Mobile Messaging: Outlook Mobile Access (OMA)
Mobile device access to Microsoft Exchange helps you stay in touch twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Imagine being able to check your e-mail or looking for the next meeting in your calendar, while you’re out of the office. Mobile browser-based devices can browse to Exchange Server 2003, and support HTML, cHTML, and xHTML (WAP 2.x) browser-based devices.
Just like the benefits your receive from of Outlook and Outlook Web Access for mobile and remote workers, Pocket PC devices can also access your Microsoft Exchange mailboxes. Stay up-to-date with your e-mail, calendar, and contacts while on the move. Never miss an urgent e-mails. Have emails with attachments been an issue in the past? Pocket Word and Pocket Excel are built into the Pocket PC, allowing users to review attachments sent by e-mail. Pocket PCs also come with applications such as a VPN and Terminal Server Client, and other applications are available such as SQL Server™ Windows CE Edition (SQL Server CE), enabling other more secure access to the applications, files, and data.
Some additional benefits include:
Reduced carry around bulk and weight
Microsoft Windows Mobile-based devices come in small packages yet they can hold large amounts of data. For someone already carrying product samples and literature to leave with a customer, a small wireless device can provide a lot of benefit without adding much bulk or weight. With integrated wireless and data functionality, Pocket PCs and Smartphones may be able to replace multiple task-specific devices such as a cell phone, personal organizer, pager, calculator, cassette recorder, or walkie-talkie.
Provide educational materials in more settings
Using Windows Mobile-based devices with audio, video, Flash Web technology, e-Books, and text available, different forms of training and reference content can travel with an employee. Instruction manuals for performing repairs in the field, medical information for training healthcare personnel or for informing one’s patient, and monthly organizational updates are all examples of educational materials that can be made available through a mobile device.
Less training required
Microsoft Outlook Mobile Access, which now offers a user interface similar to Microsoft Office Outlook, makes it easier for new mobile device users to get up and running quickly if they have prior experience with a PC. Users will be productive with Outlook on a Pocket PC more quickly than other devices and require less training and support.
