Presented by Max Katz, Appery, at Mobile Day 2015.

1. Low-Code Mobile Platforms: The future
development of business apps
Max Katz
>Developer Relations at Appery.io
>max@appery.io
>@maxkatz

2. There is a big problem in enterprise
mobility...

3. Forrester Report. Michael Facemire, Jeffrey Hammond, http://bit.ly/1nc0QbX
“The demand for high-velocity app deployment
will overwhelm infrastructure and operations
teams that are not staffed, budgeted or prepared to
handle a rapid scale-up of mobile apps”

4. Salesforce: 8 Steps To Building Mobile Apps Fast In The Cloud, http://sforce.co/1qCL6Jq
“Behind the current enthusiasm for mobile, there’s a
harsh reality for many IT leaders. The gap between
business demands and delivered apps is creating
a trillion dollar ‘IT deficit’ that’s growing bigger
every day—and it’s only accelerated by mobile.”

5. Progress Software CTO, Karen Tegan Padir, http://bit.ly/1v9O1jm
“The most important tools are the ones that are
going to allow you to get your product to market
quickly and make changes, enhancements or fixes –
and then redeploy quickly. Long gone are the 12-18
month developer release cycles.”
“...you must manage the notion of a "perpetual beta,"
with multiple releases over a period of months –
sometimes even more than one release a month.”

6. DZone: 2014 Guide to Mobile Development
Suhas Uliyar, Oracle Mobile Strategy, http://bit.ly/1rygfmZ
“...it is rare for customers to say that they need a
mobile app in the next 12 to 18 months. Most
customers expect applications to be delivered in a
few days or weeks. “

7. EWeek: 10 Reasons Why No-Code, Rapid App Development Makes Sense for IT. Darryl K. Taft,
http://bit.ly/1pgGtW7
“New technologies are being introduced at mind-
boggling speeds. This rapid change is forcing
businesses to seek new sources of innovation and
differentiation. And the window to capitalize on
these opportunities is smaller than ever”
“TAKEAWAY: IT teams need to deliver applications
faster and build frequent change into their
process.”

8. Survey Finds Mobile App Backlog Directly Affecting Enterprise Revenue, http://bit.
ly/16fcAmD
85% of companies have a backlog of 1-20 apps
50% of companies have a backlog of 10-20 apps
Average app taking between 3-12 months to build

9. What do you need to solve this problem?

10. Let’s look at
Platform
Development tools
Browser-based development
Integrated backend services
Integration with development process
Native vs HTML5

11. Platform
Cloud-based, public
or private
Managed by IT for
support and
compliance
Available to developers
and business users

12. Browser-based development
Develop from anywhere - fast WiFi everywhere
Browser is pretty fast today (and getting faster)
HTML/JS is mature
Nothing to download, maintain and update
Collaboration
Faster onboarding for developers
IT infrastructure is always up to data for business
users

13. Development tools
Visual tooling, wizards to speed up development
Full access to source (IDE) for customization,
flexibility and complex logic

14. Integrated back-end services (MBaaS)
Database
User management
Push notifications
Server-side logic
Integration to existing enterprise data sources

15. Integrate with existing dev. process
Continuous integration
Source control
Workflow systems
Want a complete platform that works nicely with all
your existing stuff

17. Let’s look at a quick example
We are going to build a simple, yet complete mobile
app with API backend
The app is called: MyTasks

18. Sign up:
http://bit.ly/apperyiomobiledaymexico
Or use promo code (existing users):
mobiledaymexico

19. Thank you.
Please come to my session at 15:00 to learn
how to build a complete mobile app
connected to API backend
>max@appery.io
>@apperyio
>maxkatz.org