Mobile Devices for Business : A Study of Uses and IT Architecture
Simon Parisot · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2013
New technologies related to mobility, such as smartphones and tablets, once again push companies to reconsider their IT system. New services can be provided externally (to customers, partners or the general public) as well as internally (to employees) and existing ones have to be reconsidered to fit new devices and new ways of using IT. This important evolution implies that new technologies and new components are integrated in the IT system. Those components are characterized by a high volatility: they are subject to trend effects, they evolve quickly to follow the terminals market and thus their lifetime is far from guaranteed. This study focuses on new uses brought by mobile technologies and that modern companies can benefit from, and then, based on several market products, proposes a set of software architecture patterns that correspond to the different possible implementation of mobility in the IT system.