MOBILE ENTRÉE EVALUATION
AGENDA
 OOB SharePoint 2010 Mobile Support
 Mobile Entrée’s Overview
 Mobile Entree's SharePoint 2010 Mobile Support
 Offerings/design of Mobile Entrée(OOB)
 Features of Mobile Entrée
 Limitations of Mobile Entrée
 Feedback
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OOB SHAREPOINT 2010 MOBILE SUPPORT
Microsoft SharePoint Server
2010 supports accessing
information from a web browser
enabled mobile phone or other
devices. It delivers:
Lightweight interface and navigation for
accessing document libraries, lists, wikis,
blogs, web part pages and LOB data
Web companions for viewing Word,
Excel and PowerPoint documents
Mobile MySite for staying in touch with
colleagues
Mobile search experience for finding
people, contact information, SharePoint
content and finding data in custom
databases
SharePoint Default
Mobile View
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MOBILE ENTRÉE OVERVIEW
Rich interface
Mobile Entrée provides SharePoint users a rich interface to
increase business productivity from their Smartphone
Collaborate and
BI
Users can continue to collaborate and maintain access to
SharePoint data, business workflow processes, line of business
applications as well as Business Intelligence
OOB
Features
Mobile Entrée provide OOB Applications using which SharePoint
sites can e configured to leverage SharePoint features on the go.
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MOBILE ENTRÉE ‘S SHAREPOINT 2010 MOBILE
SUPPORT
Mobile Entrée is
Solution packages/features which need to
installed/activated on SharePoint site
Entrée is a SharePoint Solution which
includes out-of-the-box mobile
applications, a development API, and
Administration and Configuration pages.
Configuration of mobile access is done on
a per-site basis as the content from site to
site can vary widely.
SharePoint Mobile
Entrée View
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OFFERINGS/DESIGN OF MOBILE
ENTRÉE(OOB)
ME provides three Application feature for creating
application instances
MDS Viewer
Mobile Entrée
Base
Connects to Excel
documents to create
mobile dashboards
Comprehensive
access to Lists &
Libraries
Content
Navigator
Turns List content into
browse-able pages
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FEATURES OF MOBILE ENTRÉE
 Rich Interface to access out of the box SharePoint capability such
as lists, document libraries, workflow, search and much more
 Mobile Entrée supports almost all the Smartphones like
Blackberry, Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad, Android, PalmOS and
Nokia Symbian devices with no need to install any ‘apps’ on the
device.
 Mobile Entrée extends SharePoint into a MEAP (Mobile Enterprise
Application Platform) providing a rich API to build your own mobile
applications without any need to program for the different devices
 Configuring OOB SharePoint is straight forward. It can be
configured and maintained easily
 Mobile Entrée supports SharePoint BI and Dashboards
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FEATURES COMPRESSION
Component
OOB ME
Using API
List & Libraries Access
Yes
Yes
Site Branding
Yes
Yes
Webparts
No
No
PageLayouts
No
No
Custom Control
No
Yes
MasterPages
No
No
Dashboards & BI Reports
Yes
Yes
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LIMITATIONS OF MOBILE ENTRÉE

ME only supports out of the box SharePoint capability such as lists,
document libraries etc only

Some OOB controls such as list attachment control and custom SPField
controls are not supported.

Site branding, Look and Feel is not replicated as is on Mobile browsers.

There is no straight forward approach to display webparts or Custom
Controls developed for normal browser based application.

Developers has to get acquainted with the API’s to develop custom
Mobile Applications.

There are limited methods & Properties provided by the API
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THANKS
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