Mobility Services

Mobility Services

Ubiquitous Mobility

As handheld devices and next generation service provider networks enable rich, real time user experiences, mobility is fast emerging as a critical component of enterprise application architecture. Mobile solutions and applications will enable enterprise users, partners and customers interact and transact in real time, and this will necessitate substantial changes to enterprise application design and implementation. While the implications for operational productivity and access to customer interface in real time will be truly transformative, the challenges in the way of an enterprise-wide mobility strategy are substantial. Complexities primarily derive from device and technology proliferation, security and integration requirements, delivery of optimal user experience, and ongoing management and upgrades.

SMART Mobility - a suite of enterprise mobile enablement solutions.

SMART Mobility Services - A Snapshot

Enterprise Mobility Services at CSS Corp Enable:

  • An integrated enterprise mobility management model, encompassing application development, deployment to multiple devices, lifecycle management, security and integration
  • Design and development of domain specific mobile workflow applications: sales force automation, mobile shopping, merchandizing, asset tracking, wealth management, securities trading, approval, claims and approval management etc.
  • Mobile enablement of Enterprise Web content
  • Mobile data synchronization
  • Mobile commerce applications
  • Monitoring, Management, and Analytics
  • Testing: Functional, Performance/ Scalability, Network (Carrier / Internationalization), Certification & Porting, Security Validation

SMART Web

Mobile enablement of websites

Extend your web content to the smartphone and tablet world without any modification to your current website. The CSS Corp SMART Web framework is a mobile enablement module which deploys as a standalone solution with ability to mobile enable both transaction and content web sites without any impact to current IT infrastructure or codebase.

Features
  • Non Intrusive solution with zero impact to current website
  • Customized Mobile view of web site
  • All or selected functionality
  • Dynamic detection of device and style management
  • Support for Analytic engines
  • Can be deployed as a Cloud based proxy solution instead of in-house.
  • Support all major Smart phones and Tablets

Web Content Transformation Middleware

Benefits
  • Zero impact on current infrastructure and development team
  • No code change on the main website
  • Common code base for all Smart Phone devices and tablets
  • Faster time to Market
  • Full knowledge transfer & Training
  • No on-going costs

SMART Platform for Native Apps

Develop once, Deploy anywhere

Development and maintenance of mobility solutions poses many challenges for an enterprise primarily due to the proliferation of devices/platforms, security and management requirements. CSS Corp solution leverages the Worklight platform to help enterprises develop and manage rich application for smartphones, tablets and social media platforms while ensuring high productivity and control.

Features / Components
  • IDE for cross platform native application development with Support for BB, Android, iPhone, iPAD, Desktops Widgets
  • Middleware server with adapters for SQL, LDAP, SAP, SharePoint, JMS, HTTP, REST, and WSDL/SOAP
  • Social platform support for Facebook, Twitter and iGoogle
  • Console for deployment, ongoing Management and Monitoring
  • Builds on existing websites, web services and APIs
  • Authentication & Security mechanisms

Platform Architecture

Platform Architecture

Courtesy: Worklight Solutions Inc.

Partner Spotlight: WorkLight is a leading mobile application platform that enables organizations to create, run and manage rich applications for smartphones, tablets and other environments with the highest levels of developer productivity, enterprise delivery and dynamic control. Headquartered in New York, WorkLight was recently recognized as one of InformationWeek's "Top 50 Business Technology Companies to Watch", a "Cool Technology Vendor" by Gartner and a "Product to Watch" by eWeek.

SMART App

Looking to mobile enable your product or application or build a new application ? CSS Corp provides end-to-end services from concept to development and certification. We have taken our expertise in building enterprise products and application and applied them to mobile development to ensure delivery of applications with high usability and scalability with enterprise level quality. Our technology labs, highly skilled professionals ensures that the solutions built leverages the best of breed technologies


Offering Differentiators
  • Native mobile application development for iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Window and Symbian platforms
  • Consulting, takes your concept and converts it into a product
  • Application porting and migration
  • Architecture, design and performance consulting
  • Development of re-distributable frameworks and SDKs
  • Integration with Sync platforms like Funambol
  • Low level Monitoring and Management solutions
  • End-to-end lifecycle management
  • Re-usable frameworks
  • SOA based custom middleware
  • Testing & Certification
  • Network Testing

Android | BlackBerry | iPhone | Symbian | Windows

SMART Cert

Increasingly enterprise applications are getting mobile enabled and mobile application are being used to perform transactions rather than just content delivery. The mobile environment poses multiple challenges and the testing methodology and coverage is very different from the desktop application environment. Some of the challenges posed in the mobile environment are:

  • Multiple points of failure - Internal systems, Mobile carrier outages, Latency
  • Varied application interfaces
  • Differing display sizes
  • Differing OS/Runtime environment
  • Limitations in processing speed, memory
  • Lack of security evaluation processes

CSS Corp mobile testing services ensure test coverage of scenarios in such an environment with a combination of emulators, automation tools, manual process and real time device/network testing. Using the same framework CSS Corp also provides rapid porting and certification services.

Functional Testing

System/Integration & Regressions testing is done using emulators and automation tools. Final testing is done using the device. Use of automation reduces regression testing time and emulators. Emulators are built to conform to the GUI and memory specifications. Actual devices are used to validate the results.

Network testing - Testing on real devices directly on carrier networks, with coverage across the globe.

Multilingual Testing - Coverage of all major European languages

Performance and scalability testing

CSS Corp uses an inhouse cloud based mobile performance testing tool to generate concurrent traffic from multiple mobile devices. The emulators used also confirm to the memory specifications of the device. Network latency is introduced using tools to simulate realtime environment. Our performance engineering team will identify the issues and make recommendations to make the system scalable

Certification and porting services

We test and certify the application on multiple devices using a combination of emulators and real devices. Applications/Games are also ported across platforms and certified.

Security Validation

Our security team will do a security assessment of your application on various platforms. Included in the assessment is architecture review, application checks covering input validation, authentication, session management, data synchronization and encryption.

Android | BlackBerry | iPhone | Symbian | Windows

Mobility and Enterprise Applications: Industry Vertical Perspectives


Mobility Implications Application Architectures
Retail
  • Field Sales
  • Supply Chain
  • Warehousing
  • Asset Tracking
  • Data Collection
  • Delivery / Dispatch
  • Sales Performance Management
  • BI / Dashboards
The CRM, ERP, and Supply Chain systems need to be extended for enabling real time access to distributed, mobile workflows
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG)
  • Merchandizing
  • Data Collection
  • Warehousing
  • Delivery / Dispatch
  • BI / Dashboards
Real time data collection would enable dynamic merchandizing and delivery / dispatch systems, supply chain and warehousing systems.
Banking & Financial Services
  • Consumer Banking
  • Wealth Management
  • Brokerage
  • Claims Management
  • Investor Related

Secure caching and or in-memory databases, with lightweight message buses for enabling mobile access to transaction processing and reporting

Healthcare
  • Clinical Workflow Management
  • Patient Alert Systems
  • Real Time Patient Information
  • Collaboration
Providing secure extensions to clinical information and patient information systems. Regulatory conditions.
Manufacturing & Logistics
  • Field Sales
  • Field Service
  • Inspection
  • Warehouse Management
  • Workforce Management
  • Asset Management
  • BI / Dashboards
The CRM, ERP, and Supply Chain systems need to be extended for enabling real time access to distributed, mobile workflows
Hospitality & Leisure
  • Asset Management
  • Reservations
  • Loyalty Programs
  • Consumer Applications
  • IT Support / Help Desk
Centralized reservation systems, payment gateways, and loyalty management systems have to be extended to enable mobile access
Telecom/ ISP, Service Providers
  • Field Sales
  • Field Service
  • Inspection
  • Warehouse Management
  • Workforce Management
  • PO Approval
  • Sales Performance Management
  • BI / Dashboards
The BSS and OSS systems need to be extended for enabling real time access to distributed, mobile workflows
ISVs
  • Streamlined client with middleware
  • Data Sync/Push , Alerts
  • CRM enablement
  • Customer Service
  • Mobile self-service portals
  • Alerts/Tracking
  • Field force Automation
  • Marketing
Products need to mobile enabled using a middleware based approach.

CSS Corp Differentiators

  • Solution based approach
  • Lower cost of development by leveraging platform/framework
  • Faster time to market
  • Develop once, Deploy anywhere
  • Support for all smart phones
  • Multi-lingual capabilities
  • Testing & Certification capability

Icon Customer Delight

...there is not much I can add to this except a heartfelt "thank you" to each of you for your dedication and creativity in getting so much accomplished in such a short amount of time. Congratulations all!

Paul Anastas
Vice President - Software Development
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