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This past Thanksgiving, mobile users drove 40% of online traffic. And by Cyber Monday, mobile traffic had grown by 60% year-on-year. Clearly, creating a mobile enterprise is a top priority for many organizations.

IBM MobileFirst enables an enterprise to support a mobile strategy. Here are 5 things to know:

1. IBM MobileFirst supports mobile management, mobile security, mobile analytics, and mobile development

is an end-to-end solution, consisting of multiple products and service offerings that together help you build a mobile enterprise. The four primary disciplines of IBM MobileFirst are Application and Data Platform, Management, Security, and Analytics. They are supported by Consulting Services to help an organization with its mobile efforts. Together, they add up to a complete offering to help you become a mobile enterprise.

2. Develop a single app, and have it run on multiple mobile operating systems (such as Android and iOS)

is a comprehensive set of tools, application programming interfaces (APIs) and run time components, designed to help organizations to build, run, and manage mobile applications. Worklight includes support for hybrid applications. These are mobile apps wrappered in a container that allow the app to access the device hardware. The big advantage of hybrid apps is the same app can run on multiple operating systems. So you can write a single app, and run it on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone mobile devices.

3. You can automate the testing of your mobile applications

Testing mobile apps is not an easy task. There are multiple operating systems, many versions of those operating systems, and a seemingly endless array of mobile devices. How can you possibly test your mobile apps against all of these variables? That’s where the automated test capabilities of comes in. Using Rational Test Workbench you can create test storyboards and emulate workloads to ensure every aspect of mobile app testing is covered.

4. Protect your enterprise data on mobile devices with mobile device management

Exposing your enterprise data to mobile devices comes with some serious security concerns. Mobile devices have a habit of getting lost or stolen – . can help you protect your enterprise data by providing a platform to manage mobile devices. You can ensure a mobile device is adequately protected with a passcode (), and remotely disable a mobile device if it is lost or stolen.

5. Create the perfect mobile user experience for your apps through mobile analytics

Once an application has been designed, developed, tested, deployed and is being managed, obtaining qualitative insight into how and why the application is being used is the final step. And understanding how your mobile app is being used is important. In a large study, . provides real time reporting on how your mobile app is being used, down to the ability to replay a session of how a user is interacting with a mobile app.

In the IBM Redbooks publication each of these areas of IBM MobileFirst is discussed in greater detail, and illustrated with hands-on examples of using these products to create mobile enterprise solutions.

Martin Keen is an IBM Redbooks Project Leader. He works with technical experts to create books, guides, blogs, and videos. Follow Martin on Twitter at .

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