BlackBerry Enterprise Servers are not just for email, calendar and contacts. Almost any enterprise application can be extended to the BlackBerry smartphone that you issue to your employees. The advantages of further leveraging your BlackBerry Enterprise Server are immense.

Mobile Data System (also known as MDS or Mobile Data Services) is the next generation of development tools and frameworks that utilize web services and "behind the firewall" security of BlackBerry Enterprise Servers and the same proven push delivery system featured in BlackBerry email access.

MDS allows applications to be designed, prototyped, and deployed in a fraction of the time it used to take. At STS we can extend your applications and enable your employees in the field. In addition to extending applications, MDS-based development can be utilized on almost any type of information that an employee would write down. MDS can be used to pull information from your company's enterprise applications or to push data into enterprise applications. Some examples of applications that can be push out to your mobile workforce are:

• Help Desk/Work Order for service employees "on the go"
• Time and Expenses entry
• CRM extension
• Activity Tracking
• Executive Level Team Rooms
• Intranet Access

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