

"Making information available directly and in real-time to employees on the frontline - serving or selling to customers - is an increasingly critical step to gaining such efficiencies.


"Companies are constantly looking for new ways of gaining competitive advantage and reducing costs by streamlining their business processes," said Jacob Christfort, CTO and vice president of Mobile and Wireless products, Oracle Corporation. Based on Oracle's Grid Computing infrastructure, Oracle Database Lite 10g provides customers with a secure and reliable technology architecture that enables increased performance and incremental scalability to support thousands of concurrent users. With organizations entrusting their critical data to mobile technology, centralized management, security and application functionality have become essential as applications are rolled out to tens of thousands of mobile users. Mobile technologies are no longer simply the domain of sales force and field service workers have been adopted by industries such as defense, national security health and public safety. "As mobile devices transition from purely personal devices to capable business tools, organizations must deploy applications built on a flexible business-class platform capable of supporting current user needs, while allowing future enhancements and connectivity for a variety of business requirements." "Mobile deployments have emerged as critical business systems, requiring enterprise-class functionality, reliability and security, and connection to back-office systems," said Jack Gold, vice president, META Group.
