There’s a sense in enterprises today that digital change is now inevitable. By the end of 2019, spending on digital transformation will reach £1.2 trillion worldwide—up 42% from 2017, according to a report from (IDC) late last year.

But for many enterprises, it is not just the usual challenges such as organisational resistance to change and legacy business models that make the digital transformation journey difficult. Securing investment is a...

Innovation, innovation, innovation: if you’re not doing it, even at enterprise level, then you’re falling behind. But is that really the case?

Many enterprise initiatives often stall early on – or result in limited business outcomes. Yet according to a new report from IDC, collaborating between startups and system integrators could lead to ‘great potential.’

The report, titled Best Practices for Service Company and Start-Up Collaboration in Europe, explores the relationship each...

If you’ve been keeping up on news from around the enterprise technology sector, you might be convinced that MAM, the mobility approach that started it all, is dead.

Even on our blog, we’ve been talking about just about everything except MAM. With up-and-coming technologies like embedded app stores and augmented reality constantly...

Digital workplace software solutions provider Akumina has announced product enhancements which offer native enterprise mobile support for Apple iOS and Android for its workplace customers globally.

The new product enhancements offer employees with increased ease to access appropriate enterprise applications and information – the advances allows access at any time, in any language and on any device – either via conventional responsive design or through native mobile app solutions on iOS and...

Voice is one of the most natural forms of communication out there – which is why users find voice assistants (VAs) accessible, intuitive and easy to use. So much so that they’re fast becoming the go-to interface for the Internet of Things (IoT) – and it makes up the most widely used AI technologies today, with 41% of people using voice-activated assistants only having started doing so in the last six months.

Leading this surge are popular AI assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri...

“We live in a time where mobile apps are not utilities; rather, they are almost part of us.”

This was a pearl of wisdom dropped by one of our digital factory teams recently that I think really highlights the challenge that businesses face in developing compelling, competitive apps. Fundamentally, for an app to succeed, it must act as an extension of the user, augmenting their lives, solving their...

Appdome, a mobility provider which enables organisations to integrate enterprise mobility management (EMM) services codelessly, has announced the launch of BoostEMM, a service which aims to provide multiple EMM services to mobile apps in a single workflow.

The press materials take BlackBerry – with whom Appdome has previously partnered – as an example. Organisations could,...

Ever wonder just how much of a negative impact poor mobile app design can have?

Look no further than this recent online survey [PDF] by cloud communication provider RingCentral, “An Anatomy of App Overload.” “In today’s workplace, employees us an array of apps to work faster and smarter,” RingCentral says. “But as apps proliferate exponentially, they’re ironically making work more disruptive, and...

According to Gartner, through 2021 market demand for software application development will grow at least five times faster than IT has capacity to deliver it. And according to various analysts and surveys a significant proportion of applications developed won’t meet user expectations, probably through lack of a clear understanding of the requirement in the first place, changing needs or by not being appealing to use.

Vendors of low-code...

Cost is frequently cited as a top reason why companies don’t develop as many mobile applications as they would like.

There are, of course, ways around this–many of which we’ve discussed here on our blog. Rapid Mobile App Development (RMAD), for example, turned traditional mobile app development on its head by giving companies a low-priced, efficient way to quickly develop and deploy apps. Many companies have used...