It can be very time-consuming to develop a mobile app for the iPhone, only to have to code it again from scratch for Android. With Mobile Foundation from IBM, that problem could become a thing of the past.
Based on the technology IBM acquired from Worklight in January, Mobile Foundation is a set of mobile development and integration tools. The key advantage here is that you don’t have to code separate apps for the different smartphone and tablet platforms out there; instead, you simply build a single application and it can then be run on Apple iOS, Google Android, RIM’s BlackBerry, and so on.
This was announced at the IBM Impact show, which is currently going on in Las Vegas. Mobile Foundation is a clear indication that IBM wants to support the growth of mobile, both among regular consumers and business users. This includes support of standards like HTML5, which allows developers and managers to simply “extend” what they’re doing into mobile, rather than starting from scratch.
“The industry is progressing at different rates for mobile. Banks and insurance companies are already looking at doing their second mobile application. The first was beautiful, but too expensive,” said IBM Mobile Platform VP Bob Sutor. “They can either buy into one mobile product, or they can use a platform that allows them to build five or 10 or 15 mobile apps. Companies want it to be repeatable.”
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