Businesses shift towards mobile collaboration, MBaaS technology, open
source and lightweight development languages
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced results from a recent mobile maturity survey,
which revealed that 90 percent of respondents anticipate increasing
investment in mobile application development within the next 12 months.
The 2015 Red Hat mobile maturity survey also finds that these same
respondents predict their organization's investment for mobile
application development increasing at an average growth rate of 24
percent during the same period.
Red Hat's mobile maturity survey follows findings from two years ago by
app development platform provider, FeedHenry (acquired
by Red Hat in October 2014). According to FeedHenry's 2013 survey,
only seven percent of respondents from 100 U.K. companies of 1,000 or
more employees indicated their organization had a fully implemented
mobile app strategy. Now, 52 percent of respondents to Red Hat's 2015
survey claim to have a fully implemented strategy, signaling a rise in
the importance of mobility as the pace of development accelerates.
Further, respondents' organizations plan to develop on average 21 custom
apps each over the next two years, a 40 percent increase over the
average number of custom apps developed in the last two years.
As organizations invest in mobile strategies, they are shifting towards
a collaborative approach in which the line of business can play a
greater role in decision-making alongside IT. They're also seeking to
adopt newer, more agile technologies to best tackle mobile development
and integration such as Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaas) and
lightweight languages.
Red Hat commissioned research firm Vanson Bourne to poll the views of IT
decision makers from 200 organizations across the United States and
Western Europe. Key insights include:
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The transformative power of mobile is important as organizations
mature. One-third (35 percent) of respondents say mobile apps
change the way they do business by reinventing business processes and
an additional 37 percent say apps are primarily used to automate
existing processes. Still, 24 percent of respondents are mobilizing
existing web applications, showing potential for further maturity in
their approaches.
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More than one-third (37 percent) of respondents have instituted a
collaborative Mobile Center of Excellence (MCoE). More than half
(55 percent) of respondents whose organizations have an implemented
and fully reviewed mobile app strategy have a MCoE in place. This can
signal improved mobile maturity as IT and lines of business work
together to improve workforce productivity and consumer engagement.
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Organizations are embracing open source software and MBaaS
technology. An overwhelming (85) percent of survey respondents say
open source software is important to their app development strategy.
Moreover, to tackle back-end integration, MBaaS technology is used by
nearly one-third (31 percent) of respondents. This number is
anticipated to grow to 36 percent in the next two years.
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A new era of lightweight languages has arrived. One-quarter (26
percent) of respondents plan to primarily use Node.js as their
language for back-end development within the next two years, while 15
percent plan to primarily use Java and 19 percent plan to primarily
use .NET. Currently, 71 percent of respondents are primarily using
Java while 56 percent use .NET.
Supporting Quote
Cathal McGloin, vice president, Mobile Platforms, Red Hat
"Organizations
are realizing the importance of mobile strategies. We're seeing a shift
towards more mature practices such as collaboration across business and
IT teams, as well as recognition of the importance of open source
software, MBaaS technology and lightweight languages. Based on the
mobility maturity survey, we anticipate mobile application development
will increase over the next two years as there's still room for mobile
approaches to mature in the enterprise."
Methodology and Demographics
Red Hat, Inc., commissioned Vanson Bourne to poll the views of 200 IT
decision makers from private sector organizations with at least 2,500
employees across the U.S. and Western Europe. The survey was completed
in October 2015, and was carried out online.
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