Syclo Agentry Mobile Platform

Refined through a decade of development, Syclo's Agentry is a software platform for designing, deploying and managing the entire lifecycle of mobile projects. Agentry shortens development times, lowers application maintenance costs and allows organizations to keep up with ever-changing mobile standards and technologies to maximize value and deliver sustained ROI.

Agentry Editor
The Agentry Editor allows developers to rapidly create and maintain their mobile solution. With the Editor, developers use an object model to create a central definition and repository of functions (business logic and business rules) as required for any given application. With the ability to access, reuse and edit this library of application building blocks, development time cycles are shortened and minimal effort is needed to construct mobile applications.

Agentry Server
The Agentry Server contains all of the communications, synchronization, security, error handling, personalization and transactional controls needed to successfully deploy, manage and support mobile solutions. Solution definitions created in the Editor are versioned and stored in a central repository on the Agentry Server. The Agentry Server interacts with Agentry Client applications and works on their behalf to pull information and post transactions to the enterprise system(s). Agentry provides for easy, reliable and scalable composite applications where information from multiple systems can be incorporated into a single mobile application.

Agentry Client
The Agentry Client is the mobile application that resides directly on the mobile device. The Agentry Client can communicate in a variety of modes – online, or using real-time wireless communications – offline, meaning data is stored on the device and updated when the user connect to a network – or in an occasionally connected mode. The Agentry Client can also be deployed in a thin-client format, serving as a real-time wireless browser. In either case, the Agentry Client interprets the Editor definitions to create and control the user experience and enforce all business rules and workflow.

Agentry's core benefits include:

• Fast Mobile Deployments: Agentry's 4GL framework simplifies designing and deploying mobile applications by providing built-in functionality, which allows developers to focus less on code writing and more on defining the application business rules – resulting in faster implementations and ROI.
• Agentry Application Templates: These templates of commonly mobilized functions act as building blocks that can be rapidly configured and used as a starting point for custom mobile applications.
• Open, flexible architecture: Seamlessly extend all enterprise data (including SQL, Java and XML sources) to mobile using Agentry.
• Composite applications: By integrating a single mobile application with multiple backend systems, Agentry applications allow users to access data and post updates to and from a variety of sources.
• Extensive peripheral support: Agentry offers out-of-the-box integration with more than 25 different peripherals such as bar code scanners, RFID, wireless printers, digital cameras, GPS and GIS.
• Exceptional usability and minimal complexity: Agentry provides countless options for devices and communications methods. Layout can be customized for different devices while still maintaining a single set of business rules.
• Adaptive Communications: Administrators can push information to users in the field, as well as set parameters and priorities to ensure smooth communications when workers move between networks.
• Easy to support: Agentry's centrally managed architecture allows applications updates and revisions to flow automatically from the server to devices deployed in the field. Extensive diagnostics make it easy for administrators to identify and resolve issues.
• Lower total cost of ownership: With a single framework supporting multiple applications, total cost of ownership remains balanced because updates are more easily managed and there is a combined lower level of maintenance and training requirements for staff.