2. Mission
“Our mission is to transform the way
companies think about enterprise
mobile development by providing an
open source mobile enterprise
application platform to normalize
business cost”
3. Summary
• OpenMEAP provides open source mobile application software
that removes the need for developing mobile apps natively
across multiple platforms. Our software enables organizations
of all sizes to efficiently develop, deliver and manage mobile
applications while using their existing web development and
designer resources
• OpenMEAP customers will be eager to drive their mobile
development costs down and improve efficiency, now that it
can be accomplished with a fraction of the time, money and
overhead required by other Mobile Enterprise Application
Platform (MEAP) products on the market to date
4. Cost
OpenMEAP is available free of royalties and fees.
•From a business perspective the purchase cost of software is only one factor; total
cost of ownership (TCO) is what really matters. TCO for OpenMEAP includes:
– Zero purchase price
– No need to account for copies in use, reducing administrative overhead
– Reduced need for regular upgrades which lowers management costs
– Near-zero vulnerability to viruses eliminating need for virus checking, data loss
and downtime
– Better adherence to standards permits competition in the market, reducing
vendor lock-in and consequent monopoly pricing
– Availability of source code provides greater continuity and security against
• Financial collapse of MEAP vendors
• MEAP vendors choosing to withdraw support for unprofitable products
– Protection against being required to fit your IT strategy to the cash needs of
your MEAP provider
5. Auditability
• A huge benefit of OpenMEAP is its auditability. Closed-source
software forces its users to trust the MEAP vendor when
claims are made for qualities such as security, freedom from
backdoors, adherence to standards and flexibility in the face
of future changes. If the source code is not available, those
claims remain simply claims
• By publishing the OpenMEAP source code as Open Source,
authors make it possible for users of the software to have
confidence that there is a basis for those claims. Whether this
takes the form of a superficial and informal inspection or
more rigorous auditing, what's clear is that without access to
the source, third party inspections are impossible
6. Flexibility
Flexibility when using OpenMEAP’s software
• OpenMEAP’s view is that flexibility should really mean business flexibility, so that as
requirements in the business change, solutions should not be unreasonably constrained by
the software
• Flexibility to use any HTML5 or responsive design frameworks
– By allowing any mobile HTML5 or CSS3 framework to be used on the OpenMEAP
platform, this enables your company the ability to choose what mobile framework best
suits your needs
• Flexibility to use any mobile user interface (UI) development tools
– Now that browsers are supporting HTML5 and CSS3, mobile UI developers are using free
tools to help simulate devices screen resolutions where custom IDE’s are not required
anymore
• Flexibility to use any deployment model
– Deploy in the cloud, hosted or on-premises, OpenMEAP provides your organization with
the ability to choose a deployment that fits your current IT strategy.
7. Freedom
OpenMEAP’s software provides further flexibility through freedom.
• Freedom from a single vendor
– Software vendors can go out of business, and they can arbitrarily decide to cease development of a
product. OpenMEAP’s software allows you to retain not just the right to use the software you
already have, but the ability to continue to use it as your needs change
• Freedom to modify your software
– You aren't limited to what one company believes you need. Proprietary MEAP vendors must cater
for many different companies, predominantly their own. OpenMEAP’s software can be tailored for
the way you do business. If in-house development skills don't exist, an email to OpenMEAP will
usually find a suitable consultant or partner
• Freedom from integrated development environments (IDE)
– MEAP vendors usually have their own IDE’s that developers need to learn in order to develop mobile
solutions. Using these custom IDE’s create a learning curve in order to move to another solution
• Freedom from mobile client-side development
– By eliminating the need for outsourcing and hiring developers who know Java, Objective-C and C-
Sharp, OpenMEAP enables web developers and designers the ability to create and manage mobile
applications in a straightforward and simple manner
9. Good luck with your
OpenMEAP project!
Contact Us
info@openmeap.com
OpenMEAP Demo
http://www.youtube.com/OpenMEAP
OpenMEAP In The News
http://www.blackducksoftware.com/news/releases/2012-05-15
