Mobile sales online manager for handheld devices

摘要

The present invention provides a method and system for giving users of various handheld devices access to mobile sales software online. The functionality accessed by users is provided by individual development components (DCs). Use of individual development components allows users to turn off certain components and also customize components without impacting other aspects of the software. Thus, software is tailored to a particular customer and is efficiently presented for that customer's use. This may be particularly useful for handheld devices because of the limited capability to display information and also the costs of downloading information to the handheld device. The user interface layer is on top of these functional components and can be rendered online allowing customized access to various handheld devices. Access to customer relationship management (CRM) applications and reports from the field may be extremely useful. Handheld users may be informed of the latest status of sales activities and may provide real-time information to the system that track these activities without having to wait until the user has access to a laptop computer. The use of DCs also improves the flexibility of the software because one DC can be modified without changing the code of the other DCs.