Extending your enterprise business processes, data, and information away from the office entails many technical challenges. To successfully mobilize your enterprise, it is important to balance device user requirements with enterprise requirements — Sybase® Unwired Platform helps you accomplish both.
Mobility solutions present complexity to the IT organization. These complexities may include, but not be limited to, lack of integrated solutions, heavy upfront costs for large-scale customization requirements, and the lack of repeatable development and deployment models.
Sybase Unwired Platform supports development and deployment of two broad categories of mobile applications.
- Online mobile applications – This type of mobile application is device user-driven. Information access is adhoc in nature and users use a request-reply or lookup pattern. Customer lookup is an example of an online application. User interaction typically involves:
- Request/reply driven directly with the backend system
- Light-weight editing of form-based information
- Few screens and simple entries
- Alerts sent from the backend system target the user.
- Offline mobile applications – This type of mobile application is driven by IT or Line-of-Business and is intended to help device users with overall organization efficiency. Information access is more formalized and task oriented. Information availability is mission critical regardless of connectivity. Sales process enablement is an example of an offline application. User interaction typically involves:
- Need for some sets of data available on the device for use if the application is used offline.
- More complex task orientation, data input, and screen navigation
- Ability to push data and changes from the device to the backend system.
Common IT and management capabilities are also required, covering the following areas:
- User onboarding services
- Device, data, and transport security
- Error reporting and troubleshooting support
- Remote device management support
Sybase Unwired Platform, by providing the devlopment tools to build both mobile application types and by providing the runtime platform that deploys and manages mobile applications meets enterprise mobility requirements and device user requirements found in most organizations.