If you ever find yourself struggling to digitally transform your organization, business units, divisions, processes, assets & people, you might consider using the architecture of distributed #IoT software systems as your guide.
Intermittent wireless connectivity requires #mobile apps to follow sync patterns using pre-fetched data via APIs and offline local storage.
Migrate Win32 applications secured by client/server database logins to #mobile apps that use OAuth & enterprise cloud directories for authentication instead.
Move your older, distributed broker technologies like CORBA, RMI, DCOM & RPC to REST APIs that communicate with any #mobile device, app, browser or endpoint.
#Mobile employees working around the world are best served by globally distributed cloud services + replicated data with low network latency.
Accelerate the #mobile integration and delivery of server resources to any device utilizing mobile middleware solutions like MEAP, MADP, MRAD or mBaaS.
Bring web scale to backend business systems via adapters, replication, sharding, queuing & caching to support a growing #mobile workforce.
Mobile-enable backend business systems by wrapping them with REST APIs that speak the same language as any #mobile device, browser or app.
I was thrilled to join Gus Emery (@n_f_e) and JJ Hammond (@jjhammondmusic) for a lively discussion of the past and future of Microsoft enterprise mobility on CodeCast Episode 12 of @STLTechTalk. These guys are doing great work in the developer
For those of you who couldn’t make it to San Francisco, here’s my session on Wrapping a Mobile API around your Enterprise and taking Data Offline with NoSQL on Windows Phones and Tablets from //build/. Enterprise mobility is a top priority