More than 40% of businesses surveyed have rated mobility (apps or sites that are mobile-friendly) as the business process most critical for applications.
So finds a joint study released by OutSystems, an enterprise Rapid Application Delivery (RAD) provider, and TechValidate.
The study, which surveyed more than 200 IT decision makers globally, revealed that over half of surveyed IT organizations plan to build between 51% - 100% of their apps with a mobile component.
Other study results include:
- The dominant mobile architectures for 2015 will be Mobile Web (60%) and Hybrid (65%), with only 26% of enterprises planning to use Native mobile architectures.
- Off-the-shelf apps are not keeping up with enterprise needs. Despite a plethora of packaged and SaaS-based applications available, many enterprises are finding it faster to build their own apps rather than customizing packaged ones.
- The top five enterprise applications that organizations plan to build in 2015 include: process automation (forms, routing); reporting and analytics; executive dashboards and scorecards; CRM; and collaboration.
- Complex backend integration with numerous systems is becoming the norm. When building applications, organizations are finding themselves doing significant integration with existing systems. Seventy-nine percent of organizations needed to integrate with at least 1-5 cloud-based applications, while 66% of organizations needed to integrate with at least 1-5 on-premises applications. Sixty-one percent of organizations needed to integrate with at least 1-5 custom developed applications. For many organizations, this is cumulative: it is not uncommon to see integration with up to 15 existing systems for any given application.
“The survey results echo the challenges we hear from customers: they are increasingly focused on delivering mobile applications, they aren’t getting what they need from off-the-shelf from packaged applications, and they desperately need the ability to integrate quickly and seamlessly with a wide variety of technologies,” said Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems.
“This confluence of challenges within enterprise application development is leading organizations to seek alternatives to dramatically simplify the delivery of applications, regardless of the underlying technology requirements.”