Mobile Enterprise Application Platform

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This proven platform enables applications to scale across thousands of devices while protecting your existing business systems through compre-hensive interface manage-ment. With over twelve years of research and devel-opment and production use, Sky’s MEAP has been used to deliver hundreds of suc-cessful projects across the globe.

Key features:

On Premise / in cloud deployment options

“Secure Containment” support for all major mobile platforms: IOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows

Integrated Development Environment (IDE) supporting “code free” applications

Centralized systems management of all devices, software, applications and integration

Complete end-to-end interface management from inception to final posting

High Performance robust scalable architecture

Secure data object transmission and storage

Fully Unicode compliant with international language support

Supports connectivity with business systems, applications and databases

In the above diagram, The Sky MEAP supports an application server (secure container) on the mobile device and a central MEAP server, providing specialized interface management components and compre-hensive integration support for back end business systems, applications and databases.

The Sky MEAP enables you to support multiple mobile applications across a diverse range of devices, users and data sources; on premise or in cloud.

A Single Platform

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As most production users will attest, the biggest threat to any business system is flooding it with external transactions and synchronisation requests. It is therefore critical that your Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) provides all the controls to effectively and efficiently manage all mobile interfaces.“It is not OK to carelessly lob transactions over the fence into the back end with no load balancing, depen-dency controls and error monitoring”.

Other major considerations include:

Total visibility and management of all transactions from a single central point

The ability to perform multi-phase business transactions within and between business systems e.g. CRM, Manufacturing and Financial, without having to write custom codeInternal dependency management to avoid sequencing errors, resource locking conflicts and priority scheduling issuesVariable “throttle” controls to manage the maximum computing resources that can be used at any one time i.e. connections, processes, instances etcSupport for all major integration options i.e. Web Services, XML, EDI, Files, peer-to-peer sockets, SQL etc

Ability to use the most appropriate trigger points (events) to initiate outbound transactions and data object synchronization i.e. push technology

With our twelve years of integration experience, we have included all the customer experiences and tech-nical knowledge into the Sky MEAP. It has a proven interface management component that effectively protects your back end business systems while improving the overall throughput of mobile transactions and data object synchronization requests.

Comprehensive Interface Management

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According to Gartner (i), “Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms (MEAPs) provide tools and client/server middleware for mobile (targeting any sort of mobile application) and multichannel (highly device/OS- and network adaptive) thick (offline) enterprise AD (Application Development)”.

The Sky MEAP provides an application server (secure container) for all the major mobile device types i.e. IOS®, Android®, BlackBerry®, and Windows®.

This provides the following advantages:

A multi-threaded application server provides a “secure container” within which to run applications and store data.

Stand alone capability i.e. a application can run without a network connection with its own secure database

Advanced GUI capability over and above that of a web browser

Seamless integration with both “native” and 3rd party applications e.g. phone, browser, contacts, calendar, email, GPS, GIS etc.

Local device systems management, providing secure networking, resource monitoring, application/ data synchronisation etc.

Important things to note are that:

“Code free” applications can run seamlessly across different platforms without change e.g. the same CRM mobile application can run on iPhone®, BlackBerry®, Windows® and Android®

A central Integrated Development Environment (IDE) providing the capability and flexibility to develop and deploy applications without having to write program code and deploy binaries i.e. no specialized programming and complex change management required

Application definitions, business data and transactions can be synchronized while the application is in use

Supports both “on premise” and “in cloud” deployment models

All Major Mobile Devices

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The Sky MEAP provides a comprehensive IDE that supports the full development and operational life cycle of mobile applications. It provides the capability and flexibility to develop and change feature rich applica-tions without knowledge of ‘programming’ and complex device specific API’s.

The primary components of the IDE are:

A workbench to build, change manage and deploy “code free” mobile applications

A Binary object repository for all associated media e.g. pictures, documents etc

Data object definitions and synchronization controls

Data Profiler to manage the automatic distribution of data objects

Integration object definitions and interface controls

Built-in change management, security, data dictionary and object repository

It takes approximately seven days to undertake the Sky technical certification and become proficient at building, customizing and managing mobile applications.

Configure once, run anywhere “code free” applications:The application definitions generated by the Sky IDE are stored internally as meta-data. These are syn-chronized and subsequently interpreted and executed by the Sky Application Server on the mobile device. This means that there is no need for device specific compiled program code; and the mobile applications can be far more dynamic, adaptive and context aware; and subsequently much easier to manage. It is therefore possible to define a single application that can be ran on IOS®, Android®, BlackBerry®, and Windows® without change.

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Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

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Whether its 1 or 10,000 mobile users, the Sky MEAP has the flexibility to scale and grow with your mobility requirements. You can expand the number of components to handle large numbers of connections and transaction volumes, while protecting your back end systems.

You also have options to effectively load balance, prioritize and control mobile connections and data transmissions. High availability options provide automatic failover and seamless network connectivity, ensuring that mobile users experience maximum “up time”.

Because SkyMobile has complete interface management capability, it can also significantly improve the performance of transactions i.e. Improve the overall throughput and capacity of the back end business systems. This is important i.e. Process as many mobile transactions as possible while minimizing the impact. Both “on premise” and “in cloud” deployment options are supported i.e. you may implement the Sky MEAP on your own infrastructure or subscriber to Sky’s own cloud “mobility as a service” solution.

High Performance Scalable Architecture

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It is important to be able to manage your entire fleet of devices from a central point. By this we mean:

Deploy application and software changes “over the air” (including decommission)

Support mobile users by being able to remotely connect to their devices and analyze the system

Control individual or groups of device connections

Remote control of applications

The Sky MEAP provides a complete set of systems management tools with which you can perform:

Capacity planning and performance tests

“Self test” diagnostics for connectivity status and device vital signs

Tuning and optimization analysis of throughputs and quickly identify bottlenecks

Backup and restore operations of database data on the device

High availability failover of key components to enable maximum “up time” and DRP Scenarios Security:As well as providing built-in support for symmetric and asymmetric encryption on all data transmissions, you can also encrypt all data stored on the device. This is important should the mobile device fall into the wrong hands! Sky’s data security does not rely on the security services of the OS and network, but rather we see these as an additional bonus. So no matter what the platform and network infrastructure, you can be assured that your data is safely transmitted and stored. Sky’s application server provides a “secure container” whithin which all applications run and data is stored.

Certified technology:

The Sky MEAP framework is an industry certified technology

There is no impact to any other Vendor or Customer objects

Standard API’s and sub-systems are used throughout

Backward and forward compatible with all major heterogeneous computing environments

Integration Workbench:

The Sky Meap has a powerful integration engine that supports a variety of mechanisms to connect and

interact with back end business systems, applications and databases. These include:

Web Services, XML, EDI, SQL, fixed and delimited raw data formats

TCP/IP sockets, Http, Serial connections, File transfer, Email, Java/.Net methods etc.

The IDE workbench allows you to define and configure integration objects and interface schemas.

Centralized Systems Management

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About Sky TechnologiesSky Technologies has been mobilizing business systems for more than 12 years.

With hundreds of successful projects in more than 25 countries, Sky’s Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEAP) is a proven technology capable of deploying “code free” solutions on all major mobile devices.

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