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The Challenge Many independent software vendors (ISVs), IT consultancies and value added resellers (VARs) are seeing an increasing demand to extend their existing business solutions onto mobile devices. This demand is being driven by the rapidly growing enterprise mobile applications market, more powerful devices and evolving platforms.

ISVs face considerable challenges in such changeable and disruptive conditions. Products and solutions need to be delivered quickly to capitalize on opportunities, customers require more complex solutions that operate on a number of mobile platforms, and lower development costs are needed to maintain margins.

In order to gain a competitive advantage, ISVs must meet the challenges of mobility by creating cross platform mobile solutions quickly and cost effectively, without compromising functionality.

CommonTime’s partner offering provides ISVs with significant opportunities to deliver own branded enterprise mobile applications and solutions.

The Solution - CommonTime mDesignCommonTime mDesign is a powerful yet simple to use enterprise mobility solution, which provides independent software vendors with multiple mobile application capabilities. mDesign allows for the rapid design, development, deployment and management of cross platform enterprise mobile applications. These fully integrated applications can be created at a fraction of the time and cost of native development methods.

mDesign features an intuitive application building process, using a library of customizable business process templates. This allows for the rapid prototyping and development of applications and significantly reduces

Design, develop, deploy and manage dynamic enterprise mobile applications quickly and cost effectively.

Offering mobile applications and solutions in partnership with

CommonTime can deliver many business benefits for ISVs, including:

Reduced development costs•Increased speed to market •Improved professional services•Increased profitability•Extended intellectual property reach•Improved customer experience•More business opportunities •Enhanced corporate image•

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“After trialing several enterprise mobility solutions within the Gartner Quadrant, we found that CommonTime mDesign was the most comprehensive and cost effective.” Andy Noble - Managing Director, Mobile Data Force Australia

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time to market. Added functionality also allows complex applications to be custom built from the ground up where required.

As new devices are released and customer requirements change, our compatibility grows with you. mDesign allows your investment to be future proofed by providing you with the ability to deliver cross platform applications.

The solution provides full application deployment and a range of flexible back office integration options, as well as incorporating device management, software provisioning and data security capabilities as standard.

Advanced Functionality for Technical PersonnelmDesign also includes features that allow more comprehensive solutions to be built from the ground up where required. These include:

Hierarchical Process Relationships

mDesign allows you to link multiple processes within an application using a full inheritance model.

Smaller, more manageable processes can be created and reused. •

Data can be easily passed between parent and child processes in both directions. •

A process launcher can be designed to interact with these processes.•

Open Integration Model

The mDesign integration plugin allows connection to commonly used enterprise applications and ODBC data sources, such as:

MS-SQL Server•

MySQL•

Oracle•

Progress •

PostgreSQL •

Many others. •

The plugin also allows web services integration, batch file processing and custom API integration.

Gain a competitive edge with CommonTime:

Increase profitability by •winning enterprise wide mobile projects with margins designed to increase the bottom line.

Improve professional •services revenue by utilising CommonTime’s industry recognised mobile development framework and device management platform.

Win more business •by offering an end to end suite of integrated enterprise mobile software solutions designed for specific industries that can be used across the business.

Extend the reach of your •intellectual property across multiple mobile platforms.

Significantly reduce •development costs compared to native development methods.

Shorten the time it •takes to deliver mobile solutions to market.

Receive expert assistance •through direct access to field resources from the CommonTime sales, consulting, marketing and support teams.

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Product Extensibility

Styling can be customized within mDesign to change the look and feel of your application, employing widely used •technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS.

‘Custom’ questions can also be used to implement your own application features, as well as existing JavaScript function •libraries.

mDesign scripting language provides a common cross platform scripting language, allowing the implementation of complex •business logic and functionality.

Data Consumption

The mDesign DataList control allows efficient administration and presentation of data from back end data sources to end users. Applying a style template to the DataList control gives you complete flexibility over its appearance.

mDesign DataSets allow fully offline data storage for local data lookup. DataSets can be used to drive processes and dynamically populate questions such as droplists, radios, combos and checkboxes.

This allows you to dynamically change your choices using data created on the device, as well as use key information to drive on demand loading of content from servers such as customer, contact and order data.

Offline Operation

mDesign applications are capable of working in both offline and online modes. When disconnected from the mDesign Server, mobile users still have access to locally stored data so they can continue working, whether that is looking up contact information or searching part list information.

Device Integration

mDesign applications can make full use of native hardware capabilities. It is therefore possible to create applications that allow the following:

Barcode and QR code scanning•

Photo capture•

Signature capture•

Sketching•

GPS Location reporting•

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Rapid Application Design & Development Environment

Mobile Application Execution Environment

iOSAndroid

Blackberry

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SQL ServerDominoOracle

Windows Mobile Symbian

Windows Phone 7

Back End SystemIntegration

mDesign Manager

CommonTime MDMMobile Device Management:

SAPVarious CRM

Other

Sales force AutomationRetail & POS

Other Templates

Field Service & Inspections

Survey & Data Capture

Complete MobileEnterprise

Application

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript

Complete MobileEnterprise

Application

Application Deployment, Management & Full

Version Control

Security and Encryption Mobile VPN Software Distribution MDM Powered by Notify Technology

CommonTime MDM

Mobile Device ManagementSecurity and Encryption

Mobile VPN

Software Distribution

Policies and Settings

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Contact UsFor more infotmation about CommonTime mDesign please visit our website www.commontime.com contact sales@commontime.com or call us on: UK: +44 (0) 1332 542 028 USA: 866 706 0609 (toll-free)

Dynamic Presentation

mDesign allows you show or hide questions and controls according to answers given anywhere in a process. Certain questions also allow you to dynamically change their display depending on whether the question has been answered.

Presentation areas can be used to style data such as address information into blocks showing name, address and phone numbers in a unified style. This styling can be saved and used as a template whenever needed.

Data Layer

mDesign’s Calculated Answers allow you to compare data items, aggregate data and derive new data items. mDesign allows the creation of composite data editors for group data editing, and maplists to drive location based operations.

Partnership OptionsCommonTime supports independent software vendors by providing technology that enhances current capabilities and takes them into the mobile working environment. The technology enables you to differentiate your products within a crowded market, extend the reach of your intellectual property, and retain more customers.

CommonTime allows ISVs to:

White label mDesign, and sell it to your customers and clients as a complete enterprise mobility development toolkit. This •allows you to brand the solution as required and sell it at your chosen price. White labelling and selling mDesign as a whole is ideal for those ISVs with clients who are further on in their mobility strategy and have multiple processes to mobilise.

Create branded mobile applications using mDesign to sell off the peg or tailor for individual projects. This allows you to •retain the intellectual property and development functionality of mDesign inhouse. You can sell these applications at your chosen price.

Resell mDesign as a complete solution whilst supplying your own services, for which you will receive a margin. This approach •is suitable for services based ISVs with larger corporate or government bodies as customers.

To learn more about how you can use mDesign to add cross platform enterprise mobile applications to your product offering and try mDesign for free, get in touch today.

Why CommonTimeExperienced in delivering high value business mobility to the world’s leading organizations, CommonTime is dedicated to providing independent software vendors with flexible, cost effective, mobile business solutions and technology that can be used across your customer base and target markets.

You take mDesign Studio for free, with nothing to pay until you sell your first application. You retain the IPR of any applications you develop, allowing you to easily extend the reach of your intellectual property.

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