Data Challenges Facing Mobile and Cloud Developers

Mobile and cloud applications are often built to enhance the user experience by bringing agile access to information that is often spread across the enterprise, third parties, and the internet. As a result, these new applications need to access data that resides within the firewalls as well as data sources that are in the public domain – for example, data on web sites or social media information such as Twitter streams, Facebook posts, and so on.