Inform the field

Empower your employees to view customer status, check inventories, update jobs and much more — all without the hassles of using a VPN or Citrix^®. You decide what information can be seen, and you can easily customize content for an easy-to-use experience. Users can slide, pinch and zoom through data on native applications built for all major mobile and tablet devices.

Connect with customers

Give your customers a superior experience with an application tailored to their needs. Make it easy for them to check shipments, place orders, download product manuals and much more — all from the device of their choice.

Monitor it all

Track important global company information from multiple systems and locations, all through a unified view of your data. The easy-to-navigate interface allows your users to track real-time data on sales, cash transactions, scrap, order hold and so much more. The choice is yours and the possibilities are almost endless.

Don't pick sides

The Catavolt Extender applications you build work on all major mobile and tablet devices, including iOS, Android and BlackBerry. Best of all, Catavolt will keep up with the latest mobile innovations and Extender will work with whatever comes "next." Your users simply download the free Catavolt app from the appropriate application store for their device.

IT never needs to program or even touch the device, but you'll still maintain complete control over what information you share and how you share it. Now you can finally take advantage of the benefits of mobile — with ease and peace of mind.

Security

With Catavolt Extender, data is encrypted end-to-end and is never replicated or stored in the cloud, on mobile devices — or anywhere outside of your data center. Users do not have access to your internal system, and managing their privileges is simple. Access to your system is controlled by the Catavolt satellite server, which is deployed in your data center. Authentication can be passed through to almost any existing security service, including popular directory services such as Microsoft Active Directory, ApacheDS, Novell eDirectory.

Compatibility

Catavolt Extender can connect directly to all major databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, IBM DB2, MySQL and more. It can also connect to application layers such as web services and SOA architectures. Each pre-built connector is configured specifically for the system it accesses for maximum performance and security. You can add custom connectors that are specialized to your exact needs. Applications can seamlessly navigate through multiple connectors, both pre-built and custom.

Satellite Server

Catavolt Extender utilizes a hybrid cloud computing model that helps achieve maximum flexibility and ease of deployment without compromising security and control. Data is transferred between the end user and the enterprise system using a satellite server that is installed inside of the company's data center. Multiple layers of security authenticate and verify every connection between the Catavolt cloud and the company's satellite server. The satellite server software can be installed on most Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server and Linux operating systems.

Point and Share

Catavolt Extender turns your enterprise system into a catalog of available data and business processes. Once connected, you can simply point to the data and share it with your users via an online control panel. You can design the user experience based on the form factor of their device, such as phone, tablet or desktop.

The point and share approach allows you to maintain complete control over what each user can see and do without having to worry about the type of device. The application that the users download from their application store is controlled remotely by the designs you build with the online control panel.

As you can see by the video example, once you connect to a data source you can create real native mobile applications in a matter of minutes.

Patent Pending Technology

The Extender cloud service is based on Catavolt Dual Model Architecture. Traditionally, enterprise architectures have had difficulty bridging the gap between the way data is stored and how users need to view it. The divide is especially problematic when a new mobile application — requiring a new user experience — must be developed over an existing data model. Catavolt Dual Model Architecture solves this issue.

By separating the business process from the user interface, each can be optimized for maximum performance. The application engine coordinates the data, business process and UI to yield a seamless user experience. Solution design is reduced to three straightforward steps:

• Connecting to data sources
• Identifying the data that needs to be shared
• Designing a business process

The platform delivers the data optimized to the UI of choice, be it the web or a native mobile app in any of the major mobile platforms.

This technology presents an exciting, new opportunity for companies that recognize the need to go mobile. Until recently, mobile applications have been built by either writing server and device code for each platform, or by using a development tool to produce native code for multiple platforms. With the Catavolt Dual Model Architecture, mobile applications are created with a point-and-share approach that dramatically reduces complexity, project size and risk.