Overview

One of the most important questions to answer when implementing mobile enterprise applications is how the remote users are going to access enterprise data. For smart client applications, this integration is commonly implemented using data synchronization. Data synchronization reduces the requirement to constantly transmit data over slow, often unreliable, wireless networks since the data can be stored locally on the mobile device and synchronized periodically at convenient times. It also provides the added benefit of distributing the data access workload down to the mobile device, preventing the server from being overburdened with too many requests.