Press Release
May 6, 2003
Flowfinity Pushes Forms and Reports to BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds
Flowfinity Products Enable Wireless Data Collection From the Field and Wireless Data Publishing to the Field
New Orleans, LA - Flowfinity Wireless, a leading provider of wireless application products and platforms, today announced the expansion of its Wireless Business Applications product lines with a new release of Forms Server and a new product named Reports Server for BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds™. This product line expansion was made in response to growing demand from customers, partners and carriers. Both products feature push-based communications to improve the automation, immediacy and usability.
Forms Server addresses a market need for secure data collection by enterprise Field Forces, including inspections, surveys, lead generation, and inventory monitoring. Flowfinity Forms Server 2.0 is currently shipping worldwide.
Reports Server addresses a market need for automated data delivery to enterprise Field Forces, including price lists, task assignments, security details, work orders, and inventory reports. Flowfinity Reports Server 1.0 is being previewed at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium this week in New Orleans, with worldwide release scheduled for next quarter.
Flowfinity provides Wireless Business Application products that work with the BlackBerry® wireless platform from Research In Motion (RIM) (NasdaqNM:RIMM - News); (Toronto:RIM.TO - News). For these products, Flowfinity has a growing base of customers and partners in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe.
"With our Wireless Business Application products, our goal has been to provide plug-and-play functionality to help enterprise Field Forces to improve their productivity," said Dmitry Mikhailov, Flowfinity's CEO and founder. "Our unique approach has been to provide easy-to-use applications that are both fast to deploy and cost-effective to manage. In addition to that, we have some very intelligent software that enables offline capabilities and enables push of application user interfaces and data."
Although these Wireless Business Application products are useful in horizontal market applications like sales automation and employee reporting processes, customers of Flowfinity are also experiencing economic benefits in vertical markets such as:
- Retail
- Construction
- Government
- Medical
- Financial
The combined value proposition of Forms and Reports means a valuable "clipboard replacement" solution as well as fulfilling the promise of a "real-time enterprise."
"We are excited to bring Flowfinity's Forms Server and Reports Server to our customers," said Robert Bond, Sales Manager, Mascot Systems Limited. "There is a strong business case for basic data collection and data publishing capabilities that connect mobile Field Force workers to the enterprise."
This week at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium, Flowfinity will be demonstrating the Forms Server product integrated with Microsoft's CRM product as a Field Sales example. Also at the show, enterprise customers can request trial versions of Forms Server and beta versions of Reports Server. The products are easy to learn, easy to deploy and easy to manage.
"There is a great value proposition for these Wireless Business Applications from Flowfinity," said John Heinz, President, Advanced Technologies Support Group. "We can quickly go from demonstration to plug-and-play business solution with our enterprise customers."
Flowfinity products and platforms are available for BlackBerry Wireless Handhelds running on the following global networks: AT&T Wireless, Bell Mobility, Cingular Wireless, Hutchison, Nextel, O2, Rogers AT&T Wireless, Telstra, TELUS Mobility , T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Vodafone.
About Flowfinity Wireless
Flowfinity Wireless is a provider of products and platforms for business applications used by enterprise Field Forces. Flowfinity solutions operate both online and offline without requiring on-device coding and feature a multi-tasking, server-driven user interface, made possible by its unique patent-pending Thinflow technology. Flowfinity is technology partners with Research In Motion (RIM), Microsoft, Borland, Sun and IBM. Today, Flowfinity has a growing base of customers and partners in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe. Flowfinity Wireless can be reached at flowfinity.com.
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