Companies that started their own mobile solution development projects mostly faced the same problems: diversity of mobile devices, supporting various platforms, replacement of mobile products made development extremely cumbersome. Considering the dissimilarities of device attributes such as screen size, various operating systems and input types this is easily understandable. Until now, managing all these issues required significant human resource and capital expenditure when extending an enterprise system to a mobile platform.

MobiAccess took an innovative approach to this problem. The underlying philosophy of the framework enables the applications to work with the same functionality and reliability on all supported platforms. MobiAccess acts as a bridge between the different platforms overcoming the problems of data communication and visualisation therefore significantly decreasing the resource needs of mobile development projects. It provides developers with a framework that makes life easier for software companies and for software engineers it simplifies implementation, deployment and maintenance of tailored mobile solutions.

Using MobiAccess, vendors of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and software developers of large, medium and small businesses are all able to create applications that can be run on multiple mobile platforms.

The Goals of MobiAccess

No. 1. Quick and easy deployment - The main goal of the MobiAccess framework is to provide developers with quick and easy deployment to all platforms as well as a unique experience for the end users. MobiAccess offers a layer of abstraction for a broad variety of hardware and operating systems, and handles complicated data synchronization protocols, so developers can focus on the essentials of their own product.

No. 2. Cost reduction - MobiAccess ensures that mobile development times and costs are greatly reduced along with the upkeep costs of each mobile solution. Maximum efficiency with minimum investment. With its advanced support for multiple hardware and software platforms and mature data replication processes, mobiaccess offers greater architectural flexibility, shorter time to market, and shorter return on investment than most other solutions.

No 3. Flexibility - Several unique features and architectural aspects in MobiAccess make it the ideal framework of choice for mobile development.

The architecture

An integral part of the MobiAccess framework is a central server that stores all the necessary databases and mobile client configurations. This server is accessible through various data communication networks. The MobiAccess system is managed centrally by a module called MobiVision Desktop.

The management tasks include:

• client and user account management;
• access and modification rights management;
• server-client synchronization.

The communication and data synchronization features are implemented both in the server (MobiSync Server) and in the client side applications. Each supported mobile platform has its own synchronization module that implements the mutual communication protocol with the server. The mobile database can be edited and manipulated through the MobiVision application running on the client side.