Synchrologic Email Accelerator
Out of all six e-mail-to-mobile application packages we looked at, Email Accelerator seems to have been the most straightforward. Mind you, it requires/recommends Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Exchange 2000, SQL Server 2000, and all their applicable patches to be installed. However once the operating system and applications have been installed and configured as per the pre-installation guide, the actual application installation is very smooth.
During the last stages of the application installation there are a few quick questions to answer such as the name of the Exchange server, the full domain name path, the location and type of database being used, etc. Once the installation finishes, you can then start up the Synchrologic administration console. From here you can fine tune all the settings.
The second and more commonly used administration interface is via the Web-based application tool. This allows users to individually customise their virtual workspaces and to add, remove, and configure their particular mobile devices with their own systems.
The interface for accessing your e-mail is very similar to most browser-accessed e-mail applications. One point to note though is a quirky setting: when you click on the "home" button, the local weather for your personal suburb/location is displayed. This does not change depending on where you are at the time you're accessing your e-mail, but is based on your user login address details.
Synchrologic also has built in push-install capabilities for the synchronisation drivers for desktop PCs to sync with PDAs and mobile phones.
Synchrologic's offering is the most straightforward of the six applications to install and administer, giving administrators the ability to delegate quite a large amount of configuration capabilities to the individual users, should they so wish. Therefore if your mobile workers are quite technically adept, then this may be the solution for you; certainly if you want to save some of your IT staff time from having to individually configure each mobile user's individual device.
| Product: | Synchrologic Email Accelerator |
| Price: | $250-$488 per user. |
| Vendor: | Synchrologic |
| Phone: | +1 770 754 5600 |
| Web: | www.synchrologic.com |
| Interoperability: |
Supports both Domino and Exchange and has an amazing array of different device support. |
| Futureproofing: |
Excellent device and server platform support goes a long way to ensuring a stable path. |
| ROI: |
Best ROI would be achieved in a cross-platform environment. |
| Service: |
Local support still being worked out at time of review. |
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