Widian Mobile 3.0 Fact Sheet

Cost-efficient connectivity for mobile professionals

• Active mobile e-mail
  
• Up-to-date calendar, task and contact synchronization
• Secure access to intranet information
• Smooth user experience with instant alerts and optimized content
• Fast and cost-efficient 3G connection supported
• Multiple mobile devices supported
• Easy, remote maintenance of client installation and configuration with optional SyncShield mobile device managament solution
  
• Faster decision making by users empowered by mobile access to business critical information

Mobile professionals have set a challenge for corporate communication – how to be connected anytime anywhere. One step was taken with Internet technologies. Now maturing mobile technologies open new possibilities for distributed collaboration. Key needs of today’s mobile professionals include connections to enterprise email and calendar systems or business critical intranet information. While expecting to free their mobile professionals from the desktop, enterprises are looking for cost-efficient mobile solutions that provide fast and secure wireless access to information.

True benefit for your mobile device

Widian Mobile 3.0 provides mobile professionals active mobile e-mail, calendar, task, and contact synchronization between a mobile device and a choice of best-known groupware system including Teamware Office 8.0 and Novell GroupWise 8.0.

With Widian Mobile your enterprise can have one system to take care of several functions: platform for services, mobile gateway, mail gateway, SyncML-based calendar gateway, and with the optional Widian Enterprise Menu a tool to convert web pages for a mobile phone, and easy sign-on to different services.

Widian Mobile Functionality

Widian Mobile opens new possibilities for all who have dreamed of fast and secure mobile access to their intranet solutions. Key features of the back-end groupware system and intranet information systems are made available to mobile professionals.

Active mobile e-mail with filtering

New e-mail messages are made available automatically on the user’s handset either with the whole message including the header and attachments, header and message body, or with header only. Instant alerts upon the receipt notify the user of received messages (check phone compatibility). Alerts are automatically disabled when the phone is set in silent mode.

Mail messages sent from the mobile phone are copied to a user-defined sent items folder in the user’s groupware mailbox making it easy for the user to keep track of the status of sent messages. SMTP authentication is needed for sending e-mail messages.

An easy to use advanced filtering system keeps the user in control of which e-mail messages will be delivered to the phone. Users can create and select filtering rules for different purposes such as business trip, time off or time in the office.

A Web-based desktop user interface is available for creating and modifying mail rules. The active rules can be changed using the mobile phone.

Automatic calendar, task and contact synchronization

Assistant is a mobile phone application providing synchronization of appointment, task and contact information. Availability of task and contact synchronization depends on back-end groupware functionality.

Calendar synchronization keeps the user up-to-date at all times by synchronizing data between the desktop and mobile calendars. Calendar synchronization is based on SyncML. An alert informs the user about a new appointment. In addition, a listing of new and modified calendar entries makes time management even easier.

Widian Mobile is a Java-based (J2EE) system running on Suse Enterprise Linux Server 11 platform (SLES11). It is based on common open standards (e.g. HTTP, IMAP, SMTP, SyncML, JDBC, LDAP). LDAP support provides authentication against an external authentication server.

To protect access over the unsafe public Internet, Widian Mobile 3.0 supports SSL/TLS-protected IMAP, SMTP, SyncML, and HTTP connections between mobile devices and Widian  Mobile servers.

The most typically used network connections are 3G/UMTS and GPRS but other connection types including HSCSD, or WLAN are also available.

The supported mobile phones include Nokia Series 60 phones. There may be limitations to availability of functionality in different phone models. Widian Mobile can also be used with other mobiles devices like Windows Mobile devices, Android devices and iPhone that support IMAP and SyncML (Synthesis SyncML client required).