Mobile Application Studio Toolkit (MAST)
Aricent’s Mobile Application Studio Toolkit (MAST) is a
mobile application designer that was developed out of our extensive WFM
experience working with leading global service providers with expanding
mobile work forces.
MAST allows users to define tasks that should be
performed in a defined flow/logic by the field technician. It then creates
the corresponding screens and data fields for input and output. MAST
supports all presentation widgets and data abstractions needed to support
mobile applications. The output of MAST is a set of data structures and XML
files that help drive the application and the integration to the back-end
systems at run-time.
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MAST software consists of three components:
The MAST allows users to define the actual tasks that
should be performed in some defined flow/logic by the technician, and then
creates the corresponding screens and data fields for input and output.
The MAL is a run-time, server-side component that
manages and loads MAST outputs to mobile devices and at the same time
manages the communication of messages between the mobile devices and the
back-end servers and applications.
The MAC is a run-time controller that uses the output
of MAST to manage the application at runtime in conjunction with the MAL.
The MAC and MAL communicate wirelessly with each other and provide uniquely
addressable nodes in the network of devices. The communication supported
includes SMS and interfaces with several multi-protocol wireless
communications middleware.