Technologies

These fundamental technologies form the core of the company's capabilities, so our application developers can focus on providing the part of the mobile solution that is specific to the problems of industries, rather than the myriad intricacies of the underlying technologies. As a result, we can more quickly deliver business solutions that take full advantage of new wireless technologies.
We believe this is a big competitive advantage that will become more pronounced with the arrival of converging technologies between cell phones and PDAs in the coming years.

WaveSoft Wireless Middleware Server (WMS)

Programming for wireless applications presents many challenges surrounding communication stability and resource utilization. The physical factor imposes great constraints on computation resource such as OS functions, memory, battery life etc. In many practical applications such as performing an inventory or drug dispensing in hospitals, it might be cumbersome or impossible to allow for frequent power recharge of mobile devices. Some applications such as field order entry systems demand offline capture and processing capability. The portable data can then be transferred or synchronized automatically to a centralized database once connectivity is re-established. Hybrid online/offline processing capability and real-time load balancing addresses several critical issues for mobile computing. Firstly, it broadens the business opportunities for potential wireless applications. Secondly, it allows for improved error tolerance on wireless communication in contrast to systems running on high speed and reliable wired network. Lastly, it increases feasibility on portable applications by maximizing power conservation, as frequent network access significantly decrease the amount of time for portable devices to operate.

To counter many problems raised by the wireless communication, a good middle tier server should exist that provides a highly optimized and reliable communication environment. In addition to the popular WLAN (801.11bg) support, our middleware can effectively support data exchange using wider range, lower bandwidth protocols such as GPRS without significant performance and stability penalties; commonly the major hurdles for web-based or terminal service technologies. The middleware also addresses the shortcomings in critical wireless security and centralized control issues.

WaveSoft Wireless Middleware Server (WMS) is a next generation, component based architecture at the heart of all WaveSoft wireless applications. WMS is designed to bridge the gap between handheld applications and existing server systems, it offers a highly secure, reliable and scalable 3-tier system framework for wireless implementation today. The communication layer is open and highly optimized, so the WMS layer isolates the business logic from the database representation, it opens up extremely scalable system integration possibility, and allows our developers to concentrate on the problem solving on handheld client development without worrying about issues on communication and server side DBMS details. Such middle-ware reduces product development cycle and delivers improved performance, reliability, scalability and security for the entire system.

CompuWave Wireless Server brings its full power to our WLAN product development by:

Delivering centralized middle-tier application programming interface (API) and services.
Providing major communication functions for message dispatching, traffic control, event log, security and error handling etc.
Encapsulating communication protocols and functions in easily accessible object

Dynamic Task oriented Interface

The combination of touch screen and task oriented interface technologies permit feasibility of user-interface design for handheld computers. All WaveSoft front-end applications are specifically designed for handheld touch screen with good balance of function accessibility and data presentation.

Touch screen defines simplicity and usability which are translated directly into cost savings for retailers. Touch screen delivers a new human interface called a Dynamic Keypad (or Dynakey) where screen orientation responds directly to user's input. This allows menu-driven interfaces that supply only the applicable data/function choices at any given time. The new interface allows clear led-through instructions that alleviate reliance on Long Term Memory. It grants a task-oriented user interface and allows handheld software usability to be dramatically improved at a constrained form factor.

WaveSoft applications are the optimum realization of the dynakey concept. User interface design is carefully evaluated and organized according to function groups, access frequency and security levels. Touch buttons (cells) are fully customizable in terms of function, labeling, size, color and position. All cell attributes can be remotely updated on demand through the WaveSoft middleware server.

Multi-Lingual and Globalization

We have denoted into the development of globally feasible handheld applications since day one, so the solution partners around the world can truly take advantage of our innovative wireless technologies.

Multilingual capability and real-time bilingual function are two of the most distinctive features of WaveSoft's applications. Naturally, businesses around the world require applications using the local language. Our database and system components are unicode and multi-byte capable allowing strong foreign language support and item descriptions to be associated with a second description. The second description gives an invaluable option for users to interact with computers in their most comfortable short hand or language. This leads to better service quality and efficiency for many restaurant and retail operators. Our wBox solution currently supports English, French, Japanese, Chinese and Swedish.

Our payment/tax module supports majority of Taxation/VAT variation in the world. It allows multi-layer taxes to be performed upon either groups or individual item level. The system is designed to cope with priority calculation scheme for tax, discount and service charge, as well as providing full support of promotion, vouchers and coupons.

Ability to support multiple languages and comprehensive taxation is essential in marketing the applications effectively to a global base of users.

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