Real-Time Mobile App Strategy for Data a Priority in 2013

Kaazing, pioneers of HTML5 WebSocket and a leading Web and mobile communication platform for live data delivery, recently announced the findings of its annual Live Web and Mobile Communication survey.  The survey, which was conducted in March 2013 with nearly 300 global IT professionals and developers worldwide, found that nearly nine out of ten (86 percent) respondents consider real-time Web and data communication to be a priority for them in 2013, with 81 percent saying they will apply that priority to their mobile strategy.

Click through for findings from a mobile enterprise app survey conducted by Kaazing.

Within the next 12 months respondents plan to enable two-way, real-time Web applications, ranked as follows:

1. Monitoring – 33.8 percent
2. Push notifications – 32.8 percent
3. Collaboration – 30.4 percent
4. eCommerce – 29.7 percent
5. Live chat – 29.1 percent
6. Extending enterprise applications to web – 25.7 percent
7. Remote employee solutions – 23.6 percent

Countries outside of the U.S. also ranked online gaming and real-time voting as top applications. 

The top global benefits of this trend were cited as security (56.5 percent), speed (48.6 percent) and reliability (48.6 percent). While enterprises view security as the top benefit, it has also been listed as the top concern (67.6 percent), followed by browser support (34.8 percent) and speed/latency (37.5 percent).

Even as they cite concerns, the research shows that developers worldwide are willing to invest significant portions of their budget to realize the benefits.  Seventy-eight percent of all respondents report allocating some portion of their 2013 budget to real-time Web and data communication platforms, and of those, 27 percent plan to assign 10 to 20 percent of their total 2013 IT budget.

Native ObjectiveC (iOS) (49.5 percent), HTML5 Hybrid (48.8 percent) and Android (50.9 percent) were the top three mobile platforms, showing no statistically significant differences on a global level, and 52 percent of global respondents will deploy their overall real-time Web communication platform on-premise, with 42 percent planning to deploy cloud/PAAS based platforms.