A couple months ago - I spotted a sample of scorecard mobile apps internally. Unfortunately, I hardly found it today. I've asked regional & corp "guru" directly, yet i have no response - i guess like everyone in Microsoft, we are all busy people...
Our WM5.0 + Exchange collaboration is a great tools to show our mobility platform, however I think it's not good enough when you have to present to BDM audience. Well, developing my own sample of mobile LOB apps is not a bad idea though...
This is the snapshot of two-screen, that might give you the vision on how the apps working. In the first screen you can see a scorecard representing a number of revenue/profit trends today compare with LastMonth and same month in last year.
In the second screen, a detail daily sales report per account manager. Again, this is really simple but I believe will give a perspective to audience on how you can interact with your system any time, any where.
The scorecard & sales report itself represent XML file that store locally in the device. I create 'report.xml' to represent Sales Report and 'scorecard.xml' for each of Scorecard value. In the following screen, you may found a "Sync" menu that will be use to download a latest scorecard and sales report data from 'live server'. I'll give you more detail on how it's working soon..
I host the 'back end' or live server of this sample apps in Brinkster, a free asp web host that i known since i was still a hardcore developer. It's amazing to know that my old account : "hadiwinata" still exists after this number of years. If you go directly to http://www5.brinkster.com/hadiwinata/simple.asp and http://www5.brinkster.com/hadiwinata/simple2.asp you may found 2 different XML File with each schema. Those two XML files have exactly the same schema that exists in report.xml & scorecard.xml files in the device. The idea of asp scripts (simple.asp & simple2.asp) is generate a random data and render it to XML file. Of course, in real life you might want to connect the script with your BI apps, Finance or other LOB apps.Some of my colleague like the demo, and of course you can expect to develop other mobile apps like purchase order approval, travel request, and any other workflow application.
Mario Hadiwinata
IW Solution Specialist Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partner - Microsoft Indonesia
Phone: (62-21) 2551-8176
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