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Business-critical systems.
In the palm of your hand.During 2010 we had a number of Enterprise clients expressing an interest in Apple's mobile platform, and we invested in establishing an iPhone and iPad delivery capability. Sixeyed has a proven track record as a Systems Integrator, and the Apple's technology stack is rich option for providing user-friendly client views into any number of Enterprise systems.
We wanted to build real apps as well as prototypes, so we developed a similar model for our Pro Bono and Open Source programmes - sponsoring consultants to deliver their own iPhone apps. The first fruit of this is coming soon to the App Store, an iPhone app for creating a Fantasy Formula 1 team - iF1 2011.
iFormual1 has been an excellent proving ground for our technologies - in addition to the iOS client application, the database storage and service logic for F1 races, teams and leagues is all hosted in the cloud, using Microsoft's SQL Azure and Windows Azure services. The patterns needed for iF1 2011 are typical of disconnected clients:
- round-trip encryption and decryption using industry standards;
- local data stores synchronized with server reference data;
- incremental updates for efficient data synchronization;
- leverage the caching capacity of the Internet with RESTful GETs;
- management of user identity between multiple devices;
- shared services for multiple client types with different protocols - XML/SOAP and JSON/HTTP;
- controlled integration with Social Networking services.
We will be documenting these patterns and the integration between iOS and Microsoft's Azure services in a series of blog posts, coming shortly.
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