AvantGo Mobile Inspection is a package of mobile applications designed for a variety of industries, including energy, utilities, government and manufacturing, that require employees to carry paper and pencil to capture vital data.

AvantGo Mobile Inspection allows organizations to create and deploy electronic forms on mobile devices to streamline workflows by transmitting data directly to back-end systems.

When commenting on the benefits of AvantGo Mobile Inspection, Richard Own, AvantGo’s CEO, said organizations that "begin replacing paper and pencil-based business processes with AvantGo Mobile Inspection" will a have "low-cost way to yield substantial cost reductions, productivity increases and customer services improvements."

• Supports mobile devices based on the PocketPC and Palm operating systems
• Operates wirelessly, both on- and off-line
• Uses open standards, including JavaScript, XML, and HTML, making customization easy

MobileInfo.Com’s Comments & Advisory: AvantGo’s Mobile Inspection application is not new and there are a number of application development companies who have written custom applications for different industries. However, AvantGo’s use of its Mobile business server as a generic software box to house business logic for these type of horizontal applications is unique. What you need is a user interface (forms), definition of data capture fields, business logic behind those fields and ability to send this information to a database.