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Do-It-Yourself Mobile Applications Win Honeywell to Disney: Tech
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Dongyan Wang, an executive at data-storage provider NetApp Inc., did what peers at some other businesses deem unthinkable: He let the company’s 10,000 employees start making their own mobile applications for work.
Do-it-yourself mobile software can be unreliable or leave a company vulnerable to malware. Wang bet that employee-generated applications would result in a productivity boost and cost reduction that outweighed those risks.