FineLine Mobile Access enables wireless PDA computers (and any wireless device that can view web pages) to have real-time access to select data on your UNIX server using just its web browser, so no additional software is required.  Since the user never actually logs onto the UNIX server, your data remains secure and only information you specifically make available to that user can be accessed.

How it works

Special web page forms are created for the device (designed by anyone, including Sound Ideas - see our web page design service) and these forms connect directly to the FineLine Mobile Access software running on the UNIX server.

FineLine Mobile Access reformats the incoming data to your specifications (ex: fixed-length, comma-delimited, etc.) and provides it to your UNIX application.

The results of your application (ex: customer order details) are used by Mobile Access to customize another web page which is returned to the waiting device.  Since you specify what UNIX command Mobile Access runs for each page, you control how the data is processed by your database and exactly what information is returned.