IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation

IBM® MobileFirst Platform Foundation is an integrated platform that helps you extend your business to mobile devices. IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation includes a comprehensive development environment, mobile-optimized runtime middleware, a private enterprise application store, and an integrated management and analytics console, all supported by various security mechanisms.

With IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation, your organization can efficiently develop, connect, run, and manage rich mobile applications (apps) that can access the full capabilities of your target mobile devices. IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation can help reduce time-to-market, cost, and complexity of development, and enables an optimized customer and employee user experience across multiple environments. For more information, see IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation in the IBM Knowledge Center Opens in a new tab. For the most up-to-date information about MobileFirst Platform Foundation v8.0, see MobileFirst Platform Foundation Developer Center Opens in a new tab.

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation also has a community edition IBM Mobile Foundation for Developers 8.0. You can use the no charge IBM Mobile Foundation for Developers 8.0 to develop, test, evaluate and demonstrate MobileFirst applications in a non-production environment with the embedded Derby database. The community edition also has IBM Mobile Foundation Analytics, which provides a rich view into both your mobile landscape and server infrastructure.

For information about installing IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation in IBM Cloud Private, see Setting up MobileFirst server in IBM Cloud Private Opens in a new tab. For information about installing IBM Mobile Foundation for Developers 8.0 in IBM Cloud Private, see Deploying IBM Mobile Foundation for Developers 8.0 on IBM Cloud Private Opens in a new tab.