IBM back-end mobile access - anywhere, anytime!

The increasing demand for instant access is the result of e-business and its ability to deliver real-time data to users. Meanwhile, wireless and mobile computing devices are improving at an accelerating pace, making interactive programs more appealing and relevant on PDAs, wireless phones, pagers and embedded in automotive entertainment systems. Now customers, business partners and employees have the option to tap into key business information not only via their desktop computers, but on these mobile and wireless devices too.

So, companies are being forced to develop new wireless strategies. To be successful, they must find a way to integrate their legacy systems with wireless technology.

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, centric and soarchitect enable you to reuse and extend your existing applications and deploy these functions to wireless devices. They also give you the freedom to optimize your designs for the target wireless device.

mobileclient features include:

• PDA devices supporting Windows Mobile and Windows CE, Palm,
  Symbol etc. 

• Telephones and other wireless devices

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

• No changes to iSeries 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
  - iSeries programs (RPG, COBOL, Java)
  - DB2
  - Other databases including SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Access etc.
  - Web services