Integrating Wireless Technology in the Enterprise: PDAs, Blackberries, and Mobile Devices [Paperback]

William Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 5, 2003 | ISBN-10: 1555582958 | ISBN-13: 978-1555582951 | Edition: 1

Integrating Wireless Devices in the Enterprise provides a solution that every enterprise can use, described in terms of scope, feasibility and return on investment, architecture, and data structures. The solution Wheeler offers here is scalable from a single handheld and single desktop to small workgroup to large enterprise environments. The number of devices is not a determinant of success or failure. It's more often the planning and managing of them that's crucial. This book also provides tools to deal with the increase of devices, and the corresponding complexity of managing those resources and the increase in cost to the firm.

*Synchronize networked data with the mobile device fleet
*Synchronize a mobile device with networked data that is mission critical
*Connect any device to any data source, over any network

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"The author is very much in command of the hands-on material when it comes to project management and project scoping. The experience acquired as a project manager makes that part of the book valuable and enjoyable." - Association for Computing Machinery

About the Author

William Wheeler has over 15 years of MIS/IT experience, most at a major Fortune 100 company. He has a Masters Degree in Computer Resources and Information Management. He is uniquely qualified to author this text as he has worked to implement wireless devices to hundreds of employees in several companies. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. concentrating on heuristics and artificial intelligence in information systems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 403 pages
• Publisher: Digital Press; 1 edition (December 5, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555582958
• ISBN-13: 978-1555582951
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,907,713 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The System Approach, July 1, 2004

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Integrating Wireless Technology in the Enterprise: PDAs, Blackberries, and Mobile Devices (Paperback)

Full Title: Integrating Wireless Technology in the Enterprise: PDAs, Blackberries, and Mobile Devices - A few days ago UPS brought me a copy of this book (where I live you don't run down to the local bookstore), and as the driver handed me the package she scanned the bar code with a hand held wireless device that instantly transmitted the delivery information to a central host somewhere. Within seconds the sender could have gone on the UPS web site and been informed that the book was delivered.

At the beginning someone at UPS had to envision the system and the technology that made it possible. It couldn't have been justified to management as a cost saving application as IT projects usually are. Instead someone had to say that this new technology can give us a marketing edge by providing something that other companies don't have. (No, I don't know if UPS was the first or that they were just doing what FedEx or someone else did first. If it was someone else, they had to make this analysis and UPS then had to do it to in order to meet competitive pressures.)

I went into this kind of long winded explanation because this is really what the book is about. Yes, it covers the technology, but more important it covers the overall system concepts of what, why, and how much that are so important to delivering a working system. Whether we realize it or not, we are living in an age of wireless digital communications. If it becomes your job to implement a system that isn't tied to wires, be it a handheld device, an ATM machine or something in a truck (or police car) this book will give you an excellent introduction to at least the questions you should ask.