Mobile App Development Archives

Jun 19, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Exploring the Developer Skills Needed to Build Apps with MobileCaddy

The MobileCaddy framework removes a great deal of the hard work for developers tasked with building sophisticated enterprise mobile apps. This means the business investing in the app won’t need to seek new developer skills or spend to recruit new team members thanks to MobileCaddy, and the developers can focus entirely on delivering the app itself. This article will detail the many ways the framework makes this possible, giving the business complete confidence it will be getting the app it needs.

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You’ll always need capable, competent people to build a mobile app which can add value to an organisation beyond the obvious improvements to basic worker productivity. That’s why finding a solution which allows the people you already have to rely on their existing skills and focus on delivering that app, rather than working on tedious, time-consuming development, is so important.

With the MobileCaddy Application Delivery Framework, developers can quickly and easily build these more advanced mobile apps using a familiar set of skills, as the solution removes the need for specialist development, and provides helpful guidance across all stages of the project.

Here, we’ll answer key questions our partners and clients ask us about the skills needed to begin a mobile project on the Salesforce platform using the MobileCaddy Application Delivery Framework.

Jun 12, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Evaluating Technology Solutions for Successful Salesforce Mobile Apps

The success of a mobile application within a business will rest entirely on the choice of solution to develop and manage that app. This article will break down the most important stages of the decision making process when evaluating the wide variety of technologies capable of delivering Salesforce mobile apps, for businesses in this position.

App-Evaluation An organisation has decided it wants to invest in a mobile app for its employees – so what next? This decision is becoming increasingly common in the modern business landscape, as mobility continues to drive productivity, efficiency, and cost savings.

With a growing global workforce of ‘deskless’ employees, apps are actually fast-becoming more of a necessity than something businesses can choose to have or not have. With up to 37% of office-based workers now spending an average of eight working days in a typical month away from their desks, that additional rising demand will also be pushing businesses to invest in mobile.

So, the next decision the business will typically look to make is how to deliver the app it wants. However, there are a number of crucial factors which must be carefully considered, and fully understood, before investing in a technology solution to build an enterprise mobile app. When it comes to Salesforce, these considerations are even more important, thanks to the vast number of partner technologies and platform capabilities within the ecosystem.

Unfortunately, many businesses launch into their efforts to mobilise internal systems without taking the necessary steps in determining the class of technology solution their apps will require – a mistake which inevitably results in the app failing in some capacity.

May 30, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Top Mobile Tech Takeaways from the 2017 Salesforce World Tour London

Salesforce-World-Tour Each year the Salesforce community gathers in major cities around the globe for the Salesforce World Tour. These events allow those in attendance to come together and discuss, learn from, and celebrate each others’ hard work.

This year’s event drew well over 10,000 people to the ExCel Centre in London.

The MobileCaddy team went along to explore the new and exciting technology on show, and to understand how some of the world’s leading brands are using Salesforce to set new standards for success.

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One of the main goals Salesforce sets itself each year is to help businesses provide the best possible customer experience through technology innovations. In the digital age, businesses are better equipped than ever to serve their customers, and this year’s World Tour focused on the convergence of cloud, social, mobile, IoT, and AI technologies as a game-changer for those who embrace it.

At MobileCaddy, we obviously have a keen interest in the role mobility is playing in redefining how businesses operate, regardless of size or resources, stretching across all lines of business and industry verticals.

With mobile being a key pillar of Salesforce’s core technology offerings, we’ve listed a number of interesting examples from the 2017 event below.

May 17, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Removing the Risk from Salesforce Mobile Apps with MobileCaddy

MobileCaddy, as a comprehensive Application Delivery Framework, contains many components and features which are beneficial across all the various phases of a Salesforce mobile app project. In this latest article, we’ve highlighted some examples of the ways in which using MobileCaddy reduces, or in some cases removes, significant risks from the challenging process of building a successful enterprise mobile app.

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Earlier this week, we explored the ways in which the MobileCaddy framework can be used to accelerate mobile app development on the Salesforce platform. By speeding up the development process with a solution such as MobileCaddy, developers can overcome a common obstacle standing in the way of making their projects successful.

Another significant challenge which often surrounds mobile app projects is that of risk. Many businesses are still reluctant to develop enterprise mobile applications because they believe there is simply too much risk involved, whether that’s related to their employees, their data, or their need to guarantee a return on investment.

As with the ability to save time on development, though, solutions such as MobileCaddy can remove many of the risks as well. Once this is achieved, it allows both end user businesses and consultancy practices alike to approach the formidable mobile landscape with full confidence that they’ll succeed. Here, we’ll touch on three specific examples that are included within the MobileCaddy package, to give readers an idea of some of the ways the risks and challenges can be removed from Salesforce mobile apps:

May 15, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

5 Ways MobileCaddy Accelerates Salesforce Mobile App Development

MobileCaddy The benefits of using the Salesforce platform to develop enterprise mobile apps are extensive, but there simply aren’t anywhere near as many enterprises doing so as you might expect. The reason for this is, in many cases, that it’s simply too challenging, too costly, or the expertise just aren’t available.

However, there are solutions within the global Salesforce ecosystem designed specifically to ease the pain of mobile app development for both end customers and consultancy firms alike. Once these inherent challenges are removed, the advantages of having mobile applications supporting business critical processes move into focus. These positives vastly outweigh the negatives, making those complementary partner solutions well worth searching for.

One of those negatives is the time mobile app development projects can take when approached without the necessary tools or understanding. Looking specifically into the need to accelerate the development process for those tasked with actually building mobile apps, we’ve highlighted five advantages the MobileCaddy package offers:

Mar 28, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Salesforce Q4 Results Reveal Platform Growth is Driving More Mobile Applications

With the demand for mobile applications which can support business critical functions and processes still accelerating, Salesforce is seeing more and more use of its App Cloud, as both partners and end customers are recognising the value of building their apps directly on the platform. Here we discuss the trends which have emerged from Salesforce’s recent quarterly financial update, with the usual focus on mobile.

All eyes on Salesforce

Due to its position as one of the growing dominant ‘forces’ in the global technology market, there’s always a great deal of interest in how customers and partners are actually interacting with Salesforce and its vast offering of business technology.

As most already know, each quarter, Salesforce releases a financial update which includes a breakdown of the performance and usage of its various products and services, including each of its individual clouds. At MobileCaddy, one particular statistic continues to catch our eye each quarter, and that’s the consistent growth of the Salesforce Platform, and the App Cloud, among its worldwide user base.

Feb 21, 2017 Todd Halfpenny No Comment

MobileCaddy Apps for Desktop: Delivering Salesforce on Windows 10

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With approximately 80% of the global workforce performing deskless work daily, the demand for the right technology, in the right place and at the right time, has reached critical mass. For Salesforce users, this means seamless access to critical systems and data on any device, regardless of location or connection. To accommodate this, we’ve extended our MobileCaddy offering from iOS and Android applications to deliver Salesforce on Windows 10, making it easier for businesses to enable truly deskless work.

Presenting… MobileCaddy for desktop

It’s with great pleasure that we can officially announce the first desktop support for MobileCaddy applications. This expansion is something we’re extremely proud of, as it marks a significant step in our mission to provide seamless mobile working within the global Salesforce ecosystem, free of any limitations.

Feb 8, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Custom Mobile Apps: Answering the Burning Questions for Salesforce Consultancies

As more and more organisations place a strong emphasis on mobilising processes which are ‘business critical’, Salesforce consultancies tasked with delivering custom mobile apps capable of achieving that are facing a wave of entirely new and unfamiliar challenges. But in order to take advantage of this growing opportunity, consultancies must first be able to meet each of their clients’ mobile-specific requirements. From our experience working closely with the Salesforce partner community, here we address the burning questions which must first be answered in order to successfully provide the class of mobile apps so many businesses are currently demanding.

Some Salesforce partners and consultancies will inevitably feel the only question that really matters is whether the mobile app that will satisfy their client’s specification can be built or not. While this is generally the bottom line when taking on a project, there are a number finer, more intricate details which need to be considered, due to the complexity of the apps which the market is now in desperate need of.

Those details become even more important when a client’s goal is to introduce a mobile app into a workflow or process critical to its business, which is when a new, more advanced, more powerful solution is required to eliminate the possibility of failure once deployed.

This is where an evaluation of the available technology, compared to the necessary features and characteristics of the app, should take place. Within this decision making process, once you reach, and realise you need to go beyond, the limitations of an app built with Salesforce1, it will become abundantly clear that these preliminary considerations are essential to the success of your delivery.

Feb 6, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Salesforce London’s Calling 2017: A MobileCaddy Preview

London's Calling 2017 Another year brings another slate of events, conferences, meet-ups, and networking opportunities to attend within the living, breathing, ever-growing Salesforce community.

Boasting the title of Europe’s largest community-led event for Salesforce professionals, London’s Calling 2017 will be the perfect way for anyone working with Salesforce in the UK to expand their knowledge and learn exciting new ways to get the most out of the technology.

MobileCaddy’s own Todd Halfpenny has just been proudly named one of the Top 25 people to meet at the event by Salesforce consultant Phil Walton, and will be giving a presentation on browser developer tools at the event, which takes place this Friday, 10 February.

With more and more of the partners, consultancies, and Salesforce customers we work with embracing the value of using the Salesforce platform to mobilise their employees and their operations, we wanted to take the opportunity to preview London’s Calling with a mobile-centric twist. Here’s what to expect for anyone who’ll be attending…

Jan 12, 2017 Robbie Westacott No Comment

Top Trends for the Mobile Enterprise: 5 Predictions for 2017

the-mobile-enterprise A new year brings new ideas and new priorities for businesses. With the technology available constantly changing and evolving at such a fast pace, 2017 is also expected to bring a number of trends for the mobile enterprise which will continue to sculpt a new set of standards and expectations for how people work.

As leading IT providers such as Salesforce continue to bolster their offerings, and place even more power in the palms of their enterprise customers’ hands to innovate from within, the mobile technologies being leveraged by modern businesses are becoming more exciting, while having a far greater impact on the daily lives of workers.

Just before Christmas we reflected on 10 important statistics from the past 12 months which shed some interesting light on the current role mobile apps are playing for businesses within the Salesforce community. Now we’ve turned our attention to the year ahead, with five predictions regarding trends for the mobile enterprise we believe will take shape throughout the remainder of 2017.

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