Industry: Physician Drug Solution

Scenario: Solution for Drug Database updates on Mobile Clients over wireless networks

• Products & Technologies
  • MIDP 2.0, CLDC, J2EE, SQL Server, XML RPC, HTTP, WAP, Nextel , RIM Blackberry, Palm, Pocket PC
• Company Overview
  • A software vendor providing latest updates of drug databases for physicians
• Challenge
  • Delivering volume data on low speed networks and low end devices
  • Formatting data in real time without impact on performance
• Solution
  • An application initially being developed for Blackberry and then to be upgraded to other mobile clients
  • Application being developed for Customer’s proprietary network and for WAP and subsequently to be adapted to all common commercial networks.
  • Extensive search features
  • Formatted data delivered to device one page at a time
• Application of RUP Best Practices
  • The project necessitated exploitation of new technology areas – RIM Blackberry
  • Since the development environment and methods were new to the team, we reduced the functionality of the first iteration to a minimum.
  • Focused on integrating and tuning the environment and becoming proficient with the technology areas.