winning wireless applications corina moore printeron corporation cmoore@printeron.com

Winning Wireless Applications

Corina Moore

PrinterOn Corporation

cmoore@printeron.com

Agenda

• Wireless Technology

• Benefits

• Applications

• Deployment

• Summary

Technology

• Network Connectivity– Standard Wireless Carrier Networks

• 2G: 9.6 K/s to 14.4 Kb/s

• 2.5G: 64- 144kb/s

• 3G: 128 Kb/s – 2.05 Mb/s

– Wireless LAN• 802.11: up to 2MB

– 802.11b: 11MB (HotSpots)

– 802.11a: 54 MB

Benefits

• Increase Productivity– Anytime/Anywhere Access

• Increased customer satisfaction– faster and more accurate responsiveness

• Overall Competitive Advantage

Applications

• Winning 2G applications– Download/send Images (Japan, iMode)– SMS (Europe, GSM)

• Winning 3G applications– video conferencing– video messaging

Applications• After Email and PIM…

– Alerts– Expenses – Field Service– Data base access– Leads Prospect – Order Entry– Records Inventory – Reporting– Sales Force Automation– Web Access

Applications

“ According to IDC survey research, the applications used for wireless printing vary from printing email (54%), enterprise data (50%), expense reports (46%), contact lists (43%), web pages (40%) and calendars (37%). As WAN and WLAN technologies provide more frequent and timely access to content and information, users will have a greater need to print while mobile."

Applications for all device types

Output to Virtually

any Printer or Fax

Machine

… or View any attached file

Attachment Viewing• Over 100 different file types

• MS Office, Adobe, zip files, Web pages• Email response with full content of the attached file

Faxing• Enter fax number

• [Use Once] or Select directly from contact list• Select email, attachment, or web page • ASP (connect to PrinterOn’s fax service)• Enterprise Fax solutions

Wireless Viewing and Faxing

Printing

"Much as the Internet created a flood of information and

documents that pushed a wave of printing, mobile appliances

may be driving the next wave of output opportunities".

IDC's Wireless and Mobile Printing Forecast and Analysis 2002-2006

• Extends the functionality of your desktop – Internal LAN/WAN printing,

– External Public venue,

– Home printing

• No document storage! Point-to-point 3DES encryption• Real-time Discovery mechanism (printer search on-demand)

– Based on location (city, state, company, user-friendly printer name, etc.)

Printing

• No additional hardware• Presentation quality output, including color• Simple and easy to understand

– User-friendly printer names (No IP addresses or share names to deal with)

– No distance restrictions, No long distance charges, No cables

Printing

Corporate Printing "Email is increasing printing volumes by 40%".

EXPLOR

• Corporate users can now print while away from their desks• External partner, contractor, customer can now use designated printers within your

corporation – securely– Can take the place of a fax machine– Allows partners to quickly and easily print information regarding the meeting

(ie: Updated Inventory for required shipment , Purchase Order for signing, etc.)

• Small Office / Home Office (SOHO)• Corporate users

– Many corporate customers have home printers (most home printers are not part of their corporate LAN, therefore PrinterOn is the only mechanism for printing to them wirelessly)

– Executives use this option extensively (including having their assistants print to them from the office to their home)

Wireless User

CorporateOffice

Home Printing

Front Desk

Business Center

Wireless User

Out of Office

CorporateOffice

• Hotels• Hot Spots• Convention Centers• Airports

CONFIDENTIAL

Guest Room

Public Printing

Printing Services

Deployment

• Determine mission-critical data

• Investigate vertical solutions

• Pilot or controlled rollout

• Corporate (I.T) control– standard practices and support

• Measure results

Deployment

• Security

• Client/ Server connectivity

–ASP: Externally hosted solution

– Enterprise: Internally hosted solution

Summary

• Companies are just starting to understand the effects of deploying wireless applications

– As networks increase in capability, the ROI on the application will also increase– The “desktop” will truly be a thing of the past

• There is a huge market for developers of wireless applications and the next “killer app”

Thank You

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