MobileFrame announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. patent number 7,730,097 to MobileFrame for its unique 100% Code Free Smart Database that seamlessly synchronizes data between back-office enterprise systems and distributed mobile devices. MobileFrame’s enterprise mobility system eliminates custom programming through an intuitive, user friendly point-and-click desktop, enabling novice computer users to easily create and deploy sophisticated custom mobile applications. With secure Sarbanes-Oxley compliant instant messaging, integrated intelligent networking, prioritized smart synchronization, full remote device control, configuration and management, integrated GPS tracking and mapping, and remote software updates all built into one software platform, MobileFrame significantly streamlines mobile application development, deployment, and administration.

Application development tools are commonplace, but those tools require costly, time-consuming development to create business applications. Moreover, such business solutions tend to be inflexible, requiring expensive, custom programming when business processes change. As business processes evolve, MobileFrame’s software provides unparalleled flexibility to create new mobile applications of any degree of complexity, incorporating any mix of business processes.  The software then seamlessly deploys the new applications to the field wirelessly “on-the-fly” to a mixed device environment.

MobileFrame’s award-winning software platform is an entirely self-contained mobility solution that provides full functionality out-of-the-box, with no custom programming, no third party mobile gateways, synchronization engines or SDK’s required.  MobileFrame’s software allows users to capture photographs, voice notes, documents, templates, logos, sketches, digital signatures, bar code scans, magnetic strip read outs, RFID tags, advanced algorithmic functions, and attach them directly into their mobile applications.  Applications are stored in a library so administrators can quickly make changes whenever operational requirements change, enabling on-the-spot deployment of a wide variety of mobile applications.

MobileFrame’s Smart Database technology ensures 100% data integrity between distributed mobile device databases and back office systems. Our patented 100% Code Free platform architecture allows any custom application and business process information to be accessed, controlled, combined and deployed to mobile devices without traditional, complex programming. Using MobileFrame’s patented Smart Database technology, enterprises can ensure critical data collected in the field on handheld devices is easily and reliably synchronized to their back–end systems without the worry of a single character of data loss. We do it every day in some of the most data intensive environments ever automated in field mobility.

This out of the box solution will transform your business. Each application is configurable around your own requirements and better yet, there is no coding required. That means that you can have completely custom apps with no custom programming.

Feel free to watch our online demo at: http://www.mobileframe.com/Media/ArchibusDemo/Archibus%20Demo_skin.swf

During the Online Demo you will be able to review our Mobile Archibus Applications including integration back into Archibus.

You will be able to see how to:

• Create, assign, and manage work
• Craftsperson assignment, and time tracking
• Parts Consumption
• On Demand & PM Work
• Archibus Integration

If you’d like to see a more detailed demo of the solution, please contact me today at:

Nick Hession | Phone: (208) 577-6179 | Email: Nhession@MobileFrame.com

This topic always generates a lot of discussion, so I’m sure this time will be no different. First let’s start with the definition.

Rapid Application Development – refers to a type of software development methodology that involves techniques like iterative development and software prototyping.   Essentially it is a development style that favors incremental development with constant feedback from the end user.   This development process is repeated until the application has been perfected and meets the needs of the user. Many organizations have found that Rapid Application Development or RAD is a fantastic idea, but is requires advanced tools to make this approach a reality. This is where companies like MobileFrame come into the picture.

In order to “Rapidly Develop Applications” it becomes necessary to provide functionality out of the box, to make the development effort easier.

Some of the things MobileFrame does to make it easier to go mobile include:

• Drag and Drop Screen Design – Design your mobile application logic once, and deploy to multiple different Operating Systems
• Drag and Drop Print Designer – Create Print layouts in Minutes, and not weeks.
• Printer Driver Bundling – Printer Drivers are bundled in, no need to pick a specific printer
• Device Driver Auto Recognition – We are plug and play across a wide variety of different devices, and can support mixed device deployments, with no extra effort
• User Administration – Users can authenticate against their current usernames / passwords, and IT can lock down the device to keep the network safe
• Peripheral Integration – We Support RFID, GPS, Barcode (1d, 2d), Magnetic Stripe Scanning, Photo Capture, Photo Annotation, Drawing, Speech to Text, Digital Signature Capture, Printing, Barcode Printing, plus much more
• Backend System Integration – Out of the box hooks into any ODBC or OLEDB compliant data source including (SQL, Oracle, DB2, SAP, Sybase, etc.)
• Synchronization Management – Fail proof sync engine, with the ability to prioritize which networks you would like to sync over first
• Mobile Device Management – Remote Device Management out in the field, with the ability to take administrative control
• Enterprise Application Management – Update Applications, Client Software, and third party applications over the air, no need to collect the device from the field
• Multiple Language Support – Create business logic once, deploy to any number of languages. No need to write and support a 2^nd code base
• Plus many more.

The Mobile Software Development Market is full of companies that claim to have Rapid Application Development Environments, with easy to use development tools, which can be used to assist organizations to design, develop, and deploy mobile applications. And while I can’t speak for other companies that claim to have easy to use tool sets, I can tell you that at MobileFrame the average project from Design / Scope to Deployment is usually 3-4 weeks, and includes integrations with multiple different back-end systems. With this kind of turnaround many of our customers call our environment a Rapid Deployment toolset, instead of a Rapid Application Development Environment.

In fact, the system is so easy to use that all of our sales reps can show how to build custom mobile applications from scratch, make changes to the application on the fly per the user’s request, deploy them out to the device wirelessly and perform a live integration… all on the very first phone call with a prospect.

So the next time that you are investigating different tools to help you go mobile, don’t just think about Rapid Application Development, think about Rapid Deployment.

If you are interested in seeing how MobileFrame is able to create custom mobile applications with no custom programming required, contact us today.