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Handheld PCs. Access to current data. Mobile Computing Around the world and round the clock. MC Mobile Computing Mobility is an important factor in today's business More Mobility for Your world. Especially the handheld devices have become indispensible in keeping business people Business! completely up-to-date. No one goes out of the house anymore without a handheld electronic calendar. But alongside the calendar, notes and address book functions, Pocket PCs und PDAs offer many other possibilities. Real integration starts when the data on your handheld is synchronized with that in the internal company ERP system. The WINLine® WEB MC Mobile Computing module gives you this capability. New Modes of Communication for your Company can select among customers that he works with and call up detailed information such as account sheets, open invoices WINLine® WEB MC Mobile Computing is a server application or sales statistics. All of this information is available on the that makes data available your employee hand-helds, PDAs personal handheld device. and subnotebooks from various modules of the WINLine® ERP system. Data can be called up both online or offline. This decouples your travelling external sales force from the central system. Not even GSM or GPRS access is needed, This allows your external sales force to copy data at the office since current data from the latest synchronization is saved in the morning onto the PDA that will be used for customer on the handheld, PDA or notebook. When needed, you can appointments during the day. This ensures that data is up-to- of course update individual information quickly using online date - even when no Internet access is in sight! Particularly access options such as GSM/GPRS. the offline synchronization of data offers your staff immense opportunities for savings in cost and time. Data synchronization can be made at any point in time or can proceed at regular intervals. It can be performed over the Using user-defined profiles, you can steer per user which internal company network and also over the Internet at the information is automatically synchronized to which device point in time when an employee logs on to the net with his or (PDA, notebook). This means that each staff member only her PDA or notebook. The appropriate employee authorization receives and has access to data which is user-relevant. level is required for this procedure. In this way you can provide your employees with all customer Mobile Computing is not just for your external sales force, and vendor data including addresses, contacts, telephone however. Management and leaders in your company can be numbers, as well as sales figures and open invoices. In addition empowered with important company data when underways you can supply product information including prices, stock levels, and sales figures for loading on the Pocket PC at any time. By means of a simple-to-use menu, the MC user has access to critical information in the areas of: Customers Vendors General Ledger accounts Products Sales reps Employees MIS / Management Information System Exactly which information should be accessible in these areas can be defined using user profiles. A sales rep, for example, www.mesonic.com e-mail: [email protected] using the Management Information System (MIS). According to the defined authorization level, the WINLine® WEB MC Mobile Computing module offers current data in the form of revenue account overviews, open invoice overviews, cash account overviews, as well as sales rep sales figures. Technical background Data is maintained exclusively in the WINLine® database. This makes is unnecessary to export, import or otherwise convert data. The MC server uses the data and definitions from the WINLine® WEB Edition. Layout and definition of reports and windows is made with the time-proven WINLine® PDF concept. This allows you to individually customize all lists and reports using the Form Editor tool, the so-called PDF Editor. A MC user can be any user who has a full WINLine®/WINLine® WEB Edition license. Mobile Computing can be used in the internal company network as well as in the Internet. The WINLine® WEB Mobile Computing module offers you ACC2- Invoicing or Payroll). The corresponding module from ® offline access to all important data in the WINLine database, the WINLine® ERP system supplies the actual data being pro- accessible on your PDA or handheld. You are mobile, but cessed in Mobile Computing. See the Mesonic web site for a have all the advantages of up-to-date data at any time - a demo of a handheld device using the WINLine® MC module. significant cost and time advantage for your company. To operate the WINLine® MC module you need the following programs and modules: the WINLine® WEB Edition, the WINLine® System module and at least one module from the WINLine® ERP system (ACC1- Financial accounting, www.mesonic.com e-mail: [email protected] Checklist. The WINLine® WEB Mobile Computing module is more comprehensive than at first sight. Try it out yourself: Data access offline or online Product information such as: Data synchronization • prices Data from the WINLine® database • stock levels/availability Different profiles - PDA/Notebook • product statistic Automatic synchronization • product detail User-managed data access • last sales Online access by GSM/GPRS General Ledger account information Customer information such as: Sales rep information such as: • sales figures • Base Info • account sheet • account sheet • open invoices • commission statistics • Base Info Employee Base Info • last sales MIS - Management Information System with: • voucher overview • voucher overview Vendor information such as: • revenue account overview • account info • cash account overview • account sheet • open invoice overview • open invoices • invoice overview/voucher overview • turnover budget Authorization profiles Technical Requirements on PC workstation: Windows operating system WINLine® or SMART user license Microsoft ActiveSync 3.x or comparable synchronization program Technical requirements on Mobile Computing device: Hand-held (PDA), subnotebook or notebook Operating system: Windows CE, Pocket PC 2002, Windows from 95 Memory or memory supplement depending on size of offline data Palm OS with installation of Java-capable Browser software www.mesonic.com e-mail: [email protected] MESONIC Austria MESONIC Germany MESONIC Italy Datenverarbeitung GmbH Software GmbH Herzog Friedrich-Platz 1 Postfach 1563 Via Ausonio 9/A A-3001 Mauerbach D-27378 Scheeßel I-20123 Milano Tel.: +43-1-97 0 30-0 Tel.: +49-4263-93 900 Tel.: +39-02-894 233 60 Fax: +43-1-970 30-75 Fax: +49-4263-86 26 Fax: +39-02-832 010 77.