When the HP sales compensation IT team had to build a new mobile sales reporting app, it ran into a major dilemma: how could it quickly create the app for three different device platforms? To solve the problem, developers used the new Visual Studio tools for Apache Cordova, which significantly simplified cross-platform development and reduced development time by up to 40 percent. As a result, the team created a feature-rich new mobile app that gives sales teams the on-the-go reporting capabilities they need.