Abstract
Smartphones like iPhone, Blackberry, Android,
etc. are a wonderful combination of computers and cell-phones.
They include many multi-media features that seem to be
capturing the interests of individuals. With the growing
popularity of these devices, enterprises have discovered them
to be useful for employees who are distant / dispersed from the
office. Therefore, developing smartphone applications for the
enterprises has become necessary. In this paper we describe
our methodology for smartphone enablement of enterprise
software systems. This comprises of a framework to assess the
business processes to identify the potential candidates for
smartphone enablement and also guidelines for re-factoring
the system architecture.As most of the enterprises are either
web applications and/or web services, the technical approach
will provide the details of developing the solution using web
technology. Based on our experience, we briefly discuss the
benefits and limitations of our approach. We conclude the paper
with a short note on the evolution of web technology in the
smartphone area.
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