Enabling mobiles for enterprise applications

For the last period our team was doing a supply chain management product. It contains a synchronization process to update data between stakeholders. The system has rich clients and mobile clients who occasionally connect to the main server to send/receive data updates.

Last week, I had a break to review our mobile design the refactor the code base. We used Microsoft synchronization services with SQL Server CE database. Used WCF based web services as the conveyor for the synchronization. Windows mobile 5 platform provided the base for the application. After doing all, I was looking for best practices for mobile application development for enterprises.

Found Kulathumani Hariharan’s “Best Practices: Extending Enterprise Applications to Mobile Devices” in The Architecture Journal. It is generally covering a vast scope in the mobile application integration for enterprise solutions. It was a great opportunity for us to review the system with a blueprint. That’s an article each mobile developer should read.