Abstract: A technique is introduced for developing and deploying an application in a mobile domain. In operation, a mobile data model may be accessed, and a portion of the mobile data model may selected to be instantiated at a distributed device in order to create a mobile data store at the distributed device. The mobile data store may contain enterprise information. A mobile software application and at least a portion of the mobile data model may be made available to a consumer, and, in some embodiments, the application and the portion of the data model may be deployed to a consumer. In some embodiments, the consumer may be a hand-held computing device.

Abstract: Various methods for distributing, integrating, and hosting a software platform that may be used to extend an enterprise network to mobile devices are provided. A particular embodiment of the method includes distributing a software platform to a first enterprise and distributing the software platform to a second enterprise. The software platform is for use in connection with an enterprise computing system having a plurality of back-end software applications. The software platform includes a data modeling program allowing creation of a data model associated with at least one of the plurality of back-end applications. The software platform further includes a deployment feature allowing deployment of at least a portion of the data model to a plurality of mobile computing devices.