Extending your enterprise business processes, data, and information away from the office entails many technical challenges.
Mobilizing your enterprise applications and data presents complexity to the IT organization. These complexities may include, but not be limited to, for example, lack of integrated solutions, heavy upfront costs for large-scale customization requirements, and the lack of repeatable development and deployment models.
- Device heterogeneity – Supporting the rapidly expanding and changing selection of devices and device operating systems on the market.
- Data partitioning for mobile applications – Separating and securing data storage from the applications running on the device.
- Data transport and application security – Securing data while in transport and while accessed by the application.
- Bandwidth, latency, and connectivity issues – Managing multiple connections, coordinating synchronization and caching of data between the EIS and devices, and allowing field workers to work in always connected, occasionally connected, or sometimes connected environments
- Device management devices, and the application life cycle – Managing device and application life cycles, including device upgrades and turnover, deployment of application updates and new applications, with limited interruption to productivity
Enterprise mobile application development is often perceived as an endeavor requiring the enterprise to master complex technical details for multiple and disparate technologies. Technical challenges include:
- Connecting and interacting with various enterprise information systems and applications that exist in any large or medium size corporate IT infrastructure that supports customers, employees, sales, partners, suppliers, and executives.
- Implementing a data model that fits the application requirements and physical restrictions and capabilities of the mobile device, such as network bandwidth, storage capacity, connectivity, security, and availability of consistent data.
- Reliably propagating user transactions initiated on a device that may or may not have network connectivity.
- Ensuring secure access to data and application functionality that is available only to authorized mobile users.
Sybase Unwired Platform meets those challenges by hiding complexity while efficiently and flexibly handling the mentioned complex mobility issues.
Unwired Platform provides productivity gains through a well-defined life cycle, repeatable use of existing investments, and
mobility knowledge.