3rd party exchange connectivity suggestion?

[themobileman]

What is the best product for enterprise mobile exchange and data access for Blackberry, PocketPC, WAP, etc?

Excuse this rant, but I am very confused about all of these wireless data access servers that promise many things but fail to even operate.

I've attempted to evaluate attachment readers like OnSet and Intrezzo. After countless hours their their respective techs, none of the products can even manage to install. I'm now looking at Xerox mDoc.

I've tried to use wireless exchange servers, like ViaFone and Wireless Knowledge. Wireless knowledge failed to deliever what I wanted, and ViaFone did not want to work with our exchange server. I'm now taking a look at infoclarus and infowave solutions.

I am becoming very skeptical about this whole middleware industry. All of these products promise everything but seem to deliver nothing. And they are all like Corinthian Leather - its something that sounds great, but its not real or anything special.

I want something that:
1. Works
2. Is secure
3. Push synch w/ Exchange
4. Cross-platform
5. Network independant

Has anyone been satisfied with a product that truely performs these functions?

[unplugin]

Actually my company, unplugin, just released a special version of our enterprise connectivity software uKAS specifically to connect to Exchange.

We offer the ability to query all of Exchange including public folders, journal entries and any email archived on the system, basically the whole Exchange data set!

To address your criteria individually:

1. Works:
Our product has been developed for over two years now and up to version 2.1. We have a number of high profile customers and we're working to improve it every day.

2. Is secure:
We leverage BlackBerry (3DES), NT/2000 and Exchange using existing privileges. How's that.

3. Push synch w/ Exchange:
Not really sure what you mean by this, but we can deliver any piece of Exchange data to the BlackBerry via our client software.

4. Cross-platform:
Our product is client/server and can deliver data to any client that can receive email.

5. Network independent:
Our server resides in the same network as BES and works over any BlackBerry network.

Drop by our web site, look at our white paper and see the product in action at one of our web casts or drop me a line.

Thanks

[themobileman]

To respond to your responses:

>>2. Is secure:
>We leverage BlackBerry (3DES), NT/2000 and Exchange using >existing privileges. How's that.

Not succificent for anything but BlackBerry. I need encryption for WAP phones, PocketPC, Palm, etc. My company information security policy says that I must "bridge" the WAP GAP, so all data exchange must be at least 128 bit encrypted.

>>3. Push synch w/ Exchange:
>Not really sure what you mean by this, but we can deliver any >piece of Exchange data to the BlackBerry via our client software.

I don't want to open a browser and use a browser-based Exchange Push is what really makes the BlackBerry special for us. Push e-mail delivery and push calendar is great, but I want more. I want my notes pushed. I want my CEO's secretary to edit a task list and have the revised task pushed automatically to the exec's BlackBerry. I don't want my execs to open a browser....wait a few minutes....click a link on the WML browser...wait...and determine what tasks are new and old.

Also, I want the good attachment conversion engine. Everything I've seen is very lacking.

>>4. Cross-platform:
>Our product is client/server and can deliver data to any client >that can receive email.

Again, push push push.

>>5. Network independent:
>Our server resides in the same network as BES and works over >any BlackBerry network.

What about WAP phones, Palm, PocketPC? Again, a lot of people make a WML exchange portal. But pushing this information across a variety of networks is the key.

Your thoughts?

[tmac35]

Mobile,

Your wishes are being echoed from MANY LARGE CORPORATIONS. For starters, They envision that 16 months from now, THEY DON't or CAN't support multiple devices on multiple platforms. It's just impossible.

You bring up some very valid points. WHY SHOULD I PAY A MIDDLEWARE COMPANY 100k FOR A PIECE OF MIDDLEWARE THAT REQUIRES A WIRELESS BROWSER TO ACCESS, it does'nt make any sense. Check out www.lrwdigital.com. These guys seem to have the RIGHT IDEA!!!

For starters, they take advantage of the email delivery method. I can expand on this, but this is not the appropriate forum to do that. Let me know what you think, and I can send more info

Sincerely,

T

[themobileman]

That won't be necessary "T", because I think that you and I covered all of the bases when you came and visited us yesterday. You're not going to believe this...but this is BG.

...and that was the most shameless plug I've ever seen ;)

You'll notice I made my original post a day before you came and visited us.

Feel free to give me a call, "T". You know the number :).