Essential guide to mobile application platforms

Computer Weekly’s essential guide to mobile application platforms examines the issues surrounding mobile applications and the platforms emerging to help developers. Sections  Mobile apps have come to dominate the experience of consumer smartphone users, and that trend is increasingly influencing corporate software development too. Employees on the move want to access key business applications on mobile devices and IT teams have to create apps to allow them to do so. But the demands of mobile apps bring new challenges around architecture, agility and integration. In this guide, we examine the issues around mobile applications and the platforms emerging to help developers  The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a strategic business imperative. Now, businesses must manage the big data that IoT devices generate. Kurt Marko explains how IoT cloud services are a natural fi