| | JUNE 20186CIOReviewMobile applications have become the center of innovation in the digital age. With an upsurge in the number of users opting for smartphones and tablets, companies today rely heavily on mobile applications to expand their approach in various fields such as branding, marketing, accessing online sites, and enhancing customer engagement. With the increase in the number of mobile phone users, the app developers seek for ways to develop apps that are robust, handy and easy to use on mobile phones. The booming cloud technology has given an option to the developers to make such mobile apps that leverage cloud as storage platform, requiring less internal memory. As per Statista's report, more developers are investing effort in developing cloud driven apps, since the global cloud application market value is likely to reach $69.4 billion in 2018 and $85 billion by 2021.Artificial Intelligence is also helping revolutionize both enterprise and consumer-facing app development today as it enables many exciting features in mobile apps like recommendation engines, personalized experience, behavioral targeting and more. Be it cybersecurity, virtual assistants or IoT; every business is focusing on powering their mobile apps with AI and machine learning techniques so that they can have real-time access to business insights. With the AI market expected to witness a growth of $47 billion by 2020, apps are also getting more intelligent and learning to anticipate user's preferences than ever before.Besides, blockchain technology is also gaining huge attention as compared to any other technology at present, since data security has always remained a matter of concern while using a mobile phone. Mobile app developers are leveraging blockchain technology to record a variety of sensitive and valuable transactions and enhance the security of the app and data by eliminating chances of data tampering.Riding on these trends, a growing number of vendors are offering robust and best-of-breed mobile application solutions. These vendors not only leverage innovative technologies to steer successful mobile application development initiatives but also collaborate with clients to explore positive outcomes.Let us know your thoughts.Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.comEditorialA Transformative JourneyCopyright © 2018 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewMAY - 2018Editorial StaffSalesBanu JohnCarolynn WaltersJustin SmithKyle SummersPalyam AvinashSam Ericsson John Varghesejohn@cioreview.comVisualizersIssac GeorgeRenukesh GangurManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeMOBILE APPLICATION SPECIAL*Some of the Insights are based on the interviews with respective CIOs and CXOs to our editorial staffContact Us:Phone:510-402-1463Fax:510-894-8405Email:sales@cioreview.comeditor@cioreview.commarketing@cioreview.com MAY - 2018, Vol 07 SE 30 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc.To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com CIOReview
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