Retriever Communications

Infobox_Company
company_name = Retriever Communications
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 1996
location = Sydney, Australia
key_people = CEO: Mary Brittain-White
industry = Field Force Automation
products = Wireless Applications
homepage = [http://www.retrievercommunications.com/ www.retrievercommunications.com]

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

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 [ [http://www.retrievercommunications.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=108 About Retriever] , Sourced March 2007] .

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 [ [http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/content/content.cfm?ObjectID=BCDE65F0-C3FC-4A66-B40FC408CF575926 IIF Paper] ,ISR 2001/114, July 2001] .

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 ran from November 2006 till April 2007 and "tested 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 providing a scanning mobile application for handheld RFID readers, integrated to the Telstra system [ [http://www.ferret.com.au/articles/z1/view.asp?id=17636 EPC Network Australian Demonstrator Project extended to push E-capabilities] , Sourced March 2007] .

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

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 to design application screens.

References

* [http://www.austradeict.gov.au/Retriever-Communications/default.aspx Austrade fetches European success for Retriever Communications] , "Australian Information and Communication Technologies"