In the last two and a half years, I have visited many clients across Europe in which the IT department is not the provider of mobile solutions for the lines of business. The lines of business own their budgets and are used to working with external digital agencies for mobile solutions. In some cases, I’m told, “we have no requirement around mobility from the business,” and in others there’s even a parallel structure to IT that has been put in charge of the digital transformation.

When I was a young pup in IT, I interviewed for a job with Powersoft (now Sybase).  During the interview process, I was told a number of times how the PowerBuilder client/server architecture was “changing everything.” And while there’s no denying that client/server did change the architecture, during that interview I wondered if changing everything was possible, and if so, was it always a good thing.

As mobile devices become the main communication channel for accessing the Internet, they also become very appealing to hackers, who can obtain personal and business data in one place. Security is not optional for mobile apps, even for those that are not transactional, as no app should become an entry point to a mobile device for a hacker.

We’ve seen a boom of mobile devices and applications that have been developed for use in our personal lives and business environments. Have you thought about how these are changing our lifestyle? The mobile development solution war is here: companies are now battling to innovate the next mobile solution that will change our lives.