Enhancing Mobile Business Through a Task-Oriented Model for Mobile Remote Access

Abstract

Given the proliferation of mobile devices and the significant advancements in mobile technologies over the past few years, an important goal in mobile business is improving the productivity of field employees and executives through facilitating global remote access to their existing enterprise applications. While the research and industry efforts to develop mobile remote access systems is evident, a global acceptance of these systems has not been achieved yet. In this paper, we introduce a novel model and a candidate architecture that provides task oriented access to existing remote applications in order to provide the mobile users with the functionalities they need anywhere anytime. In this model, we propose a semiautomatic approach of generating a mobile devicebased user interface for application tasks that allows remote access to desktop applications without modifying them.