Mobile Apps in the Enterprise, Part 5 Customer Case Studies Presented by Sean Gallagher

A Tale of Two Apps Industrial Strength: Duke Energy Smart Grid installation & maintenance (Windows Mobile) Real Estate Tomato: A real estate agent's mobile MLS app (iOS and Android)

Libertas Technologies Small software development shop in Cincinnati Custom solutions development Started in mobile with mobile Web apps for customers with large facilities

Duke Energy Deploying “Smart Grid” sensors on poles and other points throughout power grid to monitor and manage power flow Needed to automate dispatch, deployment, installation tracking and maintenance of devices, including location data Barcode scanning, GPS data required Unreliable wireless network connection environment

The Libertas Solution Windows Mobile based Hardware: Motorola MC75 Network: Verizon 3G Local Data Store: SQL Server Enterprise connectivity: Web Services Outcome: Duke has deployed app, in operation

Real Estate Tomato Professional education, social media support, community for real estate industry Goal: A private-labeled mobile app for real estate agencies to provide national geographic listing search, manage variations in RTS/MLS systems Needed to be able to accommodate differences in listings like “boat dock” vs. “tornado shelter” on property Local cache of data, synchronization with larger database based on location data

The Solution Custom app for iOS and Android platforms Client interface written by contract developers in native code for each platform Data architecture common across apps Local data store using CouchOne local “Web server” and CouchDB cloud database Schema-less database, uses document model, allows unstructured data search without fields Data integration happens on server end, no connections to regional listing systems

Real Estate Tomato Mobile: Still in Development About 1Q behind on deployment Web app also in development