Thinque Systems Corporation, the emerging leader in the field of mobile enterprise applications (MEAs), today announced it will exhibit it’s new enterprise class, mobile computing applications at the 2001 Fall COMDEX® Show, to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from November 12 through the 16, 2001. Thinque Systems will be in the Microsoft® Pavilion at Booth #66 in the main hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center (L4852).

The company will feature live demonstrations of its new mobile Sales Force Automation (SFA) and Field Force Automation (FFA) solutions: Thinque MSP for Field Sales and Thinque MSP for Field Data Collection. These mobile enterprise applications were developed to run on Pocket PC and Windows CE handheld devices. The applications automate the tasks of, as well as direct, and manage mobile workers while providing them access to enterprise data, business rules and business processes. Each application can operate stand-alone or be fully integrated into existing front and back office enterprise applications for Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), or Supply Chain Management (SCM). This greatly increases the velocity at which field information reaches the business enterprise. In addition, the applications utilize advanced synchronization technology and are designed to send and receive data via dial up connections or in wireless mode.

"The most important thing to keep in mind here is that these are packaged applications that have been field-tested," stated Ning Ning Yu Thinque’s vice president of engineering. "We are not talking about a Beta application," added Yu. "We have documented scalability, reliability and usability through many of our world-class customers such as Dawn Food Products which is one of the world’s largest bakery distributors."

Thinque MSP for Field Sales is a mobile Sales Force Automation (SFA) application. It enables field sales personnel to manage such things as credit, orders, inventory, payments, and returns for customers directly from the field. The application excels in providing the most critical components required by mobile sales representatives while at the same time it is also highly configurable to meet specific workflow and sales role requirements. Enterprise and field information can be shared seamlessly across sales teams and management enabling field personnel at any level to drive incremental revenue and upsell products and services.

Thinque MSP for Field Data Collection is a Field Force Automation (FFA) solution that provides mobile and remote workers with a simple-to-use, highly configurable application to replace paper forms and other slow, error-prone, costly methods of collecting data and communicating it back to a central location. The application provides a system for virtually any organization to fully automate and effectively manage its field workers and data collection projects, resulting in higher worker productivity, increased accuracy, greatly reduced reporting and response times, and a significant overall cost savings. The application empowers management with real-time reports to quickly identify problems, trends and other vital information. It is a comprehensive solution for automating field data collection projects, and performing market analysis, quality assurance, retail merchandising, and field service operations.

Thinque MSP for Field Sales and Thinque MSP for Field Data Collection are available immediately and are currently certified to run on the NEC MobilePro, Compaq iPAQ, CASIO, and Hewlett-Packard handheld PCs (HPCs). The software is currently undergoing certification testing on other mobile hardware platforms as well. The Thinque MSP server software costs $75,000 with mobile client seats ranging from $600 to$1,750 to $2,500 per user based on client type (Web, Handheld PC, Desktop) for the first 100 users. The Thinque MSP Interactive Voice Response (IVR), or telephone touchtone version server costs $10,000 with client seats starting at $500 per seat for the first 100 users. Integration services and maintenance are extra.

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