Mobile devices today serve as the basis connection for developers wanting to store data in cloud environments, to run applications and link apps to facilitate and support the Internet of Things. It is a market enriched by innovation and is increasing in relevance to business growth daily.
This is the view of technology experts at Ukuvuma Solutions, a leading ICT consultancy and systems development specialist.
With the consistency and leverage that the Internet offers in terms of facilitating communication, Ukuvuma Solutions emphasises that Big Data stored in the cloud is making it possible to intelligently interact using mobile devices and wearables.
John Jardin, CTO at Ukuvuma Solutions, explains that the ability to leverage and analyse data on a big scale, can breathe life into your office. “Your entire working environment is now alive, the data provided informs everyone and interconnects everything,” he says.
Jardin names APIs (Application Programming Interface) and mobile frameworks as “the gravy trains in this IoT age”. Mobility provides the ability for apps to interact with and leverage the Internet of Things.
Through the utilization of instant-delivery mobile device management solutions, it is possible to securely “wrap” applications, deploy them and manage access to them via the cloud-based mobile management solutions which are offered today.
“These management solutions are a 24/7 cloud-based gateway to mobility which enables an organisation to leverage the always-on service to deploy and infinitely scale its mobile offering to accommodate business-to-enterprise as well as business-to-business models,” explains Andrew Chester from Ukuvuma Security Solutions.
The question of security is a constant consideration when it comes to the integration and convergence of mobility into the cloud.
Ukuvuma Solutions believes that responsive web applications in the cloud are an affordable alternative to native mobile applications.
“It is the path usually taken when it comes to budget because web applications can be written once and deployed for almost every desktop and mobile Web browser. However, Web applications have restrictions in the sense that they cannot access many of the features mobile devices have to offer, for example the ability to load the mobile device’s video camera and customise its interface. Cross platform mobile development frameworks are a win-win scenario in this case.
According to the Company the need for mobile will escalate and this is where the importance of integrating with the Internet of Things comes into play.
