Remember this date – May
4, 2009. It's the day when traditional mobile application development was laid
to rest. But mobile development isn't dead. It's just been resurrected as the
Webalo Mobile Dashboard.
Yes, we're tooting our own
horn, but we really do have something that's never been seen before. Version
2.0 of the Mobile Dashboard is a way around the coding, waiting, and cost of
traditional development – a way that lets organizations connect their
enterprise databases, reports, XML Web services, and websites to any smartphone
in less than a day and, often, as soon as a couple of hours.
What’s the trick? It's a
simple, wizard-style, point-and-click web interface called Agenda. It creates
the enterprise to mobile connection about 100 times faster than any SDK. And it
lets users get exactly (and only) the functionality they need. They don't have
to slog through the complete mobile version of a software vendor's enterprise
app (and their company doesn’t have to pay extra for it). They don’t have to
wait for a custom programmed mobile version that includes capabilities for
several groups of users, instead of the specific resources they want.
The Agenda lets people use
a wizard to select just what they need – from single or multiple applications –
and turn it into simple, menu-driven tasks on any BlackBerry, Windows Mobile,
Palm, Symbian, or Java-enabled smartphone. It can even capture website
functionality and deliver it to a secure client that eliminates all the
navigation steps mobile websites rely on. It works by combining multiple
navigation steps from multiple applications into a single smartphone choice
that triggers those steps to take place behind-the-scenes.
One last thing. It's all
software as a service. It can be accessed immediately as a hosted application
over the web or set up behind a corporate firewall as a virtual appliance. So,
like almost every cloud-based service, there's nothing to install, maintain, or
update.
Version 2.0 of the Webalo
Mobile Dashboard launched at the WES tradeshow today, and attendees got to see
Agenda create mobile connections in real time during a fifteen minute
demonstration. It was enterprise to mobile while you wait. Literally. Except
that, compared to traditional enterprise to mobile development, it was no wait
at all.
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