A comparative anatomy of mobile enterprise applications: Towards a framework of software reuse

Issue title: Enterprise Mobility: Applications, Technologes and Strategies

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Brans, Patrick D. | Basole, Rahul C.

Affiliations: 42 Rue de la Greniere, 38180 Seyssins, France. E-mail: Pat_Brans@hotmail.com | Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology, 760 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA. E-mail: rahul.basole@ti.gatech.edu

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Abstract: While more and more enterprises are making use of mobile technology to enable field workers, in many cases a mobile solution is built from the ground up for use by a single company. This is costly, both in terms of development and support resources. By achieving higher reuse of software components these costs can come down. This paper develops a methodology for identifying re-usable components; and using this methodology several re-usable components are listed. As a by-product of this research we develop a taxonomy of mobile applications. We suggest the new term field office applications to describe applications used by mobile workers.

Keywords: Mobile enterprise applications, field office, taxonomy, software reuse, enterprise mobiling, wireless applications

Journal: Information Knowledge Systems Management, vol. 7, no. 1-2, pp. 145-158, 2008