In 2012, IBM acquired its very first set of mobile development and integration tools called IBM Worklight, which allows organizations to transform their business and deliver mobile solutions to their customers. IBM Worklight provides a truly open approach for developers to build an application and run it across multiple mobile platforms without having to port it for each environment, that is, Apple iOS, Google Android, Blackberry, and Microsoft Windows Phone. IBM Worklight also makes the developer's life easier by using standard technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript with extensions for popular libraries such as jQuery Mobile, Dojo Toolkit, and Sencha Touch.

IBM Worklight offers an open platform to assist businesses to deliver existing and new mobile applications to multiple devices. According to IBM, "it is an important piece of IBM's strategy" that simplifies end-to-end security and service integration between mobile applications and backend systems. Additionally, it helps clients dramatically reduce mobile application time to market, cost, and complexity. Moreover, IBM Worklight came up with variety of components to efficiently develop, test, connect, run, and manage mobile applications.

The following screenshot summarizes the capabilities, extensive frameworks, and tools within Worklight: