In working with many enterprise clients, we recognized the need to offer a free demo/trial comparable to leading enterprise SaaS vendors such as Salesforce. As a startup vendor in the enterprise mobility space, we faced a challenge in delivering such an offering within the parameters of the Apple iOS operating environment, which dictates that iOS apps must reside in the app store and cannot be hosted in external environments and delivered in executable format like most other software.

So we created the LiveCirrus Enterprise Portal for iOS and Android.

Simply click on the appropriate link from your iOS or Android device to download, and contact us with the URL of your company’s web app, then we’ll configure our servers to deliver your mobile incompatible desktop software to your device, and send your login credentials. All FREE until you’re ready to customize and deploy to your customers or employees!

Even with Google’s Java to iOS source code translator and Oracle’s Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile extension, the work of translating existing Java applications to both iOS and Android environments remains exceedingly cumbersome. Results are often unpredictable, and mobile software development projects are likely to be dovetailed with HTML5 and Native development efforts, further compromising the practicality of continuing to work with Java.

The practicality matter, combined with Apple’s ideological stance against Java as conveyed in these remarks from Steve Jobs – “Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain” – suggest it to be inevitable that Java will remain blocked in the iOS operating system. Why even commit the time, energy and resources trying to adapt your Java code to a mobile friendly format in an already complicated, often confusing mobility environment? The LiveCirrus cloud virtualization approach can efficiently deliver both Flash and Java to iOS AND Android devices, without complex, time consuming redevelopment initiatives.

A recent InformationWeek article by Richard Hoffman titled Arch Frenemy, very cleverly outlines some of Apple’s weaknesses in serving up enterprise friendly products.

While covering a range of known issues with Apple’s approach to integrating its products with enterprise, a subsection covers how schools are handling mobile deployments.

Recommended best practices include:

*Formalize BYOD.

*Standardize the gear.

*Use caution when considering tablets as PC replacements.

Notable in this subsection is the mention of content filters that block most Flash content, even when delivered through third party vendors that specialize in virtualizing Flash content. In this sense, LiveCirrus is exceptional in that our cloud platform can be configured to accommodate existing content filtering protocols on the server side, effectively circumventing this vexing IT challenge for educational environments.