Gartner agency named IBM the Magic Quadrant leader in the category of mobile application development platforms.

Analytical agency Gartner in its report 2015 Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms ranked IBM as the Magic Quadrant leader among the mobile application development platform providers. In this study, Gartner evaluated the IBM MobileFirst Platform.

According to Gartner, “Mobile Application Development Platform (MADP) allows an enterprise to design, develop, test, deploy, deliver, analyze and manage its portfolio of cross-platform mobile applications for a wide range of devices based on Android or iOS operating systems, and also ensure compliance with the requirements for different use cases of mobile applications, including scenarios for internal and external use. ”

As noted in the Gartner report: “Leaders must demonstrate a sustainable combination of completeness of the concept (Completeness of Vision) and the ability to implement it (Ability to Execute). In the MADP market sector, this means that leaders are not only successful in cross-platform development, deployment and management within the full life cycle, but also have the right vision of a multi-channel enterprise mission, provide support for several architectures and standards, demonstrate a clear understanding of IT requirements use scalable channels and participate in partnership agreements. Leaders must provide platforms that are easy to acquire, plan, deploy and upgrade, and which can be connected to a variety of internal corporate and cloud services, both own and third parties. ”
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With access to local or cloud capabilities, enterprises using the IBM MobileFirst Platform can create, integrate and manage mobile applications at any scale. Clients can use the platform to create and deploy mobile applications or to integrate applications created using third-party tools. The platform is optimized for development using traditional programming languages, HTML5 and hybrid development, as well as for any combination of these approaches.

“Today, most companies have already accumulated a solid portfolio of unrealized projects for creating mobile applications. The IBM MobileFirst Platform allows you to quickly deliver high-quality applications with a modular platform that fully meets business requirements for flexibility and agility, ”said Phil Bakele, vice president of IBM for enterprise-class mobile solutions. “We believe that the consistently high IBM MobileFirst score by Gartner experts reinforces IBM’s commitment to improving its mobile application development platform and providing an extensive suite of tools and cloud services directly to developers around the world so they can concentrate on building outstanding mobile applications.”

Various enterprises - which are still only launching their own development or are already rapidly increasing the number of their corporate mobile applications - can take advantage of the rich functionality of the IBM MobileFirst Platform, including opportunities for:

Continuous development - Support for the full life cycle of a continuous delivery of mobile applications and services, implemented in a single solution. The ability to collect information from users for the analysis of opinions and analysis of failures

Security — Protect corporate data from unauthorized impacts and mobile vulnerabilities with advanced user authentication, application authentication, local data encryption, and application scanning.

Personalization and contextualization - Development of intuitive mobile applications offering relevant and contextual mobile capabilities that link digital interaction with real-life environments.

Supports information-intensive applications - Providing mobile data that allows organizations to store, synchronize, and connect to data in corporate systems.

The full report is available at this link .

As for IBM MobileFirst , more than 6,000 IBM mobile technology professionals are at the forefront of enterprise-class mobile innovation. IBM owns over 4,300 patents in the field of mobile technologies, social platforms and security tools that are integrated into IBM MobileFirst solutions and are designed to help enterprises accelerate the implementation and optimization of mobile solutions, as well as attract new customers and expand into new markets.