According Gartner, about 25 per cent of enterprises will have enterprise application stores by 2017.
As per the research firm, the increasing number of enterprise mobile devices and the adoption of the master data management technology (MDM) by enterprises will drive demand and adoption of enterprise application stores. Further, enterprises have started formalising more standard support for these devices, and are looking for ways to manage mobile application provision, especially as they develop their own in-house applications to extend more complex data to these devices.
Several enterprises are relying on MDM vendors to provide these capabilities as part of the suite of services they are extending to enterprises. Over the next 12 to 18 months, most of the enterprise application store implementations will be driven by developments in the area of mobile applications and the support of MDM. Gartner’s research shows that a majority of the organisations begin by assessing the realistic need for immediate adoption of enterprise application stores. They typically opt for providers which offer cross-platform support for web, PC and mobile applications, as well as for other devices.
According to Gartner, enterprise application stores can support a more diverse and competitive automated software process requiring less procurement intervention. The long-term success of an enterprise application store hinges on increase in the supply of software solutions.
