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NotWired.com INTRODUCTION The Internet revolution spawned some incredible changes in our lives. We gather information and conduct commerce differently than we did ten years ago. While many attempts have been made to provide individual scheduling and organization over the Internet, few have succeeded. The initial attempts have failed because they did not provide added value over the personal information devices and paper calendars in existence today and are not accessible from anywhere. They become less useful when people have personal and corporate information and applications that they must interact with on a daily basis. Users are craving integration with instant access anywhere at anytime. Organizations need software and/or services to operate their business. This includes accounting, human resources, communications, marketing, contact management, lead generation, recruiting, administration, customer support, real-time information and more. Unlike large organizations, smaller organizations have to rely on various vendors with specialized offerings. These different offerings share little or no information with other applications. The central components to these business applications and services rely on data that provides information about who, what, where and how. The most common databases of information are scheduling and contact management. Effectively integrated applications need to share common information and be instantly available to all authorized users in an organization. BACKGROUND The Internet and cellular revolution has changed our lives. The explosion of the cellular phone market has exceeded 70% penetration in some countries. In 2000, the number of cellular phones and devices accessing the Internet will surpass PCs. Estimates indicate there will be one billion phones and devices attached to the Internet by 2003! Over the last few years, phone companies like Nokia, Motorola and Phone.com have developed proprietary solutions to access the Internet. The wireless Internet market was born, but has not yet reached exponential growth. The wireless world is now converging on a new standard called WAP (Wireless Access Protocol) and WML (Wireless Markup Language). WML is the HTML-like language for build interfaces for wireless devices to access Internet at anytime over the WAP. Although WAP and WML will enable a broad range of devices to access information and applications, the applications themselves must be redesigned for a new medium PROBLEM The business solutions today are fragmented and difficult to integrate. Many business owners cannot afford investment in systems, software and staff to create secure, integrated business applications that are accessible from anywhere at anytime. How do you get applications to work together and how do you get a workforce to adopt the usage of such applications? The answer to this problem will have an astounding effect on how the business is managed, the productivity of employees, and those that interact with the automated mobile businesses. EXISTING SOLUTIONS There are very few viable commercial solutions to this problem. Various vendors, called ASPs, are taking large, complex software systems built for large organizations and hosting solutions. Most of these applications were originally designed to be client/server applications in the 1980s. Most designs assume certain behavior in processing and require a large degree of customization, if even possible, to be accessible from anywhere. Additionally, most of these systems were built to be licensed software and installed at client sites. They were not originally designed to manage many different organizations. The amount of customization required for these systems have created prohibitive pricing for the small and medium size businesses. Other solutions include personal productivity tools from portals like Yahoo! and AOL. These solutions, while powerful for an individual, still lack the real-time seamless integration to the calendar devices like the PalmPilot and the integrated functionality with existing desktop business applications like QuickBooks, ACT!, Peachtree, Goldmine and others. They also face the issue of redesign for a new medium. WAP accessible devices are different than HTML browser access. The problem still exists. AN OPTIMAL SOLUTION The solution involves application integration, data integration, security, instant access and good software design to make multiple solutions look seamless to the end user. It must be fast, usable and reliable. Only then will businesses adopt services through the Internet and over wireless devices. It is a large undertaking to create a centralized and integrated system on the new technologies surrounding the Internet and wireless marketplace. A contact database for all prospects, customers, employees, vendors and users personal contacts must be created. It must combine with a scheduler that can handle all types of contacts and provide a means to immediately access information, schedule events and interact with corporate applications. All applications must integrate around this central core. Only then do you have a unique solution. NOTWIRED.COM NotWired (www.notwired.com), from Objectsoft Inc., is a new mobile portal technology that serves real business applications to businesses. The target marketplace is businesses between 1 and 500 employees. This marketplace comprises over 50% of todays mobile workforce and has fueled software giants like Microsoft, Intuit and others. Application and data integration is provided to NotWired.com through a centralized contact database and group calendar system designed from the beginning to address the complex scenarios of coordinating all contacts with scheduling. The system is secure, since it is built on a solid foundation of security that prevents unauthorized users from viewing sensitive data or performing sensitive operations. All security administration is the responsibility of organization administrators. These individuals can create groups, roles, assign permissions and generally control access to applications and data available to their organization on the NotWired system. Wireless and Internet access make NotWired.com accessible from anywhere. Scheduling a meeting immediately places the meeting in the group calendar and scheduling system, while coordinating with other organization members or external users through the standard browser, wireless access to the Internet, email and SMS. The applications are designed with standard interface principals seen throughout the Internet today and the wireless access to applications are designed for one-touch ease of use.
WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT NOTWIRED.COM The following grid will help identify what is unique about NotWired.com relative to standard portals and desktop software in the market today. This grid is not an overall comparison of features, but rather a conceptual comparison.
Overall, it is a system designed to be an open, mobile application delivery platform. It is built to scale for a large number of organizations with an average membership of 10-50 users. NotWired.com was created from the beginning to conduct mission critical computing. AVAILABILITY NotWired.com HTML portal is currently in Beta. WAP and HTML portals
will be fully available in before summer 2000. Full tours of the product are
available here. About Objectsoft Objectsoft is a leading developer of mobile application frameworks that enable development of secure wireless and wired applications packaged for billable delivery via the Internet. Objectsoft is focused on business applications that empower the mobile professional. ### For more information, contact: Copyright 2000 Objectsoft, Inc. All rights reserved.. |