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Government Housing Agency Taps SYWARE, Inc.’s Programming-Free, Visual CE 9
Software for Windows Mobile and Pocket PC Devices for Housing Inspections
SYWARE Simplifies Operations and Improves Productivity- Wherever Inspectors
Need to Work
CAMBRIDGE, MA, U.S.A. -February 14, 2005-SYWARE, Inc., announced a major
county government housing agency in Maryland has successfully implemented
and used the company’s Visual CE software to rapidly create, deploy and
easy-to-use feature-rich database applications without programming on any
Windows Mobile Pocket PC or Windows CE device- wherever they need to work.
Before, inspectors navigated through sheets of paper for each unit
inspection. Today, government housing inspectors simply click on electronic
tables to complete reports in seconds to simplify their workloads.
Municipalities use the Visual CE product line to easily transmit and track
information regarding the status of operations in the field while reducing
the amount of paperwork that is typically involved in the process. Housing
office inspectors also use SYWARE on their Pocket PCs to simplify the data
collection process and document information in the field. Information can be
collected on the handheld and uploaded to the inspector’s PC or downloaded
from the PC to the inspector’s handheld.
“Housing inspectors traditionally fill out pages of paperwork for each unit
inspection, since this is a requirement of U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development,” said William Bogen, an IT Manager at a government
housing agency in Maryland. “By combining the Pocket PC in conjunction with
the power of SYWARE’s Visual CE software, we can dramatically simplify
operations and improve productivity by reducing the drudgery of paperwork
people have to cope with on a daily basis. We have found that even our
non-technical users could use SYWARE’s product with ease,” said Bogen.
“These devices, coupled with SYWARE’s software, definitely make life easier
for housing inspectors, and this has enabled our department to ensure our
legacy system is updated regularly. This is important, especially when the
government comes in for an audit,” Bogen added.
As a result, developers and non-technical users, in a wide variety of
markets can use Visual CE 9 to mobilize information between the enterprise
and the field to rapidly convert PC or paper-based processes into fully
mobile applications 10x faster than other market alternatives. User-specific
data can be downloaded, collected, displayed, modified and automatically
synchronized.
“The Visual CE product meets the specialized needs of municipalities,
including a wide variety of other market verticals, to provide seamless
access to essential information on or offline, at any time or place,” said
Sy Danberg, President, SYWARE, Inc.
Pricing & Delivery
Visual CE 9 applications can be created for any Microsoft Windows Mobile,
Windows CE, or Pocket PC handheld. Visual CE Lite Edition is priced at
$19.99. Visual CE Personal Edition, with full forms design, relational
database, and synchronization capabilities, is priced at $129. Visual CE
Professional Edition includes all the features of Personal Edition and
royalty-free distribution rights and it is available for $399. Visual CE
Enterprise Edition it is priced at $599 and includes all the features of the
Professional Edition plus SYWARE’s Report CE software and an mEnable
(wireless connectivity) license. To evaluate or purchase SYWARE products,
visit: <http://www.syware.com/lp/visualce/>
About SYWARE, Inc.
SYWARE empowers mobile users to collect data and create feature-rich
database applications that can be deployed on any Windows Mobile Pocket PC
or Windows CE device- wherever they need to work. Industry or user-specific
data can be downloaded, collected, displayed, modified and synchronized,
without programming. SYWARE provides low cost of ownership, rapid deployment
and return-on-investment without requiring users to expand IT departments to
manage software and data between desktops and servers to devices. SYWARE
removes obstacles to commerce and enables users to share data seamlessly
over wireless, LAN, WAN or Internet connections in a wide variety of market
sectors, including municipalities, healthcare, transportation, government,
life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, automotive, energy,
aerospace and other markets.
The cornerstone of SYWARE’s product line is Visual CE®, the award-winning
database and forms development tool for Windows Mobile and Windows CE
handhelds. A diverse, international panel of industry experts awarded SYWARE
Pocket PC magazine’s “Best Software Award 2004” in the database category, as
Visual CE is used by small-to-medium-sized businesses around the world- and
trusted by FedEx (NYSE: FDX), ChevronTexaco Corp. (NYSE: CVX), Cargill,
Inc., Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and the U.S.
Geological Survey. SYWARE is also the creator of mEnable®, a flexible
software architecture for real-time wireless access to enterprise data
located on corporate servers, and FoneDB®, the first database software for Microsoft Smartphone devices.
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