The Market for Managing Enterprise Mobile Application Development « Korea.com | Gateway to Cyber Korea

The attraction of an MDF for a business is that it enables a strategic investment to be made in mobile device delivery, ensuring that the costs arising from complexity issues do not escalate out of control, and managing the updating of devices without the expensive task of shipping them in and out. There is also out-of-the-box connectivity to enterprise applications such as Oracle and SAP.

The fragmentation of the development market, with specialist MDF vendors, a host of ALM vendors, separate IDE players, and a vast point development solution market, creates a volatile and uncertain future. As HTML5 emerges it will drive the mobile apps market forward with offline support and advanced forms, while the high-end plug-in vendors Adobe (Flash), Microsoft (.NET, Silverlight), and Oracle (Java, JavaFX) will also aim to compete. Opportunities abound in this new frontier.

According to Ovum Telecoms mobile application download and revenues forecasts, by 2015 the annual end-user revenues from application downloads (dominated by smartphone devices) will reach over $5.5 billion, with North America and Europe accounting each for over $1.8 billion, followed by APAC with over $0.9 billion.

Source: Korea IT Times

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