Anglia Mobile Portal
It’s pretty common-place to be able to access email
content over a mobile device, but what about other business critical
information? For field engineers and sales consultants who have been out
of the office for extended periods of time, the first day back can often
be spent just catching up with what’s been going on, logging timesheets,
expenses & mileage claims or updating calendars and contact details.
Imagine how much time can be saved if all of these tasks could be
accessed and executed via one mobile device.
The Anglia Mobile Portal was developed to extend enterprise applications
out to a mobile workforce equipped with Microsoft Smartphones & Pocket
PC devices.
The Mobile Portal was created by leveraging existing infrastructure
investment in Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Sharepoint Portal and utilises
.NET technology and the Sharepoint Software Development Kit.
Fig1:
Mobile Portal on Smartphone 2003
Features
The Mobile Portal provides access to the following
Enterprise Applications:
Company
Performance – (Digital Dashboard)
News
Content – (Internal and External)
Timesheet Input
Mileage
Log
Expenses Capture
Holiday
Requests
Helpdesk Issue Logs
Benefits
Business Anyplace – email Inbox content is always available on
the mobile device.
Business Efficiency – Complex workflow processes, such as
expenses and holiday sign off, can be performed via the mobile device.
Supports existing IT investment – extending enterprise
applications not re-inventing them.
Always informed – Company news content entered into Sharepoint
is automatically available on the mobile devices.
24/7 Helpdesk – Access to Helpdesk tickets, customer
information & case logs. Issues can be assigned to resources via the
mobile device.
Realtime Expenditure Reporting – Field staff can log timesheet
information, expenses claims and record mileage from any location.
Microsoft Technology Used
Sharepoint Portal Server 2003
Visual
Studio .NET 2003
SQL
Server 2000
Windows
Server 2003
ISA
Server 2004
Exchange Server 2003
Fig 2 : Mobile Portal on Pocket PC 2003 SE
showing content from Sharepoint Portal 2003