SyncML®: Synchronizing and Managing Your Mobile Data

The SyncML Initiative

The market segmentation referenced above constrains consumer freedom of choice of platforms, applications, and service providers. The segmentation also constrains the reach of network service providers and server application vendors with respect to the number of clients they can support. Overall it limits the growth of mobile applications, as data synchronization is a key requirement of many mobile applications. The key purpose of SyncML is to define an open specification for data synchronization such that client and server applications can be developed independently. The SyncML Initiative targets the specifications to become the de facto standard for data synchronization through wide adoption of the open specifications ...