Matt Murray from Purcell Murray, conceived of an iPhone application that would allow dealers to check real-time information on items in stock, products in transit, and model numbers available.
Purcell Murray turned to their long-time partner Soliant Consulting to help them build the mobile application. Soliant developed the Purcell Murray mobile application with native tools and widgets in Objective-C and the Apple Cocoa API from the iPhone software development kit to keep costs in line with the project’s budget. Soliant used PHP to create a bridge for data to flow from this server to the iPhone app.
Congratulations! Seems like a proof that creating native apps which can also work off-line still makes sense.
Clarification – by working off-line I mean the clever data caching – still quite limited in web apps.
Interesting. We were toying around the idea of implementing some sort of smart phone application for our own clients but weren’t sure where to go with it.
Any suggestions for a business that primarily serves wholesalers and distributors?