[May 16, 2008] Webalo Enables Software Makers to Go Handheld Tweet (Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Webalo announced that it has enabled two key independent software vendors (ISVs) to quickly mobilize their enterprise applications for handheld devices, without the need for classical programming and customization. According to the company, both Actuate and Xactly are disclosing mobile extensions to their platforms, which they are implementing using Webalo s Mobile Dashboard. Webalo said that its Mobile Dashboard offers a point-and-click interface that permits even non-programmers or end users to set up access from the handheld of their choice to corporate data, websites, and other assets, in a matter of hours, not the months typically required. For ISVs, according to the company, the Mobile Dashboard offers immediate access to the mobile enterprise market, without the need to make huge investments in mobile-specific software development, and provides a new source of revenue. Actuate s senior vice president of marketing, Nobby Akiha, stated that Webalo has allowed rapid data access to address the increasingly hot mobile Business Intelligence market. Our experience of combining our e.Spreadsheet outputs with Webalo s Mobile Dashboard and the planned integration of Actuate iServer and BIRT with Mobile Dashboard shows that working with Webalo to bring a mobile solution to market is much faster than tackling the issue on our own. The combination of e.Spreadsheet and BIRT content with Mobile Dashboard will ensure that our customers can get content in to the hands of mobile users to increase productivity, said Akiha. On-demand sales performance management vendor Xactly was similarly empowered. We wanted our customers to have mobile access to up-to-date comparatives planned versus actual sales, current versus targeted compensation, and so forth, said Karen Steele, vice president of marketing, Xactly. Such mobile access really enhances the value of enterprise applications. But the economics of both the software development process and the subsequent support of a constantly-changing array of handheld devices would have been prohibitive. Webalo solved that for us. Webalo went on to state that the Mobile Dashboard makes it possible to extend virtually any enterprise application for mobile use. An end user or supervisor comfortable with Web interfaces and wizards is all the skill level required for a configuration process that typically takes less than a few hours and on occasion only minutes. This speed and simplicity makes it suddenly affordable to transform enterprise applications for mobile use, without the need to pay proprietary vendors for mobile versions of their software an investment that would need to be repeated for each additional vendor or application. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]