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Discuss in details the applications and challenges of Mobile Database in Public and Private Sector
Discussion in details of the applications and challenges
of Mobile Database in the Public and Private sector:
Applications: In both, Public and Private sectors, there
are situations, scenarios, and business requirements where local
queries are to be run and handled without any connectivity. Mobile
databases serve this purpose.
* Since the businesses of and run by Public and Private sectors are
spontaneous, instantaneous, random, and dynamic requiring them to
run anytime, anywhere, and from any device, mobile databases are
used to serve these purposes.
* Since both, Public and Private sectors are mobile these days,
they are required to operate irrespective of Internet connection,
wired or wireless connection, with speed, consistent, reliable,
perfect connections, and also with intermittent connections or no
connections.
* Both, Public and Private sectors use applications, devices,
solutions, and services which require persistent data storage,
there is a requirement of mobile databases.
* It is used in sales functions or domains, where salespersons
update sales and customer data on the move.
* In private sectors, all the information about customers,
competitors, products, services, transactions, and market trends
are available anytime, anywhere, and from the mobile devices
supporting mobile databases.
* In the Public sector, mobile database technology is used by the
US army to obtain, download information and intelligence on the
current inventory and readiness saving them from logistical
costs.
Challenges:
* Public and Private sectors experience issues when they are using
limited wireless bandwidth when compared to the wired or ethernet
bandwidth.
* They experience issues in their wireless communication speed, as
often wireless communication speed is less than the wired or
ethernet connection and also, mobile wireless communication is
unreliable whereas wired connections are not, which are
dependable.
* In case, the mobile devices these Public and Private sectors use,
exhaust the battery power or there is only a limited energy source,
they experience an issue in the availability of the services.
* These sectors experience attacks and hacks, as these wireless,
Wi-Fi, and other mobile communications are less secured.
* These sectors also experience physical attacks, theft, stolen,
lost issues, as these mobile devices with the mobile databases, are
vulnerable to physical activities, as there is no corporate
physical security, guards, or personnel to the guard the mobile,
the mobile database, nor the data in them.
* It is difficult to make these mobile devices and mobile database
theft-proof.