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Pendragon Software and WaveWare Communications
Partner to Deliver Sales
Automation Software for Palm Computing®
Devices
SAN DIEGO, CA - March 30, 1999
Pendragon Software Corporation and WaveWare Communications,
Inc., today announced interoperability plans for their products, Pendragon
OrderForms and WaveWares WaveSync synchronization
server. Pendragon OrderForms is a powerful order
entry software tool for the contemporary sales force, and WaveSync is
the premier handheld synchronization server software
currently supporting Palm Computing® Platform
devices. The joint OrderForms/WaveSync offering opens the door
to a new era of sales-force automation. It provides mobile workers with
direct, secure access to enterprise databases
from their Palm Computing organizers.
Previous to this partnership, OrderForms data entered
into the handheld by the mobile worker had to
pass through a desktop PC in order to reach an enterprise database.
With this new solution, OrderForms data can go directly
from the remote handheld to the enterprise database
host without passing through the desktop. This avoids the security
risks introduced by requiring desktop access from outside the LAN. Now,
remote sales force personnel can be assured of secure,
direct registration of order data over any communication
link, wired or wireless.
Dr. Martha Dennis, President and CEO of WaveWare,
says of the partnership: Its a giant step in
making the sales force truly mobile without sacrificing enterprise network
access.
This union of OrderForms and WaveSync will allow
our customers to deploy large numbers of handheld
devices, and to synchronize via wireless or land line connections,
said Ivan Phillips, President of Pendragon Software.
When combined with WaveSync, OrderForms gains the
benefits of WaveSyncs accelerated synchronization
speed and reduced data traffic. Depending on the type of communications
link used, the OrderForms operation over WaveSync synchronization
enjoys a speed increase from 40 to 500%. This can be
critical when sales personnel synchronize under
the constraint of limited time between flights or between sales calls.
The combined OrderForms/WaveSync product offering
will be available by the end of Q2 99.