A company can only grow when it can manage its tasks, responsibilities within the given time. This is only possible when the companies can organize and manage their data and share information with ease.
Nowadays, many companies, including corporate ones, are facing challenges because of the pandemic caused by CORONA Virus. Many of the workers are working remotely from different locations. It has become important for companies to get enterprise mobile applications to manage their tasks and share information with each other.
Although getting an enterprise mobile application curated is not so hard, eventually, companies will surely benefit from using those applications. However still, they face challenges in developing those enterprise mobile applications.
If you own a company and are thinking about developing an enterprise mobile app for your business, check out the challenges you might face.
- Information Security
Nowadays, everyone has lots of personal information saved on their mobile devices; these include information like credit card and debit card details, personal documents and many more.
When you are designing an application of enterprise-level, it must have the capability of handling sensitive information of the user, like the account details of the user, financial data and security data. If somehow any of this sensitive information gets leaked, then your business will be in serious trouble.
Though all the mobile phones have an inbuilt security system installed in them, which scans the applications while installing but doing a cross-check is always great, especially when it is about being secure from unknown and unpredictable threats. In such cases, mobile application security testing tools like the Pradeo Mobile Application Security Testing solution always come handy.
- Right Resource & Expertise
When developing an application for your enterprise business, the first thing you need to do is to hire quality developers who are experts in this particular sector. They must have proper knowledge of UX design, quality assurance and security requirements. The app must also be very easy to use; if your customers face difficulties in using the app, then it will have a great chance of failing in the market.
- Designing User-Interface
You must have heard about the famous quote ‘first impression is the last impression’. Whenever a customer installs your enterprise business application, the first thing he will notice is the UI (user interface) of the app. If the app has a very dull and old-looking UI, the customers will instantly lose their interest and can even stop using the app. So it is very important to design an attractive UI, which will help in greatly improving the experience of the customer while they are using the app.
In order to make sure that your application has the best UI, always keep track of the latest UI trends.
- Pushing App Updates
It is very important to make sure that your app provides a seamless experience to its users. So it is necessary to provide routine updates for your application fixing the bugs and glitches, but when the app is being used continuously by many employees, it will become very difficult for them to focus on updates. In case employees use different versions of the app, it will result in delays in their operations. The solution for this problem is providing push app updates. This will keep the app updated without causing any inconvenience to the users.
- Integrating Backend Resources
Enterprises use different apps to do their tasks. If the system is unified, it will be easier for the employees to work on it. They can do all their necessary work on a single app. By this, your whole team of employees will stay on the same site and it will greatly increase efficiency.
- Device Compatibility & Screen Size
Last but not least is if the devices are supporting the app or not. The main purpose of the app is to make it easy for the users to have a smooth experience. If the end-users are not satisfied with the app, then there’s no point in developing it.
The app needs to have flawless service no matter which device it has been installed. An end-user might have an android or iPhone, so the OS selection needs to be carefully handled so that the app doesn’t crash. The development procedure, elements of UI/UX are different in case of Android and iOS. So before developing the app, the companies need to conduct more than one research to understand their business needs and then make a final decision.
Moreover, some employees can also use tablets to get their job done. So, the app needs to be flexible enough to fit in different device sizes. While developing the app, the companies need to pay attention to make sure the resolution, color or pixel densities don’t get compromised if using some other devices.
Now you have an idea on what are the challenges you might face while developing an enterprise mobile application, so keep all these in mind when you start your venture.
