Mobile Application Strategies for the Enterprise

The issue of mobile application technology is being raised more and more in the enterprise business space. Our Managing Director for the UK, Dave Akka, writes a nice piece here in the Financial Times, explaining the business case for companies looking to implement a sensible mobile strategy for their workforce.

For further reading on the latest Mobile Enterprise Application develompents have a look at our latest White Paper

In other news, many people are talking about Microsoft's announcement that they are releasing a new Cloud platform calledAzure.

For Magic Software, who are an application platform vendor for RIA, mobile and SaaS, it can only be a positive move. Microsoft providing a Cloud enabled operating system tends to confirm Magic Software's own technology vision - that SaaS is here to stay and can convey some significant benefits to enterprise companies looking to hire-in advanced CRM, ERP or other business functionality that they would otherwise have to build themselves.

My only concern is that SaaS remains not an entirely clear-cut decision for ISVs who already operate and earn the bulk of their revenues from licenced Client/Server applications.

For ISVs and other software providers it therefore remains important that they can run both SaaS and Client/Server applications together - cost-effectively. For that, Magic Software's uniPaaS platform is uniquely designed to allow ISV's to run both SaaS and Client/Server models for the same development effort and from the same single code-base.

This way ISVs are not forced to choose between one model and other - but rather can cost-effectively run both in parallel and maintain their options open for the future.

About the Browser

A nice little video showing what the average person knows about the browser.

Of course, if you're a business running your own tailor-made internet application - hopefully you won't need to know any more than them!

That's because uniPaaS applications are available via the internet - but don't run on, and are not dependent upon the browser! So developers struggling to find a way to secure their internet application against common browser-based malware can check that problem off their list straight away.

They also don't have to worry about making sure their application works in the plethora of different browsers out there - Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, whatever...

So enterprises looking to gain from the benefits of internet applications without the risks and development hurdles involved can now have their cake and eat it.

Creating Business Results from IT at the First 'Get IT Together' Seminar

The first of two Get IT Together seminars on how to create business results from information technology took place yesterday in Connecticut and was a tremendous success.

In a jam packed, standing-room only event, it brought together Magic Software's customers and prospects to hear about the latest innovations in the world of application platforms and business integration technology.

How to Reap the Benefits of RIA and SaaS - Enterprise Systems

Rich Internet applications and their brainchild, software-as-a-service (SaaS), are expensive to build. Today they represent the most challenging development process yet.

Regev Yativ, Magic Software's President & CEO for the Americas tells Enterprise Systems how to get around the complexity of building and deploying RIA and SaaS in this article just out.

Other collateral news - we have a new case study now available - this one is about FKB - a Liechtenstein-based health insurance provider that, using uniPaaS, has become the largest health insurance provider in Lichtenstein with the lowest operating costs in the industry for both Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

Website news, we've added even more new items to our solutions section - this time focusing on Magic Software's solutions for specific industry verticals - so far we have healthcare,manufacturing, finance, government and logistics - along with relevant case studies that describe some of the real-life challenges and implementations in each industry.

And lastly, the first of two Get IT Together seminars is happening in Connecticut today. Last minute places are still available for the Nov 12th event in San Diego. If you are interested in attending ring as soon as possible to reserve your place on - 949 250 1718.

5 ROI Benefits of Rich Internet Apps for Manufacturing Industry

Following on from my previous manufacturing posts, I've now compiled the main 5 benefits of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) for manufacturing industries into a new white paper that you can download for free here.

Rich Internet Applications are particularly beneficial to manufacturing companies. That's because the nature of manufacturing requires a combination of powerful business functionality (to handle their diverse work scope - including production, delivery, inventory, sales force etc), that they need to display in a myriad of ways (graphically and in complex table format), and they need it available anywhere (at the production line site as well as on the move in the warehouse etc).

They can get this sort of rich internet functionality today by sourcing it from a SaaS vendor of course. It's quick to assimilate, and cost-effective to run. The only problem is if the vendor doesn't have exactly the type of functionality that the manufacturer needs. There's not much room for customization with an off-the-shelf SaaS product.

There is then an advantage to building your own RIA in house - as long as it can be done without incurring high costs and an over-long development effort!

The white paper first highlights the benefits of RIA to manufacturers and then describes the most efficient and effective path to implementing RIA in-house.

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