Palm Enterprise Applications

Palm Enterprise Applications offers a comprehensive look at the past, present, and future of the Palm Computing platform in the enterprise. Author Ray Rischpater provides detailed descriptions of the available hardware and software, development tools, and development practices. In clear, easyto-understand terms, Rischpater also shows how to customize the Palm Computing platform to meet the specialized requirements of your company and explains how to write new applications to meet these needs. And all of this information is tied together with the help of real-world case studies that follow successful corporate deployments of Palm computing devices.

As you read through this book, you'll discover how to:

• Choose the right Palm computing devices to meet the needs of your organization
  
• Use available software to solve a wide array of information management problems
  
• Connect Palm computing devices to
  the rest of your enterprise
  
• Use the latest tools to write new applications that run on the Palm Computing platform
  
• Obtain a custom application for the Palm Computing platform that specifically meets your needs

• Chapter 1: The Palm Computing Platform
  
• Chapter 2: Hardware
  
• Chapter 3: Software
  
• Chapter 4: COnnections
  
• Chapter 5: Development Tools
  
• Chapter 6: Development Practices
  
• Chapter 7: Custom Development
  
• Chapter 8: Case Studies
  
• Glossary
  
• Index