Announcing IBM Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition
The needs and solutions of an on demand world - the end-to-end integration of people, processes and information within and beyond the enterprise - often vary dramatically by industry. But for the members of the wireless ecosystem (namely, service providers, carriers and device manufacturers), the key to staying ahead in the wireless game is the ability to give the mobile enterprise easy and immediate access to information and applications. Using standards-based middleware, IBM enables the wireless ecosystem with products that can combine the power of e-business with the convenience of pervasive devices.
IBM Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition is a platform onto which the next generation of e-business applications can be deployed. As a powerful enabler of on demand capabilities, it delivers a Java Powered™ platform where devices have access to pre-tested content, can be maintained over-the-air (OTA) and are pre-enabled for access to enterprise data, applications and transactions.
The following pervasive computing assets will be incorporated into this new family of products:
- WebSphere Micro Environment, which will be renamed WebSphere Everyplace Micro Environment.
- WebSphere Studio Device Developer.
- WebSphere Custom Environment, which will be renamed WebSphere Everyplace Custom Environment.
- IBM Embedded ViaVoice
- IBM JavaCard OpenPlatform, which will be renamed WebSphere Everyplace Chip Operating System.
- Related services, components, and tools, such as Service Management Framework Bundle Development Kit, Extension Services for WebSphere Everyplace, Enterprise MIDP Tools, and more.
With this upcoming release and the associated new naming, IBM Pervasive Computing and Lotus software now signal the convergence and ongoing direction of Workplace Client Technology products within the IBM Workplace family.
The essential functionality of the products that compose the new Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition family remains the same in providing a foundation for the deployment of high-value data services and solutions to Workplace clients and small mobile devices. However, under the Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition name, IBM now provides a sharper focus on the ongoing value proposition:
- Dramatic increases to client productivity in a consistent way across device types, impacting not only the user experience but also the enterprise business value as business processes are extended to new users, customers, and partners.
- Decreased dependence on network connectivity to access application functionality, which improves application access and reduces network connection costs.
- Ability to extend existing applications to run on pervasive devices -- from desktops, to PDAs, to smartphones, to headless embedded mobile devices -which expands the definition of device heterogeneity and decreases development and deployment costs by enabling enterprises and developers to reuse code and developer skills.
The inherent flexibility and choice of the upcoming Workplace Client Technology, Micro Edition family is key to IBM Workplace, with its vision that people can use whatever access point they choose throughout their day; on whatever operating system is most efficient for their business; in order to access the people, information and business applications they need, when and where they need them. This is applied to the entire spectrum of usage experiences - from browser to rich client to pervasive devices - and links those experiences with information, business processes, and data access points such as sensors, RF tags and other commercial monitoring devices.
More information
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Customer testimonial video (
view video 2Mb - 1:07min). In addition to the extended individual testimonials available from the right-side column, this video combines clips from:
Arlen Nipper, President, Arcom Control Systems
Monte Zweben, Chairman and CEO, Blue Martini Software
Ed Zander, Chairman and CEO, Motorola, Inc.
Bill Nuti, CEO, Symbol Technologies
