IT Capability: Write Once, Deploy Anywhere

By | July 8, 2014
This entry is part 6 of 10 in the series Strategic IT Capabilities

Engaging customers on an exploding number of wearables, phones, phablets, tablets, pc’s, televisions…and who knows what is next…drives fragmentation and inefficiencies in the application development and maintenance process.

Write once, deploy anywhere is a technique to manage this complexity by writing applications in a common technology that can be deployed to many devices.  So instead of developing for…

  • Objective C for iOS
  • Java for Android
  • C# for Windows mobile

…a team would develop once in Web technologies such as HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, along with a mobile platform that can create a platform-specific app.

IBM Worklight is an example of a Mobile application development platform.

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