IBM back-end mobile access - anywhere, anytime!

Mobile computing devices will soon become the most common web access device and tablets are predcited to sell 50 million units in 2011. So, companies need to extend application access to these new devices.

looksoftware's mobileclient delivers pure web-based UIs into the palm of your customers', employees' and business partners' hands. Built on looksoftware's dynamic architecture, customized UIs are generated dynamically, on the fly from your unchanged host applications. looksoftware's developer products newlook and soarchitect enable you to reuse and extend your existing applications and deploy these functions to mobile devices including iPhone, Android, Blackberry and iPad. They also give you the freedom to optimize your designs for the target wireless device.

mobileclient features include:

• Access to 5250 and 3270 applications from any wireless device that supports a browser 

• No changes to host applications required 

• Server component installed in minutes, zero deployment clients 

• Optimize the look, feel and content for the target device with newlook’s drag and drop Designer 

• No HTML coding required 

• Create new UIs for thin clients and mobile devices composed from:
  - 5250 applications
  - host programs (RPG, COBOL, Java)
  - DB2
  - Other databases including SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Access etc.
  - Web services