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AvantGo Mobile Sales

AvantGo Mobile Sales is a customizable, packaged mobile software application that increases sales force productivity and improves the quality of customer interactions and offers these features:

Remote access to Sales Force Automation (SFA) applications, including Siebel Sales, Oracle Sales, PeopleSoft (Vantive), Amdocs' Clarify, Dendrite and others.

Remote access to other business-critical information such as product and pricing information, inventory data, customer service history, product delivery status, competitive intelligence and more.

Real-time messaging and alerts.

Support for Pocket PC, Palm OS and RIM BlackBerry Wireless Handheld devices.

Wireless and off-line access to data and applications and seamless transition between the two.

Support for open standards such as HTML, JavaScript, XML and SSL.

Please note: AvantGo Mobile Sales is a wireless access application that integrates with several SFA applications and requires a network server program such as AvantGo M-Business Server.

Specific Features:

Sales professionals can access time-critical information, including sales opportunities, account details, service requests and other sales data, while in the field or at the point of customer contact.

Access to Data: access to sales opportunities, account details, service requests and more from legacy SFA systems such as Siebel Sales.

Access to Corporate Intranet: view product catalogs, pricing, collateral, administrative resources and more directly on the handheld device.

Access to News and Alerts: up-to-the-minute competitive, market and product news and alerts from the Internet.

Device Agnostic Support: Support for Pocket PC, Palm OS and RIM BlackBerry Wireless Handheld devices.

Always Available Access: access data and applications wirelessly or off-line and seamlessly transition between the two.

Increases sales force productivity and effectiveness.

Improves the quality of customer interactions.

Maximizes ROI of existing SFA application investments.

AvantGo M-Business Server

AvantGo M-Business Server is a mobile software platform to create, deploy and integrate enterprise applications. AvantGo M-Business Server will deliver mobile applications to a wide range of handheld devices over any network and transition between wireless and off-line access to data and applications.

The five key components are:

Always-Available Access - Patented message and transaction queuing, advanced compression, intelligent caching and data optimization provide continuous access to applications and data.

Rapid Application Development and Integration - Cross-platform support for multiple device operating systems and development APIs to deliver enterprise data to devices without recompiling. Support for open standards, including HTML, XML, SSL and JavaScript.

End-to-End Security - Applications and data are secure from the device to the data center, including user authentication, application-level security and data encryption using SSL and ECC. Also includes server-based authentication and NT domain, active directory and LDAP integration.

Web-based Administration - Centralized administration for IT managers at the content and user levels for easy deployment of large-scale, robust mobile applications to remote users. Also supports end-user, self-registration.

User-Centric Design - Full-featured web browsing and form creation for real-time and off-line viewing and submission, as well as support for HTML, cookies, JavaScript, and local languages.

Available Downloads:

AvantGo Mobile Sales datasheet in PDF format
AvantGo M-Business Server datasheet in PDF format
Ensuring Mobile Security with AvantGo Technology in PDF format
AvantGo Client User Guide in PDF format
AvantGo Administrator Guide in PDF format

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