Thu, Jul 17, 2008 15:55 EDT

What does the iPhone App Store mean for enterprise application design

Posted by: Catalyst Resources in Best Practices

Topic: Applications

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When the iPhone App Store went live last week, I was immediately struck by the impact it will have on the design of enterprise applications. The iPhone is just one of a new breed of form factors for accessing SaaS and enterprise RIA applications. No longer is there the luxury of guaranteed screen real-estate, type of input device or processor speed.

Diverse form factors mandate particular strategies for the design of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and Software as a Service (SaaS). Here are a few key points (more complete descriptions on the SaaS and RIA blog.)

Identify the high value scenarios, simplify business process and validate this with users
Develop componentized, contextual interfaces
Use agile design techniques to produce meaningful prototypes in a very short time
Get your conceptual models right
Plan for information sharing and social media (aka Web 2.0)
Design for accessibility

These are just a few points that immediately jumped out at me when looking through the App Store. What is clear, is that any enterprise developing a new web application or SaaS solution, must have a strategy to accommodate a wide range of dispersed users using a diverse range of devices.

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Thu, Jul 17, 2008 20:03 EDT

Enterprise apps - soon to come!

Posted by: apereymer
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I can see the enterprise benefiting tremendously from the new IPhone app store. This seems like a perfect platform to deploy enterprise applications to business users. Although, most of the current applications are games and entertainment related, I am sure we will start seeing many productivity type of applications. In the enterprise, I am sure that IT managers will start creating different type of portals or interfaces into their intranets. I can see this going like the "extranet" was suppose to be...

Arsen Pereymer
Chief Technology Officer
eCompetitors, Inc.
http://www.ecompetitors.com

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