Why Choose Palm
Classic Palm OS® or powerful Windows Mobile® Platforms
Palm brings an open approach to business with two enterprise-ready, non-proprietary operating systems. The classic Palm OS® platform is configurable to a wide variety of IP protocols, wireless networks, and target hardware. The powerful Windows Mobile® platform provides a familiar Windows environment and leverages your existing IT investments. Both platforms deliver secure mobile email, Palm ease of use, access to thousands of industry-specific enterprise applications, and the ability to build custom applications using your existing development resources.
See Palm's exclusive innovations on the Windows Mobile platform
Flexible mobile email options
Email has become the mainstay of business interactions: this year the number of corporate wireless email boxes will swell to over 30 million. Palm supports more types of email accounts—Outlook®, Lotus Notes, Groupwise, Internet email—across more server platforms than any other mobile computing company. And Palm® devices work with a variety of wireless middleware including Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync®, Good™ Mobile Messaging, and Blackberry® Connect™1.
Partners that move at the speed of mobility
Palm works with world-class partners to expand and improve every facet of your business mobility solution. Leveraging our open platforms, partners such as AT&T, Microsoft, and Movero Technology bring thousands of developers and new solutions into the mobile computing mix.
Learn more about Palm's best-in-class partners.
Wealth of business productivity applications
Supporting more than 30,000 productivity applications on Palm OS and Windows Mobile platforms, Palm delivers the largest selection of mobile business solutions. Many of today's most competitive companies depend on Palm for mobile access to Sales Force Automation and Field Force Automation capabilities and for back-end infrastructure such as Oracle and SAP. Organizations in healthcare, government, legal, and dozens of other industries are reinventing their mobile business processes using custom solutions designed for their needs.
Rapid ROI and low TCO
Some mobile computing solutions involve a fixed offering at a fixed cost. Palm gives you the power of choice—of OS, email platform, hardware, and security and manageability components—so you can tailor a solution to your industry and budget. Palm helps you rapidly realize return on investment through an innate simplicity that translates to rapid deployment and increased worker efficiency. With productivity gains averaging $11,125 per year per user, the typical Palm implementation delivers payback in less than two months3.
[65% of US work force now mobile/744 M mobile-enabled workers worldwide. Source IDC 2005]
Treo™ smartphones: powerful simplicity
Palm integrates your essential mobile needs into a single device that benefits your organization through powerful simplicity. The power comes from a choice of platforms, best-in-class hardware, and robust support for business tasks such as calendar management and document viewing and editing. The simplicity translates to greater user adoption thanks to single-handed ease of use, intuitive five-way navigation, and one-touch access to most frequently used applications. All Palm smartphones give workers battery life and include expansion capabilities to support SDIO, SD, and MultiMediaCard expansion.
