In this era of constrained resources, everyone is striving to be both more cost efficient and at the same time more effective. This applies to both organizations and individuals. For most though, these goals seem at odds, making change seem difficult or perhaps impossible.

But wait, there are solutions. New technologies overcome barriers and create new realities. Where there were once intractable problems, there are now solutions. Mobolize is such a technology.

Mobolize helps reduce cost and radically improve the effectiveness of both your people and your infrastructure in the following ways:

• Improves Application Access Performance
• Improves Network Bandwidth Utilization
• Improves Productivity and Collaboration

With Mobolize, there is truly a return on investment…

Improves Application Access Performance

Mobolize vastly increases web application performance, which translates into greater user productivity and seamless team collaboration, regardless of the speed of your Internet connection. By a combination of pre-fetching and caching, Mobolize loads web pages and web-accessible documents with the speed of your local hard disk.

With SharePoint®, as an example, checking in and out Word, Excel, PowerPoint documents is nearly immediate. Working with large documents is now a breeze no matter how fast or slow the network connection.

Scenario: SharePoint Checkout/Checkin Document Files

One of SharePoint’s strongest and most widely used features is document sharing. The problem is that a typical business document is large compared to a web page and takes much longer to upload and download.

In this scenario, we examine performance checking out (downloading) and checking in (uploading) a 4.2MB PowerPoint presentation over the typical range of connection methods you might use as a mobile user compared to accessing a pre-fetched document managed by the Mobolize cache.

Fig 1: Checkout/Checkin 4.2 MB PowerPoint Presentation (in seconds)

Scenario: Load Large and Complex Web Pages

Modern web sites, such as corporate sites based on SharePoint and media sites like the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, present home and section pages that are very large and complex. Performance is not dependent solely on bandwidth but also significantly on latency—the delay between a request for a resource and the moment you start receiving data. Latency can consume a large proportion of the download time even if the resource is very small in size. Mobolize optimizes latency, no matter how fast or slow your connection, by simply eliminating it for all cached resources.

In this scenario, we examine the relationship between download times and latency accessing the New York Times Business section page—a very complex page with over 175 separate resources—comparing multiple connection methods. Latency is shown as a percentage of the total time to download the page and all the resources it uses.

Fig 2: Load nytimes.com business section page and resources (in seconds)

Improves Network Bandwidth Utilization

As Mobolize increases web application performance, it decreases the network bandwidth consumed to load web pages and documents. Advanced intelligent client-side caching submits and fetches content only when necessary reducing the number of bytes typically transmitted by 60% to 90% in most scenarios.

Lower bandwidth consumption enables more flexible capacity planning and better use of existing infrastructure, which expands the number of users you can support. With SharePoint, for example, continuous and repeated accesses to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents consume large amounts of bandwidth, often far more than typical web pages and web application requests. With Mobolize, the weight of SharePoint is virtually eliminated.

Scenario: Compare Requests Served from Mobolize Versus Remote Server

In this scenario, we show trend lines for data requests over a 24-minute period. Following the "From Cache" trend line, you can see that most requests are served from the Mobolize cache. When necessary, Mobolize automatically updates its cache whenever new data is available from the remote server, ensuring that web content is always fast and always fresh.

Fig 3: Bandwidth Utilization Comparison (Kbytes/minute)

Improves Productivity and Collaboration

The most significant side effects of slow or indeterminate network connections are lost productivity and weakened collaboration. With SharePoint, as an example, waiting to open documents diminishes workflow as you waste time waiting. Subsequently, it adversely affects collaboration as you put off updating documents until you absolutely have to—to avoid the pain of waiting.

Mobolize changes all this. Documents you need to open are pre-fetched and open instantly, regardless of your connection speed. And when you are ready to save your changes, you can do so even while you are offline, since Mobolize caches the file save operation and automatically uploads it to the server whenever connectivity becomes available, all completely in the background.

Scenario: SharePoint Check Out/Check In Document Files

In this scenario, we examine the cost of waiting on worker productivity for various connection methods when checking out (downloading) and checking in (uploading) a 4.2 MB PowerPoint presentation over one year. For purposes of illustration, we assume you check out and check in five documents per day, you access an additional 20 SharePoint web pages per day, and your wage is $28 an hour. We also assume you work 260 work days each year.

Fig 4: Checkout/Checkin 4.2 MB PowerPoint Presentation (dollars saved over one year)