Sybase iAnywhere Delivers Offline-Web Mobile Inspection Toolkit
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New Toolkit Enables the Rapid Creation of Mobile Forms for Survey and Inspection Applications
DUBLIN, Calif., June 25 /- Sybase iAnywhere today announced the availability of a new toolkit targeted at creating mobile forms for field inspection and survey applications. The toolkit is built on the company's Information Anywhere(R) suite, which enables developers to build always available applications that provide wireless and offline access to enterprise information. The toolkit uses the offline Web capability of the suite, which enables developers to create wireless Web applications that can also run offline -- a key requirement for mobile enterprise solutions.
Mobilizing paper-based survey and inspection applications using an offline web approach is one of the ways customers have been using the Information Anywhere suite. The new mobile inspection toolkit is intended to reduce the overall project cost of creating forms-based inspection applications by providing a robust pre-built infrastructure that is easily customized. The toolkit includes a forms builder; out-of-the-box inspection workflow; open integration with existing back-end systems; and integration with analytics and reporting via a mobile dashboard interface.
"Our customers are telling us that mobile access to business process data is critical to stay ahead of the curve," said Babak Hodjat, senior director, engineering, Sybase iAnywhere. "Paper-based surveys are very costly to organizations as a result of poor data quality, low worker productivity and slow turnaround time. Automating these processes on mobile devices using wireless offline web technology has enabled our customers to be more competitive, productive and profitable by giving them access to critical information on the spot."
This mobile inspection toolkit is based on version 6.5 of M-Business Anywhere(TM), the award-winning mobile middleware that has been providing offline Web functionality to millions of users for nearly a decade. Released today, M-Business Anywhere 6.5 includes an optimized recoverable synchronization process that makes it easier to provide users a seamless online/offline experience. It also adds integrated LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) support, providing the choice of LDAP or NT Domains for single sign-on authentication.
"Being able to capture information online or offline is critical for mobile business applications," said Peter O'Blenis, vice president, product marketing, Trial Stat. "Using M-Business Anywhere, we've been able to develop a mobile solution that allows clinical researchers to easily build an entire healthcare study and deploy it to multiple sites around the world, thus reducing errors and speeding time-to-market."
Availability
For developers that want to create offline mobile Web forms, the Information Anywhere suite M-Business Anywhere 6.5 component is currently available as a free developer download at: ianywhere.com/mbusiness_download. Additional information on the mobile Web forms toolkit is available by visiting: http://www.ianywhere.com/inspections.
About Sybase iAnywhere
Sybase iAnywhere enables success at the front lines of business. The company holds worldwide market leadership positions in mobile and embedded databases, mobile management and security, mobile middleware and synchronization, and Bluetooth(R) and infrared protocol technologies. Tens of millions of mobile devices and over 20,000 customers and partners rely on the company's "Always Available" technologies, including SQL Anywhere and its Information Anywhere suite. iAnywhere is a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY).
Sybase, iAnywhere, iAnywhere Solutions, SQL Anywhere, Information Anywhere, and M-Business Anywhere are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. (R) indicates registration in the United States of America. The Bluetooth trademark and logos are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and any use of such marks by iAnywhere is under license. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
CONTACT: Crystal King of Sybase, Inc., +1-978-287-1524, kingc@sybase.com
