Showdown at the Mobile Enterprise Corral
Why have so many mobile enterprise companies made financial
announcements within the last few weeks? In the mobile device management (MDM)
space, Good Technology has filed an S1 to go public and MobileIron successfully
executed an IPO. In the File Sync and Share (FSS) space, Dropbox announced a
$500M line of credit after having raised $325M in funding only months earlier,
and Box just announced another $100M investment.
Why these companies … and why now?
In Search of the 'Second Tier of Value'
The answer has to do with the state of the market.
Enterprises have put millions of powerful computing handsets and tablets into
the hands of mobile workers, yet all these workers can do is email and use
calendaring and contacts apps. In order to realize the anytime, anywhere vision
of the mobile enterprise, companies need to extract true business value out of
their mobile investments — what Gartner calls the “second tier of value.”
Letting employees share documents with colleagues is the obvious next step;
doing so securely is a critical business requirement.
This explains why so many companies are vying to be leaders
in file sync and share and in mobile device management. Each one wants to be
the player that organizations turn to, to extract business value from their
mobile devices. And because the stakes are so large, the market has attracted
many such players. Forrester estimates between 30 to 40 active players in the
FSS space and the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant for MDM report listed 17
companies in the MDM market. With all of these players vying for market leadership,
MDM and FSS have become primary battlefields in today’s enterprise mobile
marketplace.
With so many companies competing for the finite number of
enterprise dollars, the competition is fierce. Fierce competition calls for
high-stake strategies, which is causing vendors to make several moves. First,
some are adding features to differentiate themselves and to offer a larger
piece of the mobile enterprise solution. Second, some are buying companies to
gain market share, extend their solution and reduce the number of competitors.
Third, some vendors are buying market share by offering below market prices to
get a foothold in the enterprise. Most vendors are employing a combination of
these choices.
Regardless of the strategy each vendor pursues, they all require
cash — and lots of it. And so we have the sudden spate of investments and IPO
announcements.
Who Will Be the Last Man Standing?
The survivors of this market showdown will not only needs
lots of cash, they will need a solid market and partner strategy to pull
through. The recent (re)entry of Microsoft and of Google to the FSS fight with
their expanded file storage offerings of OneDrive and Google Drive is certainly
driving up the stakes. Dropbox, Box and others who have secured many millions
of users on the proposition of free (or almost free) file storage clearly need
to broaden their product line to compete, particularly with Microsoft’s strong
enterprise offerings.
On the MDM front, AirWatch, Fiberlink, Bitzer and BoxTone
have been acquired, clearing the way for the likes of IBM, Good Technology,
Citrix and MobileIron to duke it out for market leadership. These remaining MDM
players are also broadening their basic offerings by building partner
ecosystems and augmenting security with support for critical productivity
applications, like file access and document editing.
Whoever wins, two things are clear: One, it’s going to take
more than cash to win. And two, the battle will last a lot longer than the
original showdown at the OK Corral (which supposedly lasted only 30 seconds).
One thing is sure: When the dust settles in the FSS and MDM market shakeout,
there will only be a few winners left standing.
Microsoft's relationship with Android: 'It's complicated'
Microsoft is a 39-year-old company. Google is about to turn
16.
Both of those ages are major milestones for humans. It turns
out they’re pretty interesting for giant tech companies as well.
Microsoft and Google are locked in a struggle for the future
of computing. Both companies want to put their flagship operating system on
every screen you own and allow developers to write apps that scale from
handheld devices all the way to full-size desktop monitors.
This was Microsoft’s vision, as expressed in its 2013
Windows Everywhere ad:
And this is Google’s Android Everywhere vision, as shown off
at the recent Google I/O conference:
Look familiar?
If you’re a developer or device maker with a stake in mobile
technology, and specifically the next billion devices, this isn't just a
friendly wager. Do you bet on the older, experienced competitor? Or do you put
your money on the young, aggressive rival?
The numbers are clearly in Google’s favour. Earlier this
year, Gartner forecast that more than 1 billion Android devices will
be sold in 2014, roughly three times as many as the total number of devices
running Windows (360 million) or iOS/OS X (a combined total of 344 million).
But maybe Google is aiming at the wrong target.
Windows 8 in Business
Microsoft has painted bold design strokes with Windows 8,
but the business impact remains hotly debated. TechRepublic have the
enterprise and SMB perspectives on Windows 8 covered from virtually every
angle.
Microsoft quietly dropped the Windows Everywhere mantra last
year and, under the leadership of new CEO Satya Nadella, has been pursuing a
“mobile first, cloud first” strategy that focuses on getting its services onto
as many platforms as possible, including Android.
The most recent evidence is a one-two punch: First was a
report from own Mary Jo Foley that Microsoft will deliver Office
for Android ahead of its touch-first version of Office for Windows. That was
followed in close order by the news that Microsoft will ship a second
Nokia-branded, Android-powered phone, the X2.
That’s certainly not what Microsoft would have done in its
youth. But 39-year-old Microsoft doesn't behave with the same reckless abandon
as when it was a teenager. The cutthroat Microsoft of the mid-1990s, the one
that perfected the "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" template, has
been supplanted by a more mature competitor. (A few billions of dollars and
Euros in antitrust fines, along with a decade living under a consent decree,
also helped with the transformation.)
The Office team in particular has learned how to
enthusiastically embrace alternative platforms. The goal for Office is to
become aggressively ecumenical, running on as many platforms as possible.
Office on the Mac, for example, is a significant business. The new Office
apps on iPad are excellent and appear to have sold a fair number of
$99-per-year Office 365 subscriptions.
If Microsoft's goal is to make it possible for you to run
Office on as many devices as possible, then building a first-class Android app
is mandatory, even if the unintended side-effect is strengthening Google’s
hardware position temporarily.
That certainly means delivering Office for Android through
the Google Play store, using the same subscriber-only model Microsoft used for
its iPad apps. Whether Google will embrace Office as enthusiastically as Apple
did is an open question, but it’s a safe bet that Office for Android will be
insanely popular.
But the real game is in the Android Open Source Project, the
Android code that Google gives away. An army of small Chinese manufacturers are
building handsets based on AOSP. As of the end of last year, BI Intelligence
reported that 25 percent of all global smartphone shipments were
running a forked version of Android, minus Google services.
Amazon’s Kindle Fire is based on AOSP and is similarly
Google-free. AOSP is also at the core of those Nokia-branded, Android-powered
phones now being sold by Microsoft.
And that’s where things start to get interesting.
If Office becomes the anchor for Microsoft's Android app
store, a non-Google version of Android becomes much more attractive for device
makers and an easy hedge for developers, who can port their apps to MS-Android
with only trivial effort.
Handset makers who are currently shipping Google-certified
Android devices could choose to replace that OS with MS-Android instead. For
device makers that have signed a patent licensing agreement with Microsoft, the
carrot could be a complete waiver of those per-unit licensing fees as long as
Office and other core Microsoft services replace their Google counterparts on
each device shipped.
I made the argument earlier this year but it bears repeating
here: Android isn't the enemy, Google is.
If you think Microsoft cares most about the royalty it
charges a device maker for the OS license, you’re several years behind. Of
course the company would be happy to collect that one-time OS royalty from a
device maker, but they’re equally eager, if not more so, to have the buyer of
that device paying for international Skype calls, for an Office 365
subscription, and maybe even for an Xbox Live Gold account. Over the life of a
phone, the revenue from those services can easily be an order of magnitude
greater than that OS royalty.
Microsoft wants its services, along with those of its
partner and soon-to-be-subsidiary Nokia, to be front and center on a mobile
device. It’s easy to do that with Windows Phone and Windows 8.1 mobile devices,
where Microsoft controls the platform. It’s much more difficult to replace
Google services on new Google-certified Android phones, where those services
are set as defaults, as a condition of acceptance into the Google Play
ecosystem.
The Evolution of Enterprise Software
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enterprise software is simplifying, webifying, mobilizing, and getting a lot
more social.
No, this doesn’t mean Microsoft is going to abandon Windows
on mobile devices. When the touch-first version of Office for Windows ships, I
expect it to be significantly more powerful and feature-packed than its iOS or
Android cousins. That’s the advantage you get when you own the whole operating
system and can tap into that OS at a low level in a way that ordinary,
sandboxed apps can’t.
That also explains why Office for iOS and, soon, Android are
coming ahead of the Windows version.
Meanwhile, Google’s strategy with its services is to build
them for Android first, and for iOS because it can’t afford to ignore the
800-pound Apple gorilla. But it has so far steadfastly ignored Windows 8.x,
forcing Windows users to use its services through the Chrome browser or not at
all.
That’s exactly what Microsoft would have done under Bill
Gates’ leadership in the company’s early years. But Microsoft is counting on
old age and treachery to overcome Google’s youth and skill.
Hybrid cloud: What it is, why it matters ?
For
several years, cloud computing has been the focus of IT decision makers and
corporate bean counters, but the extremely security-conscious have been
hesitant to move their data and workloads into the cloud. Now, with the
underlying technology behind cloud services available for deployment inside
organizations, a new model of cloud computing is gaining a foothold in
business: the hybrid cloud.
What
is hybrid cloud?
The
hybrid cloud is the combination of a public cloud provider (such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or Joyent Compute)
with a private cloud platform — one that's designed for use by a single
organization. The public and private cloud infrastructures, which operate
independently of each other, communicate over an encrypted connection, using
technology that allows for the portability of data and applications.
The
precision of this definition is quite important: The public and private clouds
in a hybrid cloud arrangement are distinct and independent elements. This
allows organizations to store protected or privileged data on a private cloud,
while retaining the ability to leverage computational resources from the public
cloud to run applications that rely on this data. This keeps data exposure to a
bare minimum because they're not storing sensitive data long-term on the public
cloud component.
It's
important to understand that the concept of a hybrid cloud is not simply connecting any arbitrary server to a
public cloud provider and calling it hybrid. The private infrastructure must
run some type of cloud services, such as NemakiWare, an
open-source enterprise content management (ECM) software stack based on the
interoperable CMIS standard, or Joyent Smart Datacenter, a
cloud management platform for private and hybrid cloud deployments.
The
benefits of going hybrid
One
clear benefit of a hybrid cloud model is having on-premises, private
infrastructure that's directly accessible — in other words, not being pushed
through the public internet. This greatly reduces access time and latency in
comparison to public cloud services. With the looming risk of the consolidation of ISPs at the consumer/business level in
the United States, the current halting of Net Neutrality, and the volleying of threats between ISPs and service providers,
reliance on the proper functioning of the internet — a single point of failure
that can bring down the normal operations of an entire company — is an
unacceptably high risk.
Another
benefit of a hybrid cloud model is the ability to have on-premises
computational infrastructure that can support the average workload for your
business, while retaining the ability to leverage the public cloud for failover
circumstances in which the workload exceeds the computational power of the
private cloud component.
With the
hybrid cloud model, IT decision makers have more control over both the private
and public components than using a prepackaged public cloud platform.
This
provides the added benefit of paying for the extra compute time only when these
resources are needed. Accordingly, for businesses that have milestones
throughout the year where a much higher than normal amount of compute time is
needed (tax season, perhaps), extending to the public cloud is a cheaper
proposition than building out a private infrastructure that sits idle for most
of the year.
Building
out the private end of a hybrid cloud also allows for flexibility in server
designs. This gives companies the flexibility to provision rapid and archival
storage at a likely lower cost. Combined with the announcement of new 19nm server-grade SSDs, and the Helium-filled 6TB drives from HGST, data storage — fast or
slow — can be achieved without the use of backup tapes.
Where hybrid doesn't work
Although
hybrid cloud provides a variety of advantages over the public cloud alone, it
still suffers from the same privacy and security issues that plague the popular
perception of public cloud platform providers. Allowing information to be
transported across a network that can be subject
to third-party interference or tapping is, to many organizations, an
unnecessary and reckless security risk.
In
addition, hybrid cloud — as well as public cloud — is a poor fit for
circumstances in which data transport on both ends of
the cloud is a mission-critical operation that is sensitive to the delay from
transporting data across a network and the latency in ping times. For example,
Tatsuya Kimura, the head of international affairs at the Japan Meteorological
Agency (JMA), has questioned the ability to offload weather prediction data to
the cloud.
Currently,
the JMA supercomputer is
an 847-teraflop system designed by Hitachi. This supercomputer helps the
meteorologists determine whether a tsunami warning should be issued following
an earthquake. It's also used to predict earthquakes in the Tōkai region, where
the tectonic movement is particularly well understood. As these predictions are
intensely time-critical, attempting to offload this computational workload to
the cloud is not feasible.
Then
there's the issue of money. Organizations that have a thin IT budget probably
can't afford a rollout of a hybrid cloud solution. The upfront cost of the
servers on the private end of the spectrum is — as one might expect of racks of
server hardware — a substantial one, and the needs of smaller businesses likely
to have small IT budgets can likely be served adequately using the services of
a public cloud provider.
Who uses hybrid cloud?
Hybrid
clouds are frequently deployed in the financial sector, particularly when
proximity is important and physical space is at a premium — such as on or
adjacent to a trading floor. Pushing trade orders through the private cloud
infrastructure and running analytics on trades from the public cloud
infrastructure greatly decreases the amount of physical space needed for the
latency-sensitive task of making trade orders. This is crucial for data
security, as well. Threshold-defined trading algorithms are the entire business of many investment firms.
Trusting this data to a public cloud provider is, to most firms, an unnecessary
risk that could expose the entire underpinnings of their business.
Assembling
a private cloud to handle a standard workload, with burst compute offloaded to
the public cloud, can be a long-term budget-friendly arrangement.
Hybrid
cloud technology is also widely used in the healthcare, as the need to relay
data between healthcare providers and insurance companies for hundreds of
thousands of patients is a daunting task. Compliance with HIPAA (the Health Insurance
Portability and Accountability Act) in this regard is a regulatory
hurdle, since compartmentalizing information to comply with HIPAA over not
disclosing protected health information requires extensive permissions
settings.
For
similar reasons, law firms utilize hybrid cloud infrastructures, often as
encrypted offsite data stores, to safeguard against the potential for loss due
to theft, hardware failure, or a natural disaster such as a hurricane
destroying the original documentation or evidence.
Retail
sales are another industry that makes use of hybrid cloud services.
Transporting sales information and the analytics derived from that data is a
computationally intensive task. According to Bryan Cantrill, the CTO of Joyent,
many retail firms are avoiding public cloud offerings from Amazon and Google.
Amazon,
being the largest competitor to most (if not all) retailers, is seen as
untrustworthy from their vantage point. And not all retailers want to share
their sales analysis data with Google, which holds a majority of the search
engine market in most of the world, combined with its extensive presence in
advertising.
Why it's a good idea
Using a
hybrid cloud can greatly facilitate connectivity in the workplace. In addition
to managing files, companies must integrate with various business processes,
such as internal messaging, scheduling, business intelligence and analytics,
and other CRM systems. Public cloud offerings alone do not readily (if at all)
integrate with on-premises hardware. Devices such as printers, scanners, fax
machines, and physical security hardware, like security cameras, fire, and CO₂
detectors, can be encumbrances to public cloud adoption. Rather than isolate
these mission-critical devices from the rest of the organization's network,
using a private cloud component would be far more efficient.
With the
hybrid cloud model, IT decision makers have more control over both the private
and public components than using a prepackaged public cloud platform,
especially for enterprise content management. These prepackaged
software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions face frequent redesigns and edits
without prior notice or consent and, if poorly written, can break compatibility
with pre-existing content.
Conclusion
Hybrid
cloud adoption can be an effective strategy for a wide variety of businesses
that have a tighter focus on security or unique physical presence demands.
Although there is greatly minimized risk in a hybrid cloud model, allowing
access from a public cloud has the remote potential of
being insecure, or being the conduit through which data can be harvested. This,
however, is true of almost any public network communication.
And
while the upfront cost of server hardware for the private component of the
hybrid cloud is high, the control that IT departments can wield over hardware
selection and system design for the private component offers an invaluable way
of properly tailoring resources to the needs of the organization. Assembling a
private cloud to handle a standard workload, with burst compute offloaded to
the public cloud, can be a long-term
budget-friendly arrangement.
Ultimately,
hybrid cloud allows organizations to leverage the capabilities of public cloud
platform providers without offloading the entirety of their data to a
third-party data center. This provides a great deal of flexibility in computing
tasks, while keeping the most vital components within the company firewall.
The
adage popularly attributed to Steve Wozniak applies here: "Never trust a
computer you can't throw out a window." With the private cloud,
organizations can keep their own window. As for throwing computers, employers
may need to match Google's free access to gyms on campus before
data centre techs can dead lift a server rack.
Amazon delivers long-rumored
Amazon unveiled its first smartphone -- the Fire Phone -- on Wednesday, plunging into the highly competitive world of smartphones dominated by Apple and Samsung as part of its plan to convince consumers to buy more from its online megastore.
The phone, which includes a limited-time offer for a free year of Amazon's $99 Prime shipping and content services, goes on sale on July 25, exclusively through AT&T, according to listings on AT&T's and Amazon's websites. The Fire Phone starts at $199.
The Fire Phone can display 3D images and 3D maps, supports 3D gaming, and features a way to scroll through Web pages simply by tilting the phone. As for the design, it sports a 4.7-inch display with Corning's Gorilla Glass 3 technology, a rubber body, and aluminum buttons. It has a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera with image stabilization, and comes with unlimited photo storage on Amazon Cloud Drive. Can we build a better phone for Amazon Prime members? The answer is yes," CEO Jeff Bezos told a crowd of 300 journalists, developers and members of the public, all of whom had to apply for their seats at the event in Amazon's hometown of Seattle. Bezos said a total of 60,000 people had asked for an invitation.
The phone will cost $199 for a model with 32 gigabytes of storage and $299 for a version with 64GB. Both are sold exclusively with wireless service from AT&T, according to thecarrier's site. By comparison, both Apple and Samsung offer 16GB versions of their popular smartphones, the iPhone 5S and Galaxy S5, for $199. Higher storage capacities cost more, as in the case of the 32GB iPhone 5S, priced at $299. Essentially, the Amazon phone offers double the storage for the same price.
'Amazon in the palm of your hand'
Amazon's move into hardware beyond e-readers and tablets fits into an overall strategy of selling customers devices that make it easy to shop from Amazon. It further pits the e-commerce giant against its rival tech titans and gives Bezos another way to lock customers into Amazon's massive retail ecosystem. As with Amazon's other devices, the Fire Phone will run on a modified, or forked, version of Google's Android operating system.
"Fire is the only smartphone to put everything you love about Amazon in the palm of your hand," Bezos wrote in a note on Amazon's home page.
Investors seemed happy with the news. Amazon's shares were up 2.7 percent, or $8.76, to $334.39 at the close of the market.
The Fire Phone offers a new feature called Firefly, a program that can scan and recognize objects, images and music, allowing users to pull up information on the products or buy them from Amazon. Firefly, which is accessible with a dedicated button, can even scan a number and call it.
"Firefly recognizes a hundred million different items in real-world situations," Bezos said. Some of Firefly's features sound like an extension of the Amazon Dash, a barcode-scanning wand that Amazon is testing with its AmazonFresh grocery delivery customers.
"I can't imagine that the newbies that buy the Kindle Fire, which is all about simplification, buying a Fire Phone," he said. Amazon's most loyal customers, most likely Prime members, probably don't seek out phones that have so many bells and whistles.
Amazon Prime was front and center at the event, with Bezos once again boasting about its "tens of millions" of Prime customers.
"These individual customers do love Prime. Amazon Prime brings so much joy to the world," Bezos said while displaying glowing customer tweets about Prime on the screen behind him.
Prime members get access to several services, including two-day shipping, media streaming, and e-books. The program is central to Amazon's strategy, which contends that customers spend more money when they have unfettered access to millions of products and thousands of movies, books, and music.
Firefly ties in with all of these services, which includes entertainment features like Audible, WhisperSync, Amazon Music, and X-Ray. The phone will also have Mayday, Amazon's customer service tool, for Wi-Fi and 4G.
Bezos tied Prime back to the company's line of hardware and its customer service reputation before unveiling the Fire Phone. He also took great care to point out the phone's camera, comparing its low-light images with those of the Galaxy S5 and the iPhone 5S. Similar to many Windows Phone devices, the Fire Phone has a physical button to launch the camera. The device also has dual stereo speakers with Dolby Digital Plus virtual surround sound and "stay-flat" cables with premium earbuds.
Prior to the launch, analysts were curious about what features the phone would have aside from themuch speculated 3D technology, which has been considered more gimmick than a real draw.
"When you're first to roll out brand-new hardware features, then developers don't know what to do with it and consumers won't," Forrester analyst Julie Law said prior to the announcement.
Amazon has a small but quickly growing app store, which features 240,000 apps, nearly triple where it was a year ago. In contrast, Apple and Google have more than 1 million apps apiece.
The phone was not expected to lure any customers over from Apple or Samsung's popular, and more expensive, flagship devices, but instead cater to those who either have yet to invest in a smartphone, or have no loyalty to other low-end brands.
It was expected that AT&T would be Amazon's service partner for the smartphone. The two companies have worked together in the past with AT&T providing the wireless service for Amazon's tablets and e-readers.
Rumors about a smartphone had swirled around the company for several years. The phone was created at Lab126, Amazon's development facility housed in the heart of Silicon Valley, according to Bloomberg. Code-named Tyto, the device is one of the unit's longest-running projects, possibly going back as far as 2009.
Samsung Gear line gets heart monitor, pedometer updates
The Gear Fit fitness band and the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches are refreshed with more-accurate sleep mode, heart rate monitor, and pedometer settings.
The Gear Fit, Gear 2, and Gear 2 Neo all have new software updates for US users that include a more accurate pedometer, heart rate monitor, and sleep mode.
Samsung dropped the Galaxy name for its smartwatches andunveiled the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo in February. These two devices are touted as having several standalone features alongside the ability to act as a companion to a Samsung smartphone. They run on the company's own Tizen operating system, rather than Android.Specifically, the pedometer now starts counting steps automatically and allows for higher goals and an easier data transfer process. The updated sleep mode disables the screen wake-up feature so that users can now wear their device while sleeping without the bright screen waking them up.
Alongside the refreshed smartwatch lineup, Samsung also debuted the Gear Fit in February. This wearable is a slim fitness band with a full-color screen.
Will Couchbase Power Future Mobile App Development?
Couchbase may have an ace in the hole when it comes to giving mobile developers the tools that they need to build apps that rock.
This morning the software provider that sells commercial packages around Open Source Couchbase Server brings Couchbase Mobile to market. It includes mobile data synchronization and what the company’s Chief Mobile Architect, Wayne Carter, calls the world’s first and only native NoSQL mobile database.
It’s an important innovation that comes at exactly the right time — as mobile becomes the new major touch point.
Apps Shouldn’t Rely on the Network for Delight
Up until now building mobile apps that rely on remote data has been a point of frustration because there are some things that developers cannot control.
“If the network is fast, the app is fast. If the network is slow, the app is slow,” explains Carter.
Needless to say, this results in an inconsistent — and sometimes horrific — user experience.
Developers who tried to address the problem a few years ago found four primary stumbling blocks: device storage limits, device compute, expense and level of difficulty.
Because of innovations on devices themselves, only expense and level of difficulty remain.
Couchbase has taken it upon itself to help mobile developers clear the remaining hurdles so that they can build apps that are not as severely strained by network availability.
An End to Headaches Caused by Network Strain
As Carter and his team began looking for ways to help developers build “always available, always responsive” apps, it was obvious that relying primarily on remote data in the cloud wasn’t a solution (consider if a network was down between you and your data — you’d have nothing). Neither was relying solely on local data in an embedded NoSQL database on a mobile device.
What was needed, and what Couchbase designed, is an entirely new mobile platform, appropriately named Couchbase Mobile. It consists of three component: Couchbase Lite, Couchbase Sync Gateway and Couchbase Server. Couchbase Lite’s NoSQL database sits on your mobile device (lightweight, embedded JSON database), Couchbase Server sits in the Cloud (high performance, always on, JSON database) and Couchbase Sync manages data synchronization.
Taken together, these products provide mobile application developers a powerful new platform for simplifying app development, exponentially reducing the code needed to manage data synchronization, and enabling much faster time to market.
You Can Do Mobile the Way Facebook Does
“This is similar to how Facebook does it,” says Rahim Yaseen, Couchbase’s senior vice president of product development. But, of course, few in the world have such large, talented engineering teams.
“Now (with Couchbase Mobile), anyone can do it,” adds Yaseen.
And though the product hasn’t been general available until today, the companies Couchbase pre-released it to are doing some interesting things.
Infinite Campus, for example, which provides educational solutions for more than 2,000 school districts, uses it for collaboration and learning. With Couchbase Mobile, teachers can push out assignments, reading and classroom materials to students via the web, which they can use to complete assignments while they are offline at home. There are no uploads or downloads required, everything a student needs is simply just there.
Developers Deliver Delight with Couchbase Mobile
The user experience is key when it comes to building and delivering mobile apps. Even small delays cause tremendous anxiety and frustration among consumers. Delivering delight is what’s expected and, provided that Couchbase Mobile works as presented, it’s a significant advance.
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