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24 Best Virtual Reality Apps

Posted on September 9, 2020 by Super Admin Testreveal

VR apps offers a truly immersive experience and offers a sensory experience that can transport the individual to virtually any place, well ‘virtually’. While the space has been taken up by expensive as well as inexpensive headsets and fancy gear to enjoy the VR apps experience, it is now possible to leverage your smartphones display for a good VR experience.

All that you need is to get the right VR apps on your smartphones.

Here are 24 top VR apps that will transform your smartphones into a great VR experience.

Within VR	Google Earth VR	VR Space	GoPro
Sites in VR	Titans of space	Google Art & culture	VR Theater
VR X Racer	Google Street View	Fulldive VR	Var’s VR
VR Roller Coaster	Google Expeditions VR	VR Haunted house	Google VR services
Google Cardboard	Oculus	Deep space Battle VR	VR Media Player 360
Youtube VR	Veer VR	VR Fantasy	Daydream

1. Within VR

Founded by Aaron Koblin and Chris Milk “WITHIN” brings together the most immense experiences from the finest VR’s around the world. WITHIN is an all in one VR content app that distributes VR, XR and AR experiences across web, mobile and other consoles.

App Features

New contents added constantly
Available on iOS, Android, Daydream, Gear VR, Oculus Rift, PlayStation®VR, Steam®VR, Viveport and WebVR platforms.
A broad content library which is getting bigger by time

Ratings: 4.5/5

Installs: 1,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

2. Google Earth VR

The whole new Google Earth VR lets users explore the world from a totally new perspective. With this app, the whole world becomes within your reach.

This app can be of great use for people everywhere to explore our planet in detail.

It also consists of a new search function that prompts the VR keyboard that can be manipulated according to your headset controller.

App Features

Helps you discover the world’s most incredible places
Can measure heights & area
Zoom on down to Google street view database
Enjoy virtual tourism
Spin the globe at 360 degrees view

Ratings: 4.4/5

Installs: 100,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

3. VR Space

VR space is an awesome app solution that facilitates users to enjoy a VR universe. Here, you can conduct a real tour of sun, star and planet systems with a connected VR device.

Being a VR headset game, it doesn’t need any additional touch controls. This VR app offers a blissful VR journey through the whole universe with HD graphics of every planet and space objects.

App Features

Experience ambient music.
Stunning view of space and planets.
Optimized Fulldive VR adventure.
Immersive VR Interface

Ratings: 4.4/5

Installs: 500,000+

Download: Android

4. GoPro

GoPro is a godsend for the digital era. A simple device capturing photos and videos from hard-to-reach places. It enables a 360-degree view of every image captured. The app never can make any great shots miss from your view or camera.

Once you click a wide-angle/fish lens image, it is transferable within seconds to your multiple devices. It is easy to play your 360-degree videos offline and instantly share with friends without an internet connection.

App Features

Limitless cloud backup & storage
Rectilinear planet projections.
Support multiple formats.
Live VR events.

Ratings: 4.3/5

Installs:10,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

5. Sites in VR

Sites in VR help you reach any destination you wish to visit. Users can feel as if they are roaming around the famous monuments and even mars. Starting from ancient architecture to most popular tour landmarks, sites in VR help you in excellent virtual touring.

You can integrate this app with any other VR apps like Cardboard as a perfect alternative with detailed settings for correcting visuals or other parameters.

App Features

Turn on/off stereoscopic mode.
PAN, Zoom, and more movements.
An auto collaboration of sensors.
Quality 360° panoramic images.

Ratings: 4.3/5

Installs:1,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

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6. Titans of space

Titans of space provide an incredible virtual reality tour of our planets and the solar system. Exciting soundtracks accompany the visual tour and make your VR experience into the next level.

There is a cockpit dashboard where the latest tour spots on the solar system are shown and you can easily choose from them. A purchase option helps you know very details of space objects and unlock a 50-minute voice-over.

App Features

Drift correction mode.
Multiple language support.
Full control over a multitude of options.
Work with Google cardboard.

Ratings: 4.3/5

Installs: 1,000,000+

Download: Android

7. Google Art & culture

Google Arts and culture invite users into the world of mindblowing virtual tours to the famous spots and heritage sites at fingertips. Besides, you can click pictures and compare it with classic artworks & share them with your friends.

It allows a personalized experience where you can click portraits and compare them with the art that looks like. You get a chance to visit world-class museums and view HD quality 360-degree videos with the app.

App Features

Immersive pocket gallery.
Point and recognize artworks.
Weekly highlights & notifications.
Customize the artwork gallery.

Ratings: 4.2/5

Installs:10,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

8. VR Theater

VR theatre is a dedicated VR app for Cardboard. Users can turn their heads around and enjoy movies in true virtual reality. The app works fully via your sight control and an array of options to stimulate the visual experience.

You can view normal,2D, and 3D movies with VR theatre. It also has an additional feature of supporting panoramic 360-degree and 180-degree movies. There are many configuration setups for users and create their theatres themselves.

App Features

No headset controls are required.
Easy to use UI
Supports majority file formats
Customized design choices.

Ratings: 4.2/5

Installs:1,000,000+

Download: Android

9. VR X Racer

VR X racer is an extraordinary VR aerospace game enjoyed by all age groups. The game has two modes namely hand mode race and virtual reality mode race. Users become the protectors of earth defeating UFOs, spaceships, missiles, etc.

You can feel like you are fighting on an extraterrestrial war in reality. Users get credits after each level and can buy spaceships.

App Features

Stunning 3D effects
Multiple easy & hard levels.
Superb animations & graphics.
Amazing & simple controls.

Ratings: 4.2/5

Installs:1,000,000+

Download: Android

10. Google Street View

This is definitely a VR app that you should have on your iPhone, as it has possibly the largest collection of locations. You name the place and the app seems to have it.

And it offers additional features like giving you the flexibility to include your own collections to the app. If you would like to good look at the most sought after locations on the globe, here’s your chance to do it virtually.

App Features

Explore world landmarks &step inside locations
Allows 360º photographs and can publish to Google Maps to share with the world
Consists of spectrum of Street View ready tools

Ratings: 4.1/5

Installs: 1,000,000,000+

Download : Android, iOS

11. Fulldive VR

Full dive VR is a well-known VR platform where users can earn money, bitcoin, or other cryptocurrencies by browsing VR content. Fulldive VR works with the Fulldive browser and can be operated on the Cardboard or daydream app.

Users can just engage in listening to music, watching movies, etc in Virtual reality and earn money. It contains about five hundred million plus games and one million-plus video which you can view and start getting a passive income too.

App Features

Simple navigations
Filtered contents from approved sources
Exciting VR camera and video player
Affordable & acvessible platform

Ratings: 4.1/5

Installs:1,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

12. Var’s VR Video player

Var’s VR Video player is one of the best VR viewers for mobile phones. It has a pro version available on the play store with more exciting features. This free app lets users enjoy 3D videos with ultimate VR quality along with complete control of the app.

Users view videos with perfect head tracking response and control all movements and display parameters. Unlike other VR players, Var’s support subtitles & watch movies of any language.

App Features

Static/Float modes for nonspherical videos.
Requires Google Cardboard.
Easily configurable settings.
Immersive VR experience.

Ratings: 4/5

Installs: 10,000,000+

Download: Android

13. VR Roller Coaster

This has got to be one of the best roller coaster rides ever, at least on VR apps. It gives you a near real experience with some crazy loops, twists and turns that will give you the same feeling as an actual roller coaster ride.

To add to the feeling, the landscape depicted on the app, gives you the sensation of heights as you get to see skyscrapers and landmark buildings.

App Features

Experience the real-life roller coaster ride using the VR headsets
Google Cardboard powered stereoscopic rendering
Exciting playing environment filled with buildings, noisy crowds, birds, riders &airship

Ratings: 3.9/5

Installs: 5,000,000+

Download: Android

14. Google Expeditions VR

This VR teaching tool allows you to lead immersive trips all over the world and get more virtual reality experiences in mountains, underwater and at any outer space that you visit.

An additional feature in the app the solo mode lets users explore over 600 different tours by themselves.

For this experience, users just need to download the app, drop phones to Google Cardboard and then ready for the adventure.

App Features

Serves as a new way of learning for students with the help of AR & VR
Allows teachers to guide students with 360° scenes and 3D objects
Create your own virtual adventures

Ratings: 3.9/5

Installs: 1,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

15. VR Haunted house

VR Haunted house is a thrilling app with any number of paranormal activities active on both android and iOS platforms. You can play the game in VR cardboard or normal mode.

Users are the hero of the game who shall protect the house from ghosts and unusual monsters. There are easy, medium, and hard levels with different horror sounds and animations. You can easily play the game in automatic mode is at the center of the action.

App Features

Easy Bluetooth gamepad controls.
Magnet sensor to stop & examine the place.
Manual mode and 360-degree view.
24/7 technical support.

Ratings: 3.9/5

Installs: 1,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

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16. Google VR services

Google has established its best services on Virtual reality too. As the name implies, these are VR services supporting Virtual reality features on cardboard, Daydream, and such VR apps.

Google VR services include functionality entering, resuming, and exiting from the app, connecting VR headsets or other devices, and more. Daydreamer like apps dysfunction once you uninstall Google VR Services.

App Features

Timely notifications on VR devices/apps.
Quickly pair with VR headsets/controllers.
Provide better VR functionality.
Simple and Interactive UI.

Ratings: 3.8/5

Installs: 100,000,000+

Download: Android

17. Google Cardboard

Google Cardboard is very much popular among VR apps. This single app makes many other VR apps active and runs on devices. Most of the gaming and video apps work on Google cardboard for a smooth 3D view or fish eye view.

Cardboard puts virtual reality on smartphones and lets users view contents, install apps with wonderful VR experience. The app has a set of in-built VR demos from which you can choose one or get new apps. Carboard along with the Cardboard viewer opens up the full version of the app.

App Features

Exciting Tour guide and photosphere feature.
Fun & Simple Virtual Reality.
Immersive experiences
Easy to use UI.

Ratings: 3.8/5

Installs:10,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

18. Oculus

Oculus VR device allows you to access thousands of VR content dedicated to you. Oculus stores help users to know about live VR shows or select content from existing collections.

Unlike other apps, Oculus has a unique feature of interactivity where you can connect with your friends and enjoy together. Oculus notify about the recent contents and your friends who are active in the virtual world instantly.

App Features

Manage multiple oculus devices
Browse and buy contents from the Oculus store
Reserve seats for VR events in advance.
Unlimited Video Casting.

Ratings: 3.8/5

Installs: 1,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

19. Deep space Battle VR

Deep space battle VR is a completely free fast-paced VR shooter game. The game is exclusively made for Google cardboard. The app gives you a chance to become a lone space pilot defeating the shadow fleet coming against.

Deep space makes you feel like you are at galactic spaceships through immersive Virtual reality. The app contains amazing screen shattering effects with powerful audio.

App Features

No in-app purchases.
Customizable space rides.
Auto-firing options.
Fun and exciting VR game.

Ratings: 3.8/5

Installs:1,000,000+

Download: Android

20. VR Media Player 360

VR Media player is one of the best VR apps that let users have a wide view of the content you like. It can display movies and photos in your local storage in 360° and 4k video quality.

The app also enables its users to zoom content by natural pinching and thus, a user-friendly design and navigations. Besides from the local storage, you can video via URL.

App Features

3D & Full-screen view
Gyro sensor rotation.
Support an Equirectangular format.
Fisheye viewing of photos & videos.

Ratings: 3.8/5

Installs:1,000,000+

Download : Android

21. Youtube VR

Youtube VR is a perfect partner for users who wish to experience VR on the favorite video channels, creators, or any content. Youtube showcases thousands of videos and you can turn this ordinary platform into your own virtual reality experience.

Every video you watch has a 360-degree view putting you at the center of the action. The videos make you feel in it as the detailed in-depth sounds too play a great role in your VR experience.

App Features

Switchable voice and keyboard controls.
Launched via the Daydream app.
High-quality spatial sound.
Complete signed-in experience throughout.

Ratings: 3.7/5

Installs:5,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

22. Veer VR

Enjoying your favorite videos is now easier with Veer VR. The app stimulates and lets you enter into a world of movies and animations with High-quality VR features.

You can watch any movie you wish in multiple VR devices that enable an immersive experience for you. The movies and shows are filtered from award-winning categories and film festival line-ups. Veer VR supports all mainstream VR headsets.

App Features

Single account for all devices.
Preview, bookmark, and purchase titles.
Truly awesome app interface.
Support 360-degree panoramic videos.

Ratings: 3.7/5

Installs: 5,000,000+

Download: Android, iOS

23. VR Fantasy

Virtual Reality stimulates you into a dreamy world delving you into a 3D environment. VR fantasy makes you that ancient magical fortress who fights with a sword to complete each level.

The fortress is you and you can feel & roam around the dungeon as real. Many enemies appear right in front of you & you defeat them to reach the exit. This VR adventure game allows you to find out unique weapons and more thrilling activities.

App Features

A VR viewer like cardboard is needed.
Amazing live game experience.
Smooth & stable VR activities
Low cost & frequent upgrades.

Ratings: 3.7/5

Installs:1,000,000+

Download: Android

24. Daydream

Daydream app enables users to have a high-quality virtual reality experience. The app is a package of an ever-growing collection of apps, games, and movies.

It allows you to enjoy a personalized world of VR content with a ready headset and controller. Daydream-ready phones and headsets let users explore a new world of immersive games and your favorite VR cinemas on the go.

App Features

Intuitive Interface
Browse Featured content
Versatile collection of apps and games.
Launch Daydream experiences.

Ratings: 3.5/5

Installs: 5,000,000+

Download: Android

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Conclusion

On the whole, VR is taking off in a big way and many companies in every part are working on this experience creating immersive solutions for a new kind of interactive experience.

Even if you’re not ready to make a move into VR right now, it’s still ok but, it’s an interesting technology to pay attention.

Shift Swapping App – Encourage Productivity and Engagement at Work

Posted on January 27, 2020 by Super Admin Testreveal

Engagement and productivity are two biggest drivers of growth for any company and what could be the more effective way than employee recognition and scheduling management. While timely recognition and appreciation for work boosts workforce morale and productivity, employee shift scheduling management solutions on the other hand helps keep the maximum employee productivity

When employees know that they are working with the employer that has best interest for their team, it directly impacts their self-esteem and makes them feel special and driven.

Rewards and recognition is also marked as a best opportunity to engage and connect with contributors on a deeper, personal level. Mobile app for shift swapping and scheduling gives you a power to enable staff productivity management solution.

Not only can you show care and empathy for working millennials through frequent kudos and feedback, but you also gain the advantage of creating a productive environment with high performance and less turnover rate as Deloitte report suggests.

We have narrated ways to leverage shift swapping and scheduling app along with its features and benefits to keep your working squad dynamic, encouraged and informed all the time.

The Basics of Shift Swapping app

Usually, shift swapping app is built keeping the managerial activities and employee engagement in mind. Project managers and leaders can leverage the technology regularly for the following team-oriented goals:

Workforce Management/Optimization – expect the best returns on the investment for workforce management as you minimize employee absenteeism.
Employee Engagement – engage employees and create dynamic work drive with a neat and user-friendly mobile app
Activity Monitoring – centralize the entire internal employee collaboration and engagements done via app in a secure, personalized dashboard
Appreciation Posts – Ability to show appreciation and value (positive comments, kudos, claps etc.) through dedicated posts
Frequent Feedback System – managers share feedback and responses in front of teams to let employees know how good they are at their job
Special Inspirational Video Content – Keep the motivation up and high by sharing inspiring videos with success stories, quotes or messages on company’s channel
Social Sharing Capabilities – allow employees to share their achievements on story boards as they hit some milestones or knock out goals

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The Sophisticated System of Recognition, Appreciation and Rewards

The best way to engage employees within an organizational structure is with frequent rewards and recognition for even the smallest of milestones. Through incredible Shift swapping app, it is possible for you to celebrate small achievements by employees – the key factor to encourage them to contribute more to the company’s growth.

This app helps acknowledge and appreciate the progress your sales team has made, leads the marketing team has secured or when someone walks an extra mile to help his colleagues.

As Managers leverage the mobile app to offer gestures of applause for the outstanding efforts in a personalized fashion, employees tend to feel massively appreciated and valued and stay longer with the company. It creates positive environment for employees, making them proud and motivated.

Workplace becomes Dream Workspace

When a team achieves a target or hits the milestone, it shows an opportunity for managers to appreciate their success. Having in-app applause or shout-outs could fuel the team’s positive energy and motivation, adding massive value to their teamwork and corporate culture.

Shift swapping mobile app can also spark a team-focused platform where it is easy to announce employee of the month – which takes the shape of significant virtual R&R event.

The story about Employee of the month along with their special contribution and tenure can be sensationally broadcast in a way that cheers up the winner and motivates others. All of this recognition can be executed using a single shift swapping app.

In the same way, respective team managers can also announce promotions to congratulate and encourage team members. They can share information about the new roles, responsibilities and their overall journey.

This sort of in-premise activities enhances the team’s morale and self-esteem while boosting their career path and creating a viable connection with a company.

Most Vital Features and Goals of Staff Scheduling App

Usually classified as a communication and staff management app, corporate-specific scheduling app comes equipped with tools to communicate and engage with the team and resolve daily workflow challenges. The typical staff scheduling app targets the following aspects:

Harnessing potential
Work gap management
Organizing and assigning tasks
Staff level maintenance
Employee-to-employee and employee-to-company connection
Time-off and Time-on monitoring
100% customer attendance

Based on the company’s specific and high-priority essentials, you can enjoy features like:

Manage/edit users
Assign tasks
Schedule shifts
Manage shift swapping
Control different employee access levels
Flexible shifts
Change/modify last-minute schedules
Count hours
Monitor Overtime
Direct messages
Push notifications

Eventually the shift scheduling app becomes the host of smart features for employees to manage and control the way shifts are scheduled.

Employees are also able to receive timely reminders for schedule and reschedule on their personal devices via push notifications. Additionally, combined with engagement approach, the app can enhance team communication and create community vibes among employees.

Tailored Industry-specific Apps

The scope of usability for Shift swapping and scheduling apps infuses multiple industries. Apart from smartphone device, these apps can also be accessed on desktop or mobile browsers with great convenience.

For instance, hospital staff members put on hourly shifts will be able to manage and access all the features related to their shift duties, schedules, time on and time off on their side of mobile app.

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From retail to hospitality, here are a few industries that can use the shift swap/schedule mobile app tailored to meet their specific needs:

Retail – Keep the sales floor fully staffed to provide uninterrupted customer service
Inventory and Supply chain – adjust staffing level in real time to meet changing business needs
Food Service – Keep wait time minimum, serve and retain more customers with consistent staffing
Hospitality – Maintain the best hygiene and service standard for privilege customers by keeping the attending staff impeccably organized
Grocery – Ensure all departments are perfectly staffed to best serve customers
Aviation staff – Hassle-free allotment of staff members and service teams in tightest conditions without any inconsistency or muddle
Manufacturing plants – Ensure all the plant operations stay functional and productive by keeping the staff on the foot
Hospital – Ensure all patients receive the best care by keeping nursing department available round the clock

The Most Preferable Approach for Developing a Shift swapping and scheduling app

If your corporate structure demands for the management of both engagement and productivity at the same time, it is great to consider building an app that targets scheduling and appreciation simultaneously.

For this to materialize, you can ask a capable mobile app development firm to leverage emerging technologies and latest innovations coupled with modern mindset.

The result should essentially be the app that helps employee establish seamless collaboration while strengthening their connection with the company as they feel great satisfaction from mutual appreciation, recognition and motivation.

Since your company’s team members rely on diverse set of personal devices, it is inevitable to shift focus on creating apps for both iOS and Android platforms at times. For estimated cost, development process, methods other factors, you should consult directly with a qualified development team.

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Conclusion

Driving performance and productivity while engaging employees is a challenge best met with a mobile app. Companies leveraging shift swapping and staff scheduling mobile app has a lot to gain.

While managers waste no time in quickly showing praise and recognition for the excellence and employee dedication, they can also monitor and effortlessly manage shifts schedules for everyday job. Consequently, they satisfy the purpose of both engagement and productivity simultaneously.

If you wish to create a corporate culture with maximum employee satisfaction and work harmony, go ahead and consult with our expert mobile app development team today. We make sure you will be getting the best output with exceptional returns.

11 Common Myths of Enterprise Mobile App Development

Posted on May 6, 2019 by Super Admin Testreveal

Despite facing a lot many challenges while developing Enterprise mobile apps, corporate companies and startup entrepreneurs are all zealous about the idea of building diverse mobile apps to boost business growth and reach maximum customers.

The famous fact that mobile apps are perfectly integrated into human life as an integral part has inspired myriad of organizations to shift to enterprise mobility.

There is a lot to leverage when an enterprise considers developing a mobile app. For once, these apps are keys to creating a brand and spreading brand awareness. If built strategically, they can even bring repeat business, earning great amount of ROI.

Still, there is a few that shows sincere interest in having a dedicated mobile app for business engagement. The reason is numerous misconceptions surrounding the concept of enterprise mobile app development.

To help organizations focus on mobile-first approach, here are 11 common myths that can be debunked for business success.

1. Enterprise mobility apps consume a lot of time to develop

There is a pseudo buzz in the app industry that mobile apps intended for enterprise mobility has much larger time span for development than normal apps. Some even harbor this prejudice that the project may take at least half a year.

This is a wrong thought. If you are clear with your mobile app vision and want to create multiple apps dedicated to various business units, the time required to develop them doesn’t necessarily exceed expectations.

All they need is a right mobile app development partner and accurate decisions on highly integrated platforms that help accelerate the process.

If everything falls in the right place and resources are utilized smartly, you can build high-quality business app in as little as 90 days.

2. Cost and intricacy are the biggest barriers

Enterprise companies who are emerging to be on top are often concerned about whether or not to juggle with investment.

Worries about cost of mobile app development daunt them and they eventually give up on the idea or settle instead for a mediocre build.

Another element is the involvement of complexities. Though it is true that more intricate the app is, more it may cost.

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However, there are many Venture Capitalists and online crowd fund sources available to give your projects a little better push.

The return acquired in terms of growth and customer acquisition is much bigger than investment made, which indicated satisfying ROI.

3. It is all about coding, nothing else

This is not true at all. People outside the domain of app development happens to believe that developing an enterprise mobile app just involves coding and the app success revolves around how better you code.

But this is not just what is needed, coding is a basic requirement; however the approach takes a lot more efforts and considerations for fulfillment of the project.

Other than this you also need talented resources, technologies, an idea, design evaluation and graphics, and of course, not to forget, exceptional user experience.

4. Mobile cloud apps are not a pragmatic choice from business perspective

Mobile cloud is the approach in enterprise app development that often confronted strong criticism believing that it is not feasible or achievable.

Apps and cloud do not fit perfectly well due to undesirable reason of compatibility as said by mobile app strategists. However, in reality, this is opposed to the actual scenario.

In fact, a lot of organizations will implement mobile cloud applications tailor-made for businesses.

Cloud provides assurance that developers can dispense without concerns of physical data storage, which means mobile cloud is actually quite a pragmatic choice especially for enterprises.

5. End users should not be considered thoroughly during the development process

This is a typical misconception that end users do not play a significant role in the core app development process.

Businesses develop apps usually to simplify the operational processes and serve end users at different level better.

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Thinking that these end users only come to play a part at the end of the process will be a catastrophic fallacy. Hence, it is important to keep them in loop during the process.

After all, considering and incorporating user expectations is the best way to make your app thrive and be usable.

6. Enterprise apps do not ensure uncompromised security

Another prevalent mythical thought across enterprise mobility industry is increasing the danger of safety by establishing collaboration among employees through mobile apps.

The question of security irrationally intimidates enterprise companies, making them deterred for opting mobility solutions.

The fear of security has a lot to do with the early days of mobile app development when building or using mobile apps meant opening your personal data to malicious hackers.

Nowadays security standards for mobile app companies have evolved and become more sophisticated and immune to vulnerability.

7. Enterprise app development can be done in-house

Companies longing to build mobile apps for their business fall for the idea of being able to manage the entire development process in-house. However, when it comes to handling heterogeneous aspects of the project, they would fall short.

Mobile app development is more than just conceptualization, visualization and wireframe. The process often gets complicated as it contains a lot many challenges especially while implementing thoughts into action.

It requires thorough market knowledge, powerful acumen, utilization of mature skills and experience needed to leverage precious data specific to existing mobile apps.

The job is so responsible you may come across a point where a thought of giving up midway overwhelms. This is why hiring development specialists outside the organization makes great sense.

8. Mobile apps may not synchronize with legacy systems

Though it is fair to think about whether or not legacy systems can be accessed by mobile apps, the doubt proves mythical against the evolution of business-specific technologies.

Companies that make large investments in legacy software such as ERP, CRM and several others often look to developing mobile apps with a hesitation believing that it will not fit into existing group of software techs.

In reality, enterprise apps can connect with multiple backend systems using APIs like SharePoint, MySQL, Oracle, etc. enterprise-grade development services with robust API structure enables legacy system to be seamlessly accessed by mobile devices.

9. Mobility for Enterprise just means a device

In the era of cutting edge digital revolutions, there are organizations who conceive mobility as a smart device in itself that works as a tool or a gadget. The device has a few good details that stand no chance of connecting with business outcome.

That is not true. Mobility is perceived as much more than a physical tool and is an indispensable need to achieve business goals from any location anytime.

Enterprise mobility puts multiple operations into a context thereby streamlining different units to deliver business efficiency and growth.

10. Selecting a right platform is not that important

This is quite a noxious myth and can spoil the whole strategy of developing a high-quality business-specific mobile app. Considering a right platform is crucial to app success and its ability to resonate with users.

Choosing the perfect platform is important if you are planning to monetize in iOS store that enforces stringent rules. Before planning, conduct an indepth research that manifests potential target user requirements that in turn help pick the right platform (iOS and Android).

11. Enterprise apps lack compatibility with Mobile Apps infrastructure

A myth like this discourages enterprise companies to consider having a mobile app in place. They are stuck on a misconception that their back-end structure lacks compatibility with mobile apps, but that is not the case.

Organizations, in order to gain excellent results from mobile app, need to be positive about upgrading their infrastructure to dovetail seamlessly with the mobile app backend.

For instance, bank apps allow customers to peek into their account status many times a day, creating a perfectly compatible system through a flawless API implementation to handle gigantic traffic rush.

Conclusion

While a few of myths discussed above are shallow, there are a few others that may raise relevant skepticism. However, not eliminating them from your vision can hurt your business potential by annihilating the entire process of enterprise app development.

With IT giants successfully integrating futuristic solutions, it is time to renounce these myths and smash other barriers that stymie the growth ahead.

Agile methodology, collaborative DevOps culture and trust in cloud solutions can eradicate these baseless notions, transform business processes and drive profitable revenue streams.

How Much Does it Cost to Create a VR App?

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Super Admin Testreveal

Lately, there is a significant improvement in the development of virtual reality applications. Nonetheless, the market niche still stays a bit unfilled. There weren’t any massive breakthroughs in the history of the virtual reality app application development yet that gives a leap of hope to all new players to measure the success of the application such as Instagram, at virtual reality market. This seemingly exciting technology is significantly utilized in military services, entertainment, medical, and of course, there is education.

By 2020, the virtual reality market is estimated to hit $30 billion. On one side, tech giants and gaming are likely take over the field, but at the same time startups are here to grab their space in the market revenue. However, before anything else, how much does it cost to build a VR app? The answer isn’t that simple. We certainly can’t say a definite number like exactly $50, 000 or even as low as $1000.

But to make it a bit easier for you, lets take a detailed look at the factors that affect virtual reality app development expenses in every step of its developmental phase.

Factors that affect a virtual reality app development costs

In the end, the development costs of a virtual reality application come down to whether you want to build a mobile virtual reality application or a mobile virtual reality game. You can expect the number somewhere between $35, 000 to $75, 000 for a non-gaming mobile virtual reality application and between $45, 000 to $100, 000 for a mobile virtual reality game. These numbers may differ from company to company. Nonetheless, you can undoubtedly expect a six digit number for the development of a VR app.

Now that we have seen the estimated cost of a virtual reality app, it is now time to dig deep into the various factors that åre directly proportional to the cost of developing a VR app:

What kind of software and content would you be using?

For any app, the primary 2 factors that determines the development cost is the type of content used and the software you want for your app. Usually, the content and the software are two distinct subjects, but however, when it comes to the budget, it is a bit complex to separate these two. Well, you can say, the more complex the content of your app is, the more complex the software has to be.

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For example, a mobile virtual reality app which lets its customers check the different products in 3D needs a comparatively simple interface. The development costs of the 3D models and the user interface are comparatively low. However, the point here is that whether you want to build a simple 3D environment or an engaging virtual reality game, the interface of the app will be directly affected by the content you choose and both will decide whether the development costs of your virtual reality go up or down.

Also, regarding the content of your app, there will be a couple of things you first need to decide.

1. What sort of content are you planning to have for your app?
2. Who will write/create the content of your app — Developer or a 3rd-party content writing services company?
3. How will the content of your virtual reality app affect your platform selection?

What kind of gadgets to utilize?

You need to learn and understand the set of gadgets that you want to pair with your virtual reality app. For example, Google Cardboard headset uplifts the consumer experience significantly. Moreover, yes, it is only cardboard. However, what about the whole variety of the probable complementary virtual reality gadgets that comes along with the headset? Supporting a comprehensive range of 3rd-party gadgets will undoubtedly take your app to a whole new level. However, of course, the costs will go up as well.

Virtual reality video or engaging experiences?

When compared to a highly 3D viewing experience, your app might not need to provide so much interaction. In any case, if 3D video is what you want then there are many hardware options for high-quality recording and producing good 3D video content at medium and professional stages.

Not to forget that there are some lower-end devices for Do-it-yourself (DIY) 3D video development and on the other side, there are companies specialize in 3D video production. The cost of DIY video gadgets ranges from a couple of hundred dollars to $10, 000 per minute.

What kind of strategy were you planning for your VR app?

This is one of the most critical and distinct steps. Although it may look simple, it is not. You certainly cannot afford to make any mistakes at this point as you will end up rebuilding the entire development plan later on. So pay utmost attention even to the minute details.

First, choose whether you want to build a virtual reality app for iOS or Android users. Wondering what difference it makes? Well, this step will help you define your toolset and get ready for the distributional work.

Who will build your virtual reality app?

The last important factor that will affect the development cost is for the team who will build the app — Who, where, when, and what conditions. These questions are essential to deciding on not only the budget but also the quality and time consumption to build the app. Apart from the platform (iOS or Android) of the virtual reality app, at the point, the concern is about the development company– Where it is and how much does they charge for the development process.

The development costs of your virtual reality app will ultimately depend on how big your development company is. There are freelancers and small companies whose charges start from as minimum like $5, 000 and go up to $10, 000 just for simple projects. If compared with the big firms, then they will charge no less than $15, 000 to $35, 000.

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For instance, the app development companies in Asian countries can get your project done even with the lowest prices. They will charge $25 to $40 per hour. However, if you want the same work to get it done either in Europe or the United States, then the charges will be at least $50 to $250 per hour.

Conclusion

More and more industries are now using VR based apps and thus this industry is merely to rise and grow in the coming years. However, if you look for the appropriate cost and quality, then you may want to look in a bit to different countries and their mode of development.

There are East Asian countries that charge less per hour, where You might doubt the quality of the work, but you don’t have to. Not every time cheaper means worse quality. Moreover, again, it is ultimately you who will decide the development costs according to your priorities and requirements.

Top 11 Enterprise Mobility Trends to Watch Out For in 2018

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Super Admin Testreveal

2017 was the proof that we are clearly living in the era of digital revolutions since businesses realized the potential of emerging technologies and adopted mobility to simplify organizational processes. With enterprise mobility being used across a range of industries, companies experienced great boost in growth management and employees engagement by reinventing the routine processes.

Since consumers engage more on their personal devices, enterprise mobility has a greater scope of delivering more innovative experiences. In 2017 IoT, AI and BYOD ruled the top technological trends with mobility being the integral essence of organizational productivity. industries that leveraged the power of IoT and wearable technology observed significant growth and yielded more output through faster employee collaboration.

This discussion leads us to top 11 enterprise mobility trends in 2018. Let’s take a look:

1. The Regime of Artificial Intelligence

AI has become more heroic than ever and is increasingly pervading the space of digital solutions as the year goes on. AI’s machine learning capabilities have been a central focus to the buzz last year. Machine learning technology is expected to go even further with many industries sincerely considering the integration of automation in their everyday processes. Despite such excitement, there are companies that have ignored the usability and importance of AI for their business operations. In 2018 a significant surge in integration of artificial intelligent machines is likely to be observed as innovative companies hope to leverage and learn more about the power of AI and machine learning together.

2. IoT Continues to Impact the Growth

IoT is a second most used phrase in the domain of enterprise mobility. Due to interconnected devices in place, the adoption of mobility in enterprises seems more fruitful. Through IoT, businesses can make precise decisions at the right time by reaping information from user’s daily interactions and shaping the map of their behaviour pattern. With BYOD becoming a chief consideration for growing enterprises, the rise of IoT as connected devices combined with enterprise mobility will surely drive productivity and growth for technology-ready companies in 2018.

3. Cloud gets Louder

The practices of enterprise mobility are further about to get enhanced with increased migration to cloud platform. Due to improved quality and maturity of cloud services, businesses can have easy access to information whenever and wherever they need without bearing massive cost. This is why Big Data has moved to cloud in order to provide more power to the idea of enterprise mobility. Despite the concerns of security big organizations, enterprise solutions a have moved to virtual platform of cloud services at lightning pace. Also, to alleviate security challenges and vulnerability issues, companies have begun to prefer hybrid structures so that apps with critical information are hosted in local system whereas those with little privileged information stay on cloud.

4. Lowered Dependency on Computers

The word mobility is not just deciphered as people and things going mobile, but it also proposes how the increased attention towards commercials apps will boost the mobile usage and limit bigger computing devices like on-premise computers. As customers fiddle with their handset for even the smallest of their needs and inquiries, enterprise mobility will revolutionize how customers engage with the business and gain more interactive experience.

5. Enterprise Mobility Management will Pick Up

Since enterprises are prepared to unleash the full potential of mobility, they have commenced moving their in-house processes to digital devices. This approach has helped them improve communication standard, work flow efficiency, decision making as well as their business process cycle. On account of this, there will be a possible rise in using EMM (Enterprise mobility management) software for the purpose of achieving credibility and security resolution.

6. BYOD will Grow more Rapidly

According to a research, the number of employees using smart phones to collaborate and manage their tasks at work is likely to reach 2.5 million by 2018. This means there will be less traction on hardware maintenance and more on dynamic enterprise mobility. Due to this BYOD adaptation, work environment will grow more flexible and employees will experience enhanced productivity within or outside the premise. Its the ability to transform business processes and bring down operational cost makes BYOD the most thought-worthy point for companies in 2018.

7. Chatbots will Impact Employee Conversations

Enterprises can take ample advantage of Chat bots based on AI technology. Intelligent robots can take control of most of employee interactions helping them with their queries, FAQs, holiday requests, meetings management and much more. Companies will helps employees free up their time by scheduling tasks for chat bots so that they can engage with more crucial tasks. Also, businesses will gain more precise insight into their employees by learning from their chat bot interactions, thus improving their efficiency and performance.

8. Burgeoning Focus on Functionality

Using newer methods to enhance the user experience and digital interactions is becoming the main motto of building apps. With this idea playing a vital role, the focus on improving functionality of mobile apps is gaining much attention among enterprise market. To engage more users for longer life cycle, rich features are designed which ultimately makes the modern apps responsive, fast-loading and compact in use. As every bit of companies is going mobile, using data analytics and constant monitoring, businesses can easily connect with users at reduced cost of hardware maintenance. In 2018 we will see more sophisticated functionalities simplifying business operations.

9. Location-based Services will Grow Predominant

More and more customers are opting for mobile apps that offer extra services and care for their users. Thanks to location-based services, consumers can use apps that interact with their GPS for local geographical information and suggest personalized solutions. Such services include finding nearby spots like hospitals, theatres, coffee shop, malls, restaurants and barber salons. In 2017 relevance of offers made location-based services more desirable, which will continue to grow in 2018 as anticipated. With innovations coming handy, mobile apps can even notify users for the nearest store with their favourite merchandise.

10. Growing Interest in Instant Apps

This is another new trend that is likely to dominate the digital market soon in 2018. Even though Cloud computing offers pretty good amount of benefits, entire migration of software development to cloud is still doubted because of obvious security issues. This is where launching instant apps directly to users come to assist. In the future, enterprise mobility will involve such instant apps that do not compel users to visit the app store for search and download. Due to quick streaming and access like websites, instant apps will save a lot of time, resulting in one of unusual revolutions for enterprise mobility move.

11. Veteran Developers will be Sought Extensively

Since new innovations are in demand and quickly adopted, businesses rely exponentially on those developers who are skilled to invest technological insight into driving more growth. Due to emergence of technological use in business operations, brand marketing and employee engagement, the demand for veteran developers is soaring high. Developers with their experience and talent can helps businesses overcome competition and other challenges in the relevant market. This is the reason many enterprises are developing their own in-house training modules to harness and hone the skills of software developers.

The Future of Enterprise Mobility

With almost 67% employees relying on their own devices at work, there is no surprise how flexible working system has contributed to the consideration of BYOD. Mobile technology can truly improve employee engagement, cost reduction and process management.

However, security is also a big concern for now. Therefore, even though enterprise mobility is on the rise, businesses still need to mull over their process-specific requirements and scrutinize their financial goals, ROI, project size and affordability. This is why enterprises looking to adopt mobility must build a strategy to achieve effectiveness.

Conclusion:

As technology evolves, we will experience much more polished services through digital innovations. Enterprise mobility is one promising sphere where transformations can make vital difference. With rapid adoption rate across industries, enterprise mobility has already shown it has more to offer and revolutionize than marketers and businesses can imagine. With an informed strategy, enterprises can leverage mobility to shape the future of their business.

7 Reasons Why Enterprise Hesitates to Integrate AI in Mobile Apps

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Super Admin Testreveal

The digital landscape is shaken with a lot of buzz around investments and integration of AI in businesses. While Artificial intelligence could be an answer to so problems regarding customer services and business revenue, the potential of AI technology has become one of business apprehensions due to uncanny doubts about the application of fully automated, data-driven work models.

On hand, words like competence, efficiency, personalization and automation are highly connected to AI-enables solutions. On the other, the mobile app development scene is unable to surpass prejudices and challenges the technology induces. Today a lot of enterprise companies feel cynical about adopting Artificial Intelligence in their future business model and mobile apps. Here we have narrated a few reasons behind this ongoing hesitation.

1. Cost Concerns:

If one of the potential advantages of using AI technology in organizations is its ability to perform and automate mundane tasks, one of the chief drawbacks of using artificially intelligent machines is cost. Mobile app development companies especially know how much efforts and cost consumed in the process of integrating AI in mobile apps. The process is comparatively costly and requires flexible budget to manage AI-powered apps. Moreover, companies have to implement frequent upgrades to complement changing trends, policies and business requirements, which further makes the cost heavier.

2. Breakdown and Recovery Challenges:

Since machine learning and its precise implementation come with a lot of research work, it is big challenge to meet the expectations and fulfil new demands every day. When there is an instance of serious breakdown in the system, AI-enabled machines demand a length of careful procedures and actions that may exhaust the operators and monitoring assistants. System maintenance and codes recovery processes would need great patience and resources, increasing the loss of productivity.

3. Consumption of lots of Resources and Time

Artificial intelligence may sound fancy, but when implementing it requires significant amount of human resources to develop intelligent interface, predictive analytics automation and natural language processing. Integrating these parallel technologies mean you can’t just think and act on it instantly. Also, AI-powered apps must be highly adaptive and configured to process incoming data in an intuitive and intelligent fashion.

If you are deprived of time, financial support and essential human resourcefulness, there is a big chance that you may create software or app that does not leverage AI in desirable and efficient manner. Mobile app developers also believe that the idea of eliminating sophisticated features sounds better than including their underdeveloped or partially functional version.

4. Lack of human-like acumen

It may come as a surprise, but AI contains the word ‘artificial’, which means it still lacks true human power and intelligence. One of the arguments that stand against AI technology is that the machines and intelligent robots are not completely capable of producing reliable judgement calls, or of being as flexible as human brain. Algorithms and machine computing have certain limits and can’t work in places where human supervision becomes necessary.

Machine learning is stubbornly programmed and completely mechanical when it comes to making sensible decisions based on ongoing crisis. It can be understood that in critical situations of emergencies or other ulterior incidents, AI may fail to pull off what is most expected of it.

5. Unimaginative and mechanical

It is a valid argument that artificial intelligent machines are low on creative imagination and innovation. This can be especially disadvantageous in the process of mobile app development where you must be original and creatively talented to yield high-quality competitive products. Only humans can be inventive and deal with elements like aesthetics, layouts, graphics, storyboards and many creative design ideas. Machines can only help proceed further what designers have already ideated since they lack human sensitivity and emotions.

6. Inflexible knowledge and stiff insight

Humans can think logically and learn a lot through their every day experiences, developing a cognitive flow of knowledge. This may not be the case with artificial intelligence machines that do store a plethora of information without gaining ability to access it the same way as done by humans. AI machines are rigid and subject to what is fed and programmed as part of its algorithm. When the environment changes, their responses and insight remain inflexible, failing to be fully adaptive to evolving updates and requirements. Due to such stiff knowledge and limited insights, enterprises may find it undesirable to integrate AI in their mobile apps.

7. Still toddling in marketing sphere

Even with so much admiration and enthusiasm brought around the discussion of AI-powered applications, artificial intelligence and machine learning are still struggling to meet expectations as set by futuristic Sci-Fi movies. Seen as too fantastical or exaggerated, the concept of artificial intelligence getting integrated in mobile apps is still not fully understood or trusted by online brands who believe conventional user interactions and readymade analytics are the only reliable way by far to address imminent customer requirements. We can deduce that AI is still taking baby steps for certain group of business ventures.

Why to consider AI in mobile apps?

Despite all the hesitation and speculative fears enterprises have against the use of AI in mobile apps, here are certain facts of AI mobile apps to consider:

Consumer expectations are on the rise and they rely extensively on their Smartphone while seeking unique offers and brand information.
If done creatively, integration of AI in mobile apps personalize the user experience and enhance UI.
Due to personalization, relevance and improvements experienced in AI-driven offers, user abandonment rate will diminish.
With precise analytics and predictions of user behaviour and trends, brands can retain, engage and acquire more customers.

Based on this market scenario, we can say that businesses that soberly favour AI integration in mobile apps will gain booming competitive advantage and unrivalled position in relevant market.

Conclusion

They way AI technology is evolving, it is inevitable for businesses working in digital sphere to adopt AI to strengthen their online presence. The fact that users already have apps and portals generating auto-responses approves artificial intelligence as a future for customer engagement and business acquisition. Digitally sound enterprises should think of hiring employees conversant with AI-driven business models. Organizations that are truly focused on building awareness of AI and grasping the potential of intelligent machine learning will be among the high revenue gainer in future.

Why do Enterprises Prefer Swift to Develop iOS Apps?

Posted on November 7, 2017 by Super Admin Testreveal

Over the last few years, there has been an upsurge in the number of mobile phone applications being developed by the business houses. This is majorly owing to the rapid increase in the number of mobile phone users and market across the globe.

In such a scenario, it becomes essential to focus on developing such applications that are user-friendly, easy to use and understandable. With iOS taking a lead in introducing new and latest products in the market, it is essential to use such an iOS app development programming language that turns the app into a high-performing application.

Among the large number of iOS app development programming languages, Objective-C and Swift are the most popular. However, gradually Swift is taking over the entire market. Swift is a programming language that has been developed by Apple to serve general purposes.

Used mainly to develop codes for iOS, Watch OS, Linux, and TVOS, the language offers its users a number of value add features of Objective-C, which, in turn, make it an ideal programming language to build user-friendly and engaging apps.

Preferred by numerous top-notch companies, there are several reasons for giving Swift a preference as an iOS app development programming language.

1.Easy to Read

As compared to Objective-C that makes use of @ to differentiate different keywords and types from C-types, Swift can unify all the keywords and culminates the need of the numerous @ symbols. Swift also ends the need of using semicolons at the end of each lines.

Instead, it makes use of the standard comma-separated list of parameters within parenthesis. All these and similar other changes have enabled the development of a simplified and cleaner language.

2.Low Maintenance

Unlike C and Objective-C programming languages that uses two-code files to improve the build time of executable app development, Swift combines the Objective-C header (.h) and implementation files (.m) into a single code file (.swift).

This is because the Xcode and LLVM compiler can easily figure out dependencies during development as well as enable incremental builds automatically in Swift 1.2.

The language is also helpful in reducing the workload on programmer, which, in turn, allows them to spend more time on developing the logic of the app.

3.Ensured Safety

As compared to Objective-C in which calling an uninitialized pointer turns the line of code no-op and causes a huge number of bugs, it is possible to keep a nil optional value clear in Swift. This implies that a compiler error would be generated if a person writes a bad code.

Writing codes in Swift saves a lot of time and money as bugs and errors can be fixed while the code is written. The optional types and value types keep it clear in the method definition if a value exists or if it can be kept as optional.

4.Amalgamated with Memory Management

Using Swift programming language can lead to better productivity as it provides support for Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) across the technical and object-oriented code paths. Using Swift ends the programmer’s responsibility to handle memory management.

When working with different Graphics APIs available on iOS. Moreover, the best part of using Swift is it ends the problem of huge memory leaks that a programmer might face with other programming languages.

5.Requires Less Coding

Swift uses less amount of codes especially in the case of string manipulations and repetetive statements. This is because Swift makes use of the modern features available for programming languages. For instance, it adds two strings by using “+” operator.

The language also allows for string interpolation. This, in turn, ends the need to learn tokens and instead, makes it easier for programmers to add variables directly inline to a user-facing string, such as a label or button title.

6.Fewer Name Collisions

Swift language provides in-built name spaces. This, in turn, allows the same code file to work across different projects without requiring any special names such as CG Point (Core Graphics). The availability of this feature in Swift improves productivity of programmers by ending the need of bookmarking.

It is also easy to differentiate classes for the programmers using Swift as it allows to do so using the same namespace identifier. This feature has enables multiple software companies to create the same code filenames without the concern of any sort of collisions when integrating open source projects.

7.Supports Dynamic Libraries

This is one of the biggest reason for Swift being a preferred iOS app development programming language. Using dynamic libraries is advantageous as these include executable group of code that can be linked to an app. This, in turn, allows for easy link between the existing Swift apps with its newer versions.

It is with the evolving of Swift that has enabled the support of dynamic libraries on iOS, even while these were already supported on Mac. The enabling of this feature has made the programming language changes and improvements to take place faster without making its users to wait.

In simple words, Swift programming language is a boon for the programmers. Apart from the above, the language is also more approachable and fully featured. While the world can notice its role in the development of iOS apps, the day will come soon when it will also be used for the development of other Apple applications.

Google Announces ‘VPS’ Technology to Solve Key Problems with VR and AR

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Super Admin Testreveal

Google has announced the ‘VPS’ technology, an approach to explore indoor GPS to tackle issues with both virtual reality and augmented reality.

Like GPS, VPS(Visual Positioning Service) is also a mapping innovation that utilizes the process of visual focus on the walk way, end of the room and on other objects to set a limit and ensure free movement indoors.

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Google revealed that it has been working with HTC and Lenovo and is planning to launch their first VR devices based on the Google Daydream technology later this year. The company has also introduced a Google Glass, an AR headset for the smart phones and is also planning to use Qualcomm chips for VR headsets.

Google also demonstrated AR features in the Google expeditions platform for students that uses Tango’s sensors to map classrooms and place 3D visualizations within a space.

According to Clay Bavor, the Standalone VR gadgets utilizes the method of ‘precise tracking’ i.e. the gadgets does not rely upon outside sensors to place, but handle the headsets in the physical world.

Why Are Enterprise Apps Different From Consumer Apps?

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Super Admin Testreveal

Consumer apps and Enterprise apps are different from each other. However, stating their differences is a difficult task. Consumer apps are small, compact and kind of self-contained. They help consumers to interact with any kind of online businesses. But enterprise apps, on the other hands focuses on tracking and improving work performance. From a mobile app development perspective, enterprise apps are more focused on getting their development part rather than designing.

Consumer Mobile Apps

Consumer Mobile Apps or simply mobile shopping apps are getting popular among users for utilities and entertainment. Most of us like the convenience of paying bills, shopping, socializing, watching movies and much more with smartphone apps.

These apps are all utilitarian in nature and helps you to improve productivity in terms of numbers but not much in terms of quality.

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Enterprise Mobile Apps

These apps help businesses to grow. Businesses need to establish their contacts day by day to flourish in the industry. With such apps, a company can get up-to-date sales and stock data. This can prove to be very helpful to people especially while they are out of the field. Tasks can be done comfortably at any place with these apps. Enterprise mobile apps are custom made for each organization.

Consumer Apps Vs Enterprise Apps

1. Consumer apps are accessed by consumers to buy something or to get other works done
2. Enterprise apps are meant for businesses to keep in touch with others
3. Consumer mobile apps are C2B (Consumer-to-business) – This means that consumers create the value and businesses consume that value
4. Enterprise mobile apps are B2B (business-to-business)– This is the exchange of products, information and services between businesses
5. Consumer mobile apps are designed in an attractive and simple way
6. Enterprise mobile apps are meant for official business and the design is not given much importance.

Consumer Apps

Consumer apps need to be designed perfectly and uniquely. They must include something that would force the consumers to stay back within the app for more time.

The features each app has depend on the specific solution it’s attempting to rectify. Satisfying millions is what makes a Consumer app profitable and famous. For the revenue side, Consumer apps can make use of ads and include gamification tactics to push in-game subscription for more downloads. Consumer app development takes less time and prices are comparatively lower than Enterprise apps.

1) Consumer apps can be downloaded from Google’s Play Store, Apple’s App Store
2) These apps mainly aim at revenue
3) Examples of consumer applications include social networks, games, productivity tools, publisher software and utilities
4) Consumer apps focus more on the design but enterprise apps focus on business required features.

How are Enterprise Apps Different?

These days, even small companies operate in different locations and work with different industries. This can bring in several challenges related to the requirements, currency, language etc.

With the growth of the organization, even the tracking of all information around will get difficult. In such situations, the best method is to introduce enterprise mobile apps that can cope with all the tasks in a timely manner.

Features of Enterprise Apps

1) Enterprise applications being software systems can help organizations to run businesses smoothly
2) Helps to carry out tasks such as planning, data analysis, and data management quickly and conveniently.
3) Can easily integrate and process data from different areas
4) Provide information to the user in a timely manner, which helps the organizations to optimize their operations
5) Used exclusively in business settings
6) Integrate information processing in companies, but also cater to a wide range of different customer groups
7) Successful enterprise applications have to allow parametrizations and create industry-specific solutions
8) The development process of an enterprise app is complex
9) Enterprise apps should have long-term success, great user adoption, high-performance, simplification, adoption and a design that suits the easy working of an organization

These factors differentiate enterprise applications from other business apps.

The recent survey by Forbes compared the income earning potential of enterprise mobile apps with that of consumer apps. The major results are shown below:

• Almost 43% of organizations that participated in the survey reported more income than that of the consumer app owners

• Enterprise app developers are making more than $100,000 per month, compared to the consumer app developers

• There has been a 25% increase in the number of enterprise mobile app developers in the last 6 months

Based on the need of your business, you can develop an enterprise app which can deliver maximum profit with definite growth. This not only helps you to increase employee engagement, but also boosts customer satisfaction, improves working methods, provides competitive advantage and enhances productivity.

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Enterprise apps based on their business needs

1) Enterprise Resource Planning App: This helps you to bring all systems of your company together to access data whenever required. With the use of ERP apps, it becomes easy for the management to make up-to-date decisions and processing

2) Content Management: Includes managing content-product information, documents, presentations etc. This has become common in most present-day organizations.

3) Customer Relationship Management: CRMs help in maintaining better relations with present and potential customers with the help of data. The main focus of such systems is customer retention, which leads to improved sales.

4) Order Management App: Helps to keep track of orders from the start to the delivery point. It streamlines the order management process and helps business owners to resolve issues such as order delivery delay and confused delivery.

Other types of enterprise apps used by organizations include: Export Sales App, Billing App, Human Resource Management (HRM), Financial App etc.

From the above, it is evident that enterprise applications are created to perform a wide range of tasks and process data compared to consumer apps. Developing a customized enterprise app needs a precise strategy to help your organization to overcome challenges in business. With an apt design and development plan, and correct conceptualization, you can make your app innovative and thus help in swift growth.

What Makes an Enterprise App Successful ?

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Super Admin Testreveal

Mobile applications that are generally used in business to solve any kind of enterprise issues is known as an enterprise mobile application. It is important for enterprises to follow the trend of using apps for internal and external services if they wish to succeed in the current app dominated world.

Different types of Enterprise mobile applications include

• Content management
• Customer support
• Payment processing
• Email marketing systems
• Automated billing system
• Collaboration, messaging and business intelligence
• Customer relationship management(CRM)
• Enterprise application integration (EAI)

Factors that make an Enterprise App Successful

For any Enterprise to develop, the first step to take forward is to have a well-planned strategy. After you have the perfect strategy, you can plan the business and go for a suitable enterprise mobile application. Following are some key factors that an enterprise should consider to build a highly buoyant mobile enterprise application to ensure their enterprise-wide acceptance:

• Clarity of business goals and objectives

Having a clear vision about the goal you need to achieve is very important. Once you have a strong objective, start thinking about the platform on which you want your app to be done. Keep your idea concrete to justify your investment in the mobile app development. The goals you need to consider are to:

1) Increase the customer’s perception of brand experience
2) Project the growth of your organisation
3) Increase the business force of your partners and employees
4) Attract new customers
5) Enhance the revenue opportunities

• Build apps keeping the target audience in mind

Another factor to consider before you develop an enterprise mobile app is to understand the behaviour of the mobile users and the way they use the device. How to optimise the user experience?
This might be the main question in your mind and if you have the answer to this question, you have solutions for rest all. This can help enterprises steer the app development efforts to fulfil user expectations, and result in an enchanting user experience for the app users.

• Selecting the apt platform for your Enterprise mobile application

The process of creating a mobile enterprise app is challenging as well as rewarding at the same time. Whether it’s iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone, no platform has a clear dominance over the other. So, it’s unavoidable to develop apps for all these platforms on both tablets and smart phones. But. It’s highly critical to choose a development methodology that meets all your cross-platform goals for the enterprise.

1) Native apps: These are built for a specific platform using the SDK platform, tools, languages and operating system (iOS, Android) that are typically provided by the platform vendor. Features of native apps:

• Most reliable and fastest, conventional
• Can get into the wider functionality of the device like: microphone, camera, accelerometer, compass, swipe gestures etc.
• Make use of push-notifications
• Provide access to important device attributes such as geo-location API etc.

2) HTML5-based apps: This is the latest approach used by most of the organizations with HTML5-based development. This helps them to reduce custom development costs for all the platforms. Even though HTML-5 based apps are a cost-saver, it does not provide the advantage of leveraging the native APIs and device capabilities.

3) Hybrid apps (Native + HTML5): Another approach is to include both HTML5 and native development, and adapt the core functionality of all platforms. Depending on the business requirements, you can choose the right platform.

The key method to have the best enterprise is to choose the right framework which is capable enough to meet the changing technology and user requirements.

• Maintain a policy to manage the app within the enterprise

As mobile applications are becoming widespread, enterprises need to ensure that their IT departments control what employees can install and remove from their mobile devices. Also, ensure standard applications and configurations to help the employees derive maximum benefit from their mobile devices.

The system of MAM, i.e., mobile application management is all about managing the apps installed on a user’s device. This has already been used by the organisations through desktops. Now they have to follow the same in mobile devices. MAM provides a higher level of control over the applications.

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Capabilities required for Mobile App Management

1) Authorization
2) OTA application provisioning
3) Regular monitoring of app performance and delivery
4) User and group access control
5) Update the app versions
6) Analyse the usage
7) Event management, reporting and tracking

• Security check for the application

This is the most challenging part of creating an application. With the rapid growth of mobile devices, applications, information protection is critical than before. Particularly when you develop mobile applications for highly regulated industries such as finance and healthcare. Right from password enforcement, data encryption, virus protection etc. organizations need to use robust application security measures to prevent data theft and loss.

Main Security policies that should be followed:

1) Models of devices to be used
2) Minimum requirements needed within the device
3) Networks, data, application etc. permitted to access
4) SSL certificates (data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key to the data of the enterprise)

• Ownership

App management requires a central figure to ensure that they don’t go wrong and loose direction. These project leaders will have to analyse the app from the start to the finish.

• Take regular data analytics

It’s important to get to know who all are using your app and how they’re being used. The continuous analysis of these things will help you improve your organisation’s app environment. The things you should keep an eye out are the number of active users, the number of versions and the number of downloads.

• Keep the user expectations in mind

Since enterprise apps are used on a regular basis, the expectation of the user also increases on the side of design menu, loading time, appearance etc. Human resource is the most valuable thing for any company. Each employee has a different set of experiences and this can be effectively utilized while making the app.

• Estimating the Costs

Making and testing of an app is an expensive act and requires up-to-date cost calculations and implementation. Enterprise Apps actually optimize the processing of the company and results in increasing efficiency which can lead to cost reductions. Thus, before going in for making an enterprise app, the purpose and effectiveness of the app should be well studied and calculated.

• Accessing app functionality

While testing the finally developed app, the loading time and functionality are the main things to be checked. Checking for the bugs and other issues is also important. Slow and dysfunctional apps become reasons for user irritation and can harm the company’s reputation.

• Compatibility with all devices

Each device has its own variations and it should be well tested that the app works within all devices. This also ensures that the maximum number of devices including Android, iOS and Windows are used in order to confirm the smooth usage of the app over all platforms.

Whether it is a large/small enterprise, the strategy to have an enterprise mobile application is a key to stay ahead in the current business environment. No one can escape enterprise mobility for sure because technology has been pushing forward so much. Therefore, the question is how soon and how effectively you can make this transformation in your business.