CHAPTER 14 Creating Mobile Applications for PeopleSoft

Year after year, our workforce becomes increasingly mobile. Assisted by online conferencing, chat, e-mail, and many other related technologies, the “office” has left the building. Through Wi-Fi hotspots and wireless Internet cards, employees armed with laptops can work from just about anywhere on planet Earth. But a laptop with an anytime/anywhere Internet connection is just a teaser. It offers as much freedom as a sailboat with the anchor down and no wind. The boat rocks with the waves, but it isn’t going anywhere.

One of the benefits of a mobile workforce is the ability to collect transaction information at the point of transaction. For example, with a mobile laptop and an Internet connection, ...

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