Mobile solutions have come of age with the increasingly wide spread
adoption of hispeed, low cost mobile networks combined with the introduction
of low cost hipowered mobile platforms. Mitrais gained a MS Gold Partnership
back in 2006 based partially on our mobile solutions. We are still working
with some of the world’s best known companies developing mobile applications
leveraging mobile technologies. Here are some of the solutions we have
provided for our clients.
Mitrais was asked by
a provider of risk, incident and issue management solutions, to extend the
accessibility of the existing application to mobile users. A major challenge
was how to exploit the limited capabilities of the device.
The initiative was then driven to create from a PC application a simple,
easy and convenient web application. Mitrais developed the application for a
PDA sized browser while meeting key criteria including dividing pages into
usable but limited size portions, using existing tables and forms and
keeping the number of keystrokes to a minimum to optimise usability.
Mitrais developed a mobile survey application for a food processing
company to support its sales force throughout Indonesia. The mobile survey
application involves complicated business processing including route
planning, scheduling, interactive mobile data collection, data
consolidation, synchronization and reporting. Armed with Microsoft PocketPC
based devices, the sales force visits retail outlets to gather market and
sales intelligence. The surveys are synchronized in real time to the
regional sales centre for the supervisor to generate periodic reports as
feedback to the sales team, and also synchronized to the head office for
management reporting. The application can be highly customized as regards
the questions and also the reporting format, making the system flexible
enough to collect data for various market segments or whenever the company
launches new products.
To provide a rich user experience in the desktop application, Mitrais
integrated NetAdvantage software from Infragistics, the market leader in the
presentation layer components industry for more than a decade. NetAdvantage
provides the most comprehensive set of components for quickly building and
styling commercial class user interfaces for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, JSF and
WPF applications. These components are flexible enough to be customized and
extended to meet user requirements. The best feature of NetAdvantage is that
Infragistics has its own application styling framework. It is a stand-alone
function that allows the creation of themes for an application. Themes are
read during run-time so users don’t need to re-compile if they want to
change the theme of their application.
“Mobile” was developed for PT. Philip Morris Indonesia to record movement
of finished products from its factories to distribution warehouses, with
emphasis on working in off-line areas. Each PocketPC has a barcode scanner
and a facility to automatically synchronize data to the server when they are
reconnected to the network.
Mitrais has extended
the capability of our in-house developed medical system to enable the
physician to review a patient’s condition through a mobile device. The
system is running on Pocket PC device and connected through the core
application of the medical system using Microsoft .NET Web Service.
A common scenario, the system will be deployed to hospitals with a WIFI
network. The medical system extension on Pocket PC is developed using
Microsoft .NET technology.
This was developed as a PocketPC application for PT. Freeport Indonesia
for employee identification. Complete with barcode scanner, data
synchronization with the server (including a photo) and a policy that each
employee has a Barcode-ID Card, the PocketPC becomes a powerful tool for
allowing access to certain areas of the mine site.
This was developed as a PocketPC application dedicated to do outdoor data
logging for Mine Serve International, a PT. Freeport affiliate company.
Complete with data validation and data synchronisation with the server, the
PocketPC becomes a good data logging tool. It reduces the possibility of
logging wrong data and the paperwork required.