Syware introduces database development software for Microsoft's next generation PDA, providing real-time wireless access to servers, pop-up word lists, grid control, beaming, and macro programs
Syware has announced that the company's Visual CE and mEnable families of database development software now support Microsoft's latest generation of PDA software, the new Microsoft Windows-Powered Pocket PC 2002.
Visual CE for Pocket PC 2002, database software for mobile professionals, adds a flexible array of development tools to the Pocket PC 2002.
Features include pop-up word lists, grid control, macro programs, and forms that can be developed and run on either the desktop computer or handheld device.
mEnable for Pocket PC 2002 is Syware's breakthrough wireless architecture that allows mobile users to easily access and modify enterprise server data in real time.
Together, the two enable both business professionals and developers to easily create database applications for any Pocket PC 2002 device without programming. "With Pocket PC 2002, Microsoft has made the Pocket PC the most connected PDA available," said Sy Danberg, president of Syware.
"This is especially important for corporations, large or small, who use mobile databases to organise and interconnect their business functions.
The ability to easily access and quickly synchronise data drives most mobile professionals, whether they're updating repair databases from the field or tracking patients in a hospital." "Corporations view enhanced connectivity and expandability as key elements in their mobile computing standards," said Rogers Weed, general manager for the Mobility Division at Microsoft.
"We are pleased that Syware has taken advantage of Pocket PC 2002's new connectivity features in Visual CE to deliver business professionals with a streamlined approach to creating mobile databases." Visual CE for Pocket PC 2002 is a full colour, relational database program.
It provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface that enables programmers and non-programmers alike to quickly create databases without coding. Database forms can be designed and maintained either on the handheld device or on the desktop computer.
In addition, both forms and databases can be run on the handheld device or the desktop.
Once the application is developed, records can be easily beamed from one handheld device to another.
Other features include pop-up word lists, the ability to create pre-defined data filters, robust font selection, multi-select dropdowns, and calculations on string data.
A macro programming capability allows for the easy creation of multi-step sequences.
Visual CE is integrated with mEnable, Syware's breakthrough wireless architecture that extends handheld applications with real-time, interactive access to server data.
The mEnable architecture allows Visual CE applications to wirelessly read from or write to any ODBC-enabled data source, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Microsoft Access, or Sybase.
mEnable uses the universal TCP/IP protocol to communicate between the Pocket PC 2002 handheld and the server, through standard wireless adapter cards that plug into the handheld device.
The mEnable architecture allows handheld computing applications to be easily integrated with enterprise business processes.
Visual CE applications can be created and run on any Pocket PC 2002 device.
Visual CE Lite Edition is priced at $79, quantity one.
Visual CE Personal Edition, with full synchronisation capabilities, is priced at $129, quantity one.
Visual CE Professional Edition provides a more advanced feature set and includes royalty-free distribution rights; it is available for $399.
Visual CE Enterprise Edition includes all the features of the Professional Edition plus Syware's Report CE software; it is priced at $599.
