[1] MEAPs enable organizations to develop, test, and deploy applications across multiple device platforms, such as Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile, ensuring cross-platform compatibility.
[2] These platforms facilitate integration with existing enterprise back-end systems, including ERP and CRM, promoting seamless data synchronization and operational efficiency.
[3] MEAPs also offer robust security features, such as data encryption, user authentication, and role-based access controls, to protect sensitive corporate information on mobile devices.
[4] A MEAP/MADP typically includes tools for testing, debugging, and maintaining applications, as well as API interfaces for back-end databases and middleware components for tasks like linting, parsing, and compiling.
[5] The term "Mobile Enterprise Application Platform" originated from a Gartner Magic Quadrant report in 2008, previously referred to as the "Multichannel Access Gateway Market."
These platforms utilize semantic integration techniques, applying domain-specific ontologies and XML-based standards such as OWL and RDF to manage diverse business information resources.
Additionally, advanced MEAPs leverage reasoning and auto-discovery mechanisms using inference engines to enable automatic resource discovery and dynamic decision-making processes.