Kuali Mobility Enterprise, or Mobility is a next generation set of tools to connect mobile devices to a variety of campus systems. The rapidly evolving world of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices being used on campuses is creating a huge demand for mobility tools and applications. Coupled with the movement towards eTexts and a growing expectation for “any place, any time, any device service,” campuses have a timely opportunity to collaborate and solve this common challenge together. Kuali Mobility will help a campus connect its many information systems (e.g., library, teaching and learning, administrative, research, bus locations, etc.) and enterprise data to mobile devices (e.g., iPad, Android, Blackberry, etc.) through the Kuali Mobility software.
Kuali Mobility Enterprise will build a Kuali Mobile framework that leverages the best-of-breed open source mobile platforms that enable institutions to provide their constituents with a mobile web gateway to interact with public and/or securely authenticated services. Kuali Mobility Enterprise is the packaging of that mobile platform based on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. It uses the extensive work from other open source mobile projects like JQuery Mobile and PhoneGap. The Kuali Mobile framework will enable mobile applications to be written, tested, packaged, and delivered to constituents through the mobile web or through an installable app for their particular mobile device via one of the application stores.