Enero 2005

Extended Systems les da una solución móvil a los suscriptores de weightwatchers.com que les ayuda a crear menus inteligentes en cualquier lugar y en cualquier momento (inglés)

Extended Systems’ OneBridge technology enables quick and easy synchronization between WeightWatchers.com and mobile devices

Extended Systems (Nasdaq: XTNDE), a leading mobile platform and services provider of business-critical applications, announced today that its OneBridge Mobile Solutions Platform is being used to power Weight Watchers On-the-GoÔ, the industry’s first mobile weight-loss application that syncs with a Web-based subscriber account via the Internet. This innovative mobile product helps subscribers make wise food and exercise choices while traveling, such as on business trips, dining at restaurants, working out at fitness centers, and other locations away from their office or home computer. Extended Systems’ OneBridge Mobile Solutions Platform is the underlying technology that allows subscribers’ mobile devices to synchronize with their WeightWatchers.com account to keep plan information up-to-date.

“WeightWatchers.com selected OneBridge Mobile Platform because of its scalability, built-in security, support for a broad range of mobile devices, and ability to connect to our Oracle-based, Web service data,” said Scott Parlee, director of product development at WeightWatchers.com, Inc. “Most importantly, the OneBridge technology is transparent to the user, making it simple to use, update, and manage.”

The OneBridge Mobile Platform provides a comprehensive framework for extending applications to any mobile device. Built on industry standard technologies such as XML, Web Services, and SyncML Data Sync, it provides services to deliver data to mobile devices and connect mobile applications. In meeting the comprehensive needs of Weight Watchers On-the-Go, OneBridge delivers advanced conflict management functionality providing for accurate data updates when information is entered in multiple places – on a mobile device and on a server-side Web-based application. It also includes a client deployment wizard which enables Web-based deployment to thousands of users, easing the installation process, and a built-in device management capability allowing for future upgrades to the application.

“We are pleased that Extended Systems’ expertise and mobile platform is enabling companies such as WeightWatchers.com to extend their Web-based applications to the mobile environment,” said Charles Jepson, president and CEO at Extended Systems. “The OneBridge-powered mobile solution will provide consumers with exciting new capabilities while generating new revenues for WeightWatchers.com. Delivering a mobile solution to tens of thousands of mobile consumers is the level of extreme scalability that OneBridge was designed to address.”