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Originally Posted by Jon Westfall
For example, in a factory environment where the primary purpose is to scan labels of some sort, what are the odds that the average employee will periodically stop and check to see if new memos have come in, new events scheduled, etc..?
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Generally a custom application is written for such devices that acts as a "wrapper" around any of the built-in applications. So for example, if your factory worker is scanning inventory, and finds that a certain item is low on stock, the custom application might want to notify purchasing of that fact via a "canned" email message. The scanning program can use the built-in email application to automatically send the message "behind the scenes" as it were. Or the custom program might want to use alarms to notify the user of specific events.
Just as programs such as Agenda Fusion or Pocket Informant use the built-in calendar and contact databases with their own custom UI, many enterprise applications use the built-in application suite to streamline development.