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Free native iPad/iPhone app lets users create and manage files on mobile devices and securely synchronize with an IBM i server.

LANSA today announced the availability of LongReach, an Apple iOS mobile application for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices that provides file and folder creation, management and secure data transfer between mobile devices and IBM i servers. The application can manage documents, presentations, spreadsheets, photos, audio recordings, video, text and many other types of files. Files and folders can be created on the mobile device or on the server and can be synchronized securely between the two.

Have Mobile Apps Running in an Hour

LongReach allows you to do the following:

  • Enables you to create, manipulate and store a complete range of files on your mobile device, especially mobile device-specific files such as photos, videos, audio recordings and geo-location data that cannot be easily accessed by traditional browser-based mobile applications.
  • Securely uploads files and folders from your mobile device to an IBM i server’s IFS. Optionally, LongReach can send messages to a message queue at the completion of a file transfer to the server. Applications can use the messages to start or resume automated business processes.
  • Securely downloads files and folders, created by IBM i server-based line-of-business (LOB) applications, to your mobile device.
  • Provides a refresh feature that updates the mobile device’s view of files and folders on the IBM i server, without having to download any files or folders. After refreshing the view, users can choose which files and folders they wish to download to the mobile device.
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LongReach allows for securely uploading and downloading files and folders between a mobile device and an IBM i server.

 

Put Data Collection via Mobile Device

Into Company Business Processes

LongReach allows organizations to extend data collection tasks for LOB applications into the mobile world at the location of the data source. For example, a vehicle crash repair quotation process fits easily with LongReach. An insurance assessor, allocated to assess a crashed vehicle, downloads all pertinent information for the job to a mobile device from a corporate server via LongReach. The assessor then uses the mobile device to record video of the damage, take photos, make notes, and record a voice memo. All these files can then be transferred to the server with a notification of delivery for immediate action by a LOB application.

 

Here are just a few of the hundreds of uses for LongReach:

  • Standalone folder/file creation and management using mobile device capabilities (e.g., photos, video, audio, geo location and more)
  • Securely back up files from a mobile to an IBM i server
  • Private corporate file sharing amongst mobile staff, where your company controls account access to files.
  • Download  instructions and daily work schedules (work orders, routing instructions, job locations, etc.) to mobile devices from an IBM i server. On notification of completion of a job, the mobile device user can receive instructions for the next job, minimizing travel time and cost and maximizing customer service.
  • Upload data captured mobile device taken at the source (e.g., job details - notes, photos, video, audio recordings, etc.) to an IBM i server for use by LOB applications. When used with the arrival notification feature, the LOB application can immediately start processing the uploaded data.
  • Circumvent email attachment size limits. Use LongReach to transfer the files instead of sending them by email.
  • LongReach provides an alternative way to distribute reports and allows recipients to control when they download them.
  • Use Longreach as a business-to-business communications tool to share information and to pass data, forms, and messages between an organization and its closed community of suppliers or resellers.

Private Cloud on Secure IBM i Server

LongReach comes in two parts:

  • The server software, for communication with an IBM i server is downloadable from www.lansa.com/longreach/regserver.htm. Installation on the IBM i is simple and initial communication configuration is performed via the iPad/iPhone, according to LANSA.

LongReach Pricing: The LongReach iPad/iPhone app is free, and the IBM i server software is free for the first 1,000 server licensees who decide to "get in now" to be a part of the "new mobile IBM i generation."

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