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Letzte Blogeinträge

  • Mobile business process management: Evolving for a competitive edge

    Montag, 20. April 2015

    It’s no secret that business processes and the decisions that govern them make up the nervous system of an organization. Business process management (BPM) is a well-established discipline that aims to infuse efficiency and visibility into business processes and continuously improve them. The exponential growth and adoption of mobile technologies has allowed organizations to be ever more innovative at their business process management efforts. Mobile business process management is turning out to be a mandatory pattern for organizations that hope to retain their competitive edge.

  • How mobile and FinTech are disrupting the financial services industry

    Freitag, 17. April 2015

    As I transition to a new job role, I’ve been reflecting on my experience working in the payments industry. I’ve dedicated a lot of time to understanding the payments landscape, which is enormously complex and fragmented. Once thought to be a fairly mature industry, financial services is now undergoing a major shift initiated by recent technological advancements.

  • IBM MobileFirst Platform for fast, secure, integrated app development

    Mittwoch, 8. April 2015

    Adopting a mobile first strategy is no longer optional. Mobile devices overtook desktops in 2014, and the number of enterprise applications optimized for mobility is forecast to quadruple by 2016.

  • Mobile app performance: Why platform choice matters

    Mittwoch, 8. April 2015

    Do you want to improve mobile app performance? Do you want to increase throughput, capacity and concurrency while reducing your cores and costs? In this post, I discuss how platform choice affects mobile app performance.

  • A complete guide to mobile wallets: Ten things you need to know

    Montag, 6. April 2015

    Mobile wallets are a hot topic right now in the mobile space. I have discussed mobile wallets extensively with many clients in different industries around the globe. There are diverse perceptions about what a mobile wallet is, the different flavors it might have and how it can be used—not to mention the challenges related to its design, the complexity of its ecosystems and the business forces behind it. This has led to an almost Babylonian confusion among the different players and stakeholders in the industry, and it can be a major barrier to the success of mobile wallets with users.

  • Building mobile apps with MQTT to deepen engagement

    Freitag, 3. April 2015

    The mobile app landscape is competitive. In fact, it is downright crowded. So, what can you do to make your app stand out?

    In this blog post, I will show you why I believe MQTT, Message Queue Telemetry Transport, is an essential technology in the arsenal of every app developer. This is especially true if you care about performance, battery life and, most important, apps that provide deeper engagement with your users through situational awareness.

  • App brand loyalty: Hi I’m Matt, and I’m a Football Manager addict…

    Mittwoch, 1. April 2015

    It’s true: I am a Football Manager addict. I cannot get enough. Each year they release a new game, and I go running to buy it. I then spend hours and hours playing the game. You see, I’m a die-hard Portsmouth fan—I must have been horrid in a previous life—and each year when the game is released, I’m compelled to return Portsmouth to past glories. “Why?” I hear you ask. Why indeed. Why is such a simple but powerful question to ask, but I’m going to hold you in suspense for the moment. I promise that I will bring this blog post to a point though. Don’t believe me?

  • Pushing your mobile app users to the brink

    Dienstag, 31. März 2015

    Does your mobile app keep pushing the same incessant notification at your users day after day in a desperate attempt to get their attention? Or are you sending out multiple push messages per day but finding that your users are getting “push fatigue,” which is eerily reminiscent of email fatigue?

  • How to develop a mobile wallet strategy: The business view

    Montag, 30. März 2015

    As I conclude my series on mobile wallets, I want to talk about the business view and offer some recommendations on how to develop a mobile wallet strategy.

    Horizontal versus vertical integration

    The main business dimension that you should consider when determining a mobile wallet business model is the differentiation between horizontal and vertical wallets.

  • Next-generation mobile apps: Mobile 2.0

    Freitag, 27. März 2015

    In a previous blog post, I introduced Bluetooth low energy (BLE) and WiFi Direct and talked about how these relatively new methods of connecting devices are enabling the next wave of mobile applications. BLE and WiFi Direct allow mobile devices to quickly and efficiently set up local networks with other mobile devices and peripherals. These technologies then enable devices to communicate directly with each other, without an intermediary on the Internet.