Trends Report

IBM Reinforces MobileFirst

On-Premises Software Converges With Cloud Services

July 11th, 2014
Michael Facemire, null
Michael Facemire
Jeffrey Hammond, null
Jeffrey Hammond
With contributors:
Christopher Mines , Dominique Whittaker

Summary

At two recent customer conferences, IBM showcased the latest rendition of its "MobileFirst" initiative for developers. IBM MobileFirst comprises a set of products, including Worklight, MaaS360, Tealeaf CX Mobile, Xtify, and newly announced Bluemix cloud services. Collectively, these products enable IBM customers to rapidly deploy, manage, secure, and monitor mobile apps. But, overlapping services and at least a half dozen product SKUs make deployment planning a challenge for mobile development teams. IBM still faces a fair amount of integration work to consolidate these previously separate products, and to simplify them into a consistent set of mobile infrastructure services that clients can deploy on premises or via a public cloud. This report details the current state of the IBM MobileFirst initiative, and where we expect IBM to take it over the next year.

Want to read the full report?

Contact us to become a client

This report is available for individual purchase ($1495).

Forrester helps business and technology leaders use customer obsession to accelerate growth. That means empowering you to put the customer at the center of everything you do: your leadership strategy, and operations. Becoming a customer-obsessed organization requires change — it requires being bold. We give business and technology leaders the confidence to put bold into action, shaping and guiding how to navigate today's unprecedented change in order to succeed.