Airwave and ABM co-operate on mobile access

29 September 2008, 5:51pm

29 September, 2008 – Airwave and ABM are to work together to integrate the Airwave Mobile Criminal Intelligence application to ABM’s Information Management platform (IMS). This co-operation will help provide police officers with real-time access to time-critical information from handheld mobile devices, and enable them to better capture and utilise intelligence, incident and crime information.

Alastair Luff, ABM said “The integration of our Information Management platform with the Airwave mobile applications suite is a natural step for the two companies. Many of our customers are now planning mobile data implementations, with the Airwave Mobile Application Gateway (MAG) offering seen by many as leading this sector. Enabling the Airwave mobile applications through ABM’s Information Broker will ensure our customers can achieve alignment across both their mobile data and information management programmes.”

Simon Jones, Airwave comments: “The benefits of providing mobile access to a force’s information are significant, speeding the capture and access to time-critical information. ABM’s customers already benefit from a powerful, feature-rich platform; the integration with our Mobile Criminal Intelligence application will help them further leverage these benefits. As both the Airwave MAG service and ABM platform use the same open standards interfaces, integration will be straightforward”, Jones adds “further exciting opportunities include the ability to provide officers with mobile access to information held by other forces, introducing greater data sharing and interoperability between organisations.”

The Airwave Mobile Criminal Intelligence application works with the Airwave Mobile Application Gateway service, a hosted platform that enables its users to access mobile information from a variety of mobile devices and mobile networks. The resulting ABM interface for the Airwave Mobile Criminal Intelligence application will be available to all forces.

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