Tool 'mobilizes' unstructured data
Network World

Mobile software maker Agilix is readying a software development kit for building mobile applications that will let customers collect, index and organize information that can't use a conventional database: spreadsheets, Microsoft Word documents, .PDF files, PowerPoint slides,Web pages and the like.

The new SDK packages the core functions found in the company's GoBinder software, a mobile application designed for students and educators working with lots of unstructured information stored in the widely used Blackboard Learning System from Blackboard. Agilix began creating the SDK when non-academic customers expressed interest in using GoBinder to organize information in documents and other formats needed by mobile salespeople and others.

Agilix previewed the SDK last week at the Visual Studio Live conference in San Francisco.

Both GoBinder and the upcoming GoBinder SDK are based on Microsoft .Net Framework, which features reusable software components linked with back-end applications and data via Web services.

Agilix also has released InfiNotes, a set of .Net controls that lets customers rapidly create digital ink applications for Microsoft Tablet PCs.