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IT Manager’s Perspective

MCL-Collection’s intuitive, 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. Use MCL-Collection to simplify application creation, integration, deployment and management without compromising functionality or sophistication.

MCL-Collection is comprised of several components that work together to create the integrated development and deployment environment:

MCL-Client is an intelligent software component that resides on the mobile computer and executes the mobile worker applications you create.

MCL-Collection includes two communications servers:

ƒMCL-Net for networked, concurrent IP-based communications sessions.

ƒMCL-Link for point-to-point, sequential, serial communications sessions.

MCL-Bridges provide the mobile worker application interfaces to:

ƒHost applications.

ƒBack office applications.

ƒODBC compliant databases.

ƒWarehouse management systems (WMS).

ƒEnterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

The implementation of MCL-Collection is a layered approach. This means that MCL-Net or MCL-Link can use multiple bridges concurrently enabling the MCL mobile worker application to communicate with, for example, a host application, SAP, and Oracle all at the same time.

MCL-Designer is the high-productivity development environment to:

ƒCreate the intelligent mobile worker applications that run on your mobile computers.

ƒCreate scripts to customize your MCL communications servers.

ƒCreate scripts for the MCL-Bridges that interact with your host systems.

What Are the Benefits to You?

Benefit from MCL-Collection’s modular, flexible, scalable architecture. In the short term, it allows you to deploy your mobile workforce applications quickly and easily. Over the long term, it allows you to manage and adapt your deployment to support your changing needs as your business evolves over time.

Benefit from MCL-Bridges to integrate your mobile worker applications to multiple host systems without the need for expensive middleware.

Benefit from MCL-Designer’s high-productivity features, such as:

Graphical user interface (GUI) for quick and intuitive application and script development.

Report Generator for instant application documentation:

ƒHow often do your final documents reflect the actual deployed applications?

ƒHow often do you modify your applications and not update your documents accordingly?

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