Introduction
ActiveUpdate is an advanced client server technology spreading across several platforms to provide file and content update solutions for your Windows Mobile Devices.

It all starts with the server component, where you can create an account in less then 1 minute then you can create your project and begin uploading your files.

On the mobile device you only need to install the ActiveUpdate Client, downloadable from the ActiveUpdate project page that you've just created. This takes even less time and needs to be done only once.

From this point, the workflow is fully automated - the ActiveUpdate Client - running in the background on your Windows Mobile Device - will periodic check the ActiveUpdate Server for new files, and it will download and install them to the proper location in a fast, optimized process, totally invisible to the Mobile Device User.


Why do you need ActiveUpdate?
Let's say your company wants to customize 10.000 mobile devices with a customization software called CS. From time to time you want to offer your customers updated content for the CS, but to install it on all your customer devices you only have a few options:

physical access to the mobile devices: the customers should bring their devices back to you, which is extremely hard to organize and takes a lot of time, and you won't reach ALL the devices spread on the market

provide the updated software on your webpage and ask your customers to download it and install it manually - not all the customers read your webpage - not all of them are aware of how to install the update - and not all of them will be willing to spend their time with this upgrade. You will also loose a lot of time on your side, offering technical support regarding this procedure.

Distribute Secure Data (SD) Cards containing the update to your clients - this would work but it can be very expensive.

Using ActiveUpdate you don't need to worry about all these content update problems - simply install the ActiveUpdate client on all the mobile devices before you distribute them to your clients, and the rest can be easily performed from your comfortable office desktop: you upload the new CS files, specify the update parameters and all the mobile devices will be running the new content within a few days, by using ActiveUpdate and Internet file transfer protocols.
As you can see this technology is an useful tool that would fit your requirements extremely well.