SBIR Phase I: Adrenaline: A Browser-Based Platform for Mobile Enterprise Apps

这一小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在应对企业中日益增多的移动终端使用所带来的挑战。这些移动的设备由员工管理，包含个人数据，并使用不同的硬件和软件系统。该公司开发了一种新的网络浏览器，他们从头开始专门为移动的设备构建。该公司的使命是将他们的浏览器作为企业开发人员构建和部署跨平台企业级移动的Web应用程序的平台。这项研究将回答的基本问题是，浏览器是否可以成为托管企业移动的应用程序的合适平台。因此，本研究有三个主要目标。(1)通过开发新的抽象（如Web推送和后台执行），使移动的Web应用程序能够以独立于平台的方式访问本机功能，从而推动移动的Web应用程序设计方法的发展。(2)开发一个安全封装企业移动的Web应用程序和数据的系统，并提供管理功能，使信息技术（IT）员工能够管理企业应用程序、数据和用户。(3)为Web应用程序开发人员实现高级调试工具。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是使企业能够在工作场所使用智能手机和平板电脑等移动的设备安全地访问公司应用程序和数据。尽管移动的设备为员工提供了对企业应用程序和数据的无处不在的访问，但员工通常将这些移动的设备用于工作和个人生活。该公司的技术提供了一种封装企业应用程序和数据并将企业数据与个人数据分开的机制。总的来说，所提出的技术使企业开发人员编写在各种移动的设备上运行的纯HTML5应用程序变得更容易，更具成本效益，使用户可以自由地将移动的设备用于工作和个人用途，并为IT管理员提供对企业应用程序和数据的完全控制。国际数据公司（IDC）估计，到2015年，该公司运营的市场细分--移动的企业应用平台--将达到30亿美元。通过在移动的Web浏览器、开发工具和应用程序服务方面提供根本性的进步。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project addresses the challenges presented by increasing mobile device use in enterprises. These mobile devices are managed by employees, contain personal data, and use diverse hardware and software systems. The company developed a new web browser, which they built from the ground up specifically for mobile devices. The company's mission is to use their browser as a platform for enterprise developers to build and deploy cross-­platform enterprise-­class mobile web apps. The fundamental question this research will answer is whether a browser can be a suitable platform for hosting enterprise mobile apps. As such, this research has three primary objectives. (1) Advance the state-­of-­the-­art in mobile web app design methodology by developing new abstractions, such as web push and background execution, that enable mobile web apps to access native features in a platform independent way. (2) Develop a system that encapsulates enterprise mobile web apps and data securely, with management functions to enable information technology (IT) staff to manage enterprise apps, data, and users. (3) Implement advanced debugging tools for web app developers. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is in enabling enterprises to use mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, in the workplace to access company apps and data securely. Although mobile devices provide workers with ubiquitous access to enterprise apps and data, employees often use these mobile devices for work and in their personal lives. The company's technology provides a mechanism to encapsulate enterprise apps and data and to keep enterprise data separate from personal data. Overall the proposed technology makes it easier and more cost effective for enterprise developers to write pure HTML5 apps that run on a diverse set of mobile devices, gives users the freedom to use mobile devices for both work and for personal use, and provides IT administrators with complete control over enterprise apps and data. International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that the market segment the company operates in - mobile enterprise app platforms - will reach $3 billion by 2015. By providing fundamental advances in mobile web browsers, development tools, and application services.