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ISV Tech Talk“Can Enterprise IT embrace consumer led IT?”

Dave AllenISV Application ArchitectMicrosoft UK

ISV Tech TalkCan Enterprise IT embrace consumer led IT?

Consumers love mobile applications and with the proliferation of devices that are able to connect to the intranet, as well as the Internet, consuming both application Web Services and other corporate systems such as eMail, CRM, etc., will Enterprise IT embrace both the new deployment mechanisms and their lack of control over these new devices, especially with the proven cost savings of a managed desktop estate?

• Have we seen the re-birth of the App?• NNN applications in “App Stores”• NNN new millionaires created

• Will HTML 5 eventually kill the App?• Are the development costs for multiple native

applications too high, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor thinks so…

• Will restrictive billing practices discourage development?

• Is the resurrection short-lived?


Probably the biggest technology problem we have is delivering Facebook to all the people who use it, in the places they want to use it. The past couple of years has seen a rise in really advanced mobile devices.…

With all these mobile devices, there's a huge amount of platform diversity now. When we update the Facebook product we have to update about seven different versions. We have to update the website that runs on your PC, the iPhone app, the Android app, the Blackberry app, the mobile site and a number of other device-specific versions of Facebook.

It's becoming a real engineering challenge for us, as well as other technology companies.

Because of that, I think we're spending a lot of our time investing in HTML 5. It's the code name, if you will, for the next generation of web technology that's optimised for mobile devices, and optimised to feel more like native applications.

The end goal is that we'll be able to develop one version of Facebook for mobile devices, that runs on all different kinds of mobile phones. That's really where our focus is now.



Managed standardised desktops reduced TCO by 30%

• Is VDI the answer?• Big investment for Microsoft®, VMware, and

Citrix currently• Gartner initially predicted high growth rates,

but these have since been reduced, but still growing – 40% at end of 2010

• Will VDI be the way in which IT let unmanaged/unmanageable devices in?

• VMware seem to think so…


• Questions raised• Is developing native mobile applications the

right way forward or is HTML 5 a better option?

• Is “the App Store” the software delivery mechanism you have been craving?

• Are your customers pushing you to provide client applications for multiple devices?

• Will IT block the deployment of native applications?


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