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Visualize • Mobilize • Realize MCL-Collection
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Realize MCL-Collection
Here are MCL-Collection’s answers to your questions:
1. Is this a completely integrated development and deployment environment?
Yes. MCL-Collection is a completely integrated environment to create, integrate,
manage and deploy enterprise mobile worker applications.
2. Is this a high-productivity development environment?
Yes. MCL-Collection’s high-productivity development environment allows you to create
powerful enterprise mobile worker applications in days or weeks instead of the weeks
and months it would take you using traditional development languages.
3. Is this environment open standards-based?
Yes. The applications created by MCL-Collection run on standard mobile computing
platforms. Chart 1 shows MCL’s timeline for supporting evolving mobile computing
operating systems.
4. Is this deployment environment extensible, scalable?
Yes. MCL-Collection is scalable to support both small localized deployments and large
distributed deployments. Its modular architecture provides exceptional deployment
flexibility and extensibility.
5. Does this environment integrate my mobile worker applications with my host
systems?
Yes. MCL-Collection includes MCL-Bridges to integrate your mobile worker applications
with multiple hosts, concurrently—back office applications, ODBC compliant
databases, warehouse management systems (WMS) and enterprise resource planning
(ERP) systems.
6. What are my mobile communications needs? Does this deployment environment
support them? What if my needs change? Will the environment support them too?
Yes. MCL-Collection handles your serial point-to-point data communications, and your
wired and wireless concurrent LAN, WLAN and WWAN mobile data communications. It
seamlessly transitions between batch and real-time communications. It also provides
seamless transitions for continuously connected, casually connected, and occasionally
connected users.
7. Is the development environment extensible? Can I create extensible applications?
Yes. MCL is continually integrating the latest technologies into MCL-Collection (see
Chart 3). Today, easily add voice control to your traditional MCL data capture
applications. Tomorrow, add radio frequency identification (RFID) to the same
applications.
8. Does this environment create multimodal applications?
Yes. MCL-Collection creates multimodal applications that combine technologies such
as barcode scanners, touch screens, keyboards, signature capture, imagers, RFID,
displays, printers, and voice recognition. Using MCL-Collection:
All data capture methods are handled as complementary technologies.
You do not have to choose one technology, like voice, for example, over other
data capture technologies.
Mobile workers use whichever data capture method is most efficient and
convenient to perform the task at hand.
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