network Active Directory
- 46. Problem: AD authentication is great! But is there a way that my users don’t have to re-authenticate with each mobile app?
- 47. Solution: Implement a token reusability pattern
- 48. Mobile-First SSO MBaaS Auth Service u Tr st NSString * uN=@"John Doe" NSString * psw=@"secret" Identity * userIdentity = [application Login:@"ADFS“ user:uN andPassword:psw]; App1 App2 Token Cache Corp Network Active Directory
- 49. Problem: Can I enable multi-factor authentication across my different mobile apps
- 50. Solution: Extend your mobile authentication service with multi-factor capabilities
- 51. Mobile-First SSO My Cloud Services Auth Service Multi-Auth Service(App1: yes, App2: no u Tr st NSString * uN=@"John Doe" NSString * psw=@"secret" Identity * userIdentity = [application Login:@"ADFS“ user:uN andPassword:psw]; App1 App2 Token Cache Corp Network Active Directory
- 52. Problem: Can I enable push notifications across different devices?
- 53. Solution: Use a push notifications brokered service
- 54. Mobile Push Notifications Broker My Cloud Services Push Notification Service Var channel= _application.pubSub.Subscribe(“channel name”); channel.Send({message});
- 55. Problem: How to efficiently exchange data between my enterprise mobile apps
- 56. Solution: Implement an inter-app publish subscribe pattern
- 57. Inter-App Messaging Passing Pattern App1 _application.pubSub.Publish(“channel name”); application.pubSub.Publish(“channel name”); Shared Shared Memory App2 _application.pubSub.Subscribe(“channel name”); _application.pubSub.Subscribe(“channel name”); Mobile Mobile DB DB
- 58. Problem: How can I integrate my enterprise mobile apps with my line of business systems
- 59. Solution: Implement a mobile line of business connector pattern
- 60. Mobile LOB Connector My Cloud Services SF.com Connector Enterprise System Service Var mySAP= App.Services(‘SP’).Login({credentials}); Var mySF= App.Services(‘SF’).Login({credentials}); mySAP.Invoke(‘GetItems’, {parameters}); mySF.Invoke(‘GetLeads’, {parameters}); Corp Network SAP Connector
- 61. Problem: My enterprise systems are having performance issues handling mobile consumers
- 62. Solution: Implement a mobile first data cache
- 63. Mobile LOB Connector with Data Caching My Cloud Services SF.com Connector Enterprise System Service Mobile Data Cache Var mySAP= App.Services(‘SP’).Login({credentials}); Var mySF= App.Services(‘SF’).Login({credentials}); mySAP.Invoke(‘GetItems’, {parameters}); mySF.Invoke(‘GetLeads’, {parameters}); Corp Network SAP Connector
- 64. Problem: The performance of my mobile apps varies according to the user location
- 65. Solution: Implement a locationaware traffic optimization model
- 66. GEO-Aware Mobile Infrastructure My Mobile Services GEO Traffic Manager Data Center 1 Data Center 1 Mobile Services Mobile Services Enterprise App Center Enterprise App Center Mobile Web Server Mobile Web Server App Storage Replication App Storage
- 67. Problem: I would like to exchange data between my apps deployed across different devices
- 68. Solution: Implement a mobile-first publish subscribe model
- 69. Mobile-First Event-Based Messaging My Cloud Services Channel Mobile Event Service _application.pubSub.Publish( “channel name”, {message}); Channel _application.pubSub.Subscribe( “channel name”);
- 70. Problem: I would like to secure the business data sets used by my enterprise mobile apps
- 71. Solution: Implement a mobile-first data access policies
- 72. Mobile Data Management My Cloud Services SF.com Connector Enterprise System Service Var mySAP= App.Services(‘SP’).Login({credentials}); Var mySF= App.Services(‘SF’).Login({credentials}); mySAP.Invoke(‘GetItems’, {parameters}); mySF.Invoke(‘GetLeads’, {parameters}); • Is the mobile user accessing the data from a valid location • Is the IOS device jailbroken? • Does the data need to be encrypted? • Does the data source requires dual factor verification Corp Network SAP Connector
- 73. Problem: How can I protect the business data stored in the device?
- 74. Solution: Encrypt the data using a temporary trusted key based on the user’s identity
- 75. Protecting In-Device Mobile Business Data My Cloud Services SF.com Connector Enterprise System Service Auth Service Var mySAP= App.Services(‘SP’).Login({credentials}); Var mySF= App.Services(‘SF’).Login({credentials}); mySAP.Invoke(‘GetItems’, {parameters}); mySF.Invoke(‘GetLeads’, {parameters}); Encrypted Data Encrypted Data Cache Cache Corp Network SAP Connector
- 76. Problem: How can I efficiently test my enterprise mobile apps
- 77. Solution: Consider leveraging a mobile test cloud to test across different carriers, networks and devices
- 78. Mobile Test Cloud Mobile Test Cloud Test Cases App1 Target Carriers Target Networks Target Devices App1
- 79. Problem: How can my enterprise apps recover from unexpected errors?
- 80. Solution: Leverage a mobile crash logging service
- 81. Mobile Logging Service My Cloud Mobile Services Logs Logging Service App1 Crash Log Collector Logs Logs
- 82. Problem: I have a lot of mobile-web applications but my MDM tools only work with native apps
- 83. Solution: Consider an on-demand hybrid solution
- 84. On-Demand Hybrid App Building Mobile Web App1 PhoneGap Build Hybrid App MDM Platform
- 85. Other Enterprise Mobile Best Practices • • • • • • Enterprise App Stores Cross platform implementations Continuous integration Over the air deployment Compliance Mobile HTML5 Hosting
- 86. Summary • The are fundamental differences between consumer and enterprise mobile apps • An agile enterprise mobile strategy is about establishing the right technology building blocks to enable the implementation of mobile apps within an organization • Establishing the right patterns in areas such as mobile frontend dev, backend integration, testing, monitoring, security, etc is essential to enable agility in mobile app development • Backend integration is the number 1 challenge of enterprise mobile infrastructures
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