Mobile Solutions - Empower Mobile Professionals With Effective Mobile Applications
Prescient's Mobile Solutions enable organizations to provide customers a value added service and employees
the freedom to service the organization and customers, virtually, from anywhere, anytime, all the while, ensuring
security and privacy of customer and organizational data, without hindering the speed of transactions and communications.
The potential of incorporating mobile solutions into business practices is limitless:
- Service (reach) customers virtually anywhere, anytime, improving customer relationships and increasing customer loyalty;
- Manage customer accounts more effectively;
- Gain a competitive advantage by offering a value-added services through Mobile Commerce;
- Attain higher employee productivity levels by providing access to timely and valuable
information in the field;
- Manage systems remotely, through secure communications channels, addressing issues
immediately from wherever you are using a variety of mobile devices.
The rapidly growing interest in the use of mobile and embedded
devices is being driven by the convergence of trends in a number of
technologies that together make possible many scenarios that previously,
were technologically infeasible or economically unattractive.
Those trends include:
- Availability of a choice of platforms for mobile applications at consumer,
rather than custom hardware, price points. These platforms include the Palm
handheld and derivatives, Windows CE, devices from a range of manufacturers,
and smart phones based on the Symbian standard, as well as a universe of more
specialized devices. "Wireless Web" devices are also becoming a feasible
alternative for some classes of application.
- Rapidly improving wireless connectivity for these devices, including
wireless LAN standards such as Bluetooth, digital data over the cellular phone
infrastructure and specialized digital packet data networks: Both as networks in their
own right and as gateways to the Internet, these technologies will provide near-
universal connectivity.
- Emergence of Java as a widely available development language and platform for
many of these devices: The Java language enables a far larger pool of developers
to produce mobile and embedded applications than was previously possible, when
development for such environments was chiefly done in C and assembler languages by
developers with highly specialized skills.
- Existence of middleware infrastructure: Organizations that have architected
their information systems around middleware, separating shared, business and
system services from application-specific user interfaces are now well positioned
to exploit that middleware from the new breed of user interfaces represented by
mobile and embedded devices. Infrastructure that has already been adapted
to support HTML, Java and conventional clients across a number of applications
is an ideal starting point for the addition of new mobile and embedded clients.
In addition, a class of middleware services specific to small devices that can mediate
between the infrastructure designed for desktops and today's small, limited devices
is also emerging.
- Arrival of Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based content formats, such
as Wireless Markup Language (WML) and Extensible HTML (XHTML), to provide
Web-like content and to allow a single source of content, provided it is appropriately
structured, tagged and decomposed to be formatted for a wide range of devices:
These emerging standards are driving acceptance of the mobile equivalent of intranet
applications.
When you provide employees and customers with
more immediate access to your e-business systems when and where they need it,
you can look forward to increased sales, better customer service, and lower
transaction costs. By extending your e-business systems to users virtually
anytime, anywhere, you increase the value of your investment in those systems.
The "Prescient" Solution
Prescient's Mobile Solutions can fit into an organization's business strategy at any point. Our expertise
ranges from creating the mobile strategy, the prospecting of the mobile solution, to delivering a complete end-to-end mobile solution. View
the mobile solutions diagram.
Prescient's mobile solutions are built on Prescient's Privacy Enhancing Technology, the Encrypted Relational Database
Model (ERDM™) and Prescient's security enhancing technology, e2 Sec ™.
Read more on Prescient's experience delivering secure, mobile applications
to various industries.
Contact Prescient today to discuss the potential of a mobile solution for your organization.
