Building Better Mobile Backends with Oracle Mobile Cloud Service
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The document discusses Oracle Mobile Cloud Service (MCS), which aims to address challenges in developing enterprise mobile applications. MCS provides a platform that extends and connects pre-built mobile services, APIs from backend systems, and client development tools to simplify building secure, scalable mobile solutions. It offers components like an API catalog, connectors to integrate mobile apps with backend systems, storage for caching data on devices, and user management across applications.
Building Better Mobile Backends with Oracle Mobile Cloud Service
- 2. Copyright © 2014 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Building Be@er Mobile Backends With Oracle Mobile Cloud Service Jeff Davies Sr. Principal Product Manager Mobile Product Management
- 3. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Safe Harbor Statement The following is intended to outline our general product direcOon. It is intended for informaOon purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or funcOonality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and Oming of any features or funcOonality described for Oracle’s products remains at the sole discreOon of Oracle. Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 3
- 4. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | What is a Mobile Backend? 1@OracleMobile
- 5. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 5 Lets start with a Mobile App. A simple HR Mobile App
- 6. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 6 Let’s decompose this app
- 7. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 7 And map it to the systems of record
- 8. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted This simple app soon became complicated to develop… Client Dev Tools Integra=on Security Mobile Services Monitor & Analyze Mul=ple Environments
- 9. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Enterprise Mobile ApplicaOon Development Challenges Time spent on integraOon • MulOple sources of data • Mobile Dev not a 1st class CiOzen • APIs not mobile ready • No API Catalog Cross plaEorm Support • MulO Form Factors (BYOD) • MulOple client dev opOons • Mobile Security integraOon • Mobile services integraOon Have no mobile analy=cs in their applicaOons • App Usage • App Performance & DiagnosOcs • Business Metric Analysis Upda=ng or releasing mobile apps every 6 months or less • ConOnuous development • MulOple Environments • Life cycle management 9 Source: Mobile Business StaOsOcs, CSO Online 2014 Source: InformaOon Week 2011 Source: Triangle Research Survey 2014 2/3 78% 87%
- 10. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | TO CLIENT DEVELOPMENT TOOLS The Answer: Oracle Mobile Cloud Service Mobile First meets API First NEW SERVICES & APIS BUSINESS IMPACT PRE-‐BUILT MOBILE SERVICES SECURITY CONTINUOUS DELIVERY SDLC
- 11. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Enterprise Architect MCS Admin Mobile App Developer “I create the mobile applica0ons that call backend services” Service Developers “I create the backend services that mobile applica0ons call” Line of Business Stakeholders “I am responsible for the success of our mobiliza0on strategy” Mobile Developer Geared for all involved Personas LOB Stakeholder Service Developers Enterprise Architect “I make sure we have a secure, scalable solu0on” MCS Admin “I administer MCS for our company” .
- 12. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | CreaOng a Mobile Cloud Ecosystem Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 12 A plaEorm that extends and Connects MOBILE CLOUD SERVICE Apps That Can Be Built (B2E & B2C) Services We Offer Systems We Can Connect To
- 13. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | What the Mobile Developer Sees • Get_employee() • Store_object() • Send_alert() • Login_facebook() • Get_locaOon_address() What the Backend Developer Sees Solving Two Differing Needs
- 14. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 14 Moving Development to the Cloud
- 15. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | 15 Mobile Cloud Service FuncOonal Components • API Catalog: through which developers can find APIs they need to access from various backend applicaOons • Connectors: to enable developers to connect from the mobile applicaOon to the API • Storage: Persistence for data locally to improve performance for mobile clients • User Management: Map users to roles that are specific to the various applicaOons being accessed from the mobile client • Common Backend Services: Simplify development of mobile applicaOons – noOficaOons, tesOng, packaging, deployment to corporate or public app-‐stores • AnalyOcs: Insights into applicaOon usage, performance and business analyOcs Oracle ConfidenOal – Highly Restricted
- 16. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | MOBILE APPLICATION FRAMEWORK Na=ve Others Mobile APIs SECURE MOBILE CLOUD SERVICE Oracle Mobile Cloud Service Users Built-‐in APIs Offline Sync No=fica=ons User Mgmt Objs Storage Public Cloud Connectors 3rd Party API Data Shaping Custom Logic Orchestrate ON-‐PREMISE PACKAGED APPLICATIONS CUSTOM APPLICATIONS CLOUD Custom API Oracle Cloud Enterprise SaaS On-‐premise Outside-‐in, Mobile First Inside-‐out, Service first Analy=cs Diagnos=cs Usage Engagement Con=nuous Development Monitoring SDLC
- 17. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Mobile Cloud Service value ProposiOon Build Engaging Apps Quickly Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 17 With Mobile Cloud Services, it’s easy to rapidly build engaging cross-‐plaoorm and naOve apps for iOS, Android with your choice of development tools with a persona based approach and tools for all stakeholders involved in mobile applicaOon development DemysOfy user management Easily authenOcate your users with your corporate user idenOty for B2E apps and create your own user store or integrate with social idenOty for B2C apps Quickly search and consume mobile services via API Catalog Make it easy for Mobile Developers to search a catalog of Mobile APIs abstracted from the systems of record in a consistent and simple way to consume in the mobile app Connect your mobile apps to enterprise & mobile data Reduce cost of integraOon and Ome to deploy mobile apps by leveraging put of the box connectors to integrate with enterprise on-‐premise and cloud backend applicaOons as well as mobile services for geo locaOon, social etc. MCS provides the tools to shape the APIs into Mobile APIs in the API catalog with Node.JS
- 18. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Mobile Cloud Service Value ProposiOon Cont.. Use offline data sync to build responsive apps Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 18 Broadcast personalized push noOficaOons to millions in minutes Create robust apps that remain useful when there are network issues, so users can create and modify data even when they are offline. Improve app responsiveness by caching server data locally on the device. MCS simplifies integraOon to Apple and Google’s push noOficaOon services and provides the server side infrastructure to integrate with your backends and push messages and noOficaOons to mobile users. Get insights with Mobile AnalyOcs From mobile developer to service developer to the LOB stake holders, MCS provides real Ome monitoring as well deep insight into user behavior including app usage, performance, conversions, in-‐ app purchases, user retenOon. Scale to fit your business With MCS, you can start small and grow as your business needs grow. MCS provides all the environments and the monitoring of the services to allow you to focus on your business needs
- 19. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Mobile Cloud Service CompeOOve Analysis Built ground up for Mobile First with opOmized RESTful API, extensible with JavaScript (Node.JS) Persona based Mobile App Development Built in Mobile APIs (Sync, Push, User Mgmt..) Secure back-‐end service connecOvity over REST and SOAP with seamless idenOty propagaOon Enterprise grade security with built-‐in pa@erns for common B2E and B2C scenarios Client Development Tool AgnosOc Depth & breadth of usage & analyOcs for developers & business owners Oracle ConfidenOal – Highly Restricted 19
- 20. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Mobile Cloud Service CompeOOve Analysis Offline and cloud based development with full life cycle management End-‐to-‐end diagnosOcs for effecOve trouble shooOng Size and Global Cloud Deployment, ability to expand to global data centers Choice of Private, Public deployment architecture on same code base 20 Oracle ConfidenOal – Highly Restricted
- 21. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Mobile Cloud Service Demo 21
- 22. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | MCS Mobile Analy=cs
- 23. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | What is going on in our backend • Which APIs / How fast • Which events • ApplicaOon Funnel • Users staOsOcs • Sessions breakdown Further filter and analyze by various cross cuts Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 23 Mobile AnalyOcs
- 24. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 24 Usage AnalyOcs
- 25. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 25 API AnalyOcs
- 26. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 26 Custom Events
- 27. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 27 Funnels
- 28. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | MCS Value ProposiOon Built ground up for Mobile First with opOmized RESTful API, extensible with JavaScript (Node.JS) ✔ Persona based Mobile App Development ✔ Built in Mobile APIs (Sync, Push, User Mgmt, Storage) ✔ Secure back-‐end service connecOvity over REST and SOAP with seamless idenOty propagaOon ✔ Enterprise grade security with built-‐in pa@erns for common B2E and B2C scenarios ✔ Client Development Tool AgnosOc ✔ Depth & breadth of usage & analyOcs for developers & business owners ✔ Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 28
- 29. Copyright © 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Oracle Mobile Cloud Service Oracle ConfidenOal – Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 29