The Invisible Database

I was recently directed to this entertaining 4 minute video produced by one of our customers, Polfärskt Bröd AB of Sweden. Polfärskt is a large bread distributor, serving more than 3500 stores throughout Sweden. The video describes how a new IT system improved the service they provide to their customers. Each of the Polfärskt sales [...]

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Most smart phone devices today have some form of location capability, whether that is GPS, or cel tower triangulation. Up to now, the location information has been for relatively simple applications where the single point is used in applications for things like mapping, finding a restaurant, or getting directions. The spatial data being captured is [...]

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Over the years, we have worked with many customers who are deploying line of business applications to mobile devices. In many cases, these devices include some form of add-on memory cards. Occasionally, a few of our customers have noticed problems, and worked with us to try and identify exactly where the problem was occurring. Our [...]

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This week I am in California to visit with a couple of our long time strategic OEM partners. These partners bundle SQL Anywhere with their own software products. For the last year or so, one of these partners has been using SQL Anywhere technologies for a very interesting move into Software as a Service (SaaS) [...]

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Our team has recently been in contact with a new customer using our new UltraLiteJ for Blackberry product. The customer provides mobile solutions for field service technicians. While I don’t usually post self congratulatory marketing type material here, I beg your indulgence this once. Here’s what they had to say about why they choose to [...]

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At the recent Sybase Engineering Summit, an industry analyst from Gartner mentioned that the failure rate for mobility projects targeting an organization’s employees is between 20% and 25%. In 90% of the cases, the reason for this failure is architectural. I would like to link to this information, but it was only mentioned in passing [...]

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Previously, I have posted the first 3 steps in successfully developing mobile applications: Steps to Successful Mobile applications Step 1: Choose you Database and Synchronization Infrastructure Step 2: Design your Database and Synchronization Infrastructure Step 3: Choose your Application Development Approach Today, I’ll outline Step 4, the final step. Step 4 – Choose your Remote [...]

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Last week I posted Step 2 in successfully developing mobile applications. So far I have introduced the idea, and described the first 2 steps: Steps to Successful Mobile applications Step 1: Choose you Database and Synchronization Infrastructure Step 2: Design your Database and Synchronization Infrastructure Today, I’ll outline Step 3 Step 3 – Choose your [...]

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In my post last week, I began describing a 4 step process that our experience has demonstrated will improve the probability of success when developing mobile applications. So far, I have described Step 1: Choose your Database and Synchronization Infrastructure. Today, I’ll outline Step 2. Step 2 – Design your Database and Synchronization Infrastructure. It [...]

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In my post yesterday, I discussed how data is so important to an organization, and how users should always have access to the data they need to do their job, regardless of the availability of wireless networking or other connectivity. Sometimes, users on the frontlines of an organization are only “occasionally connected”. They spend most [...]

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