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  • Palm delivers uniquely usable, thoroughly flexible devices that empower work forces worldwide. With over a decade of innovation in mobile computing, Palm is helping lower costs, raise productivity, and increase satisfaction for many of today's most successful companies.

  • Classic Palm OS® or powerful Windows Mobile® Platforms

    Palm brings an open approach to business with two enterprise-ready, non-proprietary operating systems. The classic Palm OS® platform is configurable to a wide variety of IP protocols, wireless networks, and target hardware. The powerful Windows Mobile® platform provides a familiar Windows environment and leverages your existing IT investments. Both platforms deliver secure mobile email, Palm ease of use, access to thousands of industry-specific enterprise applications, and the ability to build custom applications using your existing development resources.

  • Flexible mobile email options

    Email has become the mainstay of business interactions: this year the number of corporate wireless email boxes will swell to over 30 million. Palm supports more types of email accounts—Outlook®, Lotus Notes, Groupwise, Internet email—across more server platforms than any other mobile computing company. And Palm® devices work with a variety of wireless middleware including Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync®, Good™ Mobile Messaging, and Blackberry® Connect™1.

  • Partners that move at the speed of mobility

    Palm works with world-class partners to expand and improve every facet of your business mobility solution. Leveraging our open platforms, partners such as Microsoft bring thousands of developers and new solutions into the mobile computing mix.

  • Wealth of business productivity applications

    Supporting more than 30,000 productivity applications on Palm OS and Windows Mobile platforms, Palm delivers the largest selection of mobile business solutions. Many of today's most competitive companies depend on Palm for mobile access to Sales Force Automation and Field Force Automation capabilities and for back-end infrastructure such as Oracle and SAP. Organisations in healthcare, government, legal, and dozens of other industries are reinventing their mobile business processes using custom solutions designed for their needs.

  • Rapid ROI and low TCO

    Some mobile computing solutions involve a fixed offering at a fixed cost. Palm gives you the power of choice—of OS, email platform, hardware, and security and manageability components—so you can tailor a solution to your industry and budget. Palm helps you rapidly realise return on investment through an innate simplicity that translates to rapid deployment and increased worker efficiency. With productivity gains averaging $11,125 per year per user, the typical Palm implementation delivers payback in less than two months3.

    [65% of US work force now mobile/744 M mobile-enabled workers worldwide. Source IDC 2005]

  • Treo™ smartphones: powerful simplicity

    Palm integrates your essential mobile needs into a single device that benefits your organisation through powerful simplicity. The power comes from a choice of platforms, best-in-class hardware, and robust support for business tasks such as calendar management and document viewing and editing. The simplicity translates to greater user adoption thanks to single-handed ease of use, intuitive five-way navigation, and one-touch access to most frequently used applications. All Palm smartphones give workers battery life and include expansion capabilities to support SDIO, SD, and MultiMediaCard expansion.





1

Within wireless service coverage area only. Push email from Microsoft requires Microsoft Exchange Server with Service Pack 2 and data services from a mobile service provider at an additional cost, and ISP and/or VPN may also be required. Other email also requires data services from a mobile service provider at an additional cost, and ISP and/or VPN may also be required.

2

Corporate Wireless Email Market, The Radicati Group, September 2005.

3

Frost & Sullivan Smartphone User Survey 2005.

 

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