Harnessing Developer Communities on the Cloud

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Harnessing Developer Communities on the Cloud

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The success of a mobile application is based upon innovation and relevance to its intended audience. Furthermore the uniqueness of the application, its functionalities and time-to-market add on to the foundations which contribute to its success. In the mobile applications industry, innovation can be derived from an average high school kid to the likes of Mobiquest, all of which contribute to this rapidly growing industry. Every mobile application developer dreams of building the next cutting edge application and monetising it.

A major challenge for the telecom operators is therefore to channel the creation of these applications, which undoubtedly adds value to their service offering. This creates a need for telecom operators to have a platform that can entice innovation starting from idea generation, necessary tools, best practices and also a test bed where mobile application developers can endeavor their brainchild with utmost freedom.

Easing the Developer Task

Mobile application developers who thrive to unleash their creativity in the form of novel applications crave for a simple and streamlined application development process. They want to create applications with minimal intervention and understanding of the need to connect to the telecom operator’s backend, as well as their underlying protocols.

Platforms aiming for “developer-friendliness” will be successful in harnessing abundant creative talent amongst those who possess ground-breaking ideas but are inhibited by the technical obstacles involved in materialising these ideas.

In addition to the “developer-friendliness” initiative, the availability of useful resources that enhance the applications during the development process in the form of sample applications, development tool kits and guides will help inspire budding developers and boost the development process from rapid creation, deployment and commercialisation of their mobile applications.

Birth of a Vibrant Developer Community

In a day and age where mash-ups are enriching consumer experience, the best-of-breed mobile applications are sometimes born out of collaborative ideas from many people from all walks of life. Fierce competition has led individual developers to be on the lookout for partnerships with larger communities of developers that can bring out better applications.

This can be enabled with interactive online forums that are supported by technical counseling, developer workshops & networking sessions for idea generation, knowledge sharing & potential business partnerships, thus creating a vibrant developer community.

hSenid Mobile recently launched mChoice Aventura, its Cloud Enabled Telco Platform with a State of the art Mobile Application Developer Portal that is set to pave the way for a vibrant Developer Community with a simplified Development Path resulting in a Plethora of “Telco” Applications for Mobile Operators to provide its diverse subscriber base.

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