Now, instead of waiting for those grueling monthly inventory reports, management is getting a handle on merchandise the moment it comes in. Two mobile database architectures For more than a decade, databases have been pushing outward from the glass house, first into departments and then onto desktop computers. It's at the point now where the power and functionality of the corporate database is, quite literally, in the hands of end users. These mobile databases are simply the hottest thing in database technology today. Based on recent studies, by 2003, the number of wireless devices will surpass those of connected devices, most often desktop PCs.
Analysts say the mobile or portable database market is ripe for expansion.
Recent research from Evans Data Corp., a Scotts Valley, Calif., market research firm, shows that database developers are catching the craze. Today's mobile databases are generally deployed in one of two ways. The first way follows a thin-client model, in which users need only a browser to view information that has been extracted from the database and displayed as a Web page. You just provide information through a remote connection, manage the data on a server, and then convert it at the source into a format compatible with the device and then transmit it to the device. Copyright 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated All Rights Reserved.