Mobile Applications

The University of Mississippi

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Agenda

• What we have done & how

• Where we are now

• Where we plan to go

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m.olemiss.edu - What?

Present mobile offerings include:

•Directories

•News, blogs and calendar

•myOleMiss (portal)

•Campus map

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m.olemiss.edu – How?

• Mobile Web layouts were designed around the WebKit technology supported by modern mobile devices.

• Free WebKit style samples are easy to find.

• Javascript determines user agent and redirects to full or mobile site.

• Mobile device users have the option of choosing to view the full site.

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m.olemiss.edu - Content

• UM Home – custom

• News, blogs, calendar – mobility support in the product used (WordPress, Helios)

• E-mail – a webmail interface with mobility support

• myOleMiss Mobile – custom built on top of the SAP Enterprise Portal Platform

• Directories and Campus Map– custom

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myOleMiss Mobile

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myOleMiss Mobile

Current portal mobile offerings include:•Messages from the University community specifically for the user.•Frequently used student applications.•Employee payroll stub.

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myOleMiss Mobile Usage

• More than 85,000 hits since October 2010 go-live

• 9,848 unique visitors (9,453 students)

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myOleMiss Mobile – How?

• Adjusted sign-in page based on user’s browser.

• A custom desktop with a list of mobile ready applications based on user’s role.

• Portal applications built using the model view controller (MVC) paradigm and they are made mobile-friendly by adjusting the view depending on the user's browser.

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In The Works

• More myOleMiss Mobile applications:– Class roll lookup for faculty– Final grades view for students

• Developing mobile Web content for more of our sites

• Asset management support

• Potential collaborative mobile native app project with SAP

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Mobile Solution for Asset Management Support

• A mobile solution to enable the auditing process in asset management.

• Mobile application is being developed for a Motorola device to:– Call a Web service to pull info on devices to

reconcile and populate local database.– Scan bar codes on devices to audit and

reconcile.– Upload results of audit back into asset

management in our ERP system.

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Asset Management Solution Status

• We chose the Motorola MC75 device as our platform for this and related applications.

• The mobile application is being developed in .NET.

• The Web services to export and import asset management data have been written.

• Prototype application has been developed.• We plan to coordinate with functional users

and plan to go-live in the near future.

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Native Apps

• Ole Miss runs the SLCM module along with the other ERP modules from SAP.

• SAP is interested in leveraging its recently acquired Sybase mobility platform to create mobile business content for the Higher Education Market.

• Ole Miss and SAP are ironing out details to collaborate this summer on a project to generate native applications on mobile devices for higher education.

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Questions ?

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