In a new report, Juniper predicts that several factors will combine to generate rapid growth in the number of mobile enterprise users accessing cloud-based apps. Those factors include the success of app stores, PaaS deployments from large technology companies, the growing importance of collaborative apps, and cloud-computing providers opening up their APIs to third-party developers.
According to author Dr Windsor Holden, “A cloud-based ecosystem for enterprise apps will be attractive both for developers and enterprises alike. For developers, cloud opens up a far wider potential audience for their products; for enterprise customers, outsourcing application management to a remote third-party, costed on a scalable, pay-per-use basis, offers far more flexibility combined with a significant reduction in capital expenditure.”
