Top Enterprise App Development Trends Including HTML 5 and Cloud Development

2012 is going to be a year which will have developers delivering innovation and creativity with four major technologies ruling the roost including the cloud, mobile apps development and computing, social media and HTML5 Development for web. The IDC research report noted that the spending has grown considerably at the rate of 18 percent per year and almost 80% of future IT spending growth will be witnessed for cloud computing till the year 2020.

Here are the trends to be witnessed, according to several research reports for the later part of 2012:

1. The Cloud Landscape Will Grow Considerably
All cloud markets are expected to grow including the private, virtual private and public markets and expected notch a whopping figure of $61 billion by the end of this year. SaaS continues to be biggest cloud market which is also expected to earn $33 billion by year end.

IaaS is expected to reinvent itself and more and more vendors are expected to deliver technology platform services and solutions. SaaS is expected to delve into product life-cycle management (PLM),and business intelligence (BI) in a big way while also planning out ways to seep into supply chain management (SCM).

2. The HTML 5 Juggernaut Will Keep on Rolling with Success
HTML5 is the next big thing in the web designing world since it is complementing well with the changing devices.HTML5 has been adopted by Microsoft for use in its next operating system: Windows 8 while Internet Explorer 9 and many other browsers are willing to support the latest standard. According to IDC analysts, more than 90 percent of smartphones and tablets are sure to assimilate HTML5 in their browsers by next year.

3. Get ready for getting everything through Internet
Internet is going to house everything, according to noted Gartner analysts. There are internet connections between things which will give way to connections between people and while the cost of connected electronic devices is getting lower and lower, more  people are getting connected wirelessly and quickly.

Contextual and social connections will be attached with great importance to factors such as time, location, and sensors like GPS. Creation of Internet-centric apps will be the pursuing trend which will connect to legacy apps online.

4. Expect to See Lots of Innovative Mobile Apps
Mobile apps are becoming innovative and they do not just contain touch support and dependent on gestures with several search features, voice features, and video add-ons as inputs. The app stores are expanding to meet enterprise app needs and the apps are expected to go main-stream by 2013.

5. The Growth of Online Development Environments
The rise of mobile apps is expected to be parallel to the growth of Web-based development environments. Many such environments like Eclipse Orion, Cloud9 IDE are increasingly becoming popular.

6. Data Analytics Trends are expected to grow
With the explosion of data through various intelligent devices, social media and other important sources, data analytics is sure to grow sporadically in the coming months. The market is expected to surge to more than 2.3 billion by 2015 according to IDC figures.

HTML 5 Development, Conversion and Customization - the Trends

HTML 5 standards have ushered in a new era in the field of web development since it delivers a fantastic web browsing experience.

HTML5 is one of the hottest growing platforms in web development and it has received the backing of many big IT giants. It guarantees a fantastic web experience and as per predictions it is expected that HTML5 will revolutionize the web development market.

There is a huge demand for HTML 5 conversion and there are multiple clients waiting to get their sites upgraded. There are a lot of expert HTML developers who provide these services.

HTML5 is basically a drastic revision of HTML, which is one of the oldest and the most used web programming languages. The nascent stages of the web brought on HTML and after that it suffered a great deal due to lack of functionalities and upgrades in terms of changing web development scenario. With HTML5, this changes as one can do almost everything including development of rich internet applications like that of Flash and Java FX.

HTML 5 is incredibly versatile and hence many websites are housing it and there are mobile applications and browsers who also support it. Apple has been one of the earliest promoters of HTML5 and it has used apps related to it in their iPhone and iPad devices. The use of mobile browsers is on the rise and this trend will continue to increase in favor of mobile browser in the future.

HTML5 is also being increasingly used as a format for e-books fast surpassing ePub which is the official standard for interoperability of eBooks. It is being increasingly used with iPads and iPhones.

There are many companies who create eBooks using HTML 5 along with various mobile applications and browsers keeping view, the browser compatibility. One can migrate the existing website and develop new apps using HTML 5.

Here are some of the advantages of using HTML 5 conversion and development services:

• Mutuality and Elegant Forms
• Improved Code
• Enhanced Semantics
• Extreme Consistency
• Better Accessibility
• Offline Application cache
• Geo location support

Why should one opt for HTML 5 development and conversion?

• It is primarily used to give an enhanced web experience and seamless navigation
• It brings with it, fantastic features related to quick responsiveness and Web 2.0.
• There are a lot of superior functionality including new semantic elements and rich multimedia support to deliver rich websites
• HTML5 Mobile Web Development has provided support to various devices including iPhone, iPad and users have witnessed how it simplifies the complexity of graphics and videos.

Various offshore mobile application development providers have started incorporating HTML 5 websites and the services are offered at cost-effective prices. It is evident that since HTML 5 and CSS 3 are becoming the new standards of web development and revolutionizing the industry, there has been an increasing demand for HTML5 web development services.

The need of the hour is to innovate using the enhanced features of the package and implement it for creating a unique interface design for new websites. Companies are also providing services for creating mobile compatible websites with the recent trend of mobile smart phones and tablets.

Is HTML5 Development proving to be a risk for Flash and Silverlight?

HTML 5 is covering huge grounds of success after the switch from HTML 4. According to the W3C report, HTML5 is aiming toward Web applications, which was not actually paid attention to in the various versions of HTML. In other words, HTML5 is actually filling up the void that Flash and Silverlight have not managed to do, even now.

HTML 5 is really big and is the advent of a new age of the Web as the newest specification has forced analysts to go weak in their knees as to show brilliant capabilities covering video and graphics along with a lot of valuable APIs with the latest technology.

HTML5 technologies such as Canvas are being promoted by, Google and Mozilla. Analysts say that the next-gen apps are incredibly responsive and boast of a large number of enhancements and features.

After five years of work on HTML 5, video support will be integrated to Firefox 3.5. Google's new Chrome browser can do anything right from video tags, derived from the HTML5 specification. And Microsoft has several HTML5 features in Internet Explorer 8 which includes local storage and AJAX navigation. Adobe, Microsoft etc are concentrating W3C's HTML5 efforts while the other players stress on the need for other products.

Silverlight provides more advanced features and boosts a faster programming model using multiple technologies like C#, 3-D, and out-of-browser capabilities. With those features, Silverlight will ultimately provide a richer Internet experience.

The browser market is highly fragmented, and there were various incompatibilities between browsers. In the meantime, the Adobe Flash platform will continue to be a consistent platform that can deliver a rich web experience. Some analysts argue that their own offering is the best and has much more advanced rendering, performance, and behavior than HTML5.Some analysts also believe that there is absolute no immediate danger to the market or establishing monopoly to these rich Internet app browser plug-ins. Most analysts suggest and think that the concept of plug-ins will continue to make the necessary impact.

It is also debatable to realize the advantages of all web development mediums. HTML 5 has added new syntactical features. There is absolute no need to take resort to proprietary plugins and APIs too. There is no conclusion to the never-ending debate on the future of web presentation and which technology rules the roost. The only thing is that it can co-exist and then let the people decide whether the technology is suiting their needs.

Elan Emerging Technologies have developed many web applications using Cross Platform Development tools like phonegap,titanium, Html5 Development.