Challenges

• To provide the most complete and consistent true “push” wireless synchronization with MS-Outlook for Email, Calendaring, Tasks, Notes and MS-Word and MS-Excel attachments
• To provide secure access to e-mail and mission-critical business systems for mobile professionals
• To ensure integration with the best mobile messaging and phone devices available
• To provide a consistent, industry standard, user experience that minimizes training and support costs

Solution

Implement The FPA Mobile E-mail & Messaging Solution using Good Technology's Goodlink™ 4.0 and palmOne's Treo™ 650.

What is Goodlink™ 4.0? 

More than ever before, executives and other mobile professionals need access to their desktops, offices, information, and people who make them productive. Goodlink™ 4.0 is the industry's leading wireless messaging and data access choice. It provides professionals with secure mobile access to corporate e-mail, rich attachments, calendars, contacts, notes, and tasks using a familiar user interface and ensuring that data on the user's handheld are always up-to-date. With secure wireless IT support, worldwide coverage, end-to-end data encryption, and tight integration with palmOne's Treo™ product family, Goodlink™ is truly a world-class mobile communications system.

Goodlink™ Key Features

• Full Outlook-Like Functionality - Goodlink is easy to use for anyone familiar with Microsoft Outlook. Compose e-mail or look up contacts intuitively. Multi-task and toggle back and forth between a number of open e-mails and files. View and edit rich attachments including Word, Excel, PDF, and PowerPoint.
• Ease of Implementation - The Goodlink Server can be installed in a matter of hours and allows for wireless management including remote disabling and erasure of lost handheld devices. Deploy and upgrade entirely Over-The-Air (OTA), allowing for zero IT touch and lower cost in managing mobile handhelds.
• Enterprise Class Security - Goodlink employs military-class encryption of data all the way from the Goodlink server to the handheld.
• Worldwide Coverage - Goodlink's pure IP Global Connect technology provides worldwide reach on any GPRS or CDMA carrier anywhere in the world.
• Optimized Exchange Support - Goodlink was designed from the ground up to provide optimal integration for Microsoft Exchange so your business can leverage its existing IT investments.

The palmOne Treo 650 Smartphone

The Treo 650 smartphone combines a compact mobile phone with e-mail, an organizer, messaging, and web access. Goodlink delivers your email as it arrives on your company's Exchange server so you can immediately read, compose and send email with the built-in QWERTY keyboard and large, easy-to-read screen. View attachments, visit links, even file messages in the same folders you have set up in Outlook. Goodlink also synchronizes Treo's calendar with the Exchange server so you can remotely schedule appointments and review conflicts. There's also no need to re-enter all your contacts into your Treo - if it's on your PC, it's on your smartphone. And because the Treo smartphone runs on Palm OS v5.x, your business can take advantage of the over 20,000 Palm OS software applications that are already available. You never have to sync your Palm again! It’s all done wirelessly.

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Treo 650 Key Benefits

• Totally Wireless - Users benefit from the cradle-free true push wireless synchronization of e-mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, etc. You never have to physically connect your Treo to your computer and it's always up-to-date.
• Outlook Integration - The user has complete access to all their existing Outlook folders, calendars, and contacts.
• View Attachments - View almost all standard e-mail attachments.
• Internet Browsing - Support for web standards allows you to browse the internet using the built in browser.
• Ease of Use - Type using the Treo's standard QWERTY keyboard or use your fingers or stylus for touch-screen access.
• Fax Viewing - Receive and view taxes in TIFF format.
• PowerPoint Integration - Project PowerPoint presentations directly from your handheld.
• Desktop Integration - Wireless synchronization with your desktop allows you to print documents directly from your smartphone.
• Multitasking - Not only can you multi-task between applications but you can use the included handset or speakerphone feature to talk and listen hands-free while accessing your calendar, Office documents, and other applications.

GoodLink/Treo vs. BlackBerry

While the Blackberry has become the defacto standard, more and more organizations are looking for the true “convergent” device and are moving to Goodlink - companies like Dell, Visa, EDS, Verisign, and Microsoft. GoodLink 4.0 supports handhelds and mobile platforms that follow enterprise industry standards giving the user a wider range of product offerings than BlackBerry provides. Furthermore, GoodLink's “push” capabilities and wireless synchronization truly beats the Blackberry functionality in all areas. And wireless install/upgrade capabilities and enterprise-class data encryption aren't available with current BlackBerry hardware and software offerings. Given its high-level of functionality and flexible device choice, the GoodLink/Treo solution is recognized as the best mobile e-mail and messaging solution for the enterprise currently available.

Technical Requirements

Additional Resources

Good Technology, Inc. PalmOne PC Magazine

What Now? Contact FPA

For more information, please contact FPA at 818-501-3390 or email us at info@fpainc.com.