Competence transfer through enterprise mobile application development

Large world corporations need corresponding information technology (IT) support as well as constant improvement of software tools, which should enable further business development and more efficient work to operational organizations. The main interest of IT support organizations is currently more and more connected with mobile IT equipment of the employees. Specific business mobile applications improve the efficiency and result in new operating possibilities. The cooperation between Ericsson Nikola Tesla (ENT) and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) of the Zagreb University, has enabled a fast development of competencies in ENT, necessary for mobile application development and quality realization of innovative solution for platforms iOS and Android. In this cooperation at the project realization the methodology of application development was defined, the corresponding competencies were developed, the system architecture was designed together with the communication of mobile application and back-end IT systems. In the project the iterative development approach, tools for software code versioning and project control have been used thus enabling continuous insight in project progressing. At any moment it was possible to determine priorities of functional development and solution elements, as well as to realize the necessary additional transfer of knowledge. The project has resulted in an enterprise mobile application for iOS and Android platforms, which had been implemented and tested in several countries. The complete solution enables data management by means of the portal, thus decreasing the frequent changes of users´ mobile application and significantly accelerating the process of new functionalities introduction.