Mobile app scenarios
Quickly add login, push, and data sync to your iOS, Android, or Windows app. Connect your app to enterprise systems and on-premises resources. Scale your app to millions of customers across multiple geographies.
Secure and store data in the cloud from your mobile app on any device
Connect your iOS, Android, or Windows app to the cloud with Azure Mobile Apps and store your data securely in a data store of your choice including SQL Database, Document Database, or Table Storage. Authenticate users using their social identities (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc) or Azure Active directory. Enable your app to work offline and synchronize the data with the cloud when connectivity is present. Extend your backend with custom code in .NET, Node.js, Java, PHP, or Python. Use your favorite development tools, source control, and continuous integration (CI) tools like TFS and GitHub.
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Engage your customers with push notifications
Add personalized push notifications to your app in minutes. Broadcast millions of push notifications to dynamic segments of your iOS, Android, Windows, or Kindle customers using Notification Hubs. Get insight into your user’s behavior and create effective mobile engagement campaigns using Mobile Engagement.
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Expand your web presence with mobile apps
Modernize your web app by adding a mobile client in minutes with Azure Web and Mobile App Services. Benefit from a consistent dev ops experience including development, deployment, staging, backup, and troubleshooting, across your mobile and web app sharing the same container. Share the user context between your web and mobile clients using offline sync, Notification Hubs, and SignalR capabilities.
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Build your mobile app to enterprise line-of-business systems
Build employee and partner-facing mobile applications and connect them to resources inside your corporate firewall as well as SaaS apps you rely on. Authenticate your users with Azure Active Directory (AAD). Use Azure Virtual Network to link your mobile apps to your corporate network and link to internal databases and on-premises business systems. Leverage Azure API apps and built-in connectors when using SaaS solutions, such as Office 365, Dynamics CRM, and Salesforce to quickly exchange data and process transactions.
Deliver a global mobile app with high availability and low latency
As your business-critical mobile apps are consumed by a global audience, it is vital that they are set up to handle failures and are deployed in locations close to your end users. Build highly available and geo-replicated apps by leveraging Azure Traffic Manager, WebJobs, and Redis Cache. Use Premium Azure SQL Database to keep two synchronized copies of your application data. Make sure assets such as images and videos are served from locations close to the end user by integrating Azure CDN into your mobile clients.
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