About Cortado Enterprise
With "Cortado Corporate Server" Cortado offers an enterprise solution which gives employees instant access to the corporate network and flexible output options with their smartphones or BlackBerry handhelds.
With the Cortado Corporate Server the user has mobile access to all network drives, just like from his normal workstation. It supports all directory and file operations, even adding and renaming directories.*
Further more, Cortado Corporate Server offers many possibilities for the output of information. Needed documents can be displayed, printed, or even faxed without first being downloaded with the handheld.
Function overview
- Access to local, home and online directories*: Access to files locally stored on the device (Local Drives), to shared folders in the company’s network (Home Drives), and to folders in the Internet/Intranet (Online Drives)
- Direct printing: Sending pure mail text, contacts, calendar entries, tasks or memos directly from the handheld to its Bluetooth interface.
- Printing to local printers: Printing e-mails, attachments, and any file from the handheld via Bluetooth or infrared to a local printer.
- Printing to network printers: Printing e-mails, attachments, and any file to network printers.
- Print-to-Screen: "Printing" a file via the handheld’s Bluetooth or USB interface to a notebook monitor (as a preview).
- Push Print: Automatic printing of e-mails (or attachments) from selected senders and/or with a particular subject to local or network printers.
- Fax: Sending files from the handheld, from the company’s network or from the Internet to a fax machine.
- Short Fax: Composing short faxes directly on the handheld and sending them as a fax.
ROI considerations
Cortado Corporate Server increases amount of tasks that can be done solely on a smartphone from 60 % to 90 %. In addition, Cortado Corporate’s TCO is valued at $ 363.00/user/year; considering additional saving accrued from eliminating WiFi, VPN, and support costs, the net TCO is negative $ 349.00/user/ year! With increases or improvements in productivity, workflow benefits, reaction time, confidentiality and security, ROI factors range from 270 % to 1968 %. Even without considering IT cost savings, a Cortado Corporate project can thus pay for itself in as little as 19 days!
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ROI considerations for Cortado Corporate Server »
Architecture and security
The software solution consists of a server component – the Cortado Corporate Server – which is installed behind a firewall at the company, and a client component – the Cortado Explorer (on each handheld).
Communication between the smartphone and the Cortado Corporate Server is secured through a 128-bit encrypted SSL connection – the current standard, especially for online banking. In the BlackBerry version, communication between BlackBerry handhelds and the server takes place completely through the secure MDS (Mobile Data Service) channel.
To further increase security and, above all, to ensure document handling that is both fast and easy, Cortado Corporate Server saves the original file on the server side and instead sends a "Remote Document", a file format optimized for display on a mobile device. The data volume of the Remote Document is only about 5 % of the original file. The file can therefore not only be accessed very quickly; it can also be displayed on the smartphone screen.
To enable printing in original format, faxing, or, if needed, downloading of the original file, the Remote Document includes a link to the original file. If, for example, the file is to be printed, the user selects the “Print” option in the menu of the Cortado application. This causes the server to create a print job from the relevant file. The print job is then sent to the handheld as a compressed data stream and printed via Bluetooth or infrared to, for instance, a mobile printer.
Overview: Cortado Corporate Server for BlackBerry
Further information:
*Now available for BlackBerry; coming soon for Nokia, Windows Mobile and Sony Ericsson.