2014 can be called the Year of the Enterprise. With the explosion of the mobility movement and a positive reception of BYOD, it can be safely said that Enterprise apps today are as much, if not more, in demand as consumer apps. However there is a huge disparity in the demand for enterprise mobile apps and the developers who make these apps. A recent survey by Vision Mobile saw that only 16% of developers globally are developing Enterprise Mobile Apps despite the Enterprise market being more lucrative. According to this study 2 out of 3 developers, i.e. almost 67%, are concentrated in building consumer apps despite the fact that enterprise apps developers are likely to earn almost 3 times more.
Some of the facts that this report highlights are:
- 98% of Fortune 500 are using iOS and iOS developers looking at developing enterprise apps stand a chance to earn substantially more than Android developers
- Between Android, iOS and Windows platform the global developer community is more inclined towards Android as a primary platform. This survey also shows how platform evangelism has a significant impact on preferred programing language used by the developer community.
- Most mobile app developers are focused on gaming and basic consumer apps since these are easy to sell across multiple platforms yet almost 24% of these developers make nothing at all.
With a higher adoption of mobile solutions, it is only a matter of time that enterprise apps will overtake consumer apps. Research also suggests that by 2017 enterprises will have their own app stores making this a great time for developers to explore the enterprise app market.
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