IBM Worklight

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IBM® Worklight helps organizations extend their business to mobile devices. It provides an open, comprehensive and advanced mobile application platform to build, run and manage mobile applications.

With Worklight, you can efficiently develop, run and manage HTML5, hybrid and native apps. Reduce your development cost, improve time-to-market and enhance mobile app governance and security. IBM Worklight uses standards-based technologies that avoid the use of code translation, proprietary interpreters and unpopular scripting languages.

With IBM Worklight organizations can:

  • Support multiple mobile operating environments and devices with the simplicity of a single, shared code base
  • Easily connect and synchronize with enterprise data, applications and cloud services
  • Safeguard mobile security at the device, application, and network layer
  • Govern their mobile app portfolio from one central interface.

Supports multiple mobile operating environments and devices with the simplicity of a single, shared code base

  • Standards-based platform allows you to leverage the growing ecosystem of third-party libraries and frameworks
  • Build once, deploy to many platforms
  • Create mobile and omni-channel applications more quickly using any combination of HTML5, native and hybrid development methods
  • Support Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Java ME, mobile Web and desktop Web environments
  • Runtime skins optimize the user experience for hundreds of different devices

Easily connect and synchronize with enterprise data, applications and cloud services

  • Connect to back-end data, applications and cloud services more easily, making the most of standards-based technologies
  • Transform enterprise data into mobile-friendly, JSON format that can be synchronized, encrypted, and stored locally on mobile devices
  • Leverage advanced mobile middleware for caching, data synchronization, and end-to-end encryption of data

Safeguard mobile security at the device, application, and network layer

  • Protect sensitive information from malware attacks and device theft
  • Ensure timely propagation and adoption of critical security updates to the entire install base
  • Enforce multi-factor authentication, single sign-on (SSO) and device SSO while integrating with existing authentication and security approaches
  • Enable secure delivery and operation of mobile apps for employee-owned devices or device types not allowed on the corporate network
  • Manage approved and rejected devices for controlled mobile-application installation and remote application disablement

Govern their mobile app portfolio from one central interface.

  • Govern app distribution and version management
  • Direct Update for enforced version upgrades
  • Manage push notifications through a single, central interface
  • Create a secure, hardened shell to enforce common branding, security and data access standards
  • Monitor usage through analytics and usage reporting
  • High availability and private cloud deployment options (WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, PureApplication Systems)

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This document provides system requirements information on the supported releases of IBM Worklight, IBM Mobile Foundation and IBM Mobile Application Platform Pattern from which you can select system requirements in different levels and organization of detail.

Worklight 6.0 helps customers deliver higher quality, higher-impact apps by providing the industry’s first embedded testing, customer experience analytics, and lean geo-location capabilities.

New! Embedded functional testing

The accelerated delivery cycles of mobile applications requires fast and effective test cycles. Worklight 6.0 replaces what was previously tedious and time-consuming manual test processes with the industry’s first integrated mobile app testing capability.

Testing becomes a straightforward process:

  1. Either developers or testers record a sequence of actions on a mobile device.
  2. This recording becomes the basis of an intelligent, resilient and code-less test case that can be played back on demand on any iOS or Android device within the same OS family – and even on emulated devices.

New! Embedded customer experience analytics

Worklight 6.0 includes embedded customer experience analytics that provides user-centered views of performance and usage of mobile applications. Developers can instrument their mobile apps with an analytics framework that collects data as the app is being used.

The results of that data collection can be reported as IT diagnostics information – allowing organizations to track app usage and responsiveness by location. A sudden drop-off or low rate of usage can pinpoint a software defect.

The instrumentation framework can be easily extended with IBM Tealeaf CX Mobile to analyze mobile apps for greater marketing insight.

New! Geo-Location Toolkit

Geo-location data is one of the most powerful differentiators of mobile apps. Yet because coordinates must be constantly polled to understand where a mobile device is located, the resulting stream of information is difficult to manage without exhausting resources such as battery and network.

Worklight 6.0 provides a new geo-location toolkit that allows developers to efficiently collect geo-location data within the mobile app without exhausting mobile resources.

The new toolkit allows developers to set policies for acquiring geo data and send it in batch only when needed to trigger business actions.

The resulting apps can help organizations leverage geographic presence for business and operational insight.

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In addition to these industry-leading enhancements, IBM Worklight 6.0 includes over a dozen enhancements that improve app development usability, ease of use, and functionality.

View full image IBM Worklight consists of five main components:

  • IBM Worklight Studio is an Eclipse-based IDE, allowing developers to perform all the coding and integration tasks that are required to develop a fully operational application.
  • IBM Worklight Server is a scalable Java-based Server gateway between applications, external services, and the enterprise backend infrastructure. The Server contains security features to enable connectivity, multi-source data extraction and manipulation, authentication, direct update of web and hybrid apps, analytics and operational management functions.
  • IBM Worklight Device Runtime Components consist of client-side runtime code that embeds server functionality within the target environment of deployed apps.
  • IBM Worklight Application Center is an enterprise app store that helps organizations govern the distribution of production-ready mobile apps across the enterprise, elicit and organize user feedback. The Application Center can also be used by development teams to automate the distribution of pre-release software versions and analyze feedback by version and device, accelerating cycle time.
  • IBM Worklight Console is a web-based UI dedicated for the ongoing monitoring and administration of the Worklight Server and its deployed apps, adapters and push notifications.

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IBM Worklight Studio

  • Improve app quality and time-to-value with mobile app testing: record, edit and play back tests on multiple physical or emulated devices.
  • Develop rich HTML5, hybrid and native applications for all supporting modern devices using native code, a bi-directional WYSIWYG, and standard web technologies and tools. Learn more about Worklight's support for HTML5
  • Maximize code sharing while defining custom behavior and styling guidelines that match the target environment
  • Access device APIs using native code or standard web languages over a uniform Apache Cordova bridge
  • Utilize both native and standard web languages within the same app to balance development efficiency and a rich user experience
  • Leverage the growing ecosystem of 3rd-party tools, libraries and frameworks such as JQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch and Dojo Mobile
  • Implement Runtime Skins to build apps that automatically adjust to environment guidelines such as form factor, screen density, HTML support and UI input methods

IBM Worklight Server

  • Empower hundreds of thousands of end-users with transactional capabilities and enable their direct access to back-end systems and cloud-based services on-the-go
  • Configure, test and deploy descriptive XML files to connect to a variety of back-end systems using standard Studio tools
  • Production ready private app store with role based governance and target user groups (mapped to LDAP repositories) and high availability support. Integrated with IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices for automated application deployment from IBM Worklight.
  • Security-rich architecture enabled by server managed security challenges
  • Direct update of deployed hybrid and web applications, without going through the different app stores (subject to vendor’s terms of service)
  • Automatically convert hierarchical data to JSON format for optimal delivery and consumption
  • Enhance users interaction with a uniform, OS-agnostic Push notification architecture
  • Define complex mashups of multiple data sources to reduce overall traffic
  • Integrate with the existing security and authentication mechanisms of the organization

IBM Worklight Device Runtime Components

  • Mobile data integration - Connectivity and authentication APIs
  • Security features - On-device encryption, offline authentication and remote disablement of apps
  • Cross-platform support - Runtime Skins, UI abstractions and HTML5 toolkits compatibility
  • Mobile client functionality - Hybrid app framework, access to device APIs and push notification registration
  • Mobile database for large offline data sets storage with robust encryption and advanced back-end synchronization
  • Reports and analytics - Built-in reports and event-based custom reporting
  • Resource serving - Direct update of app web resources and HTML5 caching

IBM Worklight Application Center

  • Enables companies to set up an enterprise app store that to help govern the distribution and management of pre-release and production-ready mobile applications
  • Leverage existing authentication frameworks, including ACL and LDAP, to manage app distribution by department, job function, geography and other topology. 
  • Access the Application Center from mobile devices to view the mobile apps they are allowed to download, rate apps and provide feedback for future enhancements
  • Easily distribute mobile builds and elicit feedback from development and test team members.

IBM Worklight Console

  • Easily instrument mobile apps and gain insight into app usage and responsiveness in the field – with upgrade to full-featured customer experience analytics and insight
  • Monitor all deployed applications, adapters and push notification rules from a centralized, web-based console
  • Assign device-specific IDs to ensure secure application provisioning
  • Remotely disable applications based on preconfigured rules of app version and device type
  • Customize messages sent to end-users on application launch
  • Collect user statistics from all running applications
  • Generate built-in, pre-configured user adoption and usage reports
  • Configure data collection rules for application-specific events
  • Export raw reporting data to be analyzed by the organization's BI systems
  • Simulate many different devices through embedded mobile browser simulator

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