Mobile Application Development

Statistics show that there are more smartphones in the marketplace now than there are personal computers and laptops. This has huge implications for businesses of all shapes and sizes. How can a business capitalize on this explosion of use and interest in smartphones? How can businesses provide value-added services to their customers through a smartphone? How does your business gain a meaningful presence on the smartphone of current or potential customers?

The answer to all the above questions? By developing a mobile application.

A mobile application has the rare opportunity to put your company’s product, service or information right in the pocket of your current or potential customers 24/7/365. What a mobile application can do for your business really depends on your business and what services you want to provide to your customer! A mobile application for a hair salon may allow a customer to book an appointment from their phone at any time. In contrast, a mobile application for a real estate broker may allow potential customers to view the agent’s listings, get a virtual tour of properties or chat using the phone’s instant messaging service (SMS, BBM, KIK etc;).

Computan has a full-fledged development team capable of building mobile applications for any business. We have the team capable of understanding your business, working with you to evaluate which services customers should be able to accomplish through their smartphone and of course designing, building, testing and publishing your application so that it can be accessed by your customers.

Mobile application development is a very similar process to developing a web application or any other sort of software. However, the difference is that there are many different platforms in the smartphone environment such as Android, iPhone, Windows and Blackberry which all run their own unique operating systems. As such developing an application to work on the different operating systems would require separate ‘versions’ of your mobile application. This means that if you have a mobile application that works on Android phones only then only your current or target customers with an Android phone would be able to use your app. Any current or potential customers with a Blackberry, Windows Phone or iPhone wouldn’t be able to download and use your mobile application. In the traditional desktop/web environments most applications are set to run on Windows and since most computers in the marketplace run Windows this isn’t a major issue for businesses when creating web software. By nature, mobile applications are small and convenient and functions less than a traditional desktop or web-based application would. Building these applications is a very cost-effective activity for most businesses, but writing unique versions of the mobile application for each of the leading smartphone manufacturers is a cost to be evaluated.

Let Computan be your partner to help you understand the environment of building your mobile application and advising you on what functions and platforms to develop on. Contact us today for a free consultation.

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