“It’s an app, but I think about it more as a way of running a company”. Says Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook. This statement was in regards to Facebook’s Workplace application, which is now available to any company or organization that has a need for it. Workplace is the business edition of Facebook. Catering towards the needs of professionals in a corporate setting is exactly what this enterprise platform sets out to do. The potential this specific software has is exceptional, considering what the company has already accomplished with the social media world. With around 1.71 billion monthly active users on Facebook, there is a lot of hope and excitement towards how the company can successfully run enterprise integration. Workplace App Features Think about Workplace as Facebook’s strictly business and highly professional twin brother. Some of the features the application has are extremely similar to that of Facebook. As the old saying goes: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Why change things up if the developers have an already successful and popular platform? They didn’t. According to an official Facebook article: “We’ve brought the best of Facebook to the workplace – whether it’s basic infrastructure such as News Feed, or the ability to create and share in Groups or via chat, or useful features such as Live, Reactions, Search and Trending posts. This means you can chat with a colleague across the world in real time, host a virtual brainstorm in a Group, or follow along with your CEO’s presentation on Facebook Live.” The capability this enterprise integration has is quite amazing. Chat systems, group interlinking, and analytic tracking allows for adequate collaboration between workers. How Does Your Business Benefit From It? Workplace can give employees the ability to unify all parts of an organization while supporting collaboration, flexibility, and creativity. What Workplace does so effectively is offering an extremely effective medium for workers to communicate with one another. Instead of relying on outdated corporate email messaging, Facebook offers users the ability to discuss projects through groups, ideas, and photos.                                                                           Image Source: workplace.fb.com Keeping employees connected is another large function of this software. With some organizations having considerable workforces consisting of people in different brands, segments, places, etc. it can be hectic keeping workers in the loop. The enterprise app development of Workplace keeps the needs of employees first resulting in positive business productivity. How is it Different from Other Platforms? Facebook Workplace’s biggest competitor was, and continues to be Slack. The biggest advantages Workplace has over Slack are the friendly (and familiar) user interface and the price. Being the most popular social network in the world, it’s fairly evident that people and workers alike know how to use Facebook, and like doing it. Workplace caters to such a broad audience because there just simply isn’t a large learning curve in getting used to its features. The software strategically mimics the platform of Facebook so that users know the product and are familiar with how it functions. Using the application on the go is a strong component the company offers its consumers. In the discussion of enterprise mobile apps, Facebook already has one of the best messaging applications on the market. A transition of it into a corporate setting will both be advantageous and supportive of business activities.                                                                          Image Source: wired.com Another huge dominance Workplace has is its pricing options. The company offers a $3 price for up to 1k monthly active users, $2 for 1,001 – 10k monthly active users, and $1 for 10,001 + monthly active users. This is significantly cheaper than Slack’s standard pricing plan of $6.67 per active user monthly and their plus pricing plan of $12.50 per active monthly user. This competitive pricing strategy will be hard to ignore for companies on a slightly tighter budget. No longer just social, Facebook has official spread its wings into the world of business beyond marketing. It’s going to be really exciting to see what Facebook’s version of enterprise integration will turn into.  What’s next for the digital giant? Maybe we’ll be seeing Workplace evolve into a household name in corporate industries, very much like it’s flagship social giant has in the world of online sharing. How would you like to see Facebook evolve its business platform?

The Internet has easily become one of the fastest growing, most essential tools for everyday life – to the point it is quickly evolving into something that is completely unavoidable. . Now, more than ever, our entire lives exist in the Clouds, part of a greater enterprise integration model that is quickly picking up steam. Essentially, these models connect devices to the Internet in ways we never thought they could be, or even needed to be connected. Enterprise mobile apps enable people to view wirelessly connected cameras on planes, adjust the thermostat while never leaving the couch and even check the weather on our refrigerator. This is all a greater part of the “Internet of Things” movement in which eventually, everything in the world around us may be in some way intertwined to the net. Because of this, enterprise app development is on the rise and businesses are shifting their focus to explore ways they can be involved in the future of our technology-driven world. Getting The Data You Need Businesses are using enterprise integration to make it easier to understand data and allow teams to view data in a digestible manner. These systems incorporate Cloud based technologies that grant users the ability to access massive amounts of data practically anywhere at anytime. From Fortune 500 companies to small businesses, every company moving forward can glean a great advantage from this by more deeply understanding their consumer. With so much data, it may be hard to find the real nuggets of gold that will propel you to new heights, but by having enterprise integration services makes it easy to narrow your focus on the data you need for powerful business results. Integration You Can Wear The enterprise mobile apps that we see today are often being incorporated into technology we can actually wear. For example, The Apple Watch has more than 10,000 applications and the number is only rising. Wearable technology represents a budding market of the future. And while the apps already have a pretty significant presence on iOS, companies are striving to create additional applications to further the growth of their own businesses. This drive and consumer demand shows the deep level of commitment to the idea that life should be connected.                                                                                Image Source:  forbes.com Securing The Future A critical part of any enterprise app development is security. As reported by Gartner, more than three quarters of all mobile apps failed basic, standard security tests in 2015. With this in mind, any application now in development must ease consumers’ minds in regards security, making it a focal point when in the development stages. With the web of interconnection to people’s personal lives, they must feel secure that their information is being protected at all costs. We trust so many programs and apps to store data that has our finical history, medical history and even personal history. If companies really want us to move forward and allow these types of technologies to be a part of our lives, they must leave the consumers in confidence that their information will not be misused or mishandled. Businesses that will be successful in integration of this technology era are making increase endeavors to tackle the issue and resolve consumer concerns.                                                                                       Image Source: poised.co.in An App A Day

The enterprise mobility is driving great expenditure within large corporations. If your enterprise is still using an outdated and cumbersome legacy technologies, then the time has come to go for a well-developed mobile strategy. There are many applications and technologies which are connected to many enterprise databases and can face the challenge in 2015. They can actually make the existing platforms mobile centric. Many of the enterprises are migrating their old legacy based technology systems towards the mobile cloud. It is surely going to be the driving force for many of the largest corporate IT expenditure which we can witness throughout the year ahead.

3.) Use of Internet of Things in Mobile Enterprise Solutions
The advent of internet of things (IoT) is definitely destined to have a strong presence in the modern enterprise. It’s not only the first generation of enterprise platforms that are expected to go for the IoT space but there is much more to expect these solutions to go for mainstream in year 2015. 2015 is surely going to be a year where there is going to be lot many experimentations to be done for all of the (IoT) solutions in the enterprise.

4.) Huge Demand for Context Aware Apps
In year 2015 there is going to be a large scope for the context aware apps which is already a big business affair. If your company is developing a mobility initiative you need to really think twice before giving consumer what they want at the precise point of time. The developed apps need to take into consideration the old behavior of the user, location and time of day so as to provide them the recommendations accordingly. Take for example there is an app which uses the weather data such as temperature and snowfall in order to take into account the related products and services. By keeping these points into consideration marketers and enterprise app developers can certainly create the greatest experiences for the users.

5.) More Use of Corporate Messaging Tools in Future
There has been advanced use of the unified communications which has somehow made major transitions in the way of communication. It hence streamlined the process of instant message services and also video conferencing that too from mobile devices.