Founded in February 2000 by IBM and our industry partners, the SyncML Initiative will accelerate the development and adoption of a single synchronization protocol that can be used throughout the industry and across the full range of device, server, PIM and synchronization technology vendors. Other founding members include Lotus, Motorola, Nokia, Palm Inc., Psion, and Starfish Software.
Synchronization is the real-time coordination of separate data sources.
The more wireless devices we carry, the more we need to synchronize the data between different machines. The more seamless this synchronization is, the more useful wireless devices will become. Currently, the ability to synchronize data has been limited by the proliferation of non-interoperable, proprietary protocols, each of which is designed to serve one or more specific devices, systems and data types. The absence of a single synchronization standard poses many problems for end users, device manufacturers, application developers, and service providers. As a universal protocol, the SyncML specification benefits everyone with an interest in synchronized data, including device manufacturers, service providers, application developers and end users.