James Newton
09-26-2002, 02:54 PM
Penbase enables SyncML-compliant wireless synchronization for custom databases
New Jersey, 09/24/02 - Penbase, the provider of enterprise-level mobile information systems, is announcing the availability of Penbase SyncML Server 1.0, the SyncML-compliant middleware for synchronizing custom database applications on mobile devices and embedded systems.
For enterprises looking to extend their information systems to mobile workers who operate with mobile database applications in environments where wireless connections to data sources are unreliable, a synchronization solution enabling offline data processing is paramount.
Penbase SyncML Server is the wireless synchronization component of the Penbase System, ensuring safe data exchanges between relational databases on PDAs or embedded systems and data sources.
"Penbase SyncML Server clearly makes the Penbase portfolio complete and robust, thus giving us the ability to offer end-to-end wireless database solutions to mobility service providers and enterprises" says Hari Haran, Chief Executive Officer of Penbase.
SyncML is the emerging open industry specification for mobile data synchronization and device management, sponsored by companies such as Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Matsu****a, Motorola, Nokia, Openwave, Starfish Software and Symbian.
“As part of our endeavor to provide enterprises with standards-based solutions that ensure fast and easy integration of interoperable mobile applications within existing systems, Penbase has based its wireless synchronization solution on the SyncML standard, “ explains Eric Vergnaud, CTO and founder of Penbase. He adds, “What is unique with Penbase SyncML Server, contrary to other SyncML-based solutions, is its ability to synchronize custom databases rather than the traditional PIM databases (contacts, calendar and to-do). Penbase SyncML Server enables telecommunications operators and Internet service providers to provide high value-added wireless data solutions to businesses with mobile work forces that require access to job-specific data.”
Penbase SyncML Server is both a technological and relational gateway, capable of smart data dispatching to heterogeneous data sources. Its ability to take into account the relationships there are between two distinct technologies that process the same data ensures a powerful and reliable solution for updating information between mobile clients and the server.
Penbase SyncML Server is capable of carrying all types of synchronization:
- from data source to mobile client
- from mobile client to data source
- two-way synchronization
How it works
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Penbase SyncML Server is made up of two components: the Penbase SyncML Client that is embedded on the mobile device and the Penbase SyncML Server itself which is set up on the enterprise’s or hoster’s TCP/IP network.
While the Penbase SyncML Client that initiates the synchronization and generates the SyncML document, it is the server that takes care of the synchronization process. Further to keeping the SyncML client very lightweight, this architecture also enables wireless synchronization over protocols such as http and WAP that are incapable of calling up a client.
Fast and easy implementation is ensured by the use of Penbase Visual Designer, in which the mobile application developer defines the SyncML scripts to be run at both ends. Configuring the synchronization process is reduced to simple choices within the Penbase SyncML Server dialog box.
Upon building the mobile application within Penbase Visual Designer, the Penbase SyncML Client is generated, containing all the required synchronization actions.
Penbase SyncML Server is set up on the enterprise network and contains a description of all the wireless database applications that it synchronizes. The applications in the list are activated by the server administrator who defines the users that are allowed to connect either in named user or simultaneous user mode. The mode needs to be decided beforehand, as both modes cannot be mixed on the same Penbase SyncML Server.
To identify named users, Penbase SyncML Server connects to the enterprise’s LDAP or reads an internal directory created by the administrator. In simultaneous user mode, Penbase SyncML Server processes all the requests from Penbase applications installed on the mobile devices.
Pricing and availability
To order Penbase SyncML Server, or for more information, call 33 (0) 562 884 191, e-mail [email protected] or visit the Penbase Web site at www.penbase.com.
Penbase SyncML Server is sold through Penbase's corporate sales force, value-added resellers and Penbase's Web site at www.penbase.com
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About Penbase
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Penbase SA provides enterprises with a one-stop technological platform, the Penbase System, for developing, deploying and synchronizing powerful mobile and embedded database applications enabling mobile workers to access, process and update mission-critical information wherever and whenever needed.
Penbase technology is based on standards and an open architecture, thereby ensuring fast and easy integration of synchronized mobile database solutions within existing systems.
The Penbase System comprises Penbase Visual Designer, the one-stop RAD development environment enabling quick and easy creation of enterprise-level mobile database applications, Penbase Engine, the relational database engine combining small size and exceptional processing power and Penbase SyncML Server, the wireless synchronization middleware enabling seamless information exchanges between mobile applications and host data sources.
A mobile or embedded application developed with Penbase technology can be synchronized with data sources locally, via Internet or any other current of future communications protocol including Bluetooth, WiFi, WAP, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, iMode, etc.
Founded in April 2000, Penbase has its headquarters in Toulouse (France) and offices in New Jersey and Paris. Penbase’s customers and partners include Orange, Mobistar, Hachette Multimedia, Smartcom, MobilePlanet and Synchroport-Witwave.
For further information, please visit www.penbase.com
Press contact
_____________
James Newton
Marketing and Communications Manager
Tel.: +33 (0) 562 884 191
E-mail: [email protected]
Penbase, the Penbase logo, Penbase Visual Designer, Penbase Engine and Penbase SyncML Server are trademarks of Penbase SA, that may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Palm OS is a registered trademark of Palm, Inc. Pocket PC is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
New Jersey, 09/24/02 - Penbase, the provider of enterprise-level mobile information systems, is announcing the availability of Penbase SyncML Server 1.0, the SyncML-compliant middleware for synchronizing custom database applications on mobile devices and embedded systems.
For enterprises looking to extend their information systems to mobile workers who operate with mobile database applications in environments where wireless connections to data sources are unreliable, a synchronization solution enabling offline data processing is paramount.
Penbase SyncML Server is the wireless synchronization component of the Penbase System, ensuring safe data exchanges between relational databases on PDAs or embedded systems and data sources.
"Penbase SyncML Server clearly makes the Penbase portfolio complete and robust, thus giving us the ability to offer end-to-end wireless database solutions to mobility service providers and enterprises" says Hari Haran, Chief Executive Officer of Penbase.
SyncML is the emerging open industry specification for mobile data synchronization and device management, sponsored by companies such as Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Matsu****a, Motorola, Nokia, Openwave, Starfish Software and Symbian.
“As part of our endeavor to provide enterprises with standards-based solutions that ensure fast and easy integration of interoperable mobile applications within existing systems, Penbase has based its wireless synchronization solution on the SyncML standard, “ explains Eric Vergnaud, CTO and founder of Penbase. He adds, “What is unique with Penbase SyncML Server, contrary to other SyncML-based solutions, is its ability to synchronize custom databases rather than the traditional PIM databases (contacts, calendar and to-do). Penbase SyncML Server enables telecommunications operators and Internet service providers to provide high value-added wireless data solutions to businesses with mobile work forces that require access to job-specific data.”
Penbase SyncML Server is both a technological and relational gateway, capable of smart data dispatching to heterogeneous data sources. Its ability to take into account the relationships there are between two distinct technologies that process the same data ensures a powerful and reliable solution for updating information between mobile clients and the server.
Penbase SyncML Server is capable of carrying all types of synchronization:
- from data source to mobile client
- from mobile client to data source
- two-way synchronization
How it works
____________
Penbase SyncML Server is made up of two components: the Penbase SyncML Client that is embedded on the mobile device and the Penbase SyncML Server itself which is set up on the enterprise’s or hoster’s TCP/IP network.
While the Penbase SyncML Client that initiates the synchronization and generates the SyncML document, it is the server that takes care of the synchronization process. Further to keeping the SyncML client very lightweight, this architecture also enables wireless synchronization over protocols such as http and WAP that are incapable of calling up a client.
Fast and easy implementation is ensured by the use of Penbase Visual Designer, in which the mobile application developer defines the SyncML scripts to be run at both ends. Configuring the synchronization process is reduced to simple choices within the Penbase SyncML Server dialog box.
Upon building the mobile application within Penbase Visual Designer, the Penbase SyncML Client is generated, containing all the required synchronization actions.
Penbase SyncML Server is set up on the enterprise network and contains a description of all the wireless database applications that it synchronizes. The applications in the list are activated by the server administrator who defines the users that are allowed to connect either in named user or simultaneous user mode. The mode needs to be decided beforehand, as both modes cannot be mixed on the same Penbase SyncML Server.
To identify named users, Penbase SyncML Server connects to the enterprise’s LDAP or reads an internal directory created by the administrator. In simultaneous user mode, Penbase SyncML Server processes all the requests from Penbase applications installed on the mobile devices.
Pricing and availability
To order Penbase SyncML Server, or for more information, call 33 (0) 562 884 191, e-mail [email protected] or visit the Penbase Web site at www.penbase.com.
Penbase SyncML Server is sold through Penbase's corporate sales force, value-added resellers and Penbase's Web site at www.penbase.com
###
About Penbase
_____________
Penbase SA provides enterprises with a one-stop technological platform, the Penbase System, for developing, deploying and synchronizing powerful mobile and embedded database applications enabling mobile workers to access, process and update mission-critical information wherever and whenever needed.
Penbase technology is based on standards and an open architecture, thereby ensuring fast and easy integration of synchronized mobile database solutions within existing systems.
The Penbase System comprises Penbase Visual Designer, the one-stop RAD development environment enabling quick and easy creation of enterprise-level mobile database applications, Penbase Engine, the relational database engine combining small size and exceptional processing power and Penbase SyncML Server, the wireless synchronization middleware enabling seamless information exchanges between mobile applications and host data sources.
A mobile or embedded application developed with Penbase technology can be synchronized with data sources locally, via Internet or any other current of future communications protocol including Bluetooth, WiFi, WAP, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, iMode, etc.
Founded in April 2000, Penbase has its headquarters in Toulouse (France) and offices in New Jersey and Paris. Penbase’s customers and partners include Orange, Mobistar, Hachette Multimedia, Smartcom, MobilePlanet and Synchroport-Witwave.
For further information, please visit www.penbase.com
Press contact
_____________
James Newton
Marketing and Communications Manager
Tel.: +33 (0) 562 884 191
E-mail: [email protected]
Penbase, the Penbase logo, Penbase Visual Designer, Penbase Engine and Penbase SyncML Server are trademarks of Penbase SA, that may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Palm OS is a registered trademark of Palm, Inc. Pocket PC is a registered trademark of Microsoft, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.