90 Percent of Respondents to Red Hat Survey Plan to Increase Mobile App Development Investments in 2016
November 12 2015 - 09:00AM
Business Wire
Businesses shift towards mobile collaboration,
MBaaS technology, open source and lightweight development
languages
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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