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Report Finds Mobility Ranks as Top Business Functionality

Mobile Web and Hybrid Approaches Dominate Mobile Architecture Choices

OutSystems, the enterprise Rapid Application Delivery (RAD) provider, today announced new findings from a joint survey with TechValidate that highlight the business and technical priorities and challenges that IT organisations face when developing applications in today’s increasingly complex development landscape. More than 200 IT decision makers at enterprises worldwide were asked about the kinds of applications they plan to build in 2015.

Mobility emerged as a top focus in 2015.

• 43% rated mobility (apps or sites that are mobile-friendly) as their top business functionality or process that is critical for applications.
• Over half of surveyed IT organisations plan to build between 51% - 100% of their apps with a mobile component.
• The dominant mobile architectures for 2015 will be Mobile Web (60%) and Hybrid (65%), with only 26% of enterprises planning to use Native mobile architectures.

Off-the-shelf apps are not keeping up with enterprise needs.

Despite a plethora of packaged and SaaS-based applications available, many enterprises are finding it faster to build their own apps rather than customising packaged ones. The top five enterprise applications that organisations plan to build in 2015 include:

Process automation (forms, routing) Reporting and analytics Executive dashboards and scorecards CRM Collaboration

Complex backend integration with numerous systems is becoming the norm.

When building applications, organisations are finding themselves doing significant integration with existing systems.

• 79% of organisations needed to integrate with at least 1-5 cloud-based applications
• 66% of organisations needed to integrate with at least 1-5 on-premises applications
• 61% of organisations needed to integrate with at least 1-5 custom developed applications

For many organisations, this is cumulative: it is not uncommon to see integration with up to 15 existing systems for any given application.

Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems said, “The survey results echo the challenges we hear from customers: they are increasingly focused on delivering mobile applications, they aren’t getting what they need from off-the-shelf from packaged applications, and they desperately need the ability to integrate quickly and seamlessly with a wide variety of technologies. This confluence of challenges within enterprise application development is leading organisations to seek alternatives to dramatically simplify the delivery of applications, regardless of the underlying technology requirements.”

OutSystems today also released new functionality for its Rapid Application Delivery platform, which helps enterprises manage this complexity, regardless of the application being built, the architecture it leverages, where it is hosted, or mobile requirements. New functionality released with OutSystems Platform 9 Amsterdam includes:

Enterprise scale, enhanced portfolio governance from development through deployment. Simpler, expanded integration, via back-end, standards-based (REST and SOAP) consumption and exposure. Omnichannel experience, leveraging a brand new responsive UI framework that enables the creation of engaging user experiences rapidly, while abstracting away complexity. Improved change management for mobile, enhancing the ability to capture context and user feedback across all devices.

●Continued dedication to open standards,

More pre-built template apps, to help OutSystems customers further increase productivity. In addition, existing template apps are being refactored to improve their ability to expand and integrate.

For the full survey results, visit www.outsystems.com/1/mobility-custom-apps-report

For more information about OutSystems Platform 9 Amsterdam, visit http://www.outsystems.com/platform/whats-new-in-platform-9-amsterdam/

About OutSystems - OutSystems provides the enterprise Rapid Application Delivery (RAD) platform that makes it easy to develop apps once and deliver seamlessly across iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Web - deeply integrated with existing cloud and on-premises databases and systems of record. OutSystems Platform enables the rapid delivery and effortless change of large application portfolios and is available as a public cloud, private cloud and on-premises solution. Over 450 enterprise organisations in 25 countries across 22 industries use the Platform to deliver beautiful mobile and web apps in record time. For more information visit us at www.outsystems.com or follow us on Twitter @OutSystems.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Zahid Jiwa, OutSystems .