Mobile/Wireless
Computing
The practicality of wireless
and mobile computing devices is improving everyday,
and with these developments there is an increasing demand
for instant access to corporate data. Now, customers,
business partners and employees want the option to tap
into key business information via not only their desktop
computers, but on these mobile and wireless devices
as well.
To be successful,
companies must find a way to integrate their legacy
systems with wireless technology and provide a scaled-down
version of their e-Business capabilities to fit small,
touch-driven screens. With MitemView, you don’t
have to build a whole new application for deployment
to mobile and wireless devices. Instead you can reuse
existing business logic in your mainframe and midrange
applications, exposing key functions to these new consumers.
MitemView supports the real-time, bi-directional delivery
of corporate data to HTML, WAP/WML, XML, Java and Macromedia
Flash environments without the time, risk and cost of
invasive integration techniques.
If you are
supporting a user base that has not standardized on
a particular device, MitemView can also perform device
recognition, sending the right pages (formatted properly
for the screen size and capabilities) to the right device.
And all the pages depend on a single implementation
of the logic contained in a wireless server page. MitemView
is a complete solution that allows you to begin supporting
wireless computing right away, while also providing
the Web, desktop and programmatic interfaces for the
total spectrum of legacy integration needs for today
and the future.
Partner
example: Odyssey Software is a recognized leader
in the development of mobile enterprise data-access
software products. Since the inception of their APIfusion
product, Odyssey has embedded MitemView
to provide non-invasive, real-time integration between
legacy systems and hand-held devices.
MitemView
supports many types of mobile and wireless devices including
the Palm, Pocket PCs, Symbol Technologies’ ruggedized
devices and Windows CE devices, among others. You can
start by designing lowest common denominator wireless
Web pages to display properly on any device. Or, you
can develop pages customized to the unique capabilities
of a specific device. Most wireless devices use one
of three presentation approaches. PDAs support HTML,
Java or their own proprietary language. Cell phones
and pagers typically use HTML or WML (wireless markup
language). Alternatively, the Macromedia Flash player
is embedded in both cell phones and PDAs and offers
the richest and most portable user experiences. MITEM
is unique in having delivered enterprise-class applications
that connect Flash-based applications with legacy systems.
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