ROI Check List
No two development situations are the same. There are numerous factors that contribute to the cost of developing a mobile solution and the total cost of ownership of that solution.
The following checklist provides a useful means of qualitatively gauging the relative Return on Investment (ROI) of adopting the SCO Mobile Server vs. developing the entire solution yourself. If any one of these situations is true for the mobile application development project under consideration, the ROI for utilizing the SCO Mobile Server will be positive.
The more of these that are true, the higher your ROI will be.
- The solution involves complicated business logic.
- The solution needs to orchestrate or federate data and functionality from multiple back-end systems.
- The mobile device cannot have direct access to enterprise systems, i.e., the solution requires stringent security measures.
- More than one mobile device technology needs to be supported (e.g., .NET™, Java, PalmOS®).
- A range of mobile device CPU, memory and storage capabilities must be supported.
- A range of mobile device manufacturers needs to be supported.
- The solution needs to invoke other applications as services.
- The solution needs to securely and reliably accommodate intermittent mobile connections.
- The solution needs to leverage functionality intrinsic to the mobile device (e.g., voice, image and video capture).
- The proprietary mobile device web browser simply cannot meet the solution's functional and user interface requirements.
- The solution needs to extend to PCs and other TCP/IP devices in addition to mobile phones.
- The solution needs to be deployed as a subscription-based service.
- The solution requires user or account authentication and administration.
- Routing and load balancing are required for scalability.
- Architectural standardization and component reuse are required or highly desired.
- Significant time-to-market and budget pressures curtail the development team's freedom to develop the "middleware" facets of the solution themselves.
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