{"id":4991,"date":"2014-11-28T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2014-10-24T18:47:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T02:47:32","slug":"enterprise-mobile-app-development-complexity-and-a-skills-gap-are-roadblocking-app-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/enterprise-mobile-app-development-complexity-and-a-skills-gap-are-roadblocking-app-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Mobile App Development: Complexity and a Skills Gap are Roadblocking App Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile enterprise business application market is expected to reach $61 billion by 2018, says <a title=\"Strategy Analytics on Mobile App Development\" href=\"https:\/\/www.strategyanalytics.com\/default.aspx?mod=reportabstractviewer&amp;a0=9236\" target=\"_blank\">Strategy Analytics<\/a>. \u00a0In 2013, <a title=\"900,000 developers targeting enterprise mobile app development\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snappii.com\/resource-center\/future-mobile-enterprise-market-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">900,000 mobile app developers<\/a> were targeting the enterprise app market, and a\u00a0survey by\u00a0\u00a0<a title=\"Visionmobile survey of developer apps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.visionmobile.com\/product\/developer-economics-q3-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">VisionMobile\u00a0<\/a>found that only 15 percent of app developers are targeting the enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>While enterprises are spending increasing amounts of money in developing mobile apps, independent mobile app developers have been shunning those projects, preferring to work instead on consumer apps where they can typically make more money. \u00a0Consumers are much more inclined to download apps and to pay for ones they view as useful, although that&#8217;s becoming increasingly difficult as <a title=\"Gartner prediction on Mobile apps being free\" href=\"http:\/\/sourcedigit.com\/1903-no-more-paid-apps-95-percent-of-mobile-apps-will-be-free-by-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gartner predicts<\/a> that nearly 95 percent of consumer apps in 2018 will be free to download.<\/p>\n<p>Enterprise mobile apps have become a pain point for many businesses. \u00a0<a title=\"Paulo Rosado bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.outsystems.com\/company\/management-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paulo Rosado<\/a>,\u00a0CEO of\u00a0OutSystems,\u00a0<a title=\"Enterprise Mobile App developers are hard to find\" href=\"http:\/\/adtmag.com\/articles\/2014\/10\/24\/mobile-problems.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;it&#8217;s clear that organizations are struggling to deal with a deluge of mobile app requests, with multiple platforms to support, hundreds of change requests and complex back-end integrations. \u00a0To make matters worse, as demand for mobile app developers grows, companies will continue to have a challenge hiring developers. 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