SBIR Phase II: Enabling Rapid Mobilization of Enterprise Applications

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目应该为企业的应用程序动员提供一个全新的选择。关键的价值主张是，与任何竞争产品相比，公司能够以很小的成本和时间动员他们的应用程序。从技术角度来看，该项目包括一个基于云的后端，允许运行企业应用程序的原始PC版本（基于浏览器或基于厚客户端），一个在移动设备上运行的前端应用程序，以及一个专门构建的远程计算协议MORPH。该协议专门设计用于动态转换应用程序视图，使其适合智能手机和平板电脑。该平台无需任何软件开发就可以实现动员，可以即时地动员应用程序，为企业的所有应用程序提供统一的动员平台，并支持由企业控制的特性平价。MORPH由两个底层技术组成：1)虚拟视图，它将独立于UI框架的应用程序视图虚拟化为一组易于操作的UI元素和属性；2)转换服务，可编程到StarMobile平台上，对虚拟视图进行操作，以实现移动设备友好的视图。这个项目的更广泛/商业影响是，公司可以采用任何当前的企业应用程序，并将其扩展到任何移动设备上的用户，而成本和时间是目前市场上任何其他解决方案的5%到20%。这将使85%的企业知识工作者受益，他们预计将在未来几年内拥有智能手机。最近对首席信息官的一项调查显示，应用程序动员有多种驱动因素——主要是提高员工的生产力、增加收入和减少文书工作。在最近的一项调查中，超过90%的IT经理表示有应用程序动员的计划。StarMobile的典型客户包括全球2000强企业，这些企业使用内部部署、基于网络和/或基于云的应用程序（打包或定制）来支持其业务流程。虽然迫切需要应用程序动员，但没有可靠的、具有成本效益的解决方案可以快速执行动员。因此，需要一种解决方案，它可以在企业方面以最小的努力实现快速动员，同时提供所需的丰富功能集。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project should offer a radically new alternative to enterprises for application mobilization. The key value proposition is the ability for companies to mobilize their applications at a fraction of the cost and time as compared to any competitive offering. From a technology standpoint, the project consists of a cloud-based backend that allows for the original PC version (browser-based or thick-client-based) of enterprise applications to be run, a front-end app that runs on the mobile devices, and a purpose-built remote computing protocol called MORPH. The protocol is specifically designed to dynamically transform the application views in a manner that make them appropriate for smartphones and tablets. The platform enables mobilization without requiring any software development, mobilizes applications instantaneously, offers a unified mobilization platform for all of an enterprise's applications, and enables feature parity controllable by the enterprise. MORPH composes of two underlying technologies: 1) virtual view that virtualizes application views independent of the UI framework used into a set of UI elements and attributes that can be easily manipulated, and 2) transformation services that can be programmed onto the StarMobile platform to operate on the virtual view to realize a mobile device friendly view.The broader / commercial impact of this project is that a company can take any current enterprise applications and extend them to users on any mobile devices at 5% to 20% of the cost and time of any other solution on the market today. This should benefit the 85% of enterprise knowledge workers who are expected to have smartphones within the next few years. A recent survey of CIOs revealed that there are multiple drivers for application mobilization - the key ones being increased productivity of employees, higher revenue, and reduced paper work. Over 90% of IT managers in a recent survey indicated plans for application mobilization. Typical customers for StarMobile include Global 2000 businesses that use on-premise, web-based and / or cloud-based applications, packaged or bespoke, to support their business processes. While there is an urgent demand for application mobilization, there are no reliable, cost-effective solutions that can perform mobilization rapidly. Thus, there is a need for a solution that can achieve rapid mobilization with minimal effort on the part of the enterprise and at the same time provide the rich set of functionality that is required.