Overview

What is mobile development? 

Mobile development is building apps for mobile, wearables, conversation, web or progressive web apps. IBM Mobile Foundation provides containerized back-end services to simplify and manage the creation of these apps.

Features

Unleash new mobile apps

With IBM Cloud Pak® for Applications, you get:

Digital app builder

Quickly build apps to easily incorporate chatbots or visual recognition.

Built-in analytics

Automatically aggregate data to assess app performance.

Containerized back-end services

Use Red Hat® OpenShift® to connect mobile apps to enterprise systems.

Tour

Extend your business to mobile

In this tutorial, you'll create a mobile application that consumes REST services from your existing web application and shows vacationers the weather at all of your resort properties.

Start the tutorial

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Client stories

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South East Water

This utilities company used a mobile app to increase customer satisfaction.

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Asepeyo

This insurance company differentiated itself though its mobile services.

Explore

Discover the next capability, read a use case or explore technical product information

Capability: Modernization and transformation guidance

Strategically update your traditional applications.

Use case: Build cloud-native apps

Quickly respond to market changes and customer needs.

Technical product information

Build and deploy the next generation of digital apps.