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michaels, ross and cole ltd.
Agile Development of Mobile Solutions for M3
Andy Vigrass, Managing Director
MRC Ltd
• Offices in Chicago and London
• Established 1981
• Authors of the m-Power development tool
• 2,000+ sites worldwide
Mobile Device Adoption Rates
Source: Gartner, 2013
Mobile Device Usage
• 59% of employees use mobile devices to run line-of-
business applicationsSource: Symantec Survey, 2012
• 81% of employed adults use at least one personally
owned electronic device for business useSource: Harris Interactive, 2012
Mobile Device Usage
Source: Socialmedia Today, 2013
Which Smartphone / Tablet Platform?
Develop Apps For Each Platform?
Develop Apps for all platforms
Develop for one platform
Build mobile web apps
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Time
Developers Needed
Risk
Platforms Reached
All One All
Develop Apps for all platforms
Develop for one platform
Cost
Time
Developers Needed
Risk
Platforms Reached
All One
Develop Apps for all platforms
Cost
Time
Developers Needed
Risk
Platforms Reached
All
Mobile Web Apps – Key Features
• Modern efficient HTML
• Good user interface suited to mobile devices
• Log-on Security
• Real-time iSeries access
• Full functionality - enquiries & data entry
• Dashboards, KPIs & unlimited drill down
• Email – HTML & PDF
• SMS Messaging
• Data security
• Multiple languages
m-Power n-Tier Architecture
m-Power n-Tier Architecture
Example Enquiry – PC
Example Enquiry - Tablet
Example Enquiry - Smartphone
Dashboard – PC
Dashboard - Tablet
Dashboard – Smartphone
Mobile Web Apps
DatabaseWindows Server
App Server
Request
Data
HTML Page
Request
Mobile Web Apps
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App Server
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Real Example – Helping Hand Ltd
Real Example – Jimmy Choo
Agile Development
• Create real-time corporate Intranet websites
• Dashboards, Metrics & KPIs
• PC, tablet & smartphone interfaces
• Automated emails & SMS Messaging
• New databases – CRM, Forecasting, Stock, Quality, ...
• Extranet B2B websites
• Signature capture, mapping, docs, credit cards…
• Turn spreadsheets into multi-user databases
• Agile – helping the business to learn & progress
michaels, ross and cole ltd.
Agile Development of Mobile Solutions for iSeries
Andy Vigrass, Managing Director