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   <h2 class="no-anchor">Get Introduced</h2>
   <p>IBM MobileFirst Foundation provides simple, scalable, time-tested enterprise mobile middleware, deployable on premises or on Cloud.</p>
   
   <p>This mobile infrastructure integrates with popular development tools, connects to essential backend services, and is built on top of hybrid cloud technology. Accelerate delivery of mobile apps with rich support for front-end development tools, comprehensive security, application lifecycle management and a complete, backend server-side logic engine.</p>

   <blockquote>To learn more about MobileFirst Foundation features, <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/features">see the features page</a>.</blockquote>

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         <h4>DevOps friendly</h4>
         <p>Build an automated DevOps pipeline to speed up deployments &amp; updates to applications.</p>
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         <img alt="Devops friendly" src="../assets/features/devops_friendly.svg"/>
         <h4>Scale at ease</h4>
         <p>Start small and develop in the cloud, then move and scale production workloads on premises or in a dedicated cloud environment.</p>
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         <h4>API management</h4>
         <p>Works seamlessly with IBM API Connect and DataPower Gateway to add API creation &amp; management capabilities, and to enforce API &amp; mobile security at the edge of the network.</p>
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         <img alt="Bluemix" src="../assets/features/bluemix.svg"/>
         <h4>Build smarter apps</h4>
         <p>Leverage Bluemix services such as App Content Manager, IoT Platform, Weather Data, as well as a varity of Cognitive capabilities using IBM Watson and more.<br/></p>
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      <p><b>DevOps friendly</b><br/>
      Build an automated DevOps pipeline to speed up deployments &amp; updates to applications to avoid human mistakes.</p>
      
      <img alt="Devops friendly" class="component-img" src="../assets/features/devops_friendly.svg"/>
      <p><b>Scale at ease</b><br/>
      Start small and develop in the cloud, then move and scale production workload on premises or in a dedicated cloud environment.</p>
      
      <img alt="API management" class="component-img" src="../assets/features/api_management.svg"/>
      <p><b>API management</b><br/>
      Works seamlessly with IBM API Connect and DataPower Gateway to add API creation &amp; management capabilities, and to enforce API &amp; mobile security at the edge of the network.</p>
      
      <img alt="Bluemix" class="component-img" src="../assets/features/bluemix.svg"/>
      <p><b>Build smarter apps</b><br/>
      Leverage Bluemix services such as App Content Manager, IoT Platform, Weather Data, as well as a varity of Cognitive capabilities using IBM Watson and more.</p>
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      <h3 class="no-anchor">Product Components</h3>
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         <p><b>MobileFirst Server</b><br/>
         The MobileFirst Server runs the core capabilities of the product, such as: Security, Push Notifications, Analytics, App lifecycle management, Backend logic connectivity and more.</p>

         <img alt="MobileFirst Console" class="component-img" src="../assets/features/console.svg"/>
         <p><b>MobileFirst Operations Console</b><br/>
         The MobileFirst Operations Console is where you can: register applictions, create adapters, update app and security configuration in real-time, send push notifications, access app analytics, use Live Update to customize your app for different user groups and more.</p>

         <img alt="MobileFirst CLI" class="component-img" src="../assets/features/cli.svg"/>
         <p><b>MobileFirst CLI</b><br/>
         The CLI uses simple and intuitive commands that enable you register and preview applications, create adapters, and manage server deployments and configurations in local and remote MobileFirst Servers.</p>

         <img alt="MobileFirst Client SDKs" class="component-img" src="../assets/features/sdk.svg"/>
         <p><b>Client SDKs</b><br/>
         Client SDKs are available for iOS, Android, Windows, Cordova and web apps via popular package managers such as CocoaPods, Gradle, Nuget and NPM.</p>

         <img alt="MobileFirst Adapters" class="component-img" src="../assets/features/adapter.svg"/>
         <p><b>Adapter Tooling</b><br/>
         Adapters are server-side entities where you can implement backend business logic for your app and also connect to any backend system.</p>
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   <h3 class="no-anchor">Get Started</h3>
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   <p>To get started, <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/downloads">download our Developer Kit</a> for a local installation, or <a href="https://console.ng.bluemix.net/catalog/services/mobile-foundation/">head over to Bluemix</a> to setup a Mobile Foundation server in the cloud.<br/>Once you have a server running, <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/all-tutorials/">follow our tutorials</a>!</p>

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      <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/ios-tutorials/">iOS tutorials</a></li>
      <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/android-tutorials/">Android tutorials</a></li>
      <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/windows-8-10-tutorials/">Windows tutorials</a></li>
      <li><a href="{{site.baseurl}}/tutorials/en/foundation/8.0/web-tutorials/">Web apps tutorials</a></li>
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