Key platform features include:

Business Process Driven
Application powered by EMP are designed from the “Outside-In” to ensure high user acceptance to deliver business processes at the point of interaction.


Broad Device Support
EMP supports a variety of mobile devices enabling the Enterprise to choose the right device for the right user and for the right process. Applications for one device type can be easily re-purposed on other mobile devices reusing the work already done for the initial device.


Seamless Integration
EMP provides Intelligent Adaptation in context to mobile processes to deliver cost effective and highly efficient, intelligent integration and adaptation to enterprise backend systems.


Minimized Data Redundancy
EMP is a “stateless” server, meaning live data resides only in enterprise applications and on the mobile device. EMP does not maintain a persistent business data store, therefore the complex synchronization and database ‘compare’ issues that have historically made mobility so difficult to provision and manage are eliminated. EMP’s Intelligent Data Management provides a very unique solution in solving the problems associated with Data Synchronization to deliver user acceptable mobile solutions.


Responsive
EMP was designed from the ground up to ensure maximum reusability and change readiness. The applications are defined in Meta Data that allows for the abstraction of mobile applications from enterprise data. In addition the tools for Data Access, Meta Data Mapping and creating Mobile Applications are all developed on top of standard environments that immensely speed the time to deliver and reduce the time to take ownership of the mobile applications. EMP has built in application provisioning and application upgrade management capabilities.


Enterprise-Scalable Architecture
The stateless architecture of the EMP also serves to overcome issues of scale. The environment fully separates business logic, encapsulated within a metadata repository, from data which is resident in back-end application databases. EMP allows additional servers to be added as needed to accommodate load, to deliver Scale-Up and Scale-Out mobile application deployments and natively supports a load-balanced configuration allowing requests to be directed to the least-utilized server.


Connection Agnostic Functionality
Applications powered by EMP operates seamlessly whether or not a network connection is available, allowing mobile users to execute their processes in the most remote geographical locations or shielded client sites. In addition, enhanced functionality, such as real-time data lookups and real time messaging services are available to the application. EMP’s messaging architecture ensures guaranteed delivery of all data between the mobile device and enterprise.

Enterprise Mobile Platform (EMP) Features

Key EMP features include:

Intelligent Application-based Technology
Envision Mobile’s technology has been designed with the key notion that “one size does not fit all”. Mobile applications for different industry verticals solve different problems and have to be designed and architected differently.

Envision Mobile, combining the expertise on the mobile application development and business akin in the target verticals, provides mobile applications with the rich and intuitive user interface while delivering tangible business value with unmatched security.

With our products, our customers can deliver a mobile experience that is fast, easy to use, and esthetically pleasing much beyond the browser based wireless web (WAP) or traditional offline (thick-client).

Envision Mobile further harnesses the rich internet technology to deliver seamlessly ‘always on’ application while addressing the loss of connectivity common in the wireless network. The hybrid online and offline architecture ensures the consumers continuous access to the mobile applications, yet enforces strong mobile security.

Mobile applications built on Envision technology support a rich set of visual elements and seamless integration with the systems necessary for deliver the applications quickly and securely.


Scalable High Availability Platform Technology
Envision Mobile powers the mobile applications with scalable, yet open and flexible mobility server that further enhances the data intelligence exchanged between the device and back-end systems. With its optimized data encryption and compression, the Enterprise Mobile Platform utilizes the minimal wireless data bandwidth for maximum output. The Enterprise Mobile Platform technology provides a high availability software solution, based on internal design as well as relying on standard clustering mechanisms. This results in increased concurrency, fault-toleranc and increased overall high availability.

The applications are designed to handle data duplicates in a safe manner. High availability on devices is further enhanced by our application configuration and use of volatile and non-volatile memory storage. In the event of complete battery loss on the device, the software can restore and recover the data from its last sync point.

High availability on the server is guaranteed by means of various server clusters and farms. Our software provide built-in support any of the following clusters: message server cluster, application server cluster, web farm, and database clustering.


Multi-Tenant Platform Enterprise
Mobile Platform allows multiple applications to be hosted, controlled, managed, and administered by multi-tenant technology platform. Such software architecture not only results in reduced TCO but also drives efficiency through sharing highly optimized common resources as well as enforcing consistent user's experience across the various applications. Multiple applications can be administered via a centralized Web portal. Access privileges can be defined to grant/restrict access to specific features and functions; hence, providing appropriate level access control and data view control.


Configurable Administration Console Enterprise
Mobile Platform offers a highly flexible and functional centralized administrator Web portal. The Web portal is highly flexible that allows easy customization of the Admin Console User Interface. The look-and-feel can be easily changed and customized (without a single line of code change) to adapt to the corporate UI colour theme and style guides.

The Web portal is also highly functional with detailed information on each application, users, roles, privileges, audit and access control and detailed logging. Such unrivalled mobile specific features allow enterprises a holistic view of their mobile world. In addition, the menu options for the applications can be easily changed and customized (without a single line of code change) in order to enhance the user's experience.


Unified Push
Enterprise Mobile Platform offers a highly flexible and functional unified push functionality that spans multiple device platforms.

Wireless-powered mobility offers user the freedom to consume content on-the-go and to conduct activities anywhere, anytime. Enterprise Mobile Platform offers the capability for mobile applications to reach the users through various in-band and out-of-band touch points using point-to-point, multicast, and broadcast approaches. All these communication channels can be easily configured and managed from within the communication channel of the Enterprise Mobile Platform.

Enterprise Mobile Platform offers built-in push message notification function to communicate with iOS, Blackberry, Android, and Windows Phone devices. Push messages can be sent out in real-time mode and scheduled mode. In addition, enterprises can configure and choose to deliver Push messages to a specific set of users or group of users.

As an end2end mobile solution, Envision Mobile also provides device-side programming framework, sample code and an end-to-end testing tool to assist ourcustomers to easily and rapidly develop and deploy unified push-enabled mobile application.


Integrated Social Media
Mobile social media enriches and heightens the mobile user's experience by offering channels to allow the users to engage in interactive dialogues with their social communities, affiliated groups, and (even) business organizations. This interaction dialogue can take place through various media - text, image, audio or video. Enterprise Mobile Platform includes many pre-built adapters to integrate with popular social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, FourSquare and Yelp. These adapters remove and shield our customers from the engineering complexity to integrate mobile applicationswith various social media platforms and enable our customers to easily and swiftly develop and deploy mobile social media application.

In order to deploy an end2end mobile solution, Envision Mobile also provides device-side programming framework, sample code, end-to-end testing tool to assist our customers to easily and rapidly develop and deploy mobile social media application.


Adapter Framework
The Adapter Framework provides a flexible and re-usable infrastructure for leveraging existing investments in enterprise applications and the business processes defined in these applications for use within the enterprise. The Adapter Framework provides a standardized structure for EMP Adapters to interface with each enterprise data source’s business logic using the appropriate interface method such as an API, web service, or database interface. Each adapter provides the ability to introspect, or discover, the structure of the system to which it interfaces whether it is unmodified/out-of-the-boxor highly customized to the business’ needs. EMP component for integration is non-invasive in nature and, therefore, normally does not require any modification to the enterprise application.


Information Infrastructure
The Information Infrastructure efficiently and intelligently moves data securely between the mobile application and the enterprise data source or sources, including information available across the internet via Web Services. It is designed with the principles of a stateless meta-data driven architecture with the goal of ensuring the highest level of data integrity without duplicating or replicating business data during updates between the mobile application and each enterprise data sources.


Unrivalled Security
Performing sensitive transactions over the public wireless networks raises a number of security concerns. EMP is architected from the ground up to enable secure development, deployment and operation of an application in mobile/wireless domain. To capitalize on the opportunities afforded by mobility, enterprises and end-users must extend their applications beyond closed, private networks to open, public wireless networks - and this demands that strong wireless security and identity access and management systems needs to be put in place. Envision Mobile’s approach to security and data privacy provides the architecture and implementation necessary to safeguard applications and information on the Internet and wireless networks, ensuringtrust and confidence.

Securing information from unauthorized access is a major problem for any network – wire-line or wireless security, in a broad sense, focuses on the network security, system security, information security, and physical security. EMP security system is comprised of a suite of multiple technologies that solve numerous authentication, information integrity, and identification problems. It includes the following technologies – configurable security application policies, lock down client platform, firewalls, authentication servers, cryptography, intrusion detection, and utilization of SSL/TLS and VPNs.

Platform Characteristics & Design Principals

Foundation of EMP enables developers, administrators and end-users to utilize the following capabilities when build, deploy and operate mobility solutions.

Key Platform Characteristics

Easy to develop mobility applications across different handheld devices

Established design practices for building mobility applications

Ability to utilize common mobility actions and operations without need for programming

Be design and development friendly to both .Net and Java development community

Ability to deploy applications using OTA

To monitor and administer run-time environment

Ability to deploy and support multiple applications and multiple customers within the single environment

Be able to scale as required

Fault tolerant with HA components in place

Devices to have support for disconnected mode of operations

Ability to troubleshoot as well as manage application on the devices remotely using OTA

Ability to utilize large number of Vizio Mobile’s adapters to back-end systems

To support advanced adaptation layer between mobility enterprise sub-system and enterprise back-ends

To provide support for various messaging models (both push and pull messaging interactions)

To provide configurable APN selection

To ensure highly secure solution environment with flexible security policy configuration to meet even the strictest enterprise and hosting providers requirements

Platform Design Principals

Model Driven Architecture (MDA) – as utilized throughout designer tools

Event Driven Architecture (EDA) – as implemented in device Smart Client technologies and Mobility server

Components and Service design principals, as built in both smart clients and server implementation. Each service can be externally configurable as well as replaceable with adequate service replacement (plugging concept)

Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern – as implemented in Smart Clients

Store and Forward with Guaranteed delivery – implemented in both server and device smart clients

Enabled for easy co-existence with EAI/ESB based systems

Network friendly and bandwidth optimized

Supported Devices