It will be interesting to see how Smartsheet fares as mobile applications continue to move into the mainstream.
As native mobile applications continue to surge in popularity across multiple, incompatible operating systems, the demand for powerful developer tools that can simultaneously deploy across all of these platforms (and the web) is stronger than ever.
If your mobile application continues to run in the cloud, even when the application is closed, how do you go about providing your customers with useful information about background events?
Tinder, the location-based mobile dating application, continues to be Match's growth engine, responsible for roughly half its paid users and half its projected annual revenue.
But the ubiquity of mobile devices and applications, continued improvements in mobile location-based services, and enhancements to smart phones in general have made this technology increasingly powerful and popular.
Now a part of Ancestry.com, both the online and mobile applications will continue to be developed.
Given that digital savvy and high performing teams run their business on mobile devices (mostly smartphones), the demand for customizable, scalable and highly secure intelligent mobile applications will continue to far exceed IT's capability to meet stakeholder needs.
As the number of smart mobile devices and applications continue to grow dramatically, private data stored and handled by such mobile devices have become the primary targets of hackers and malicious software.
It's also worth noting that as today's mobile application marketplaces continue to grow in size, the sheer number of applications available becomes a number of lesser importance.
The trend toward more mobile applications going free continues, app analytics provider Flurry confirms this morning in a new report focused on app price changes over time.
