The revolution 2015 with MBaaS


Whether you are building a new mobile app or updating an existing one then you should find out solutions for all the below requirements.

  1. Reduce the development cost.
  2. Reduce the development time.
  3. Reduce maintenance cost.
  4. Reduce Time To Market(TTM).
  5. Improve quality.
  6. Handle security.
  7. Handle App growth.

Here one solution for all these barrier ie Mobile Backend As A Service (MBaaS).

What are the essential Mobile Backend features?

  1. Cloud based data storage

One most popular feature of MBaaS is data and object should be storing and accessing in the cloud. Cloud storage allow you to Create,Retrieve,Update and Delete data from data storage.

2. User management

Mobile users are using different App for different purpose. Most of these user expect their social media account link to their favorite mobile App without having traditional user registration. Furthermore,the user can easily manage their account without losing the flexibility of existing App.

3. Push notification

One of the key element of mobile App is Push notification. This method allow user to notify of new message without open the App. These text message can make sound and pop up on user screen. This is the great way to interact with App and user.

4. File management

If user moving to new mobile device then there should be a chance to lose the files and in user mobile should not have enough space to store the files will also produce difficulty to user. what is the solution for all these difficulties. Store all file outside the user device. Cloud based file management provides solution for all these issues. Use cloud storage mechanism breaks all these bad experiences. Images or video files can store in cloud.

All the above backend operations consider as service and provides full abstract layer on all these features.

In 2011, a revolution starts in mobile technology. All these backend operations treated as a service and these new idea generally know as MBaaS (Mobile Backend As A service). MBaaS is not a new idea. It is gradually grow up from Infrastructure As A Service(IaaS), Platform As A Service(PaaS) and Software As A Service(SaaS). Some other backend service like analytics, locations, messaging and crash reporting also consider as a service in MBaaS.

But when you are thinking to develop a new App, you have lot of steps like server setup, database creation, routing, social integration, UI binding and File management etc need to solve. The pictorial representation as follows:

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Just imagine, you just focus only your frontend code and all others will bind together provide as service as follows:

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Here the MBaaS playing magical role in development phase. So you cannot bother about any backend operation and fully concentrate on frontend development for great user experience.

How MBaaS is possible in mobile App’s development?

Choose right MBaaS platform according to your needs. MBaaS can be categorised under different groups.

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There is no single provider meet all of you requirement but some common features are available most of MBaaS provider.

We have lot of MBaas providers available in market. some of the list as shown below:

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Select and register any one MBaaS provider as shown above list. Each service provider have their own document simply follow that instructions.

Why MBaaS need in your mobile App’s development?

In developers point of view, there should be some challenges in developing an App.

  1. Large effort and time spend on backend integration.
  2. Few times gets on frontend development time.
  3. Upto 80% of the implement effort is dedicated to backend development.
We can check with some example. Now we are creating a mobile App.It will finish in 10 days. According to above points frontend development will take 2 days and backend effort will goes to 8 days. If we are ready to use all these backend operations consider as service then backend development time will fall down to one day.overall development will finish in three days.

In users point of view, there are great advantages while using MBaaS, that are cloud based storage,File management,Social integration and Push notification.

MBaaS technology assure in mobile development world to

  1. Complex backend integration within short time period
  2. High quality mobile application across device platform.
  3. Reduce mobile App development time.

MBaaS assure lot of business benefits.

  1. Backend infrastructure and integration layer are pre-build. So developer can quickly build their App.
  2. Due to cloud storage MBaaS provides high Scalability.
  3. Better App with performance.
  4. More margin and Profit.

Evaluation MBaaS Platform

In the year 2011 : MBaaS concept launched

In the year 2012 : MBaaS accelerate mobile App development.

In the year 2017: Huge leap in the market expected for MBaaS. This is signaled by strong acquisitions and VC investments in MBaaS platforms

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Major Acquisitions focus MBaaS will rule the mobile technology for next decades.Some Acquisitions are:

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Conclusion

MBaaS is basically cloud computing category and which should be easy for developer setup backend operations. Each MBaaS vendors provides SDK for integrate your application with backend service. MBaaS provides data storage, Push notification, Social Media, Offline Data Synchronization, GPS, Analytics and many more. So all these operations are in single umbrella and that umbrella is ready for you. Write fews codes and wear that umbrella.