IT Decision Maker’s Perspective

Visualize • Mobilize • Realize MCL-Collection

Today’s mobile computers are orders of magnitude more powerful than their predecessors. Organizations investing in this new generation of mobile computers want to gain the most benefit from their investment and take advantage of the capabilities of these new devices with their superior operating systems, powerful processors, crisp color displays, extensive memory capacities, barcode scanners, radio frequency identification (RFID), imagers, voice capabilities, and high-performance wireless communications.

However, as technology advances, it is changing more rapidly than ever before. For instance, the lifecycle of operating systems is becoming shorter all the time. Consequently the concurrent existence of diverse operating systems is proliferating. This is very evident in the mobile computing world. Chart 1 depicts these shortening lifecycles and proliferation of diverse operating systems for mobile computers.

Given the rapid changes in technology, how do companies realize the potential of the new generation of mobile computers yet:

Assure themselves of cross-platform compatibility?

Assure themselves of forward migration paths?

Future-proof their applications?

Protect their investments?

Minimize their total cost of application ownership?

The answer is MCL-Collection.

MCL is dedicated towards, and optimized for, mobile computers, data capture technologies, diverse operating systems, and cross-platform portability of mobile workforce applications.

MCL is designed from the bottom up for platform independence—platform neutrality—for mobile computers. Chart 1 depicts MCL’s cross-platform continuity timeline against the proliferation of diverse mobile computer operating systems.

Its platform independence provides the framework for MCL to future-proof your mobile worker applications. To validate MCL’s ability to future-proof your investments, consider that an MCL application created for DR-DOS can be migrated to run today on a mobile computer running a mobile windows operating system! The same assertion can not be made for an application written in a low-level ‘C’ like language.

Total Cost of Ownership

MCL is focused on minimizing your total cost of application ownership. Application cost does not start and end with the initial development and deployment of an application. Total cost of application ownership involves the cost of the application over the entire life of the application, including maintenance resource time and effort to keep an application current.

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