The Future of Mobile Cloud Computing

Grazed from CloudTimes.  Author: Sue Poremba.

Use of cloud services at home, in the workplace and in large enterprises has steadily and significantly increased. Now we are seeing a similar trend with mobile devices and cloud technology. Mobile devices are already accessing a number of cloud services, such as Dropbox, and more third-party applications utilize cloud computing technology. It is only a matter of time until the technology becomes the central force to mobile applications. Where will the future of the mobile cloud lie?

“Mobile platforms are already accessing the cloud for a lot of consumer-based services such as email, social media, online file storage and corporate communications tools. But so far, there are essentially only two players here ñ the individual or consumer, and the consumer cloud service,” said Dan Matthews, chief technology officer with IFS North America. “One of the biggest changes I think we will see in the next year or two is the entry of a third player ñ the corporate back-end system (e.g., corporate ERP, Financials, SCM and other mission-critical systems).”

To the extent that back-end systems are accessible at all from mobile devices today, it is typically from a web-user interface that talks directly to the back-end system by way of a proxy or gateway setup specifically for each back-end system. For most organizations, enabling access to back-end systems this way is a costly and somewhat cumbersome IT project…

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