Develop Enterprise Mobile Applications With Realistic and Relevant Performance
Leverage web technologies to build better performing mobile applications that end users will actually use.
- Developers are time-constrained when building mobile apps, which results in poor performance from the very beginning.
- Developers lack the expertise, processes, and proper tools to effectively enhance applications for mobile performance.
- Underperforming mobile applications can cause your employees to be unproductive and unsatisfied, limiting uptake.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- CEOs see mobile for employees as their top mandate for upcoming technology innovation initiatives.
- Organizations are looking to go beyond current development practices to provide better performing mobile applications that end users can be productive with.
- Enable your developers with the 11 key optimization techniques from Info-Tech’s development toolkit.
Impact and Result
- Create a repeatable process for your developers to continually evaluate and optimize mobile application performance.
- Build capabilities within your team based on Info-Tech’s framework.
- Support ongoing usability and performance improvements through monitoring and metric analysis.
Develop Enterprise Mobile Applications With Realistic and Relevant Performance
Start here – read the Executive Brief
Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should improve the performance of your mobile applications, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.
1. Understand the challenges & opportunities that exist with optimizing mobile performance
Determine the current mobile development process.
2. Use optimization techniques to improve mobile web application performance
Incorporate the various optimization techniques to current development practices to improve the performance of the entire mobile stack.
3. Test and monitor enterprise mobile web applications as part of continuous improvement
Test, measure, and monitor mobile apps for future performance optimization.
Onsite Workshop: Develop Enterprise Mobile Applications With Realistic and Relevant Performance
Onsite workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Understand the Challenges & Opportunities That Exist With Optimizing Mobile Performance
The Purpose
- Identification of current mobile development process.
- Identification of core metrics to measure mobile performance as it relates to the business.
- Identification of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of mobile development practices.
- Identification of areas of mobile development where performance needs to be improved.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Key opportunity areas where a performance optimization initiative can provide tangible benefits.
- Established business metrics to measure the success of the project.
- Identification of current dev capabilities and new optimization techniques that need to be applied.
Activities
Outputs
Document your current mobile development process
- Current State Mobile Development Visual SOP
Conduct a SWOT analysis
Establish business metrics for measuring the value of the project
Conduct a high level assessment of the current development techniques
Module 2: Use Optimization Techniques to Improve Mobile Web Application Performance
The Purpose
- Discovery of performance optimization techniques to apply to current development practices.
- Identification of mobile application architecture.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Areas in frontend code that can be optimized for better performance.
- Areas in mid-tier, backend, and network layers that can be optimized for better performance.
Activities
Outputs
Determine current mobile web app performance
Identify areas in your frontend code that can be optimized for a quicker first time to render
Determine the appropriate format for your image resources
Determine the post-optimized performance of your mobile web app at the frontend
Determine the current mobile web app performance at the mid-tier and backend layers
Document the application architecture to determine where asynchronous code is needed for your mobile web app
- Systems architecture
Develop a cache policy process for your mobile web application
Document your target state mobile development process with regards to performance optimization techniques
- Target State Mobile Development Visual SOP
Module 3: Test and Monitor Your Enterprise Mobile Web Applications as Part of Continuous Improvement
The Purpose
- Identification of key areas to consider for performance and load testing.
- Identification of approaches to mobile application monitoring.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Development of performance test plan
Activities
Outputs
Create a performance test plan for your mobile web apps
- Performance Test Plan
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What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
Need Extra Help?
Try Our Guided Implementations
Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 5 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation #1 - Understand the challenges & opportunities that exist with optimizing mobile performance
- Call #1 - Understand the challenges & benefits of a mobile performance initiative
Guided Implementation #2 - Use optimization techniques to improve mobile web application performance
- Call #1 - Optimize critical rendering path performance
- Call #2 - Optimize mid-tier and backend performance
- Call #3 - Optimize network performance
Guided Implementation #3 - Test and monitor your mobile apps as part of continuous improvement
- Call #1 - Develop a process to test and monitor your enterprise mobile web applications as part of continuous improvement