Great user experiences are vital to the success of your organization. They keep customers coming back. They increase the job satisfaction and efficiency of employees who use internal systems to get their jobs done. 

By building apps with micro frontends and deploying them in containers on Kubernetes, enterprises can create better user experiences more efficiently and effectively, updating iteratively and deploying independently. 

These apps are also resilient and resource conscious, as you can scale up and down the parts of your site that are experiencing peak traffic, optimizing your infrastructural usage while ensuring that your app performance is reliably high. 

While developing with micro frontends on Kubernetes is a methodology with a certain level of complexity, a micro frontend platform like Entando provides developers with tools to rapidly build, design, and assemble applications from micro frontends, microservices, and web content and deploy them in linux containers. 

Here are 5 kinds of apps you can build using Entando.

1. Process-Driven Apps

Whether you're onboarding a new customer, managing a medical checkup, processing an order flow, or maintaining case management, process automation is an important investment in increasing productivity while minimizing human error. 

Entando helps you automate your business workflows, which simplifies approval processes for managers and reduces the time an important task remains pending in review. Streamline your case management with Entando working on top of your choice of backend engine, such as Red Hat PAM or Kogito.

2. Progressive Web Apps

With Entando, you can take a truly mobile-first approach to UX by building progressive web apps, which possess many of the features of a native mobile app while being accessible through a web browser. 

These apps have a dynamic experience across devices, and can even offer many native app features such as fast load times, offline support, push notifications, and app-like look and feel.

3. Portals With User-Based Content And Access

With Entando Identity Management System (built on Keycloak), you can create applications with various roles and tailor security and authentication to the unique requirements of your organization. For example, if you are building a portal for an educational institution, you can tailor content and access around roles like student, instructor, and administrator, enabling each role to access important information and communicate effectively, maintaining a seamless experience.

4. IoT Dashboards & Data Aggregation

With Entando, you can build apps that provide a visual dashboard of actionable data pulled from IoT devices.

To illustrate what we mean, think about a large office building with 40 floors. On each floor, there are several restrooms, which means that the building houses literally hundreds of them. Each restroom is equipped with smart dispensers for soap and paper towels. Rather than spending countless man hours having custodial employees constantly check each floor’s restrooms to see if they are low on paper towels or hand soap, imagine being able to look at a dashboard and see the exact levels of every dispenser on every single floor. 

With Entando, you can do just that. Our platform enables you to build a dashboard of data aggregation from your IoT devices, so that you can provide better customer service and support.

5. Apps With Consistent UX

The benefit of using Entando’s micro frontend platform is that the development time for every successive app will decrease, and you will also increase standardization. This is particularly important for enterprise leaders who are managing dozens or even hundreds of applications across the organization. 

With the Entando Component Generator (built on JHipster), you can quickly create micro frontends in a standardized way, and then easily assemble them into a single app. You can also reuse those components across projects via the Entando Component Repository. This helps you make sure that your apps have consistent UX.

Build better apps faster with Entando.

If you run containerized deployments, you understand the benefits of Kubernetes. You also understand how complicated it can be and how difficult it can be to gain developer adoption. It feels like there should be an easier way. 

That’s why we created a platform that makes it easy to build applications on Kubernetes using modular components.

Entando is the leading modular application platform for building enterprise web apps on Kubernetes. We want to change the way enterprises think about building their apps, sites, and portals in order to promote developer productivity in a Kubernetes environment.

We integrate trusted open source technologies and extend their functionality to give you a cohesive and streamlined developer experience with easy-to-use patterns. From deploying on Kubernetes to creating modular backend and frontend architectures using your current technologies, Entando helps you at every layer of the stack. 

Entando is open source with available enterprise support and services. Begin developing on the platform today, and get a quote to see how our team can help your enterprise build better apps, sites, and portals--faster.