Services

Whether you're an established enterprise, or a visionary with a business aiming to be part of the mobile marketplace, it's important to accelerate service creation and deployment. This means getting it right the first time and making sure that the technology you're using is flexible and adaptable. That's why companies worldwide have honed their competitive edge with Sun's industry-standard Java technology to help bring powerful applications to a pocket-sized mobile device.

As the inventors of the Java language that led to the creation of the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME) and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Sun provides the technology, expertise and vision that can make your mobile strategy and services successful. Our expertise can save you time and money by eliminating needless experimentation, and our proven end-to-end service delivery architecture can shorten your time to deployment without sacrificing scalability.

Sun Professional Services Consulting Practices

Sun Professional Services now offers consulting services around J2ME technologies for mobility solutions, helping to deliver the promise of anytime, anywhere connectivity from any device. These practices provide the exceptional expertise and industry best practices to help successfully develop and deliver service-driven networks using wireless technologies. Capabilities include:

• J2ME Technical Strategy and Planning
• J2ME Inception
• Java Card Mentorship

Availability Assessment Services for SunTone Certification

Sun consultants can help you prepare for SunTone Certification by assessing the status of your people, processes and products, and their ability to deliver quality services. Using proven SunReady methodology, our consultants help service providers build SunTone-compliant infrastructures that will deliver the service levels required to gain certification.

Sun Educational Services

Attracting and retaining the most talented professionals in wireless IP (Internet Protocol) telecommunications and data is vital. Education can help you keep your employees motivated. Sun Educational Services has created a complete core curriculum with distinct educational roadmaps. These are designed to help your staff gain the skills needed to pass SunTone Certification examinations, for competence in Java platforms, the Solaris operating environment, network storage and Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) application servers.

Sun's experienced educational consultants can help you and your team plan, design, implement and manage your operational and IT (information technology) network computing infrastructure. To help service providers, network equipment manufacturers, wireless device manufacturers and enterprises quickly deploy the latest Sun wireless technologies, Sun Educational Services has introduced an integratable wireless learning suite that combines educational consulting, training courses and professional certification programs.

Sun Wireless Centre of Excellence

Sun has located its state-of-the-art Wireless Centre of Excellence in Stockholm to take full advantage of regional innovations in wireless solutions. Stockholm is home to numerous world-class communication companies and institutions. In this locale, where wireless solutions are more ubiquitous, developers thrive and the general population is receptive to new, innovative services. The Wireless Centre of Excellence is designed to help customers and technology partners test the integration, scalability and capacity of the wireless services that will bring success as the world moves to next-generation networks. The centre's main functions include technical architecture, wireless engineering, wireless professional services, ISV porting and integration, and business and market development.

Smoother Deployments

Sun's Solution Centers help ensure smoother, problem-free deployments by allowing clients to simulate or pre-test their applications before final blueprint and rollout.

• Our proof of concept process brings the customer, Sun technology partners, and Sun together to help you apply mobility solutions to your specific needs.
• Our global network of Sun Solution Centers offer hands-on expertise to create architectural blueprints and guidelines for the design and deployment of services.
• Our network of integration partners specialize in mobility, as well as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and host applications demos that you can see at Sun and at partner facilities.

Sun's wireless lab provides demonstration, test and benchmarking capabilities such as real and simulated General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and 3G connections for live tests and verification environments. They also demonstrate end-to-end architecture based on verified building blocks such as Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), firewall and messaging; a Java technology delivery channel and portal for Java end-to-end solutions; and simulations of load balancing and system scaling.

Industry Applications

Sun has developed relationships with software providers that address mobile needs by industry or vertical market. Solutions can be seen at Sun's Solution Centerss, and often at technology partner demonstration facilities. To encourage companies to explore how mobility can enable them to improve productivity or to achieve other business advantages, Sun provides support for pilot implementation as well as the possibility of other assistance.