IBM expands MobileFirst application development portfolio

BANGALORE, INDIA: IBM today announced a significant expansion of its IBM MobileFirst Application Development portfolio, new industry-specific IBM Ready Apps, and the opening of 18 new IBM MobileFirst studios around the world to help business leaders accelerate mobile initiatives.

The new offerings will help developers from enterprise and born on the web companies quickly design, deliver and deploy secure mobile apps -- preventing data leaks and vulnerabilities - with the same speed and simplicity that consumers have come to expect, at enterprise scale.

"As mobile apps become a primary touchpoint with customers, the stakes run high to delight consumers while the cost of a poor app can be significant to both the brand and bottom line," said Prashant Sharma, country leader, IBM MobileFirst, India/South Asia. "IBM's mobile platform, apps and studios are designed to help businesses accelerate the adoption of a mobile strategy for business growth."

A complete range of tools for developers to create, deploy and manage mobile apps, on-premise or in the cloud. The IBM portfolio, comprised of IBM Worklight, Cloudant and BlueMix technologies and services, enables developers to quickly build and deploy mobile apps.

IBM Worklight is a mobile enterprise app development platform deployed on a client's IT infrastructure, while Bluemix delivers similar capabilities as cloud-based services. Both can be used with Cloudant, IBM's NoSQL distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for mobile apps.

With the new portfolio, IBM has addressed the evolving needs of mobile app developers by redefining the mobile application developer platform. This redefinition includes offering enterprise grade security and integrated quality assurance, so clients can build better, more secure apps faster. The new platform features a new app scanning capability to identify potential data leaks and vulnerabilities.