Retriever communications

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Retriever Communications

Type	Private
Founded	1996
Headquarters	Sydney, Australia
Key people	CEO: Mary Brittain-White
Industry	Field Force Automation
Products	WirelessApplications
Website	www.retrievercommunications.com

Retriever Communications is a Wireless Application Service Provider for field force automation with its head office in Sydney Australia.

1 History
2 Application Development Environment
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Retriever Communications was founded in 1996 by Mary Brittain-White to be a company solely focused on wireless field automation technology. The company is backed by significant institutional funds and is majority owned by ING^[1].

Retriever in the past has been supported by the AusIndustry Innovation Investment Fund (IIF), which supports the commercialisation of Australian R&D through the injection of venture capital high-tech companies at the seed, start-up or early expansion stages of their development^[2].

With success secured in Australia, Retriever and its partner network continued to market their wireless field automation solutions around the globe with current representations in Italy, New York, London & New Zealand.

In 2006 Retriever joined the EPC Network Australian Demonstrator Project that will run from November 2006 till April 2007 and "test the concept of paperless delivery and electronic proof of delivery (ePOD)". Retriever has involvement in this project by RFID enabling its application at CHEP and provide a scanning mobile application for handheld RFID readers, integrated to the Telstra system^[3].

Retriever provides mobile applications for a number of different mobile platform development options.

[edit] Application Development Environment

Retriever uses an application development environment (Retriever ADE) to rapidly build and deploy mobile applications. Retriever ADE is a user interface tool that enables business analysts to design screens and the logical way they should function, without the need for programming ^[4].

Retriever ADE's solution offers companies a low risk path for developing and successfully deploying mobile field force solutions. All these features that are necessary for building a mobile application are available free, as a web download^[5].