Webalo Mobile Dashboard technology is a new and easy way to distribute critical business intelligence reports to mobile users in a highly usable and actionable form. This technology enables a new world of computing where users are in charge, and information and application functionality is available to them, when and where they need it.
The Webalo Mobile Dashboard is a hosted, on demand service for use on the Web, like Google or Salesforce.com – for delivering business intelligence reports to users’ mobile devices. The Webalo Mobile Dashboard is built on patent pending technologies for delivering services to users, developed over the last six year by Webalo, Inc.
The "magic" of the Mobile Dashboard is performed by the Webalo User Proxy, technology that is the key to dramatically more rapid and flexible deployment of applications to users.
User Proxy technology enables companies to immediately deploy business intelligence to users’ mobile devices. The User Proxy, and the "User-oriented Architecture" it provides, is ideal for the rapid and high-functionality deployment of business intelligence information to mobile devices.
Before the Mobile Dashboard, enterprises had to install, program, and maintain complex and expensive "mobile middleware" to enable this kind of application.
Now Webalo has eliminated this challenge by applying the concept of “software as a service” to mobile middleware. In essence, Webalo is doing for mobile middleware what Salesforce.com did for sales force automation.
The Mobile Dashboard is an application built on an underlying platform called the Webalo Service, which has three key components
Webalo User Proxy: The heart of the Webalo Service platform. Receives reports from the Report Service and generates interactive highly-usable mobile interfaces for them.
Multi-tenant Web Platform: A Web platform enabling hosted delivery.
Wizard Framework: A generic framework for creating easy-to-use tools for the hosted service – Flash-based to enable a high-quality user experience.
The Mobile Dashboard application adds two application-specific components to the Webalo Service:
Report Service: Part of the Mobile Dashboard. Receives reports in spreadsheet form, extracts relational information from them, and transforms them to XML.
Mobile Dashboard Wizard: Flash-based Wizards – built on the Wizard Framework – enabling non-technical people to configure the Report Service and Webalo User Proxy.
Technically, the Webalo User Proxy is an intermediary between back-end infrastructure and users, insulating users from the complexities of the infrastructure by providing a highly usable "task-oriented" interface to services, while at the same time insulating back-end applications from the complexity of users (and their devices, preferences, and intermittent connectivity). The User Proxy enables users to navigate through and invoke Web services and business processes. It also provides a Web service that back-end applications can use to initiate interactions with the user.
By doing this, the Webalo User Proxy significantly enhances the emerging distributed software applications model – commonly called the Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) – that is expected to dominate computing in the 21st Century. It provides a unique User-oriented Architecture that gives end users, and their preferred interface devices, a true, continuous presence in cyberspace – transparently, and on equal terms with the applications and services running there. This enables the Webalo Service to take full advantage of SOA techniques and to deliver on the SOA promise of rapid deployment and flexibility that is otherwise not possible.
Webalo provides the missing link between users and Web-based applications - a User Proxy Server that delivers the full business value of the application to users automatically, regardless of the end user device, effectively "putting the user in charge. More information about Webalo, Inc. is available at www.webalo.com.
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