The tide had just turned 180 degrees. I'm now carrying a product that's once a potential competitor to my previous company. Dexterra Concert 4.5, a platform which its strength lies on the offline processing of the data on the handheld devices, typically windows mobile platform devices and a sync technology which transfer the frontend data to its corporate backends.
Installing this product is a little bit tricky, especially on the web server side. Btw, its also a Microsoft centric solution. Installation must be done in particular order,
- OS - Windows platform (2003 server)
- SQL - MS SQL Server (2005)
- Web Server - IIS (6.x and Higher). The trick comes on the FP Extension and ASP.Net installation
- .NET Framework (2.0)
These are the basic components needed to put up a Dexterra server. For the development of the client side:
- Visual Studio (2005)
- Windows Mobile SmartPhone SDK (5.0)
- Windows Mobile Pocket PC SDK (5.0)
- Microsoft Active Sync (4.2)
- Microsoft Virtual Machine Network Services Driver- network simulation
Dexterra Concert (4.5) components includes:
- Dexterra Server - The engine itself.
- Dexterra Conductor - Exposes the business objects to the devices. (Web based)
- Dexterra Orchestrator - CRUD Interface method for sync (Visual Studio plugins)
- Dexterra Composer - Tools for developing the client application on the device (Visual Studio plugins)
