Nathan Jones

Nov 11 2011

A Single Sign-on Pattern for Enterprise iOS Applications

In conversations with clients, we continue to hear how important single sign-on is to their enterprise mobile application strategy. According to a study earlier this year by Kelton Research 250 IT Managers, 21% of respondents indicated that they plan to deploy 20, or more, enterprise applications to their organization this year.

In order for enterprises to realize the productivity gains factored into the investment decisions for those applications, IT Managers must explore options for enabling single sign-on for their users. In this post, we'll outline a mobile single sign-on (mSSO) pattern for enterprise iOS applications.

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Nov 04 2011

Getting Started with JSON in iOS5

JSON has taken the data-interchange world by storm with its' lightweight, easy to understand format. The explosion of mobile apps, and their consumption of network based data, helped fuel JSON's growth. CapTech's recommended approach for web services utilizes JSON as the interchange format.

While JSON has been around for several years - RFC4627 was published in July of 2006 - working with JSON in an iOS project required that you download one of the many frameworks and integrate it into your project. My personal choice has been SBJSON - https://github.com/stig/json-framework.

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Tagged: iOS, ios5, iPhone SDK, json, mobile

May 11 2010

HTML5 for the Mobile Enterprise - Security and Compatibility

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May 11 2010

HTML5 for the Mobile Enterprise

HTML5, the latest, all-encompassing trend that seems to permeate every app launch in the blogosphere.  Google has even discontinued their Google Gears product to throw their support behind the HTML5 specification which is, technically, still in draft status.
 
This will be a two-part series discussing HTML5's suitability for the enabling your mobile enterprise.  Today, I'll focus on creating the mobile extension of your enterprise applications and a few key capabilities of HTML5.

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