As mobile usage continues to grow worldwide, developing for mobile is becoming an increasingly important consideration for customers.  Many customers started exploring this space by doing “one-off” projects, but we have now reached a stage where they are shifting away from that and looking for a strategic solution.  While most people start thinking about mobile development in terms of code construction and testing, these are just two aspects of the overall mobile development lifecycle. 

To help ensure that applications are delivered on-time with high quality and meet business objectives, a comprehensive team-based mobile development solution is needed.  In other words, customers not only need a runtime infrastructure for deploying and running mobile applications for multiple device ecosystems (e.g. iOS, Android), they also need a development infrastructure to support the development and delivery of these mobile applications.

The new IBM Mobile Development Lifecycle Solution is developed to address both of these challenges at the same time. It integrates two things: 

• An enterprise-grade, standard-based mobile application platform based on IBM Worklight technology 
•  A best-of-class collaborative mobile application development platform based on Rational’s CLM capabilities
  

Key solution capabilities include:

·       Advanced IDE for native, hybrid and mobile web applications

·       Distributed team build and test integrations with the IBM Mobile Platform

·       “Mobile device-cloud” service integration for on-device testing

·       Mobile development best practices and tested integrations to accelerate productivity

·       Support for Agile methodologies for dealing with fast-paced development for mobile

In addition, this solution can be extended to offer additional capabilities relevant to mobile with other products such as Rational Test Workbench (with Green Hat technology), Rational Application Developer, Rational Developer for System z.

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For more details check out the following blogs and resources:

• Mobile website
• IBM Mobile Development Lifecycle Solution 4.0
• Webcast: Delivering Mobile Applications Faster with Agile
• White paper: A mobile application development primer
• Solution Brief: Develop enterprise mobile applications with IBM Rational software
• Podcast: 5 Best Practices to Develop 5 Star Mobile Applications
• Podcast: Cut The Cost and Complexity of Testing Mobile Applications, Not Quality
• Video: Opening the mainframe to mobile devices
• Video: Leigh Williamson on Mobile Software Development
• Video: Lifecycle management in Mobile application development

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