MOBILE ENTRÉE EVALUATION

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OOB SharePoint 2010 Mobile Support

Mobile Entrée’s Overview

Mobile Entree's SharePoint 2010 Mobile Support

Offerings/design of Mobile Entrée(OOB)

Features of Mobile Entrée

Limitations of Mobile Entrée

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OOB SHAREPOINT 2010 MOBILE SUPPORT

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 supports accessing information from a web browser enabled mobile phone or other devices. It delivers:Lightweight interface and

navigation for accessing document libraries, lists, wikis, blogs, web part pages and LOB data

Web companions for viewing Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents

Mobile MySite for staying in touch with colleagues

Mobile search experience for finding people, contact information, SharePoint content and finding data in custom databases

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SharePoint Default Mobile View

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MOBILE ENTRÉE OVERVIEW

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Mobile Entrée provides SharePoint users a rich interface to increase business productivity from their Smartphone

Rich interface

Users can continue to collaborate and maintain access to SharePoint data, business workflow processes, line of business applications as well as Business Intelligence

Collaborate and BI

Mobile Entrée provide OOB Applications using which SharePoint sites can e configured to leverage SharePoint features on the go.

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MOBILE ENTRÉE ‘S SHAREPOINT 2010 MOBILE SUPPORT

Mobile Entrée is Solution packages/features which

need to installed/activated on SharePoint site

Entrée is a SharePoint Solution which includes out-of-the-box mobile applications, a development API, and Administration and Configuration pages.

Configuration of mobile access is done on a per-site basis as the content from site to site can vary widely.

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SharePoint Mobile Entrée View

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OFFERINGS/DESIGN OF MOBILE ENTRÉE(OOB)

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Mobile Entrée Base

MDS Viewer

Content Navigator

ME provides three Application feature for creating application instances

Comprehensive access to Lists &

Libraries

Connects to Excel documents to create mobile dashboards

Turns List content into browse-able

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FEATURES OF MOBILE ENTRÉE

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Rich Interface to access out of the box SharePoint capability such as lists, document libraries, workflow, search and much more

Mobile Entrée supports almost all the Smartphones like Blackberry, Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, Android, PalmOS and Nokia Symbian devices with no need to install any ‘apps’ on the device.

Mobile Entrée extends SharePoint into a MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) providing a rich API to build your own mobile applications without any need to program for the different devices

Configuring OOB SharePoint is straight forward. It can be configured and maintained easily

Mobile Entrée supports SharePoint BI and Dashboards

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FEATURES COMPRESSION

Component OOB ME Using API

List & Libraries Access Yes Yes

Site Branding Yes Yes

Webparts No No

PageLayouts No No

Custom Control No Yes

MasterPages No No

Dashboards & BI Reports Yes Yes

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LIMITATIONS OF MOBILE ENTRÉE

ME only supports out of the box SharePoint capability such as lists, document libraries etc only

Some OOB controls such as list attachment control and custom SPField controls are not supported.

Site branding, Look and Feel is not replicated as is on Mobile browsers.

There is no straight forward approach to display webparts or Custom Controls developed for normal browser based application.

Developers has to get acquainted with the API’s to develop custom Mobile Applications.

There are limited methods & Properties provided by the API

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