FINAL WORD
M
obile phone user base in the
Middle East and Africa (MEA) is
second only to that in AsiaPacific, with “just over 606 million people
in this region having at least one mobile
phone, and the total will pass 789 million
in 2019”, according to a report released
by eMarketer, the independent market
research company, that conducted the
survey on digital trends in tandem with
Starcom Mediavest Group (SMG). Out
of the total mobile users, the number of
smartphone users in MEA was forecast to
be around 106 million at the end of 2015.
Enterprise brings back-end
challenges to the fore
Many enterprises rely upon proprietary
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applications that were developed decades
ago, long before mobile devices became
ubiquitous. These immensely valuable
applications often include ERP, CRM,
BPM, database applications, medical
records, energy management systems,
and flight management systems: none
of which were originally designed to
interface with today’s mobile devices.
Any changes to these “monolithic”
applications require costly and timeconsuming redevelopment, testing
and redeployment of server-side code.
Integrating mobile apps securely with
these rich back-end data sources and
applications is at the heart of successful
enterprise mobility.
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