For System Integrators & Value Added Resellers
Do you want to provide your clients with a complete set of products and services (and keep your competition out)?
Then, you’ll want to offer mobile devices and mobile business productivity solutions that integrate with your customers’ existing systems. But, successful deployments require additional skills and knowledge your staff currently may not have.
Easy-to-Use, Not So Easy to Develop
A Windows Mobile Smartphone or Windows Embedded CE / Embedded XP device is quite compact and easy to use. It’s small size and familiar look and feel sometimes mask how difficult it is to engineer an application for mobility well.
Windows Mobile devices are tiny, powerful computers with removable storage in postage stamp sized (Flash) SD memory units, multiple communication methods such as cell phone, wireless LAN and Bluetooth. Business devices may include biometric fingerprint readers for security, barcode readers, SQL server and MQ messaging services.
Using this power effectively requires serious consideration of a number of issues and trade-offs. Wrong decisions can negatively impact the result. We can help your staff avoid costly mistakes and keep your clients satisfied.
Fill The Gap
Delivering a successful and profitable result depends on having knowledgeable professionals to drive the shortest path.
Sure, your staff are smart enough to learn anything, but trial and error can cause you to miss deadlines and shrink your profit margin. Considerations for mobile application development beyond the needs of the desktop include:
- Intermittent connectivity (going in and out range),
- Need to continue working effectively when a network connection is not available, and
- Designing an effective user interface for the tasks while dealing with the lack of a full sized keyboard and mouse and smaller screen area.
Security concerns range from protecting enterprise data as it is transmitted, to user authentication, to the physical loss of the unit requiring encryption of sensitive data stored in the device or wiping the device.
If your staff had to make these choices tomorrow, would they be able to make better decisions if they had an expert to call? Aton’s team is ready to help them.
Fill the Gap While You Are Filling The Position
Has one of your key technical personnel moved on to other opportunities?
If you manage a technical team, you know that changes are inevitable. When you go to fill a position, you want to hire the right person. That can take time. Don’t let personnel changes cause your customer to worry about your team’s ability to deliver. We can help you make forward progress while you are filling that crucial position.
Our Forte Is Data Access
Getting critical business data from servers to mobile devices reliably, securely, and entirely usable, even when the wireless connection is not available, is a great challenge.
Our combined experience with enterprise systems, data communications, and mobile/embedded devices gives you a decided edge in deploying your solution successfully to your client’s mobile workforce. And, Aton International delivers results for System Integrators and Value Added Resellers at very competitive rates.
We specialize in mobility solutions using Windows Mobile, Windows Embedded CE, Windows Embedded XP and Apple iPhone. We can provide consulting alone or in combination with services such as device integration, data access, existing problem resolution and software development.
From Architecture to Implementation
We can design the architecture necessary to efficiently communicate the data end to end between the mobile device and a web-hosted application as well as integrate other hardware with the mobile device.
Our greatest value is the ability to take an unexpected requirement or problem and solve it quickly and competently. Charles Wilde, our CTO and Consulting Software Architect, has over 20 years of system integration and product development experience. You can leverage our team’s experience to deliver successful projects for your clients. We can assist you with:
- Conceptual System Architecture
- Detailed System Design
- Functional Specifications
- Vendor Selection
- Mobile Software Development
- System Implementation
Agile Software Development Is Iterative
Agile software development is iterative in nature. It focuses on getting working software out for review, testing and improvement as quickly as possible.
Aton Rapid Development Methods dovetail with agile techniques. We break projects into small increments that address immediate, definable goals for a predictable price. Our staff, based entirely in the US, can respond promptly to your urgent question or thorny problem. Onshore outsourcing can be the perfect solution for the project that is highly sensitive, too small or too short in time frame for offshoring. We are a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and HP Developer Partner.
Add Features
Does your client need additional devices integrated into the solution you are providing? Is there a problem with integrating them?
Our expert team can identify and deal effectively with issues that occur in the gap between hardware and software to get to a solution quickly. We can help your team successfully link devices to systems for reliable data delivery.
Because our core competencies include development of embedded systems as well as networking in Internet, client/server and legacy environments, we understand how to merge devices into networked solutions. We have helped companies successfully integrate these types of devices into their solutions:
- Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0 and 6.1 devices
- Biometric scanners (fingerprint),
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS),
- Process controllers for SCADA systems,
- Optical storage,
- Image processors,
- Digital cameras and frame grabbers,
- Bar code scanners,
- Electrical power control RTU equipment,
- Automatic teller encryption devices,
- VSAT spread spectrum telecom systems,
- IBM mainframe channel adapters, and
- Custom communication processors.
Our expertise in effectively integrating digital technologies can make a difference for your company. We can provide rapid, cost-effective results with a plan developed specifically for your needs.
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