Sept/Oct 2005

SOA, or Service Oriented Architecture, could be the new buzz phrase in the mobile applications world. It's all about the ability to meet the varying demands of customers, and one of the latest specialists to embrace it in the mobile market is Dexterra.

The company says its new Concert 4.0 flagship suite is the first complete SOA-based distributed computing platform that provides an enterprise with everything it needs to mobilise its distributed workforce effectively.

The objective of the suite is to allow businesses to develop mobile applications, connect them to their existing back office systems and deploy to devices in the field 'in record time,' as the company puts it. An extensive library of out-of-the-box industry-specific Dexterra TransApps is available, targeting precise business needs and speeding the process of developing and delivering mobile business solutions.

IBM for one seems impressed. Sandy Carter, vice president IBM WebSphere Software, says Dexterra 'has greatly advanced the mobile software landscape with their approach to SOA.'

Dexterra Concert 4.0 draws on two dynamic development and management tools, Dexterra Composer and Dexterra Orchestrator. Composer extends popular integrated development environments such as Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse. With Dexterra Composer, the company says, developers can assemble applications in hours rather than days. Orchestrator provides integration and data mapping functionality.