When considering a cloud implementation to support any software application. Its important to understand your business requirements. The following questions are provided to assist with determining if a cloud implementation of the Mobile Enterprise Platform make sense for your business needs. This list is not exhaustive and is not intended to drive a specific recommendation, but rather as a way to help consider if deployment of the platform in a cloud tenant is right for your business. Specific features of the platform and services provided within the cloud environment that are available to cloud tenants can be determined during the Architecture Design Workshop.

When considering deployment into a mobile enterprise platform cloud implementation ask yourself the following questions:

• Does your organization have a cloud first policy for IT and software services?
• Are you subject to FDA, Sarbanes-Oxley, or other regulatory compliance requirements?
• Does your organization require label printing functionality?
• Does your organization mandate the separation of production and non-production software configurations?
• Does your organization have specific requirements for high availability, disaster recovery, and performance objectives?
• How many users do you anticipate will need to concurrently run apps on their devices?
• What is the expected transaction volume?
• Are remote locations subject to Wide Area Network outages?
• What mix of user types will you have: mobile users, shop floor, or warehouse users?
• How many enterprise or non-enterprise apps, or data sources, will your solution communicate with?
• Will users perform most work in a warehouse or in the field?
• Will your apps require a large amount of local device data?
• To which platforms will you deploy your apps?

  • Windows
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Web browsers
  • All of the above