Mobile Service Infrastructure
Mobile Service Infrastructure
Mobile Service Infrastructure is a software framework that enables the creation and delivery of mobile applications across all lines of business to mobile customers and employees. It does this by combining the elements of a mobile data environment – devices, networks and communication protocols – into a single, reusable mobile platform. This standardized, reusable platform enables the rapid delivery of tactical mobile applications today, whilst also providing the capabilities for a longer-term, common infrastructure approach to mobility.
Mobile Service Infrastructure is designed for complete compatibility with common SOA principles and supports the development and deployment of mobile web services as first class citizens of the SOA environment. Mobile Service Infrastructure effectively serves as a bridge between the wireless and SOA domains, enabling key SOA entities such as registries, portals and Business Process Management systems to seamlessly utilize platform capabilities to create mobile composite applications.
Mobile Service Infrastructure is divided into two product groups - Mobile Service Gateway and Mobile Interaction Gateway. These two product groups combine to enable an enterprise to create applications that can be mobilized across the full spectrum of mobile user needs.
Mobile Interaction Gateway
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Mobile Interaction Gateway consists of a set of products that enable an application to deliver a server defined browser and rich user interface to any mobile device in both an offline and online mode. Mobile Interaction Gateway comprises four primary functional capabilities – device repository, device rendering, downloadable richUI client and OTA server. It provides a common device repository that stores the attribute details for thousands of mobile devices and allows an application user interface to be automatically adapted and optimized for the target device browser. Mobile Interaction Gateway also comprises a downloadable J2ME-based engine that creates a rich user interface which can be accessed offline (unlike a browser). Mobile Interaction Gateway is particularly adept at extending enterprise portal platforms to mobile devices. MobileAware’s Mobile Interaction Server, XPressViewer, Fulfilment Manager and Mobile Content Proxy constitute the Mobile Interaction Gateway.
Key Functionality – Mobile Interaction Gateway
- A scalable and reusable mobile platform supporting multiple application modules.
- Support for multiple devices, ranging from desktops to tablets, to personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones.
- Management of business process flow, network resources, and external services, resources and feeds.
- Support for business process modeling, business application integration and reuse.
- Support for rich online and offline functionality.
- Content adaptation and device-optimized rendering.
- Ingestion and aggregation of mobile content from a variety of sources.
- Support for cached offline information access.
- Secure Solution.
- Support for customization and personalization.
- Support for Billing and Operations Integration (BAA, OSS).
Mobile Service Gateway
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Mobile Service Gateway consists of a set of services that enable a virtual communication channel between the mobile device and the application server. This virtual channel abstracts the application from the complexities of the underlying network and network disruption and enables bidirectional synchronous and asynchronous communication between the mobile client and the server. For example, a client can make a synchronous request and the server can make an asynchronous request to the client (known in field service terminology as dispatch/push of data to the client). Mobile Service Gateway effectively extends the enterprise event-driven architecture to the mobile domain (devices and networks). In addition, the virtual channel provides optimal dynamic routing of data across multiple networks based on a configurable policy and provides other value-added features including compression and advanced wireless security. Mobile Service Gateway can be utilized to provide enhanced multi-network wireless connectivity for browser-based, rich user-interface-based and client/server-based mobile applications. MobileAware’s ExpressQ and Smart IP constitute the Mobile Service Gateway.
Key Functionality – Mobile Service Gateway
- A scalable and reusable mobile platform supporting multiple application modules.
- Support for multiple devices, ranging from desktops to tablets, to personal digital assistants (PDAs) and mobile phones.
- Support for business process modeling, business application integration and reuse.
- Support for data synchronization.
- Seamless network switching.
- Support for store and forward message queuing.
- Caching, encryption and compression capability.
- Network support for WAN, LAN, wireless LAN, wireless WAN, 3G(UMTS, EDGA), GSM, GPRS connectivity, including synchronization.
- Secure solution.
MobileAware Difference
Mobile Service Infrastructure brings together technologies and best practices from the drivers behind the mobile industry – mobile network operators and mobile enterprises. With established technology expertise in helping both operators and enterprises to deliver superior mobile services, MobileAware has combined the essential components of a mobile Service Delivery Platform and the elements of Multi-Channel Access Gateway into one common infrastructure.
Mobile Service Infrastructure enables operators to use one common infrastructure to deliver consumer-focused content services, as well as supporting the more complex challenges of delivering mission-critical applications to enterprise customers.
For enterprises, Mobile Service Infrastructure offers a single platform to extend business applications to mobile users, whether it’s making mission-critical applications available to the mobile field-force, or extending CRM or online self-service processes to mobile customers.
