MOBBL
This innovative platform, developed by Itude, enables complex interaction between information systems and mobile phones. MOBBL™ offers ease-of-use and certainty in the dynamic world of mobile work. By configuring the MOBBL™ platform, existing information sources are being migrated into mobile websites or applications for Nokia, iPhone, Blackberry, Sony Ericsson etc.

One single definition

An application is only defined once. Subsequently MOBBL takes care of a translation of applications that suit a specific mobile platform best. For example, an application is defined once and may subsequently be used on iPhone, Windows Mobile, Nokia and Blackberry devices. Itude Mobile keeps the client software for the different mobile platforms up-to-date. Your applications are thus guaranteed of keeping pace with the latest developments.

One time integration

One integration for all devices. Underlying source systems are not involved in the operation of the different mobile devices. The translation takes place in the MOBBL server.

Modern web-based user-interface

User-friendly drag-and-drop user interface for building and adaptation of mobile applications.
 
Overview

MOBBL consists of a number of components, as indicated below:

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The components are being discussed below.

Screen Scraper

The Screen Scraper reads and analyses a website and enables the reuse of pages and forms in a mobile website or mobile application. As a result information does not have to be duplicated or synchronized for a mobile website.

Data Mapper

With the help of the Data Mapper structured xml services (e.g. xforms, xml-feeds and web-services) are directly linked to a mobile website or mobile application.

Content Manager

The Content Manager is used to manage content that has been specifically made for mobile websites or mobile applications.

Application Builder

The Application Builder allows you assemble the content and the functional components (forms and the like) into a user-friendly mobile applications or website.

Administrator Console

The Administrator Console provides an insight in the use of all MOBBL components via a web-based interface. With the Administrator Console you can make available mobile applications and websites for consumers / employees and also monitor the use of it (statistics).

MOBBL Client Controller

The MOBBL Client Controller takes care of the communication between the mobile applications and your corporate information systems. The MOBBL Client Controller is also responsible for the installation and updates of mobile applications.

Mobile Web Publisher

The Mobile Web Publisher prepares your mobile website and makes it available for users. Your mobile website is hosted by Itude Mobile and made directly available for the public. You may use your own domain name or let us take of it.

Device Database

Every mobile device has individual characteristics, such as the seize of the screen or supported media formats. Therefore it is important that your mobile website sends suitable content to the device. Our Device Database contains the characteristics of over 3000 devices. This information is used by other components to automatically transfer web pages and media into an optimal format for the device in question.
 
Mobile SOA - system integration for the 21st century
In most organizations the largest part of the ICT budget is spent on interfaces between systems. This insight explains the current focus on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the ICT industry. It is SOA’s promise to make the interfaces between systems open, standardized and documented. Organizations that introduce SOA, experience a decrease in maintenance effort for interfaces between systems.

Mobile SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is our approach for mobile applications.

Our mobile rapid-application-development platform MOBBL is fully based on modern ideas regarding system integration. Interfaces between mobile systems and corporate information systems take place fully via web-service technology. Once connected, maintenance and adaptation of the mobile applications/websites is simple and therefore inexpensive.