6 Factors to Consider While Developing Enterprise Mobile Apps [INFOGRAHIC]

Enterprise mobile apps seem to be growing at least for a decade to come.

Recently, we discussed a few statistics on enterprise mobile applications. Those statistics are based on-

• How are enterprise mobile apps growing?
• How are employees using the enterprise mobile apps?
• What enterprises feel about the need of enterprise mobile apps?
• Why are companies using enterprise mobile apps?

But, what is the enterprise mobile apps?

Enterprise mobile apps are the mobile apps that the employees of an organization use to make things easier for them to fulfill their work needs.

Now, as an enterprise mobile app development company, what are the factors the enterprise need to consider while developing the enterprise apps?

Also, being an enterprise looking for their own enterprise mobile app, what are the things the enterprise need to discuss with the company developing it?

Let’s discuss the factors to consider for enterprise mobile app development in the most simplified and attractive way:

Data Encryption
43% of enterprises have an encryption strategy applied consistently across the enterprise.

For enterprise apps, the employees communicate with the internal as well as external parties and hence, data encryption becomes a must to consider for enterprise mobile app development.

Security
100% of organizations from a sample of 850 organizations who allow their employees to use mobile devices for work experienced a mobile attack in 2017.

Though Android & iOS both invest a lot in enterprise security controls, they both are not COMPLETELY secure.

Enterprise app security needs more attention to ensure your enterprise data is not compromised by the employees. Involving mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobile management (EMM) makes a huge difference.

Two-factor Authentication
26.2% of those targeted by ransomware in 2017 were business users.

Because single sign-on has many disadvantages of security aspects such as no strong authentication and security gets compromised if an attacker gets the SSO access.

Two-factor authentication is highly secure because it involves not just passwords, but also a physical token. And, when a biometric is added to it, it reduces the data and app breaches.

Application Size
84% of users agree to have used big data insights on the enterprise apps.

Most of the times, the enterprise app users carry huge research and analysis for the enterprises. So, the application size should be made appropriate, that does not hamper the cache while using the enterprise app.

UI and UX
39% of employees say using the enterprise apps improve their work productivity.

Work productivity is the most important advantage of the enterprise mobile apps. And, it is highly important to make sure that the user interface and the employee experience needs much of the consideration while developing the enterprise apps.

Scalability
67% of companies agree that the enterprise mobility is a growing priority.

Enterprise mobility has a growing future and while developing the enterprise mobile apps, it is important to consider the scalability of the enterprise apps.

Enterprise mobile apps would need to be upgradable looking to the upcoming technology, security aspects, and much more.