A survey of mobile enterprise app developers has found that a significant percentage plan to integrate some kind of cloud service into their apps in the near future.

Mobile platform company Appcelerator’s quarterly survey of its developers, carried out by IDC, found that 83% of devs will utilise cloud services and also intend to use a cloud solution for the back end of their apps.

The numbers are roughly in line with a similar study from Appcelerator conducted during the same quarter last year. Analysts suggested a number of factors encouraging cloud utilisation for enterprise app developers, including the increasingly compelling nature of some of the services available, like push notification.

Also, difficulty in developing back-end-server-side capabilities in-house, particularly for developers focused on client side activities, was a factor, combined with the increasingly complex job of managing the myriad connections that modern mobile apps require.

Push notification was the …