RED HAT MOBILE APPLICATION PLATFORM

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OVERVIEW

Red Hat

Mobile Application Platform brings together agility, integration, and centralized control

for mobile innovation and a competitive edge. This platform offers a suite of features that embrace

centralized control of security and back-end integration, collaborative app development, and a range

of deployments that increase the speed of app integration with enterprise systems and delivery.

By securing and managing the connection to enterprise systems, IT organizations can control how

and when mobile apps access core systems. And because the platform doesn’t mandate one set of

development tools or approaches, enterprise mobile app developers and DevOps teams can use

their choice of toolkits to access reusable components across multiple organization-wide mobile

projects. IT can maximize productivity, minimize cost and risk while empowering mobile developer

teams to collaborate, discover, experiment, and iterate quickly, with a product that scales rapidly

and securely.

BENEFITS

• Innovation and competitive

advantage for line of business

• Centralized control of

security and integration for IT

• Flexibility and agility

for developers

• Agility and continuous

delivery for DevOps

• Tools to create apps quickly

Mobile Platform Overview

BRING-YOUR-OWN-TOOLSAPP DEVELOPMENT

· Templates

· Codeless apps

· Online/offline workflow

CLOUD DEPLOYMENT

PUBLIC, PRIVATE, HYBRID, PaaS

MOBILE APPLICATION CLOUD

MOBILE BACKEND-AS-A-SERVICE (MBaaS)

· Data sync

· Storage

· Security

· Authentication

· API management

· Microservices

· Analytics

· Build farm

· App store

· Git repositories

· Node.js modules

· User management

ENTERPRISE

SYSTEMS

HTTPs

DEVOPS

FRONT END

DEVELOPER

BACK END

DEVELOPER

COLLABORATION

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FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

• Open, extensible architecture

based on Node.js

• Enterprise-grade MBaaS

• Standard developer toolkits

and frameworks

• Team and collaboration

features

• Mobile app life-cycle

management

• Rapid mobile app develop-

ment (RMAD) tools

• Templates and

customizable solutions

• App management

and reporting

• Hosted, private cloud, and

on-premise deployment

FE AT U R ES

Key features of Red Hat Mobile Application Platform include:

1. BACK-END INTEGRATION

FEAT U RE BENEFIT

Mobile Backend-as-a-Service

(MBaaS)

Based on open technologies and Node.js, MBaaS capabilities provide

a high-performance, lightweight framework, allowing mobile devel-

opers to securely integrate mobile apps with back-end systems. An

MBaaS manages data storage, scaling, notications, analytics, and

more between device and back-end systems. This allows mobile devel-

opers to focus on the app, playing a critical role in enterprise mobile app

enablement. It comes with ready-to-use modules for common back-end

systems such as Salesforce, Sharepoint, and Oracle.

Microservices and applica-

tion programming interfaces

(APIs)

The architecture is based on microservices and RESTful APIs.

Developers can create microservices and back-end APIs in Node.js that

can be reused across multiple mobile projects by multiple development

teams, eliminating the need to recreate complex back-end connec-

tions. They can also create microservices specic to a mobile use case

to optimize the information from back-end systems for mobile devices,

leading to better, more efcient app design.

Node.js modules Developers are free to create back-end services using Node.js modules.

They can also create new microservices by accessing module snippets

through the npmjs.org community.

Data sync The data sync framework allows developers to include ofine function-

ality in their mobile solutions. It provides a mechanism to manage

bidirectional data synchronization from multiple client apps into

back-end systems with the capability to manage data collisions

from multiple updates.

2. SECURITY AND AUTHENTICATION

FEAT U RE BENEFIT

Encryption Security begins on the device with the optional use of AES/RSA APIs

for encryption of locally cached data, followed by HTTPS protocol from

the app to the MBaaS. Additional security is provided by the ability to

add an API key per application. A set of authentication APIs makes it

easy to implement authentication with session management.

• Back-end integration

• Collaboration and application life-cycle

management

• Rapid mobile application development

• Security and authentication

• Front-end development tools

• Cloud and on-premise deployment

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FEAT U RE BENEFIT

Protecting access to

back-end systems

Access from the MBaaS to back-end systems can be secured in accor-

dance with the organization’s security policies. This includes the use

of IP address punch-through, fully congured site-to-site VPNs, strong

rewalls, demilitarized zones (DMZs), approved datacenters, approved

datacenter locations, on-premise deployment, and more.

User authentication and

authorization

User security and authentication can be managed through user creden-

tials or a user’s own LDAP/Active Directory system. OAuth integration is

also available for third-party services. Single sign-on (SSO) with vendor-

specic offerings can also be implemented.

3. COLLABORATION AND APPLICATION LIFE-CYCLE MANAGEMENT

FEAT U RE BENEFIT

Team- and role-based

collaboration

Development teams, both in-house and outsourced, composed of

different skills—UI/UX design, front-end coding, back-end services

development, administration, DevOps, and more—can work concur-

rently on multiple app projects without impacting individual developer

agility.

Access control Conguration of ne-grained controls at all levels of each mobile project

facilitates secure access to key project and product components. This

helps lock down functionality at different levels within the platform.

It also encourages an API-driven and microservices development

approach, enabling ease of discovery and reusability.

Mobile application life-cycle

management (ALM)

Time-to-market for mobile projects puts DevOps teams under pressure

to manage multiple iterative app releases. Mobile ALM allows congu-

ration and management of multiple project environments (e.g., devel-

opment, test, pre-production, production) incorporating the access

control features of collaboration.

Developer workow By giving every application and cloud back end within a project its own

Git repository, a coordinated workow is a reality. Git supports source

code version control and collaboration, allowing multiple developers to

work on the same code in parallel.

4. FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

FEAT U RE BENEFIT

Open and exible toolkits Developers are more productive with freedom to use their choice

of tools, including any integrated development environment (IDE)

for hybrid and native mobile app development. Support is provided

for native software development kits (SDKs) (iOS, Android, Windows

Phone), hybrid Apache Cordova, HTML5 and Appcelerator, as well as

Xamarin, Sencha, React, Ionic, Backbone.js, Angular.js, Ember.js, and

JBoss Developer Studio.

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FEAT U RE BENEFIT

JBoss Developer Studio An Eclipse IDE for building mobile apps for all major operating systems

via Apache Cordova. Integrated with the mobile platform, JBoss

Developer Studio provides organizations with a fully supported devel-

opment environment. This includes productivity tools such as UI

element palettes and quick-start projects for popular frameworks like

Ionic, Angular.js, and Backbone.js.

Application migration Existing mobile applications can be migrated and centrally managed.

Whether it’s native, HTML5, or hybrid applications, code is not lost.

Credentials and certicates are centralized and updates can be trans-

ferred from one team to another.

Online/ofine workow Developers are free to work locally in their own environment or in the

hosted studio with access to collaboration, MBaaS features, reusable

code, templates, APIs, shared services, and more.

Multidevice builds The hosted build farm service supports builds for native and hybrid

applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, generating build and

digital signatures. This eliminates the need to maintain device-specic

hardware/software environments to build new applications.

Credential storage Developers can store credential bundles for building debug, test, and

production apps across all platforms. This provides a single repository

for signing credentials independent of the developer’s local machine.

For organizations with large in-house or external development teams,

this simplies the management of signing credentials and future app

updates.

5. RAPID MOBILE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

FEAT U RE BENEFIT

Mobile forms builder Fast results can be achieved from quickly transforming paper-based

processes to mobile forms. Apps can be quickly created, without

writing code, with the ease of a mobile forms builder. This low-code

approach to building apps is also an excellent option for proto-

typing ideas and extending existing back-end applications with forms

capabilities.

Templates To kick-start the creation of new mobile app projects, the ready-to-use

sample and template apps provide the fundamentals of building cloud-

powered mobile apps and back-end integrations.

Field workforce management

(WFM) modules

Field WFM modules are open source components designed for organi-

zations building mobile apps for eld operations. They can be used to

customize features to support workow of job orders, scheduling, and

management of eld workers on mobile devices.

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6. CLOUD AND ON-PREMISE DEPLOYMENT

FEAT U RE BENEFIT

Hosted deployment Red Hat Mobile Application Platform is a cloud-agnostic architecture

and offers a wide range of cloud deployments to suit any enterprise

requirement. Public cloud hosting offers affordability and reasonable

service level agreements (SLAs). For highly sensitive mobile workloads

and high availability requirements, organizations can consider

dedicated clouds or hybrid cloud environments that offer the best of

both worlds.

Cloud hosting options include:

• Public multitenant

• Private, dedicated and managed

• Hybrid, the application cloud code (dedicated MBaaS) can reside in

other clouds

On-premise deployment Taking advantage of the capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

and

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat, Red Hat Mobile Application Platform

can be deployed in traditional on-premise scenarios where the organi-

zation manages the platform. This facilitates a greater degree of data

management, as all data from back-end systems will pass through an

organization’s infrastructure on its way to the mobile device.

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