Note: For up-to-date product documentation, see the IBM MobileFirst Foundation Developer Center.

Product overview

IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation is an integrated platform that helps you extend your business to mobile devices.

IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation includes a comprehensive development environment, mobile-optimized runtime middleware, a private enterprise application store, and an integrated management and analytics console, all supported by various security mechanisms.

With IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation, your organization can efficiently develop, connect, run, and manage rich mobile applications (apps) that can access the full capabilities of your target mobile devices. IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation can help reduce time-to-market, cost, and complexity of development, and enables an optimized customer and employee user experience across multiple environments.

As part of this comprehensive mobile solution, IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation can be integrated with application lifecycle, security, management, and analytics capabilities to help you address the unique mobile needs of your business.