Mark Willnerd, vice president of engineering with Sybase, said extending the mobile email application to do core business functions was a natural extension for most users.
"Customers are looking beyond email, to using email infrastructure to add other applications," he said. He explained that the new functionality would work
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similarly to a Microsoft Outlook calendar invitation: The email will include specially formatted XML to tell the Sybase client what options to present, and then will communicate those decisions back to a central server that will push those decisions to the business application.
Willnerd said Sybase hoped to reduce the development time to roll out mobile access to critical applications by providing a simple SDK designed to get the core tasks before decision makers in a simple, unified way that is familiar to them.
"We are reducing the investment to roll out mobile business applications," he said. And because the Sybase email client already runs on a variety of platforms, developers can write one implementation of, for example, a CRM tool set and rest assured that it will work consistently across a variety of smartphones.
Sybase also announced on-demand data decryption for Windows Mobile, a practice that the company said would reduce log-in times traditionally burdened by a slow decryption of everything that might be used.
Now, with their Afaria security engine sitting closer to the OS stack, data is decrypted as it is called, and only the particular parts of a file that are called are decrypted. For example, if a preview function checks only a file header, only that small segment of the file will be decrypted.