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Enterprise Mobile App Development Companies in Istanbul
Enterprise Mobile App Development Companies in Istanbul
This guide compares ten companies that build enterprise mobile apps in Istanbul, looking at their scale, location, sector depth and the type of project each one fits.
This guide compares ten companies that build enterprise mobile apps in Istanbul, looking at their scale, location, sector depth and the type of project each one fits.
What should you look for when choosing an enterprise mobile app company in Istanbul?
The most reliable way to find the right development company in Istanbul for an enterprise mobile app project is to check whether the agency openly shares verifiable references, team size and sector depth. In this guide we compare ten of the mobile app development companies in Istanbul that suit enterprise projects.
We wrote this guide for the CTOs, CDOs, digital transformation leads and procurement teams who decide on mobile app investments in companies with more than fifty employees. Individual founders who want to build their own app from scratch have a different need, so for them we recommend our article on the best mobile app development companies in Türkiye.
Comparison table of 10 enterprise mobile app companies in Istanbul
The table below compares ten companies that build enterprise mobile apps in Istanbul by their location within the city, their verifiable scale data and the area where each is strongest. You will find a detailed profile of every company, along with the project type it fits, in the section below the table.
Company | Location | Verified scale | Strongest area |
|---|---|---|---|
Neon Apps | Istanbul and New York | 85-person in-house team, 550+ projects | Product-led mobile app development, consumer scale |
Commencis | Istanbul, London and Berlin | 20+ named enterprise references | Banking, insurance, aviation |
Mobven | Istanbul | 8 named finance references | Mobile banking SDK, digital wallet |
PiA | Teknopark Istanbul and 4 other cities | 400+ people, 13 global offices | Telecom, public sector, large-scale app delivery |
OBSS | Teknopark Istanbul, Ankara and London | 1,000+ software engineers | Large-scale enterprise team augmentation |
Intertech | Kurtköy, Teknopark Istanbul | 1,700+ employees, founded in 1987 | Core banking, finance |
Softtech | Istanbul and Ankara | Founded in 2006, banking focused | Mobile banking applications |
Applogist | Istanbul and London | 6 named enterprise references | Logistics, insurance, e-commerce |
Etiya | Davutpaşa Teknopark and 10 countries | Listed in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025 | Telecom BSS platform, product vendor |
SESTEK | Istanbul, Dubai and the United States | 100+ engineers, 700+ enterprise clients | Conversational AI, product vendor |
Four points make the table easier to read.
Enterprise providers in Istanbul fall into three categories. A product team owns the app end to end, a resource provider hires engineers into your team, and a product or platform vendor integrates its ready-made solution into your existing system. Confusing these three models leads to the most expensive mistake in enterprise projects.
Scale is not always an advantage, because a company with 1,700 employees may not be able to assign a senior team to a single six-month mobile project.
Eight of the ten companies on the list also run offices abroad. That makes a concrete difference in projects that require App Store regions, multi-language support and local payment methods.
Six of the ten companies work mainly in banking and finance. If you operate outside finance, your candidate pool is narrower than it looks, which is why you need to sharpen your reference questions.
What is enterprise mobile app development, and how does it differ from a standard project?
An enterprise mobile app is an application that works integrated with a company's existing systems, is subject to identity management and data policies, and supports more than one user role. It differs from a single-purpose consumer app in three ways.
The first difference comes from the integration load being larger than the app itself. In an enterprise project, a significant share of the development effort goes not into screens but into the connections behind them. ERP, CRM, SAP, core banking, inventory management, the corporate identity provider and the payment infrastructure are the first of those connections. That is why the real question to ask an agency is not whether it can build a beautiful interface, but which project it delivered on an enterprise system similar to yours.
The second difference appears in the lifecycle starting after delivery. A consumer app is launched and then grown, while an enterprise app is launched and then audited. Operating system updates, library security patches, store policy changes and internal audit requests create a permanent maintenance load. If the contract does not cover service level commitments, maintenance scope and handover clauses, the project stalls at the end of the first year.
The third difference comes from the decision not belonging to one person. In an enterprise project, procurement, legal, information security and the business unit all sit at the same table. That is why the agency's ability to work within corporate processes matters as much as its technical skill. Documentation discipline, experience with security questionnaires and a commitment to data processing that complies with KVKK, Turkey's personal data protection law, are among the measures of that ability.
Enterprise mobile app development companies in Istanbul
The information below is compiled from each company's publicly available sources. The order is not a ranking of success, and we state separately which project type each company fits.
1. Neon Apps (Istanbul, New York)
Neon Apps is a mobile app development company operating in Istanbul and New York. It was founded in January 2019 and today works with an 85-person in-house team. To date it has completed more than 550 projects, launched over 500 digital products, and those products have reached 100 million users in total. Because the whole team works inside the company, projects run from a single source without being passed to subcontractors, which makes a difference for enterprise buyers in terms of team continuity.
The enterprise clients of Neon Apps include Tera Yatırım, TAV Airports, Tatil Sepeti, Protein Ocean and Onedio. This work spans investment and finance, aviation, travel and online booking, e-commerce and digital media. Each one carries different technical requirements: compliance with the regulations of the Capital Markets Board of Türkiye and real-time data in finance, multi-language use and high traffic at peak hours in aviation, dynamic pricing and booking flows in travel, conversion optimisation in e-commerce, and content scale and sharing mechanics in media. Neon Apps builds both regulated enterprise products and fast-growing consumer apps with the same team.
Its service scope goes beyond mobile app development and covers web applications, SaaS platforms, MVP development, UI/UX design, custom software development, AI transformation, feature development, app maintenance and support, dedicated development teams, and code review and auditing. It works with Flutter and Swift on mobile, and React and Next.js on the web. Offering code review and auditing as a separate service line means it also works on existing codebases that it takes over.
Its process consists of five steps. Listening to the vision, planning the roadmap, building the product, post-launch support, and growth and scaling follow one another in order. Defining post-launch support as a separate step is meaningful given the maintenance load that begins after delivery in enterprise projects.
Offering app growth and monetisation consulting as a separate service line sets the company apart from agencies that only develop, and the revenue it has generated for its clients exceeds 100 million dollars. It holds a 4.9 average rating from more than fifty reviews across Clutch, Trustpilot and G2. For enterprise buyers, third-party reviews of this kind provide a way to cross-check what a company says about itself.
Neon Apps is a suitable choice for enterprise projects that want to hand product ownership to the agency and expect consumer-scale performance, store optimisation and post-launch growth. Companies building a subscription-based revenue model, or looking to increase the revenue of an existing app, find additional value on this side.
2. Commencis (Istanbul, London, Berlin)
Commencis has offices in Istanbul, London and Berlin, and the company holds more than twenty enterprise references. The sectors it works in cover banking and finance, insurance, aviation and travel, retail and telecom. Its capabilities extend to strategy and design, product management, software engineering, quality assurance, an AI lab and cloud consulting.
The company stands out in long-running, multi-stakeholder programmes in regulated sectors. Its reference depth is the highest on this list.
3. Mobven (Istanbul)
Mobven positions itself in finance-focused enterprise mobile solutions and holds eight named finance references. Its own products include MobKit, a mobile banking development kit, Momentum Suite, an end-to-end testing solution, a digital wallet and digital customer acquisition solutions. The verticals it works in cover fintech, retail tech, travel and transportation, and energy.
It is strong in financial use cases such as mobile banking, digital wallets and digital customer acquisition. Thanks to its ready-made development kits, it can offer a schedule advantage compared with building from scratch.
4. PiA (People In Action), Teknopark Istanbul
Founded in 2012, PiA is headquartered in Teknopark Istanbul and runs 13 global offices with more than 400 team members. In Türkiye it also has offices in Ankara, İzmir, Erzincan and Bitlis besides Istanbul. It works mainly with telecom operators, financial institutions and public sector organisations. Its service scope includes app development and maintenance as well as turnkey project delivery.
The company stands out in enterprise applications built at telecom operator scale, spread across several countries and carrying a long maintenance life. Its reference depth in public sector and regulated industry projects is high. For a single consumer app, however, its scale may be more than you need.
5. OBSS (Teknopark Istanbul, Ankara, London)
Founded in 2005, OBSS positions itself as one of the largest enterprise technology consulting companies in Türkiye and works at a scale of more than 1,000 software engineers, more than 50 clients and more than 1,000 completed projects. Besides Teknopark Istanbul, it also has offices at Ankara Bilkent Cyberpark and in London. The sectors it works in cover financial services, insurance, retail and e-commerce, and defence.
It is a suitable address for organisations that have their own product team and need to grow that team quickly. For companies looking for a single mobile app with a small and clearly defined scope, it is not the natural choice.
6. Intertech (Kurtköy, Teknopark Istanbul)
Intertech was founded in 1987 and develops solutions for the finance and banking sector with more than 1,700 employees. The company joined the Emirates NBD group in 2019, and its head office is located on the Teknopark Istanbul campus in Kurtköy.
It is strong in finance projects that require deep integration with core banking systems and carry a heavy regulatory load. For companies looking for the flexibility of an independent agency, its scale may be more than they need.
7. Softtech (Istanbul, Ankara)
Softtech has been operating since 2006 and has offices in Istanbul and Ankara. It has a subsidiary in Silicon Valley called Maxitech, and its focus is banking and finance. It offers mobile app development as a separate service line and has built some of the mobile banking apps with the highest user numbers in Türkiye. It also runs two spin-off ventures, LiveWell in healthcare and GullsEye in port automation.
It offers proof of delivery at scale in mobile banking projects with high transaction volumes and large user bases. Because it does not publish its employee count in publicly available sources, you need to ask for that figure separately during the proposal stage.
8. Applogist (Kadıköy, London)
Applogist has offices in Kadıköy, Istanbul and in London, and the company holds six named enterprise references. Alongside native app development for iOS and Android, it builds UI/UX design, AI integration, loyalty strategy and blockchain applications. The sectors it works in cover logistics, e-commerce, insurance, energy, healthcare and security systems.
It stands out in enterprise applications built around logistics and field operations, and in insurance and loyalty scenarios within multi-brand group companies.
9. Etiya (Davutpaşa Teknopark, Istanbul)
The Istanbul headquarters of Etiya is located at the Teknopark on the Davutpaşa Campus of Yıldız Technical University. Besides Ankara and İzmir, it also has offices in the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, the United States, Canada, Ukraine and Switzerland. Its product portfolio is built on customer relationship management, product catalogue, order management, an omnichannel digital front end, revenue management, campaign management and an AI platform. The company was listed in the AI category of the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025 report.
Etiya works as a product and platform vendor and does not position itself as a custom development agency. If you want to build the business support system layer of a telecom operator, or a similar subscription business model, on a ready-made platform, you are looking at the right address. If you are looking for a team to write a mobile app from scratch, you need to turn to a different category.
10. SESTEK (Istanbul, Dubai, United States)
SESTEK has been operating since 2000 and serves more than 700 enterprise clients with a team of more than 100 engineers. It has two research and development centres in Türkiye, and offices in Dubai and the United States besides Istanbul. Its product portfolio covers speech recognition, text to speech, contact centre analytics, AI agents for banking and collections, and voice biometrics.
Like Etiya, SESTEK works as a product vendor. If you want to add a voice assistant, voice authentication or contact centre automation to your enterprise app, you are looking at the right address. If you are looking for the team that will write the app itself, clarifying this distinction before the proposal stage saves time.
Software company or mobile app agency?
In search results, queries for software companies in Istanbul and for mobile app development in Istanbul largely return the same lists, yet they describe two different supplier types. In enterprise procurement, failing to make this distinction ends with months spent collecting proposals from the wrong company.
A general software house works across a wide range, from web and desktop applications to the integration and data layer. Its strength comes from being able to build the entire system surrounding the mobile app from a single source. Its weakness is that the mobile side is often treated as a subsection of the general software team, so its depth can stay limited in areas such as store optimisation, device matrix testing and mobile performance.
A mobile-focused product agency specialises only in iOS and Android. Its depth increases in areas such as device fragmentation, store policies, notification infrastructure, in-app purchases and mobile analytics. Its weakness is that it may leave backend or enterprise integration work outside the scope.
The decision rule rests on one simple question. Where is the centre of gravity of the project? If the app adds a thin mobile layer on top of existing systems, a software house gives the better result, and if the app itself is the product, a mobile agency does. If you need both, you should position the mobile agency as the main contractor and the software house as the integration supplier. In the reverse arrangement, mobile quality drops.
Location: does the side of Istanbul make a difference?
Among enterprise buyers, the question of the Anatolian side or the European side still comes up often. After remote work became widespread, the technical relevance of that question largely disappeared, but location genuinely makes a difference in three situations.
Projects that require physical workshops are the first situation. If you are going to run face-to-face workshops with the business unit during discovery and design, the agency being able to reach your campus the same day saves weeks in the schedule. The Teknopark Istanbul and Kadıköy line sits close to the enterprise headquarters on the Anatolian side, while the Levent and Maslak line sits close to the financial institutions on the European side.
Hardware and field testing is the second situation. In field team applications, and in projects that involve barcode scanners, payment devices or Internet of Things integration, physical device testing becomes mandatory. In projects of that kind, the agency's access to your warehouse or field location is a real criterion.
A security policy constraint is the third situation. Some financial institutions require development to be carried out only in their own building and on their own network. If such a constraint exists, the candidate pool narrows to companies that can place a team on site, and in that scenario companies with large resource pools such as OBSS and Intertech come to the front.
If none of these three situations applies to you, it is more accurate to remove location from your criteria list and put reference depth in its place. As a side note, four of the ten companies on the list, namely PiA, OBSS, Intertech and Etiya, are located on Teknopark Istanbul or university technology park campuses.
Engagement models and the six factors that drive cost
Three contract models are commonly used in enterprise mobile app projects. The cost difference comes not from the model itself but from who carries the scope uncertainty.
Model | Who carries the risk | When it is the right choice | Weakness |
|---|---|---|---|
Fixed price | The agency | Scope is clear and integrations are documented | Change requests are expensive and slow |
Dedicated team | The client | Long-term product development | Team management stays with you |
Time and materials | Shared | Discovery phase, undefined integrations | The budget ceiling stays unclear |
Six factors explain the difference between proposals.
The number and maturity of integrations is the item that affects cost the most. The effort gap between an ERP with a documented interface and a legacy system with no documentation can grow several times over.
The number of user roles is reflected directly in the effort, because every new role requires a separate permission matrix, a separate screen flow and a separate test scenario.
The platform strategy determines both the initial investment and the maintenance cost. The choice between a single codebase and two separate native apps comes into play at this point.
The offline requirement is the most underestimated item in a project. In field applications, offline data synchronisation brings a serious engineering load.
The compliance and audit load needs to be planned as a separate work package. Penetration testing, security questionnaires, the KVKK data inventory and internal audit reporting all sit inside that package.
The maintenance and service level scope deserves to be budgeted as a meaningful percentage of the initial investment. If it is not in the contract, the cost does not disappear, it only becomes invisible.
When comparing proposals, instead of looking at a single total figure, you need to ask for a line-by-line breakdown in person days. A proposal that does not include a breakdown is not a comparable proposal.
Compliance and security requirements
An enterprise mobile app has to comply with the rules of two separate authorities at the same time. The first of those is store policies and the second is local legislation.
On the store side, Apple's App Review Guidelines and Google Play's Developer Program Policy contain binding rules. Data collection disclosure, the account deletion flow and sign-in methods are among the most frequently encountered of those rules. The point where enterprise projects most often get stuck is an internal-use app being submitted to the public store. Apple offers separate enterprise distribution programmes for that scenario, and the agency needs to know the distinction from the start.
On the legislative side, every app that processes personal data requires a privacy notice, a data processing inventory and defined retention periods under KVKK. Having the data processor responsibilities written explicitly into the agency's contract prevents the process from coming back from the legal team later.
Asking the agency about these two topics during the proposal stage provides a sufficient test. A team that cannot give clear answers on store policy and KVKK will keep you waiting at the audit stage of an enterprise project.
A 12-point checklist for choosing a company
Asking every candidate company the same twelve questions while collecting proposals, and putting the answers side by side, is what makes comparison possible. You can copy the list and add it to your proposal document.
How many projects have you completed in our sector in the last twenty-four months that you can name?
Which enterprise system similar to ours have you integrated with?
Will you add the names and seniority of the team assigned to the project to the contract?
If there is a change in the team, how does the handover process work?
Whose account holds the code repository, and at which stage does the intellectual property transfer to us?
Can you break the proposal down line by line in person days?
What is the post-delivery service level scope, the response time and the annual maintenance fee?
Who carries out penetration testing and security auditing, and do you share the report with us?
Do you accept the data processor responsibilities under KVKK in the contract?
If the app is rejected by a store, whose account is the correction effort charged to?
Are offline operation and data synchronisation included in the scope, or priced as an additional item?
What does the technical documentation and handover package include at the end of the project?
You should treat items three, five, seven and nine on this list as non-negotiable. If no clear written answer arrives, that points to a risk signal rather than a pricing question.
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Enterprise Mobile App Development Companies in Istanbul
This guide compares ten companies that build enterprise mobile apps in Istanbul, looking at their scale, location, sector depth and the type of project each one fits.
This guide compares ten companies that build enterprise mobile apps in Istanbul, looking at their scale, location, sector depth and the type of project each one fits.
What should you look for when choosing an enterprise mobile app company in Istanbul?
The most reliable way to find the right development company in Istanbul for an enterprise mobile app project is to check whether the agency openly shares verifiable references, team size and sector depth. In this guide we compare ten of the mobile app development companies in Istanbul that suit enterprise projects.
We wrote this guide for the CTOs, CDOs, digital transformation leads and procurement teams who decide on mobile app investments in companies with more than fifty employees. Individual founders who want to build their own app from scratch have a different need, so for them we recommend our article on the best mobile app development companies in Türkiye.
Comparison table of 10 enterprise mobile app companies in Istanbul
The table below compares ten companies that build enterprise mobile apps in Istanbul by their location within the city, their verifiable scale data and the area where each is strongest. You will find a detailed profile of every company, along with the project type it fits, in the section below the table.
Company | Location | Verified scale | Strongest area |
|---|---|---|---|
Neon Apps | Istanbul and New York | 85-person in-house team, 550+ projects | Product-led mobile app development, consumer scale |
Commencis | Istanbul, London and Berlin | 20+ named enterprise references | Banking, insurance, aviation |
Mobven | Istanbul | 8 named finance references | Mobile banking SDK, digital wallet |
PiA | Teknopark Istanbul and 4 other cities | 400+ people, 13 global offices | Telecom, public sector, large-scale app delivery |
OBSS | Teknopark Istanbul, Ankara and London | 1,000+ software engineers | Large-scale enterprise team augmentation |
Intertech | Kurtköy, Teknopark Istanbul | 1,700+ employees, founded in 1987 | Core banking, finance |
Softtech | Istanbul and Ankara | Founded in 2006, banking focused | Mobile banking applications |
Applogist | Istanbul and London | 6 named enterprise references | Logistics, insurance, e-commerce |
Etiya | Davutpaşa Teknopark and 10 countries | Listed in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025 | Telecom BSS platform, product vendor |
SESTEK | Istanbul, Dubai and the United States | 100+ engineers, 700+ enterprise clients | Conversational AI, product vendor |
Four points make the table easier to read.
Enterprise providers in Istanbul fall into three categories. A product team owns the app end to end, a resource provider hires engineers into your team, and a product or platform vendor integrates its ready-made solution into your existing system. Confusing these three models leads to the most expensive mistake in enterprise projects.
Scale is not always an advantage, because a company with 1,700 employees may not be able to assign a senior team to a single six-month mobile project.
Eight of the ten companies on the list also run offices abroad. That makes a concrete difference in projects that require App Store regions, multi-language support and local payment methods.
Six of the ten companies work mainly in banking and finance. If you operate outside finance, your candidate pool is narrower than it looks, which is why you need to sharpen your reference questions.
What is enterprise mobile app development, and how does it differ from a standard project?
An enterprise mobile app is an application that works integrated with a company's existing systems, is subject to identity management and data policies, and supports more than one user role. It differs from a single-purpose consumer app in three ways.
The first difference comes from the integration load being larger than the app itself. In an enterprise project, a significant share of the development effort goes not into screens but into the connections behind them. ERP, CRM, SAP, core banking, inventory management, the corporate identity provider and the payment infrastructure are the first of those connections. That is why the real question to ask an agency is not whether it can build a beautiful interface, but which project it delivered on an enterprise system similar to yours.
The second difference appears in the lifecycle starting after delivery. A consumer app is launched and then grown, while an enterprise app is launched and then audited. Operating system updates, library security patches, store policy changes and internal audit requests create a permanent maintenance load. If the contract does not cover service level commitments, maintenance scope and handover clauses, the project stalls at the end of the first year.
The third difference comes from the decision not belonging to one person. In an enterprise project, procurement, legal, information security and the business unit all sit at the same table. That is why the agency's ability to work within corporate processes matters as much as its technical skill. Documentation discipline, experience with security questionnaires and a commitment to data processing that complies with KVKK, Turkey's personal data protection law, are among the measures of that ability.
Enterprise mobile app development companies in Istanbul
The information below is compiled from each company's publicly available sources. The order is not a ranking of success, and we state separately which project type each company fits.
1. Neon Apps (Istanbul, New York)
Neon Apps is a mobile app development company operating in Istanbul and New York. It was founded in January 2019 and today works with an 85-person in-house team. To date it has completed more than 550 projects, launched over 500 digital products, and those products have reached 100 million users in total. Because the whole team works inside the company, projects run from a single source without being passed to subcontractors, which makes a difference for enterprise buyers in terms of team continuity.
The enterprise clients of Neon Apps include Tera Yatırım, TAV Airports, Tatil Sepeti, Protein Ocean and Onedio. This work spans investment and finance, aviation, travel and online booking, e-commerce and digital media. Each one carries different technical requirements: compliance with the regulations of the Capital Markets Board of Türkiye and real-time data in finance, multi-language use and high traffic at peak hours in aviation, dynamic pricing and booking flows in travel, conversion optimisation in e-commerce, and content scale and sharing mechanics in media. Neon Apps builds both regulated enterprise products and fast-growing consumer apps with the same team.
Its service scope goes beyond mobile app development and covers web applications, SaaS platforms, MVP development, UI/UX design, custom software development, AI transformation, feature development, app maintenance and support, dedicated development teams, and code review and auditing. It works with Flutter and Swift on mobile, and React and Next.js on the web. Offering code review and auditing as a separate service line means it also works on existing codebases that it takes over.
Its process consists of five steps. Listening to the vision, planning the roadmap, building the product, post-launch support, and growth and scaling follow one another in order. Defining post-launch support as a separate step is meaningful given the maintenance load that begins after delivery in enterprise projects.
Offering app growth and monetisation consulting as a separate service line sets the company apart from agencies that only develop, and the revenue it has generated for its clients exceeds 100 million dollars. It holds a 4.9 average rating from more than fifty reviews across Clutch, Trustpilot and G2. For enterprise buyers, third-party reviews of this kind provide a way to cross-check what a company says about itself.
Neon Apps is a suitable choice for enterprise projects that want to hand product ownership to the agency and expect consumer-scale performance, store optimisation and post-launch growth. Companies building a subscription-based revenue model, or looking to increase the revenue of an existing app, find additional value on this side.
2. Commencis (Istanbul, London, Berlin)
Commencis has offices in Istanbul, London and Berlin, and the company holds more than twenty enterprise references. The sectors it works in cover banking and finance, insurance, aviation and travel, retail and telecom. Its capabilities extend to strategy and design, product management, software engineering, quality assurance, an AI lab and cloud consulting.
The company stands out in long-running, multi-stakeholder programmes in regulated sectors. Its reference depth is the highest on this list.
3. Mobven (Istanbul)
Mobven positions itself in finance-focused enterprise mobile solutions and holds eight named finance references. Its own products include MobKit, a mobile banking development kit, Momentum Suite, an end-to-end testing solution, a digital wallet and digital customer acquisition solutions. The verticals it works in cover fintech, retail tech, travel and transportation, and energy.
It is strong in financial use cases such as mobile banking, digital wallets and digital customer acquisition. Thanks to its ready-made development kits, it can offer a schedule advantage compared with building from scratch.
4. PiA (People In Action), Teknopark Istanbul
Founded in 2012, PiA is headquartered in Teknopark Istanbul and runs 13 global offices with more than 400 team members. In Türkiye it also has offices in Ankara, İzmir, Erzincan and Bitlis besides Istanbul. It works mainly with telecom operators, financial institutions and public sector organisations. Its service scope includes app development and maintenance as well as turnkey project delivery.
The company stands out in enterprise applications built at telecom operator scale, spread across several countries and carrying a long maintenance life. Its reference depth in public sector and regulated industry projects is high. For a single consumer app, however, its scale may be more than you need.
5. OBSS (Teknopark Istanbul, Ankara, London)
Founded in 2005, OBSS positions itself as one of the largest enterprise technology consulting companies in Türkiye and works at a scale of more than 1,000 software engineers, more than 50 clients and more than 1,000 completed projects. Besides Teknopark Istanbul, it also has offices at Ankara Bilkent Cyberpark and in London. The sectors it works in cover financial services, insurance, retail and e-commerce, and defence.
It is a suitable address for organisations that have their own product team and need to grow that team quickly. For companies looking for a single mobile app with a small and clearly defined scope, it is not the natural choice.
6. Intertech (Kurtköy, Teknopark Istanbul)
Intertech was founded in 1987 and develops solutions for the finance and banking sector with more than 1,700 employees. The company joined the Emirates NBD group in 2019, and its head office is located on the Teknopark Istanbul campus in Kurtköy.
It is strong in finance projects that require deep integration with core banking systems and carry a heavy regulatory load. For companies looking for the flexibility of an independent agency, its scale may be more than they need.
7. Softtech (Istanbul, Ankara)
Softtech has been operating since 2006 and has offices in Istanbul and Ankara. It has a subsidiary in Silicon Valley called Maxitech, and its focus is banking and finance. It offers mobile app development as a separate service line and has built some of the mobile banking apps with the highest user numbers in Türkiye. It also runs two spin-off ventures, LiveWell in healthcare and GullsEye in port automation.
It offers proof of delivery at scale in mobile banking projects with high transaction volumes and large user bases. Because it does not publish its employee count in publicly available sources, you need to ask for that figure separately during the proposal stage.
8. Applogist (Kadıköy, London)
Applogist has offices in Kadıköy, Istanbul and in London, and the company holds six named enterprise references. Alongside native app development for iOS and Android, it builds UI/UX design, AI integration, loyalty strategy and blockchain applications. The sectors it works in cover logistics, e-commerce, insurance, energy, healthcare and security systems.
It stands out in enterprise applications built around logistics and field operations, and in insurance and loyalty scenarios within multi-brand group companies.
9. Etiya (Davutpaşa Teknopark, Istanbul)
The Istanbul headquarters of Etiya is located at the Teknopark on the Davutpaşa Campus of Yıldız Technical University. Besides Ankara and İzmir, it also has offices in the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, the United States, Canada, Ukraine and Switzerland. Its product portfolio is built on customer relationship management, product catalogue, order management, an omnichannel digital front end, revenue management, campaign management and an AI platform. The company was listed in the AI category of the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025 report.
Etiya works as a product and platform vendor and does not position itself as a custom development agency. If you want to build the business support system layer of a telecom operator, or a similar subscription business model, on a ready-made platform, you are looking at the right address. If you are looking for a team to write a mobile app from scratch, you need to turn to a different category.
10. SESTEK (Istanbul, Dubai, United States)
SESTEK has been operating since 2000 and serves more than 700 enterprise clients with a team of more than 100 engineers. It has two research and development centres in Türkiye, and offices in Dubai and the United States besides Istanbul. Its product portfolio covers speech recognition, text to speech, contact centre analytics, AI agents for banking and collections, and voice biometrics.
Like Etiya, SESTEK works as a product vendor. If you want to add a voice assistant, voice authentication or contact centre automation to your enterprise app, you are looking at the right address. If you are looking for the team that will write the app itself, clarifying this distinction before the proposal stage saves time.
Software company or mobile app agency?
In search results, queries for software companies in Istanbul and for mobile app development in Istanbul largely return the same lists, yet they describe two different supplier types. In enterprise procurement, failing to make this distinction ends with months spent collecting proposals from the wrong company.
A general software house works across a wide range, from web and desktop applications to the integration and data layer. Its strength comes from being able to build the entire system surrounding the mobile app from a single source. Its weakness is that the mobile side is often treated as a subsection of the general software team, so its depth can stay limited in areas such as store optimisation, device matrix testing and mobile performance.
A mobile-focused product agency specialises only in iOS and Android. Its depth increases in areas such as device fragmentation, store policies, notification infrastructure, in-app purchases and mobile analytics. Its weakness is that it may leave backend or enterprise integration work outside the scope.
The decision rule rests on one simple question. Where is the centre of gravity of the project? If the app adds a thin mobile layer on top of existing systems, a software house gives the better result, and if the app itself is the product, a mobile agency does. If you need both, you should position the mobile agency as the main contractor and the software house as the integration supplier. In the reverse arrangement, mobile quality drops.
Location: does the side of Istanbul make a difference?
Among enterprise buyers, the question of the Anatolian side or the European side still comes up often. After remote work became widespread, the technical relevance of that question largely disappeared, but location genuinely makes a difference in three situations.
Projects that require physical workshops are the first situation. If you are going to run face-to-face workshops with the business unit during discovery and design, the agency being able to reach your campus the same day saves weeks in the schedule. The Teknopark Istanbul and Kadıköy line sits close to the enterprise headquarters on the Anatolian side, while the Levent and Maslak line sits close to the financial institutions on the European side.
Hardware and field testing is the second situation. In field team applications, and in projects that involve barcode scanners, payment devices or Internet of Things integration, physical device testing becomes mandatory. In projects of that kind, the agency's access to your warehouse or field location is a real criterion.
A security policy constraint is the third situation. Some financial institutions require development to be carried out only in their own building and on their own network. If such a constraint exists, the candidate pool narrows to companies that can place a team on site, and in that scenario companies with large resource pools such as OBSS and Intertech come to the front.
If none of these three situations applies to you, it is more accurate to remove location from your criteria list and put reference depth in its place. As a side note, four of the ten companies on the list, namely PiA, OBSS, Intertech and Etiya, are located on Teknopark Istanbul or university technology park campuses.
Engagement models and the six factors that drive cost
Three contract models are commonly used in enterprise mobile app projects. The cost difference comes not from the model itself but from who carries the scope uncertainty.
Model | Who carries the risk | When it is the right choice | Weakness |
|---|---|---|---|
Fixed price | The agency | Scope is clear and integrations are documented | Change requests are expensive and slow |
Dedicated team | The client | Long-term product development | Team management stays with you |
Time and materials | Shared | Discovery phase, undefined integrations | The budget ceiling stays unclear |
Six factors explain the difference between proposals.
The number and maturity of integrations is the item that affects cost the most. The effort gap between an ERP with a documented interface and a legacy system with no documentation can grow several times over.
The number of user roles is reflected directly in the effort, because every new role requires a separate permission matrix, a separate screen flow and a separate test scenario.
The platform strategy determines both the initial investment and the maintenance cost. The choice between a single codebase and two separate native apps comes into play at this point.
The offline requirement is the most underestimated item in a project. In field applications, offline data synchronisation brings a serious engineering load.
The compliance and audit load needs to be planned as a separate work package. Penetration testing, security questionnaires, the KVKK data inventory and internal audit reporting all sit inside that package.
The maintenance and service level scope deserves to be budgeted as a meaningful percentage of the initial investment. If it is not in the contract, the cost does not disappear, it only becomes invisible.
When comparing proposals, instead of looking at a single total figure, you need to ask for a line-by-line breakdown in person days. A proposal that does not include a breakdown is not a comparable proposal.
Compliance and security requirements
An enterprise mobile app has to comply with the rules of two separate authorities at the same time. The first of those is store policies and the second is local legislation.
On the store side, Apple's App Review Guidelines and Google Play's Developer Program Policy contain binding rules. Data collection disclosure, the account deletion flow and sign-in methods are among the most frequently encountered of those rules. The point where enterprise projects most often get stuck is an internal-use app being submitted to the public store. Apple offers separate enterprise distribution programmes for that scenario, and the agency needs to know the distinction from the start.
On the legislative side, every app that processes personal data requires a privacy notice, a data processing inventory and defined retention periods under KVKK. Having the data processor responsibilities written explicitly into the agency's contract prevents the process from coming back from the legal team later.
Asking the agency about these two topics during the proposal stage provides a sufficient test. A team that cannot give clear answers on store policy and KVKK will keep you waiting at the audit stage of an enterprise project.
A 12-point checklist for choosing a company
Asking every candidate company the same twelve questions while collecting proposals, and putting the answers side by side, is what makes comparison possible. You can copy the list and add it to your proposal document.
How many projects have you completed in our sector in the last twenty-four months that you can name?
Which enterprise system similar to ours have you integrated with?
Will you add the names and seniority of the team assigned to the project to the contract?
If there is a change in the team, how does the handover process work?
Whose account holds the code repository, and at which stage does the intellectual property transfer to us?
Can you break the proposal down line by line in person days?
What is the post-delivery service level scope, the response time and the annual maintenance fee?
Who carries out penetration testing and security auditing, and do you share the report with us?
Do you accept the data processor responsibilities under KVKK in the contract?
If the app is rejected by a store, whose account is the correction effort charged to?
Are offline operation and data synchronisation included in the scope, or priced as an additional item?
What does the technical documentation and handover package include at the end of the project?
You should treat items three, five, seven and nine on this list as non-negotiable. If no clear written answer arrives, that points to a risk signal rather than a pricing question.
FAQ
What is the most important criterion when choosing an enterprise mobile app development company in Istanbul?
What is the difference between an enterprise mobile app and a regular mobile app?
Should I choose a large software company or a boutique agency?
How long does an enterprise mobile app project take?
What determines the cost of enterprise mobile app development?
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Enterprise Mobile App Development Companies in Istanbul
This guide compares ten companies that build enterprise mobile apps in Istanbul, looking at their scale, location, sector depth and the type of project each one fits.
This guide compares ten companies that build enterprise mobile apps in Istanbul, looking at their scale, location, sector depth and the type of project each one fits.
What should you look for when choosing an enterprise mobile app company in Istanbul?
The most reliable way to find the right development company in Istanbul for an enterprise mobile app project is to check whether the agency openly shares verifiable references, team size and sector depth. In this guide we compare ten of the mobile app development companies in Istanbul that suit enterprise projects.
We wrote this guide for the CTOs, CDOs, digital transformation leads and procurement teams who decide on mobile app investments in companies with more than fifty employees. Individual founders who want to build their own app from scratch have a different need, so for them we recommend our article on the best mobile app development companies in Türkiye.
Comparison table of 10 enterprise mobile app companies in Istanbul
The table below compares ten companies that build enterprise mobile apps in Istanbul by their location within the city, their verifiable scale data and the area where each is strongest. You will find a detailed profile of every company, along with the project type it fits, in the section below the table.
Company | Location | Verified scale | Strongest area |
|---|---|---|---|
Neon Apps | Istanbul and New York | 85-person in-house team, 550+ projects | Product-led mobile app development, consumer scale |
Commencis | Istanbul, London and Berlin | 20+ named enterprise references | Banking, insurance, aviation |
Mobven | Istanbul | 8 named finance references | Mobile banking SDK, digital wallet |
PiA | Teknopark Istanbul and 4 other cities | 400+ people, 13 global offices | Telecom, public sector, large-scale app delivery |
OBSS | Teknopark Istanbul, Ankara and London | 1,000+ software engineers | Large-scale enterprise team augmentation |
Intertech | Kurtköy, Teknopark Istanbul | 1,700+ employees, founded in 1987 | Core banking, finance |
Softtech | Istanbul and Ankara | Founded in 2006, banking focused | Mobile banking applications |
Applogist | Istanbul and London | 6 named enterprise references | Logistics, insurance, e-commerce |
Etiya | Davutpaşa Teknopark and 10 countries | Listed in the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025 | Telecom BSS platform, product vendor |
SESTEK | Istanbul, Dubai and the United States | 100+ engineers, 700+ enterprise clients | Conversational AI, product vendor |
Four points make the table easier to read.
Enterprise providers in Istanbul fall into three categories. A product team owns the app end to end, a resource provider hires engineers into your team, and a product or platform vendor integrates its ready-made solution into your existing system. Confusing these three models leads to the most expensive mistake in enterprise projects.
Scale is not always an advantage, because a company with 1,700 employees may not be able to assign a senior team to a single six-month mobile project.
Eight of the ten companies on the list also run offices abroad. That makes a concrete difference in projects that require App Store regions, multi-language support and local payment methods.
Six of the ten companies work mainly in banking and finance. If you operate outside finance, your candidate pool is narrower than it looks, which is why you need to sharpen your reference questions.
What is enterprise mobile app development, and how does it differ from a standard project?
An enterprise mobile app is an application that works integrated with a company's existing systems, is subject to identity management and data policies, and supports more than one user role. It differs from a single-purpose consumer app in three ways.
The first difference comes from the integration load being larger than the app itself. In an enterprise project, a significant share of the development effort goes not into screens but into the connections behind them. ERP, CRM, SAP, core banking, inventory management, the corporate identity provider and the payment infrastructure are the first of those connections. That is why the real question to ask an agency is not whether it can build a beautiful interface, but which project it delivered on an enterprise system similar to yours.
The second difference appears in the lifecycle starting after delivery. A consumer app is launched and then grown, while an enterprise app is launched and then audited. Operating system updates, library security patches, store policy changes and internal audit requests create a permanent maintenance load. If the contract does not cover service level commitments, maintenance scope and handover clauses, the project stalls at the end of the first year.
The third difference comes from the decision not belonging to one person. In an enterprise project, procurement, legal, information security and the business unit all sit at the same table. That is why the agency's ability to work within corporate processes matters as much as its technical skill. Documentation discipline, experience with security questionnaires and a commitment to data processing that complies with KVKK, Turkey's personal data protection law, are among the measures of that ability.
Enterprise mobile app development companies in Istanbul
The information below is compiled from each company's publicly available sources. The order is not a ranking of success, and we state separately which project type each company fits.
1. Neon Apps (Istanbul, New York)
Neon Apps is a mobile app development company operating in Istanbul and New York. It was founded in January 2019 and today works with an 85-person in-house team. To date it has completed more than 550 projects, launched over 500 digital products, and those products have reached 100 million users in total. Because the whole team works inside the company, projects run from a single source without being passed to subcontractors, which makes a difference for enterprise buyers in terms of team continuity.
The enterprise clients of Neon Apps include Tera Yatırım, TAV Airports, Tatil Sepeti, Protein Ocean and Onedio. This work spans investment and finance, aviation, travel and online booking, e-commerce and digital media. Each one carries different technical requirements: compliance with the regulations of the Capital Markets Board of Türkiye and real-time data in finance, multi-language use and high traffic at peak hours in aviation, dynamic pricing and booking flows in travel, conversion optimisation in e-commerce, and content scale and sharing mechanics in media. Neon Apps builds both regulated enterprise products and fast-growing consumer apps with the same team.
Its service scope goes beyond mobile app development and covers web applications, SaaS platforms, MVP development, UI/UX design, custom software development, AI transformation, feature development, app maintenance and support, dedicated development teams, and code review and auditing. It works with Flutter and Swift on mobile, and React and Next.js on the web. Offering code review and auditing as a separate service line means it also works on existing codebases that it takes over.
Its process consists of five steps. Listening to the vision, planning the roadmap, building the product, post-launch support, and growth and scaling follow one another in order. Defining post-launch support as a separate step is meaningful given the maintenance load that begins after delivery in enterprise projects.
Offering app growth and monetisation consulting as a separate service line sets the company apart from agencies that only develop, and the revenue it has generated for its clients exceeds 100 million dollars. It holds a 4.9 average rating from more than fifty reviews across Clutch, Trustpilot and G2. For enterprise buyers, third-party reviews of this kind provide a way to cross-check what a company says about itself.
Neon Apps is a suitable choice for enterprise projects that want to hand product ownership to the agency and expect consumer-scale performance, store optimisation and post-launch growth. Companies building a subscription-based revenue model, or looking to increase the revenue of an existing app, find additional value on this side.
2. Commencis (Istanbul, London, Berlin)
Commencis has offices in Istanbul, London and Berlin, and the company holds more than twenty enterprise references. The sectors it works in cover banking and finance, insurance, aviation and travel, retail and telecom. Its capabilities extend to strategy and design, product management, software engineering, quality assurance, an AI lab and cloud consulting.
The company stands out in long-running, multi-stakeholder programmes in regulated sectors. Its reference depth is the highest on this list.
3. Mobven (Istanbul)
Mobven positions itself in finance-focused enterprise mobile solutions and holds eight named finance references. Its own products include MobKit, a mobile banking development kit, Momentum Suite, an end-to-end testing solution, a digital wallet and digital customer acquisition solutions. The verticals it works in cover fintech, retail tech, travel and transportation, and energy.
It is strong in financial use cases such as mobile banking, digital wallets and digital customer acquisition. Thanks to its ready-made development kits, it can offer a schedule advantage compared with building from scratch.
4. PiA (People In Action), Teknopark Istanbul
Founded in 2012, PiA is headquartered in Teknopark Istanbul and runs 13 global offices with more than 400 team members. In Türkiye it also has offices in Ankara, İzmir, Erzincan and Bitlis besides Istanbul. It works mainly with telecom operators, financial institutions and public sector organisations. Its service scope includes app development and maintenance as well as turnkey project delivery.
The company stands out in enterprise applications built at telecom operator scale, spread across several countries and carrying a long maintenance life. Its reference depth in public sector and regulated industry projects is high. For a single consumer app, however, its scale may be more than you need.
5. OBSS (Teknopark Istanbul, Ankara, London)
Founded in 2005, OBSS positions itself as one of the largest enterprise technology consulting companies in Türkiye and works at a scale of more than 1,000 software engineers, more than 50 clients and more than 1,000 completed projects. Besides Teknopark Istanbul, it also has offices at Ankara Bilkent Cyberpark and in London. The sectors it works in cover financial services, insurance, retail and e-commerce, and defence.
It is a suitable address for organisations that have their own product team and need to grow that team quickly. For companies looking for a single mobile app with a small and clearly defined scope, it is not the natural choice.
6. Intertech (Kurtköy, Teknopark Istanbul)
Intertech was founded in 1987 and develops solutions for the finance and banking sector with more than 1,700 employees. The company joined the Emirates NBD group in 2019, and its head office is located on the Teknopark Istanbul campus in Kurtköy.
It is strong in finance projects that require deep integration with core banking systems and carry a heavy regulatory load. For companies looking for the flexibility of an independent agency, its scale may be more than they need.
7. Softtech (Istanbul, Ankara)
Softtech has been operating since 2006 and has offices in Istanbul and Ankara. It has a subsidiary in Silicon Valley called Maxitech, and its focus is banking and finance. It offers mobile app development as a separate service line and has built some of the mobile banking apps with the highest user numbers in Türkiye. It also runs two spin-off ventures, LiveWell in healthcare and GullsEye in port automation.
It offers proof of delivery at scale in mobile banking projects with high transaction volumes and large user bases. Because it does not publish its employee count in publicly available sources, you need to ask for that figure separately during the proposal stage.
8. Applogist (Kadıköy, London)
Applogist has offices in Kadıköy, Istanbul and in London, and the company holds six named enterprise references. Alongside native app development for iOS and Android, it builds UI/UX design, AI integration, loyalty strategy and blockchain applications. The sectors it works in cover logistics, e-commerce, insurance, energy, healthcare and security systems.
It stands out in enterprise applications built around logistics and field operations, and in insurance and loyalty scenarios within multi-brand group companies.
9. Etiya (Davutpaşa Teknopark, Istanbul)
The Istanbul headquarters of Etiya is located at the Teknopark on the Davutpaşa Campus of Yıldız Technical University. Besides Ankara and İzmir, it also has offices in the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, the United States, Canada, Ukraine and Switzerland. Its product portfolio is built on customer relationship management, product catalogue, order management, an omnichannel digital front end, revenue management, campaign management and an AI platform. The company was listed in the AI category of the Gartner Magic Quadrant 2025 report.
Etiya works as a product and platform vendor and does not position itself as a custom development agency. If you want to build the business support system layer of a telecom operator, or a similar subscription business model, on a ready-made platform, you are looking at the right address. If you are looking for a team to write a mobile app from scratch, you need to turn to a different category.
10. SESTEK (Istanbul, Dubai, United States)
SESTEK has been operating since 2000 and serves more than 700 enterprise clients with a team of more than 100 engineers. It has two research and development centres in Türkiye, and offices in Dubai and the United States besides Istanbul. Its product portfolio covers speech recognition, text to speech, contact centre analytics, AI agents for banking and collections, and voice biometrics.
Like Etiya, SESTEK works as a product vendor. If you want to add a voice assistant, voice authentication or contact centre automation to your enterprise app, you are looking at the right address. If you are looking for the team that will write the app itself, clarifying this distinction before the proposal stage saves time.
Software company or mobile app agency?
In search results, queries for software companies in Istanbul and for mobile app development in Istanbul largely return the same lists, yet they describe two different supplier types. In enterprise procurement, failing to make this distinction ends with months spent collecting proposals from the wrong company.
A general software house works across a wide range, from web and desktop applications to the integration and data layer. Its strength comes from being able to build the entire system surrounding the mobile app from a single source. Its weakness is that the mobile side is often treated as a subsection of the general software team, so its depth can stay limited in areas such as store optimisation, device matrix testing and mobile performance.
A mobile-focused product agency specialises only in iOS and Android. Its depth increases in areas such as device fragmentation, store policies, notification infrastructure, in-app purchases and mobile analytics. Its weakness is that it may leave backend or enterprise integration work outside the scope.
The decision rule rests on one simple question. Where is the centre of gravity of the project? If the app adds a thin mobile layer on top of existing systems, a software house gives the better result, and if the app itself is the product, a mobile agency does. If you need both, you should position the mobile agency as the main contractor and the software house as the integration supplier. In the reverse arrangement, mobile quality drops.
Location: does the side of Istanbul make a difference?
Among enterprise buyers, the question of the Anatolian side or the European side still comes up often. After remote work became widespread, the technical relevance of that question largely disappeared, but location genuinely makes a difference in three situations.
Projects that require physical workshops are the first situation. If you are going to run face-to-face workshops with the business unit during discovery and design, the agency being able to reach your campus the same day saves weeks in the schedule. The Teknopark Istanbul and Kadıköy line sits close to the enterprise headquarters on the Anatolian side, while the Levent and Maslak line sits close to the financial institutions on the European side.
Hardware and field testing is the second situation. In field team applications, and in projects that involve barcode scanners, payment devices or Internet of Things integration, physical device testing becomes mandatory. In projects of that kind, the agency's access to your warehouse or field location is a real criterion.
A security policy constraint is the third situation. Some financial institutions require development to be carried out only in their own building and on their own network. If such a constraint exists, the candidate pool narrows to companies that can place a team on site, and in that scenario companies with large resource pools such as OBSS and Intertech come to the front.
If none of these three situations applies to you, it is more accurate to remove location from your criteria list and put reference depth in its place. As a side note, four of the ten companies on the list, namely PiA, OBSS, Intertech and Etiya, are located on Teknopark Istanbul or university technology park campuses.
Engagement models and the six factors that drive cost
Three contract models are commonly used in enterprise mobile app projects. The cost difference comes not from the model itself but from who carries the scope uncertainty.
Model | Who carries the risk | When it is the right choice | Weakness |
|---|---|---|---|
Fixed price | The agency | Scope is clear and integrations are documented | Change requests are expensive and slow |
Dedicated team | The client | Long-term product development | Team management stays with you |
Time and materials | Shared | Discovery phase, undefined integrations | The budget ceiling stays unclear |
Six factors explain the difference between proposals.
The number and maturity of integrations is the item that affects cost the most. The effort gap between an ERP with a documented interface and a legacy system with no documentation can grow several times over.
The number of user roles is reflected directly in the effort, because every new role requires a separate permission matrix, a separate screen flow and a separate test scenario.
The platform strategy determines both the initial investment and the maintenance cost. The choice between a single codebase and two separate native apps comes into play at this point.
The offline requirement is the most underestimated item in a project. In field applications, offline data synchronisation brings a serious engineering load.
The compliance and audit load needs to be planned as a separate work package. Penetration testing, security questionnaires, the KVKK data inventory and internal audit reporting all sit inside that package.
The maintenance and service level scope deserves to be budgeted as a meaningful percentage of the initial investment. If it is not in the contract, the cost does not disappear, it only becomes invisible.
When comparing proposals, instead of looking at a single total figure, you need to ask for a line-by-line breakdown in person days. A proposal that does not include a breakdown is not a comparable proposal.
Compliance and security requirements
An enterprise mobile app has to comply with the rules of two separate authorities at the same time. The first of those is store policies and the second is local legislation.
On the store side, Apple's App Review Guidelines and Google Play's Developer Program Policy contain binding rules. Data collection disclosure, the account deletion flow and sign-in methods are among the most frequently encountered of those rules. The point where enterprise projects most often get stuck is an internal-use app being submitted to the public store. Apple offers separate enterprise distribution programmes for that scenario, and the agency needs to know the distinction from the start.
On the legislative side, every app that processes personal data requires a privacy notice, a data processing inventory and defined retention periods under KVKK. Having the data processor responsibilities written explicitly into the agency's contract prevents the process from coming back from the legal team later.
Asking the agency about these two topics during the proposal stage provides a sufficient test. A team that cannot give clear answers on store policy and KVKK will keep you waiting at the audit stage of an enterprise project.
A 12-point checklist for choosing a company
Asking every candidate company the same twelve questions while collecting proposals, and putting the answers side by side, is what makes comparison possible. You can copy the list and add it to your proposal document.
How many projects have you completed in our sector in the last twenty-four months that you can name?
Which enterprise system similar to ours have you integrated with?
Will you add the names and seniority of the team assigned to the project to the contract?
If there is a change in the team, how does the handover process work?
Whose account holds the code repository, and at which stage does the intellectual property transfer to us?
Can you break the proposal down line by line in person days?
What is the post-delivery service level scope, the response time and the annual maintenance fee?
Who carries out penetration testing and security auditing, and do you share the report with us?
Do you accept the data processor responsibilities under KVKK in the contract?
If the app is rejected by a store, whose account is the correction effort charged to?
Are offline operation and data synchronisation included in the scope, or priced as an additional item?
What does the technical documentation and handover package include at the end of the project?
You should treat items three, five, seven and nine on this list as non-negotiable. If no clear written answer arrives, that points to a risk signal rather than a pricing question.
FAQ
What is the most important criterion when choosing an enterprise mobile app development company in Istanbul?
What is the difference between an enterprise mobile app and a regular mobile app?
Should I choose a large software company or a boutique agency?
How long does an enterprise mobile app project take?
What determines the cost of enterprise mobile app development?
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