MUMMY Overview________________________ Info brochure

A big, and still rising percentage of workers is doing at least in parts mobile business work. From the IT point of view, one of the immediate consequences is the increasing demand for being integrated into the global and corporate network both in case of recording new information and retrieving needed information.

MUMMY was a project, funded by the European Commission (EC) and the Federal Office for Education and Science (BBW) in Switzerland, to research and develop means to improve the efficiency of mobile business processes through mobile, personalised knowledge management.





The project resulted in a set of integrated components forming the “MUMMY system”. This enables mobile workers to never loose track and coherence of their “mobile knowledge” and provides:

• new approaches to mobile information and knowledge handling by extending knowledge management to support authoring, sharing, retrieval, and visualisation processes in mobile work.
  
• Added value by just-in-time mobile assistance, facilities to speed up the workflow of spatially distributed business processes,
  
• savings through efficient/natural forms of on-the-spot information capturing,
  
• avoidance of delayed data entry and post-edit, and
  
• support for mobile co-operative (planning) processes.