Content management via mobile devices Accessing and modifying data and content in SharePoint

Abstract

This thesis considers content management within SharePoint via a mobile device. There are several means of communication between SharePoint and a non-mobile system. However, the possible means of communication between a mobile device and SharePoint is more limited. Moreover, some methods for communication will only be available for specific types of mobile devices. However, it is of interest to examine a more general method that is not limited to a specific type of mobile device. The work was carried out as a laboratory experiment, where a Portal was constructed in SharePoint. In order to communicate with the portal, a mobile application triggered procedures on the server that accessed and modified data within the portal on behalf of the client. This approach was subsequently compared to accessing a portal through the web browser of the mobile device. This comparison was carried out according to Functionality and Efficiency of ISO/IEC 9126, and shown that this method increases the Efficiency while maintaining the Functionality.