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

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目解决了企业中移动设备使用增加所带来的挑战。这些移动设备由员工管理，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设备开发。该公司的使命是将其浏览器作为企业开发者构建和部署跨平台企业级移动网络应用的平台。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），推动移动web应用设计方法的最新发展，使移动web应用能够以独立于平台的方式访问本地功能。(2)开发一个将企业移动web应用和数据安全封装，并具有管理功能的系统，使IT人员能够管理企业的应用、数据和用户。(3)为web应用开发者实现高级调试工具。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移动设备，如智能手机和平板电脑，安全地访问公司应用程序和数据。尽管移动设备为员工提供了无处不在的企业应用程序和数据访问，但员工经常将这些移动设备用于工作和个人生活。该公司的技术提供了一种机制来封装企业应用程序和数据，并将企业数据与个人数据分开。总的来说，提议的技术使企业开发人员更容易编写在各种移动设备上运行的纯HTML5应用程序，成本更低，用户可以自由地将移动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，该公司运营的移动企业应用程序平台的市场份额将达到30亿美元。通过提供移动web浏览器、开发工具和应用程序服务方面的基本进步。

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.