Context Awareness, MEAP - Mobile Enterprise Application Platform, Development platform plus distribution via Enterprise App Store and Enterprise App Kiosk.

1. Webinar – The Enterprise Appstore
21st February 2013
Mobility. Made simple.
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2. Mobility not just ”The Mobile Office”
Operations Customer Service
Field Service Public Safety & Security
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3. 1st Generation Mobility
• Solution to voice & paper communications
– Increase visibility & control
– Minimize manual paper based work
• Increased efficiency
• Improved customer satisfaction
• However - some challenges for implementation
– Training overhead
– Adoption by workers
– Employee satisfaction
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4. 2nd Generation Mobility
• Lower TCO
– Cloud vs On-site installations
– One mobile enterprise platform vs Multiple siloed
mobile solutions
– Control – easier to deploy/publish and control apps
• Improved user adoption
– BYOD - Device Independence
• Efficient and reactive organisation
– Tighter, real-time integration between people, systems
– Real-time communications, visibility and collaboration is
a major game changer
• Improved team collaboration
– Shared situational awareness
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5. Sweeping Changes (Gartner)
• Rise of tablets
”By 2013, 80% of businesses will support a
workforce using tablets”
• BYOD
”By 2014, 90% of organizations will support
corporate applications on personal devices”
• Enterprise stores
”By 2015, 60% of organizations will use private
app stores to deliver business apps on media
tablets and smartphones”
• Rise of social
”By 2015, 10% of your online ”friends” will be
nonhuman”
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6. Connect Assets, People, Customers?
Operations
Management
Enterprise Employees
Systems & Assets
Customer
service
Asset
Social Customers
e.g. Passengers
Consumers
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7. 2nd Generation – some requirements
Connecting Employees in Real
Time to Corporate Back-End
Managing a Complex Fleet of Systems
Enterprise Mobile Devices
Developing Ergonomic
Applications that Have Real
User Impact
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8. 2nd Generation – some requirements
• Need to choose which mobile devices are
supported (iOS, Android and Windows
Mobile, ..) and keep up to date
• Must not impact security, increase
complexity.
• Cross platform support
• Cloud-based distributed architecture
provides a scalable solution
• Integrate with third party legacy systems
• Data and interactions based on the situation
of the user
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9. Drivers for Enterprise Mobility
?
More that 50% of the application code is spent connecting to the backend web
service, retrieving the data and managing the local device database
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10. MEAP
MEAP
More that 50% of the application code is spent connecting to the backend web
service, retrieving the data and managing the local device database
Why not do it ONCE and for all?
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11. 1st and 2nd Generation Comparison
First Generation Second Generation
Dedicated Windows Mobile BYOD Cross Platform
Device Devices Multiple OS & form factors
Hybrid Cloud Model
All behind the firewall, on-site Cloud
Network enterprise implementations
Cloud based with secure back
office (e.g. ERP) access
Collaborative Apps,
Application ”Silos” MEAP
Information mash-up
Application Static data Dynamic, Context-aware data
Context
”Clunky” user interfaces Intuitive, Ergonomic UI
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12. Key Implementation Challenges
• Distribution of
• Challenges of
applications to the
workforce application lifec
• Complexity of ycle
• Integration
mobile access
challenges
• Managing different • Security –
devices and Keeping private
operating systems and company
apps separate
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13. Enterprise Appstore
Enterprise App Store Public App Store
Management In-house technicians Consumers
Field Staff, Rail
Sub-Contractors Customers
workers
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14. Enterprise App Store for Workforce
• Workforce solutions
– Integration to management
and operational systems
• Examples
– Asset management
• IBM Maximo, FORD
– Dispatching and scheduling
• Lawson, Optimal Solutions
– Safety and event reporting
• Tracsis, Datasys
– ITSM
• CA Service Desk
– Crew planning
• Qnamic
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15. Extend to End Customers?
• Example: Ready-made passenger solutions
– End to end, including backend
– Integrated solutions
• Examples
– Social integration
– Fault reporting
– Panic button
– Lost & found
– Travel planner
– Traffic updates
– Arrival and departure information
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16. Appstore Pre-Requisites
• Efficient support of multiple devices and
multiple operating systems
– Use of HTML5 cross platform
technologies
• Data integration with back-end ERPs
– Which connectors are required?
– Mobile cloud
• Rapid design, development and
deployment of cross platform apps
– Application templates
– App store
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17. Cross Platform – A Hybrid Model?
• Hybrid : Native + Web
– Native code: smart data caching (offline use)
– Native code: access to hardware (barcode reader, camera, etc.)
– Web/HTML5: write once, run on multiple devices and OS
– Web/HTML5: requires less specialized developers
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18. Appstore Implementation - Why Hybrid?
Device Development Approval
Speed App Store
Access Cost Process
Expensive for
Mandatory for
Native Full Very fast multiple Available
iOS and WP
platforms
Native speed as Only for
Hybrid Full
necessary
Reasonable Available
container
Web Limited Fast Reasonable Not available None
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19. Appstore Implementation - Using Context
Right Information
Right User
Right Place
Right Time
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20. Appstore Context Principles
Context Status
Info (ex location,
route, etc.)
Context-aware
shortcuts (most
relevant
applications)
Context-filtered
messages
Context Strategy : Deliver genuine ergonomically tuned ‘app experience’.
Apps must deliver a true business functionality related to back end applications’
core processes, unlike many apps that are merely pared-down websites disguised
as apps
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21. Enterprise Appstore – Why?
App Discovery
Integration
What tools are
needed for
App
stakeholders across
Deployment
Development the application
lifecycle?
Developers
IT Mgr Managers
Analytics Use
Support Users
Diagnostics
Troubleshooting Management
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22. Enterprise Appstore – Why?
Management
• Deliver a connected workforce
• Improve Employee Morale
• Improve Customer Engagement
• Enhanced Customer Service
• Increase Workforce Efficiency
• Improve ROI
• Workforce Visibility – Improved reporting
• Less complex supply chain
• Business intelligence on how to improve and optimise workforce
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23. Enterprise Appstore – Why?
Users
• Close the ”Information Gap”
• Get device they want
• Simple set-up and configuration
• Only carry one device
• Usability and Ergonomic Advantages
• Context / Role Specific
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24. Enterprise Appstore – Why?
IT Manager
• Lower Enterprise Mobility Costs and
Complexity
– Hosting
– Consumer smartphones • Security
– Horizontal platform – Simplified management and costs
– Integrated with infrastructure
• Future proof
– Application of enterprise security
– Not tied to one OS
policies / remote wipe / data
– Guarantees of OS versions
encryption
• Standard reporting
• Support for BYOD
– Usage, Business Intelligence
– Inventory Management
• Full Application Lifecycle Control
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25. Enterprise Appstore – Why?
Developers
• Mobile HTML5 SDK, including templates, UI toolkit
• Mobile native SDK
• Integration Java SDK
• Collaborative development environment
• Focus on user and workflow not on devices and OS
compatibility
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26. Enterprise Appstore – Why?
Support Analytics
• Simple interface less to go wrong
• Intuitive interface for:
– Remote access to device
– Central log & context aggregation
– Inventory management
– Alerts
– Analytics
– Corporate policies application
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27. 3 Key Enterprise Appstore Success Factors
• Cross Platform
– Efficient support of heterogeneous devices and multiple
operating systems
– Enable a “BYOD” (Bring Your Own Device) model
• Cloud Based
– Cost-effective deployment and usage model based on
cloud infrastructure
– Back-end integration via secure gateway and connector
libraries
• Context
– Ergonomic, user friendly applications that respond to
changes in user context
– Intelligent business workflows that react in real time to
resource location and availability
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28. Cloud
• The Cloud advantage
– No upfront hardware or
software cost
– Growth based cost models IT Mgr Project
Manager
Design
Create
ERP DB
– Can support:
• Application development Bank
• Testing
Diagnostics
• Deployment
• Security Notification
Servers
• Scalability Support
• Storage
• IT Operations Integration
Devices
M2M
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29. Review - Key Implementation Challenges
Through single container
’app store’
Single Approval for
container
• Distribution of Use context to deliver
• Challenges of
applications to the right interractions the
workforce application lifec
MEAP with integration ycle
• Complexity of
connectors, cloud • Integration
mobile access
based. challenges
• Managing different • Security –
devices and Cross platform and Form Keeping private
Factor and company
operating systems
apps separate
Light MDM approach
and single container
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30. MobiCloud Enterprise Appstore Project
Backed by the European Commission
Founding partners
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31. MobiCloud Rationale
Bridging the Enterprise Mobility Information Gap
Mobile consumer oriented
cloud based applications have
started to appear in the
market but this is not yet the
case for mobile business
applications in the cloud.
As a result, mobile workers
are under-equipped and
under-informed compared to
their own customers.
Source: French Railway Union Blog
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32. The App Revolution
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33. App Overload?
o Too many apps?
o Trusted apps?
o Privacy issues?
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34. MobiCloud Vision
Connecting Back-End To Field Service
Systems Employees
Dispatcher
Team Leader
Field Service
Cloud-based Agents
Cross-Platform
Back End ERP IT Support Context-Aware
Systems
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35. MobiCloud Application Scenarios
City Transit Rail
Construction Field Service
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36. Construction Appstore
Scenario 1 : Maintenance
– Maintenance engineers need to
access specific asset information,
receive tasks and report their
completion.
Construction
Scenario 2 : Construction
– Site engineers need to perform safety
audits, and ensure that they have the
proper certification and training in
order to perform certain assignments.
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37. City Transit Appstore
Scenario
– City Transit mobile crew of the
dispatching centers and platform
staff who need to share
City Transit
operational messages with the
command & control center in
real-time for safety (fault/incident
reporting), customer service
(traffic disruption updates)
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38. Rail Appstore
Scenario
– Will focus on train drivers, train
conductors and platform staff
who need to share operational
Rail
messages with the command &
control center in real-time for
energy efficiency (eco-driving),
safety (fault/incident reporting),
customer service (traffic disruption
updates) and compliance (delay
reporting and fault attribution).
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39. Field Service Appstore
Scenario
– Will focus on interim personnel
performing tasks in organizations
or facilities, who need to receive
and acknowledge tasks, report
Field Service
their completion, and interact with
their organization to report time
sheets and efforts.
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40. MobiCloud Membership
Early Adopter Program Member Program
Mobile Gain early access to the Get contracted to develop
Developer MobiCloud development applications for MobiCloud end-
environment develop your own user organisations
applications gain visibility within the
MobiCloud store
System Gain early access to the Get contracted to deploy
Integrator MobiCloud mobility platform applications for MobiCloud end-
receive the MobiCloud integration users
and deployment handbook be listed as a certified MobiCloud
integrator
End User Gain early access to the Build own proof of concept using
Organisations MobiCloud mobility platform the MobiCloud infrastructure
leverage the consortium results purchase your mobile solution in
and technology building blocks a one-stop-shop approach
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41. Demonstration
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42. AIQ Platform
• Enterprise mobility suite
– Appear Store: Vertically focused enterprise solutions
– Development environment
– Mobility platform
• Enabled by the 3 C’s
Context Cloud Cross-platform
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43. A new pitch for MDM?
• The enterprise (private) app store:
– Certification of apps for enterprise use
– White-listing of apps
– Provisioning of apps (and users and devices?)
– Circumvent standard channels
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44. The Appear Store
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45. Appear IQ 8
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46. AIQ Platform
• Enterprise mobility suite
– Appear Store: Vertically focused enterprise solutions
– Development environment
– Mobility platform
• Enabled by the 3 C’s
Context Cloud Cross-platform
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47. The Appear Store
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48. What we do
• Appear develops a cloud-based mobile enterprise solution combining a cross-
platform development platform, a context-aware mobility platform and a vertical
application store
• Enterprise mobility specialist
– Over 12 yrs R&D in mobile technology
• Strong track record in Transport, Logistics, Field Service
• Focus on developing eco systems
– Systems Integration
– Technology partners
– VAR
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49. The Appear Value Proposition
• Future proof mobility platform
– Cloud based
– Enterprise focused
– Social ready
– Context aware
• Ready-made solutions
– Field Service
– Transportation
– Construction
• Development environment
– Cross-platform support
– Native support
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50. The 3 Key Pillars of Mobility
• Cross Platform
– Efficient support of heterogeneous devices and multiple
operating systems
– Enables “BYOD” (Bring Your Own Device)
• Cloud Based
– Cost-effective deployment and usage model based on
cloud infrastructure
– Easy back-end integration via secure gateway and
connector libraries
• Context Aware
– Ergonomic, user friendly applications that respond to
changes in user context
– Intelligent business workflows that react in real time to
resource location and availability
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51. Visit the Appear Store
• www.appearstore.com
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52. Appear IQ 8
Mobility. Made simple.
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Mobility. Made simple.
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