RhoSync is the first of a new category of “mobile app integration” servers. Using RhoSync drastically simplifies the development of connectivity to an enterprise backend app. The RhoSync server and built-in RhoSync client in the smartphone app perform all the work to get data down to the device. This eliminates 50 to 80 percent of the development effort in enterprise smartphone apps: performing the backend application integration.

RhoSync also does the ongoing synchronization work: keeping all of the data from backend applications current on the local device.   As information is changed in backend applications it is immediately synchronized down to all devices, and available on devices even when they are offline.  Data changed on the devices is also synchronized by RhoSync to the backend system.

RhoSync does not require use of Rhodes for the client app.  It can also be used from apps written in Objective C or even from other frameworks using JavaScript.

RhoSync provides:

The EASIEST Way to Integrate with Enterprise Applications

RhoSync handles all of the work of connecting to enterprise backend applications. The alternative that is done with most iPhone Objective C or other framework-based apps is to do all the code to connect to backend applications yourself: connecting to the backend web service in SOAP or REST, retrieving the data as XML or JSON, parsing the data and populating and managing the local device database. Objective C developers tell us that they spend more than 50% of their app code on these tasks. RhoSync removes all of this effort.

The FASTEST Most Scalable Mobile Sync Server EVER

RhoSync is the first mobile sync server ever to use modern “No SQL” key value store technology for its data caching. Older sync servers all used relational database servers. This feature allows RhoSync to scale to high volumes of data and devices better than any other server on the market.

The FIRST Enterprise Sync Server To Use Smartphone Push

RhoSync takes advantage of the new advanced BlackBerry Enterprise Server and iPhone 3.0 SDKs for Push. It is the only framework (and only mobile sync server) that uses BES Push and iPhone Push to optimize synchronization. It enables realtime updates of critical backend application information to the device with no polling.

The ONLY Metadata Sync Capability In Existence

Once the data is synchronized the enterprise application’s structure will continue to be changed and customized. How do you handle this with a native local smartphone app running on the device? The Rhodes metadata framework allows the changed metadata (not just data) to be synchronized to the device. When new fields get added to the backend enterprise app, they are available in forms and screens on the device right after a sync happens. This also enables apps to be shipped on the App Store for popular enterprise CRM and ERP apps, even though every customer of those applications has their own schema.

Download

• To install RhoSync, either download the integrated installer for Windows: RhoSync Windows Installer

Or follow these step by step instructions Installing RhoSync on Mac or Linux

• You can use RhoSync from your apps written in Objective C for the iPhone with the RhoSync Client Objective-C Library

Purchasing

To use RhoSync you must purchase a commercial license when development commences or open source your app under the GPL license. To purchase, contact Rhomobile at sales@rhomobile.com (Note: Purchase of the RhoSync commercial license indicates acceptance of the RhoSync Commercial License Agreement.) RhoSync is also available as a hosted Software as a Service on RhoHub.