Enterprise-level Mobile Development

Submitted by Jay Almers on Thu, 03/03/2011 - 15:29 inApplication Development, Enterprise, MIT, Mobile, MobileWeb, UNC

I am currently attending the monthly University of North Carolina Webmasters' group meeting and the discussions for today revolve around our enterprise-level mobile applications and sites.  The meeting is relatively informal but the depth and breadth of expertise is pretty vast.

UNC recently unveiled their mobile site (http://m.unc.edu) and their new application for mobile devices so that they could easily link to various RSS feeds, deeper portions of the mobile site, maps of the campus, directories, etc...  After overcoming numerous obstacles such as user-interface in a mobile world, content management, and identifying the target user market, UNC has created a single page of icons that link to the most commonly requested/used content.  I think that is really the main theme behind developing for mobile devices.