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IBM MobileFirst
HYBRID APP DEVELOPEMENT

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WHY WE WILL BEAT THE COMPETITION What’s in it for you?
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we can easily reuse and leverage on your existing
investments (infrastructure, solutions, ... )
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we provide a secure solution and security
best practices out-of-the-box
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Create amazing app experiences across multiple
operating systems and devices from a single code base
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Most of all, currently Worklight is considered the best
solution (technically, functionally, architecturally)

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LITTLE INFO ABOUT ME
Wim Tobback
@wimtobback
WHO’S THIS GUY?
I’m the IBM Enthusiast @ Cronos
§ Started in 2004 (01-04)
§ IBM Solution Architect
§ Making IBM products more consumable
§ Living near Leuven
§ Born 31-01-1982

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Worklight Whaat?
/Despicable me
IBM Acquisition
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On 31-01-2012
For about $70M
Israel
Worklight
§ An open, comprehensive and advanced mobile application
platform
§ That assists you to efficiently develop, run, and manage HTML5,
hybrid, and native applications
§ using standards-based technologies and tools
§ mobile-optimized middleware
§ a variety of security mechanisms
§ integrated management and analytics capabilities.

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Worklight Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms

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Worklight Why?
APPS
30%
Cross-Platform development
and testing
Security
Offline sync
Geo-fencing
Direct Updates
Integration
Push Notifications
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70%
Mobile
Application Platform

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Worklight Different Components – The architecture

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Worklight Different Components – The architecture
The Worklight Studio
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Eclipse Based IDE (Plugins)
Native, hybrid and standard web
Dojo, jQuery, Sencha,…
Device SDK integration
Supports auto-complete and
validation

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Worklight Different Components – The architecture
The Worklight Studio
§ Eclipse perspective
§ Optimized layout for hybrid
app development
§ Rich page editor: drag-anddrop, palette of components,
properties view, beautified
outline, and raw editable
source code
§ Changes to code
automatically apparent in
rich page editor, and viceversa, for quick development
Support for
DOJO and
Jquery Mobile

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Worklight Different Components – The architecture
The Worklight Studio
§ Common code is placed in a primary
location
§ Environments optimizations allow
overrides to the common code
§ Worklight optimizes the delivery
and merge of the various
environments

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Worklight Different Components – The architecture
Rich Mobile Simulator
§ Perform device specific tests in the
Mobile Browser Simulator, during
development.
§ Change device types, orientation,
device settings (GPS loc, compass,
etc…)
§ Supports Cordova and Worklight
client API

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Worklight Different Components – The architecture
The Worklight Runtime
Client APIs available for
both pure native as well
as hybrid development
Extensive libraries and client APIs that expose and interface with
native device functionality and the Worklight server
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Cross-Platform Compatibility Layer
Server Integration Framework
Encrypted Storage
Offline Authentication
Runtime Skinning
Statistics and Diagnostics Reporting

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Worklight Different Components – The architecture
The Worklight Server
A middleware component which delivers unified notifications, version management, security features,
and integration Services
§ Distribution of mobile web apps
§ Enterprise connectivity:
§ Secure client/server connectivity
§ Direct access to enterprise back-end data and transaction capabilities
§ Authentication enforcement
§ Client control:
§ Application version management and remote disabling
§ Direct update of application code
§ Unified Push Notifications
§ Aggregation of usage statistics

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Worklight Different Components – The architecture
The Worklight Console
Operational management for
§ Deployments
§ Version enforcement
§ Infrastructure access
§ Remote disabling
§ Push Notifications
Operational analytics provide real-time
insight into application usage
§ Data export to BI enterprise systems

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Worklight Different Components – The architecture
The Worklight Application Center
A cross-platform private mobile
application store focused on the needs
of a development organization or a team

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Worklight The perfect fit into your existing enterprise infrastructure!
From the complexity of many…
To the simplicity of one
§ Multiple sets of back-end integrations to build and
manage
§ YOU manage caching, authentication and single sign-on,
service interruptions and push notifications
• One adapter per resource
• Worklight Server manages caching, authentication and single
sign-on, service interruptions and push notifications

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Worklight Connect mobile apps to ALL your back-end services
Adapter Framework
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Secure communication
XML-based declarative specification
Multi-source data mashups
Simplified adapter testing
Server-side debugging
HTTP, JDBC, Web services and WebSphere
CastIron integration,…
§ Access to session data and user
properties

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Mobile Test Workbench for Worklight OUT-OF-THE-BOX!
§ Create, run, and automate tests
§ Improve quality and time-tovalue with industry-first app
testing
§ Comprehensive – Android and iOS,
Native and hybrid
§ Complete – Recording, editing,
and running on mobile devices
§ Resilient – Same test runs
across multiple devices
§ Also for non-developers –
Scripts in natural language
description

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Securing your mobile Enterprise The challenge
Application Security Design:
§ Develop secure mobile apps using best practices
§ Code obfuscation
§ Encrypted local storage for data
§ Offline user access
§ Challenge response on startup
§ App authenticity validation
§ Enforcement of organizational security policies and standards

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MARKET DEMAND Mobile Challenges
§ Maintaining the applications with bug fixes, support of new devices and OS updates, ensuring
that content is up to date,…
§ Keeping the apps up to date when backend platform, external service APIs and other
integration points change
§ Updating content from a myriad of content management systems, back office tools and
admin interfaces
§ Learn and reuse from other applications
§ Listening to user feedback on the app stores (Private/Public) and update the apps to
keep users satisfied and engaged
§ Keep consistency of brand and look and feel
§ Securing data on devices, in transit and on server, managing user authentication,
traceability where logging is important

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So what should you do? Making your mobile apps manageable
As originally stated by Gartner…
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any organization planning on creating 3 or more enterprise class apps in the
coming years should consider establishing a standardized Mobile Enterprise
Application Platform (MEAP).
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Short term it may require a bit more work and investment but the investment will
quickly pay off with:
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Faster speed to market and ease of keeping the applications up to date
Lower cost of development and maintenance
Enhanced business intelligence
Data and user security
Other benefits such as brand consistency, change management and System architecture (e.g.
Adapters)

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Native, Hybrid or Web Different approaches
Hybrid
Mobile Browser
Native Container
Native Container
Native Container
Web Code
Web Code
Web
Native Code
Native Code
Device APIs
Web Code
Device APIs
Device APIs
Native

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IBIZZ Software Services for Mobile
Understand existing mobile
vision and challenges
Discover business goals
and mobile requirements
Position IBM industry
knowledge and MobileFirst
capabilities
Identify mobile scenarios
and use cases
Define mobile Journey next
steps
Map to IBM MobileFirst
solution portfolio
Analyze key business and
technical aspects of
solution design and
architecture
Define Implementation
Roadmap
Review existing Technical
Environment
Capture (non-)functional
requirements for a given
mobile scenario
Capture user interface and
user experience
requirements
Create functional and
infrastructure solution
design and architecture
Define an actionable
implementation plan
Accelerate adoption by
delivering a tangible mobile
solution to the business in 10
weeks or less
Well defined scope to
progress quickly
Iterative solution delivery
approach including iteration
demos
Implement initial mobile
solution
Deploy solution to pilot users
Recommend next steps
towards Full MobileFirst
implementation

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GETTING STARTED I never worry about action, but only inaction!
Download Eclipse and install
the free Worklight plugins!
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More than 60 tutorials
Sample code
Best-practices
Stack-overflow community
Quick start apps
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mobile/worklight/getting-started.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/worklight
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IBM-Worklight-User-Group-4292377/about (560 members)
/Winston Churchill

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Contact me Your next step…
Wim Tobback
@wimtobback
Get connected
§ Twitter : @wimtobback
§ LinkedIn : http://www.linkedin.com/in/wimtobback
§ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IBM-WorklightUser-Group-4292377/about
§ Mobile : +32496 11 11 40
§ E-mail : wim.tobback@cronos.be