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JumpStart Technology

Overview
Wireless business software needs to integrate three confusing and complex worlds: existing business software, wireless “over the air” technology, and hand-held computing devices Until now, developer organizations have been forced to figure out these three worlds themselves, or hire expensive system integrators and specialized custom programming teams.

The JumpStart solution, BusinessSuite™, is a complete wireless business application, designed to allow enterprise IT organizations to cost-effectively deploy suites of wireless applications integrated with their existing IT infrastructure.

Industry Trends
Rapid advances in cell phone technology have driven an enormous and expanding wireless market. Increases in phone memory to 2 megabytes, multi processing. and advances in screen resolution create an increasing number of uses and application:

• There will be nearly 30M potential service industry users in the US in 2004 (Nextel estimates).
• The addressable market for wireless data applications in the US is projected to grow from 37M users in 2002 to 55M in 2006. (Frost and Sullivan)
• The adoption of wireless applications will increase from 2M users in 2002 to 22M in 2006, an annual growth rate of 145% (Frost and Sullivan).

Mobile workers represent 65% of the wireless application market; representing an annual market in excess of $2.0B.

Jeff Bonar, JumpStart’s founder and CEO, maintains a WebLog (BLOG) recording his insights on the wireless industry and musing on trends, both technological and commercial. Be sure to check it out here.

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Making Wireless Data Relevant
JumpStart envisions that the future of wireless data is not games or ring tones, but business applications for mobile workers. This market focus provides a reliable business model, caters to a huge market, and answers significant business requirements of timeliness, accuracy, and efficiency.

The JumpStart Wireless BusinessSuite is built on JumpStart’s wireless software technology breakthrough – using artificial intelligence to take the programmer out of the day-to-day development of wireless applications. By editing a description of a business form – for example, a work order, sales order, inspection report, time card, and so on – non-programmers can quickly create integrated business applications. This is very similar to a non-programmer setting up a spreadsheet for a particular financial management task.

Form Definitions Tool
Wireless business forms are created with the BusinessSuite Form Definition Tool. Wireless applications are generated from this tool, automatically integrating security, compression, manageability, and reliability as well as connecting to enterprise systems.

Linking Field Operations with Enterprise Systems
JumpStart provides integration with accounting and other enterprise applications via a “connector” that runs on the customers’ servers or PCs. The connector uses both standard and proprietary APIs to provide wireless access to customer, employee, pricing, and inventory information. This data can travel via invoices, work orders, inspection reports, time sheets, and purchase orders to mobile workers and back to the office. All this happens within seconds.

Data can be imported and exported between BusinessSuite and many popular business applications and formats including SQL, Excel, .NET, XML, web services, Quickbooks and many specialized ERP and dispatch management applications.

With full web services support, BusinessSuite is ready today for sophisticated “on-demand” enterprise wireless applications.

Code Generators

Applications are generated based on widely accepted standards and protocols including XML, Web Services, J2EE, and Secure Sockets. JumpStart’s patent pending technology generates functioning program code, eliminating the need of programmers and large system development projects. The result is tailored applications ready to go in a matter of hours or days.