This is a talk I gave at http://swift.berlin (#13) on November 30th, 2015.

2. Josh Garth
@DrGravity
crispymtn.com

3. Consumer Software Industrial Software

4. Industrial Software
Industries Full Of Frustrated Consumers

5. What is
industrial software?

6. Software we use at work

8. Industrial Software: An Example

9. Industrial Software: An Example

10. Industrial Software: An Example

11. Industrial Software: An Example

12. What’s different about
industrial software?

13. • Higher Availability requirements
• Higher Privacy requirements
• No focus on usability
• No regular updates

14. Why is industrial
software in this state?

15. • No SaaS allowed (e.g. problems with EU Safe
Harbor)
• User ≠ Buyer
• Cost of switching software/workflow is prohibitive
• Industry resistant to change, age of leadership

16. Why develop
industrial software?

19. DHL just spent
345.000.000 Euros
on nothing.

20. Why buy
industrial software?

21. • It will save you money in the long run
(when developed with modern methods)
• Data rules the world
• The competition is doing it

22. Developing modern
industrial software

23. Challenges
• Importing data from legacy systems
• Interacting with legacy systems
• Zero-downtime deployment
• At-scale deployment
• Cost efficiency

24. Modern iOS Deployment

25. • Modern mobile devices:
designed to be general-
purpose, for consumer use
• We want them to be special-
purpose, for industrial use

26. Deployment: Goals
• Restricting Access
• Fast & Easy Setup
• Reliable updates

27. Restricting Access
• Single-App Mode
• Disable everything that isn’t relevant to usage
• No “broken state” possible
• No misuse of devices for surfing the web
• Via Configurator / MDM / or App itself
• UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession

28. Fast & Easy Setup
• MDM (optional: with DEP)
• Apple Configurator
• 3rd party tool like Hockey

29. Reliable updates
• Don’t want user interaction
• Devices have no downtime for nightly updates
• Standard App-Store updates don’t work
• Hockey Auto-Updater works in conjunction with
UIAccessibilityRequestGuidedAccessSession

30. Interested? Come
work with us.
Talk to me: jg@crispymtn.com