Mobility solutions for Open-Xchange Hosting Edition

Funambol
Funambol offers a complete groupware, Push email as well as Pull email, solution for the larger Software as a Service (SaaS) organisation. This means that the Funambol server can directly provide email, calendar, contacts and task information from the Open-Xchange server to the mobile device. Funambol supports Windows Mobile as well as many phones such as Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and Siemens. Also, for the mass Java-enabled phone market (e.g. Motorola RAZR, Nokia Series 60), Funambol has its Java ME Push Email Client. This means Funambol provides Open-Xchange functionality to a very wide range of devices.

ChatterEmail
ChatterEmail™ provides an email client for PalmOS powered Treo and Centro smartphones that supports both the IMAP and POP3 capability of the Open-Xchange server. ChatterEmail supports IMAP IDLE (RFC 2177) which allows for continuously updated email (sometimes called Push email or Push-IMAP). Simply install the ChatterEmail client onto the mobile device; configure it to use the Open-Xchange servers IMAP or POP3 interface and the mobile device is now able to receive continues email updates.

IMAP & POP3
The ability to provide emails from an Open-Xchange server to a mobile device is becoming easier as mobile devices become more powerful. Many mobile devices now support IMAP and/or POP3 directly. This means that to synchronise emails between an Open-Xchange server and such a mobile device is simply a matter of configuring that device to use the Open-Xchange server as its mail supplier and the job is done.
Note that although the device will work as an email client to the Open-Xchange server it is not groupware enabled. This means that the device will not synchronise contact lists, calendars appointments etc.

WebDAV
One very useful and advanced feature of the Open-Xchange server is the ability to store, control and share documents (actually any business object). This advanced feature can now be accomplished from a mobile device (if it supports the WebDAV protocol). Many advanced mobile devises today support a protocol called WebDAV. If the device does support WebDAV then it is only a matter of entering the location of the Open-Xchange server InfoStore and the device will have access to company shared documents from that device (note authentication will be required). For more details about WebDAV have a look at the How to guide on WebDAV.
Note that this document is about WebDAV in general and not mobile device specific but the principle is the same.