A major trend in the IT industry: The combination of mobile devices and business

Mobile application management and security deployment

In response to the challenges of the new era, all enterprises are increasingly in need of different capabilities to actively respond, one of which includes mobility. Mobility is increasingly becoming one of the key requirements of many enterprises. The combination of mobile devices and enterprise services has also become an important trend in the industry. Based on this insightful insight, IBM has proposed the concept of "Mobility" to further deepen product integration, performance improvement and innovation research through a comprehensive end-to-end mobility solution that is focused on providing solutions to a wide range of industries Provide a more perfect "power of transformation" to help enterprises in the mobile Internet era, "winning a thousand miles."

Benefiting from superior product innovation and deep industry practice, IBM pioneered the mobile and social advantages of core software products such as WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli and Lotus, and introduced a comprehensive IBM end-to-end mobile solution that helps Businesses use the crucial capability of "mobile power" to expand mobile customers, improve operational efficiency and transform their businesses.

Business Challenges - The Mobile Age: Facing Business Opportunities

According to a 2011 IBM Global CIO Survey released by IBM, mobile solutions, cloud computing, have become the CIO's powerful tool for capturing insights from data. In the past 2011, global smartphone shipments reached 487.7 million units, surpassing shipments of PCs (including laptops, desktops and tablets) for the first time. Market research company Canalys also pointed out that the smart phone will soon replace the PC dominates or will create a new era: In addition to some large-scale computing design, most of the work required to use the network can be done through the phone.

Obviously, "mobile" has become an important part of the evolution of computing history, and the demand and deployment of mobile capabilities has also been included in the strategic plan of more and more enterprises. Because these companies are well aware that "mobile power" is not only not limited to the geographical and equipment, and have a faster life cycle, more interactive experience, it will certainly bring a new business model for the enterprise. However, on the other hand, enterprises face many challenges in popularizing mobile solutions: how to improve the security management of private information, how to reduce the development cost of multi-mobile platforms, how to integrate cloud services into mobile devices, and so on.

As an industry-leading solution provider, IBM is proactively introducing a comprehensive end-to-end mobile solution designed to provide better mobile application management solutions for businesses in the banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, retail, government and other industries And safety measures. The solution will enable enterprise mobility to be efficiently implemented in front-end business categories such as team optimization, product and service innovation, customer care and insight, third-party mobile services, social collaboration, user notification, location services, mobile payments and social mobile commerce Ability to deploy.

IBM Solutions - A Comprehensive, Efficient and Innovative Mobility Solution Thanks to its rich software offerings and superior consolidation capabilities, IBM has pioneered the division of mobile solutions into "create and connect," "management and security "," Expansion and Transformation "to make full use of the advantages of mobile-related solutions from WebSphere, Rational, Tivoli and Lotus to help enterprises expand their business to mobile customers, improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and increase customer experience. And actively create new services and business models.

Build & Connect enables users to create mobile apps and connect to back-end systems that support mobile apps. By creating enterprise mobility applications, users can run systems on a wide range of mobile devices, connect with corporate back-office applications and information systems, meet their quick time-to-market requirements, get up-to-date quickly and effectively deliver a high-quality user experience. Cast Iron, acquired by IBM in May 2010, is an important part of accelerating cloud consolidation and centralizing a wide range of mobile applications. In addition, Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management plays a significant role in driving the efficiency of mobile applications open.

Manage & Secure Manage mobile devices and applications to protect your personal mobility business. By managing and deploying mobile devices and applications securely, users gain visibility, security and management of mobile devices, authenticate and empower mobile users and devices, and take full advantage of managed services for total management of the mobile environment. Based on BigFix technology acquired by IBM in July 2010, the IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices system management, security management, and real-time development of new features for desktops / laptops / server terminals, mobile terminals and end-use terminals are the new capabilities that Tivoli uses An important product deployed in mobile force.

Extend & Transform Extends existing business capabilities to mobile devices and creates business transformation by creating new opportunities. By extending desktop social collaboration to mobile devices, users can take full advantage of IBM's strategic and planning services to build mobile strategies for business transformation and interact with customers in entirely new ways via mobile devices. In this regard, IBM introduced a comprehensive suite of mobile solutions for social commerce for the device interfaces of smartphones and tablets, including Apple, Android, Research In Motion, BlackBerry and Nokia. In addition, IBM released a total of 44 collaborative software in 2011, including push email, calendar, contacts, real-time collaboration tools IBM Lotus Notes Traveler, instant messaging chat and online meeting tools IBM Sametime, social business tool IBM SmartCloud, access to professional Networked social software IBM Connections, IBM Lotus Symphony Viewers for viewing business documents, IBM Lotus Domino XPages and IBM WebSphere Portal Mobile Experience for application development software for HTML-based mobile applications and websites.

As an important part of IBM's mobile strategy, IBM recently announced its acquisition of mobile application development and infrastructure software provider Worklight, which IBM said will work with them to expand their mobile business to deploy more of their mobility to more businesses with mobile business needs Macro map

Worklight was founded in 2006 with 151% revenue growth by 2010 and was rated by InformationWeek as one of "50 Most Commented Business Technology Companies". Today Worklight offers smartphones and tablets a leading open standards-based mobile application platform that helps users quickly build and iterate mobile applications and support cross-platform devices by enabling businesses to develop and promote HTML5, mobile middleware, and localization applications Better customer experience, and provide security, data management and analysis services. Worklight has an open, integrated solution for technology, including development studios, connection servers, device runtime and management consoles, and has previously been deeply integrated with Rational tools and WebSphere runtime management.

IBM believes IBM will further leverage IBM Worklight's industry-leading innovations by leveraging and integrating Worklight's industry-leading innovations with its existing feature set of mobile device management, mobile web application development, consolidation, collaboration tools and mobile strategies, and planning, implementation and hosting services Expand and deepen the terminal-to-terminal comprehensive solution provided by its mobile applications, software and equipment security management and mobile data analysis, take full advantage of the rapid expansion of the mobile market to provide enterprises in more industries with more excellence and Mobile solutions that keep pace with the times.