How Many Solutions Does it Take to Implement Enterprise Mobility?
How many different solutions do you need in order to implement an enterprise quality mobile solution? I think this is a worthy question. In years past MEAP (mobile enterprise application platform) and MADP (mobile application development platform) vendors tried to cover all of your needs, but the market has determined this is not an acceptable model going forward. Companies are just not comfortable putting all their eggs in one basket and betting the mobile farm on an unprofitable VC backed mobility vendor. Enterprise mobility is just too strategic. Even when companies have standardized most of their internal business solutions on a major ERP vendor, they want to keep their options open. SAP understands this and has worked to make their SAP Mobile Platform environment play nice with other vendors and toolkits. Given that market manifesto, companies must now pick and choose their own variety of mobile solutions, platforms and toolkits. The first question, again, is how many s