Sybase Unwired Platform Fundamentals

Sybase® Unwired Platform provides an integrated platform solution to extend your enterprise applications to mobile workers in the field.

Sybase Unwired Platform Fundamentals is designed to help developers, administrators and stakeholders understand this platform solution, from integration with the back-end enterprise information systems (EIS) to the functionality that appears on a mobile device. This guide provides:

Product overview with an introduction to mobility concepts
High-level view of the solution landscape
Descriptions of solution components with pointers to more detailed documentation
Overview of the system and development lifecycles

This document is targeted for organizations with enterprise-level applications who want to develop and manage multiple mobile applications that securely connect a variety of back-end data sources to all major device types. It covers:

Enterprise Mobility
Extending your enterprise business processes, data, and information away from the office entails many technical challenges.
Product Overview
As a platform solution, Sybase Unwired Platform provides end-to-end facilitation of enterprise mobilization—providing standards-based access to data sources, building heterogeneous device applications with reusable object-oriented frameworks, supporting end-to-end security, and managing deployment, devices, users, and applications.
Solution Architecture
Unwired Platform provides a solution architecture that extends the reach of your enterprise systems. The key elements of the solution architecture are mobile business objects, device applications, synchronization paradigms, security, and application deployment.
Sybase Unwired Platform System Life Cycle
The "system life cycle" takes administrators through the process of planning and installing Unwired Platform, and integrating it with your enterprise environment; determining software deployment requirements; and setting up the Unwired Platform production environment. Understanding the system lifecycle helps establish best practices for managing and monitoring Sybase Unwired Platform.
Sybase Unwired Platform Development Life Cycle
The "development life cycle" takes developers through the process of designing, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining mobile business objects, device applications, and workflow packages. Understanding the development lifecycle helps establish best practices for deploying updated MBOs and device applications.
Documentation Roadmap
Use the documentation roadmap to review the documentation available for Sybase® Unwired Platform and determine where to start based on your role.