MobileARC® Migrate

This unique software migration service allows for legacy DOS applications to run natively on WinCE^® and Windows Mobile^® computers. The customer of this service reduces the costs and risks typically associated with moving to a new hardware platform. These include: lost application functionality, expensive and time consuming user training costs, backend integration issues and delayed deployment costs.

The Successful History of Mobile Computing in Your Operation

As a longtime user of DOS-based mobile computers, you have come to realize the benefits of providing information to your front line decision makers:
+ Improved customer service
+ Improved productivity
+ Lower operating costs through reduced inventories.

The applications you are running have been honed over the years to fit hand-in-glove the way you do business. Things work well and there is no compelling reason to change this.

Wireless network security has emerged as a significant concern in the enterprise, especially for companies such as retailers who have operations in very public places like retail stores.

There are also new applications and technologies you would like to layer into your operations at the proper time. Things like new enterprise software applications including manager’s dashboard, voice-over-IP (VoIP), and video are just a few examples.

Your Challenge Going Forward

Supporting DOS-based mobile computers is getting harder by the day. The manufacturers have long discontinued manufacturing them. Repairs are harder to make. The DOS operating system has little technical support anymore. Fact is, mobile handheld computers running Microsoft WindowsCE® (WinCE®) and its cousin Windows Mobile® have become the new standard.

How MobileARC® Migrate Benefits Users

MobileARC Migrate benefits users of DOS-based mobile handheld computers by:
1. Reducing the implementation time of new WinCE-based mobile handheld computers.
2. Eliminating any possible business disruption due to the introduction of new technology.
3. Providing a cost-effective way to implement new wireless LAN security requirements
4. Reducing support costs by preserving the same application source code.
5. Delivering faster user response times by running existing programs on new, faster hardware.
6. Eliminating the pain and risk of rolling out new hardware with a “big bang” all at once.
7. Delivering flexibility by introducing WinCE devices only where needed and when ready.
8. Freedom to retire DOS devices when ready.

Uses Original Program Source Code for Migration

+ MobileARC Migrate service utilizes the original ‘C’ source code used for the current application as the basis for the migrated application.
+ Preserves All The “Look and Feel” of the DOS Application
+ MobileARC Migrate is designed to make the original application run identically on new WinCE mobile computers. This includes everything down to screen layouts, keyboard and function key mapping, and peripheral interfaces.
+ Preserves Single Set of Source Code for both DOS and CE Deployments
+ MobileARC Migrate adds switches into the source code which allow the same source code to be compiled for deployment either on a DOS device or a WinCE device. There is still only one set of source code to support, just like before.

Q: How can you gracefully move your existing DOS applications from the DOS hardware you are
running today to the WinCE-based mobile computers of tomorrow without pain and risk?
A: Don’t rewrite your existing DOS applications. Save time and money by migrating them seamlessly and
risk-free using decisionpoint's MobileARC Migrate software migration service.

How It Works

1. Customer provides DOS source code to decisionpoint.
2. Decisionpoint reviews source code and provides proposal for migration
3. Decisionpoint migrates DOS application to WinCE, preserving DOS code
4. Decisionpoint delivers new WinCE/Windows Mobile application and returns modified source code
5. Customer loads migrated applications and deploys!

Hardware Independent
MobileARC Migrate is available for DOS devices from Motorola and Telxon. The migrated application will run on any WinCE or Windows Mobile-based device.

Requirements
DOS-based applications must be ‘C’-based with program source code available to decisionpoint.

MobileARC is a registered trademark of decisionpoint systems CA, inc.