JigsawMobile is a highly optimised application for 3G mobile phones, providing rich functionality supported by a powerful server infrastructure. The technology has been used to produce mobile trading terminals with real-time information displays, trading capability, position monitoring and professional-level charting.

The JigsawMobile server infrastructure supports a variety of data types and sources, such as broker-sourced rates or vendor datafeed. It maintains permanent sessions with each mobile handset, and can distinguish individual users and phone models. Data traffic has been minimised through the design of efficient transfer protocols, and SSL is used to provide secure transmission for real-time trading.

The JigsawMobile development environment utilises a compact scripting language, JML (Jigsaw Mobile Language), which is used to define the properties and interfaces of the front-end application. JML facilitates rapid development of customised JigsawMobile applications, which can provide the same look and feel across different mobile platforms. The extensibility of the JigsawMobile environment allows it to grow alongside advances in hardware technology and to accomodate changing customer requirements.

As with Jigsaw Platform, the data content and delivery mechanism of JigsawMobile are completely independent, allowing products to be developed for different suppliers. The look and feel of the phone application can be branded with corporate logos and colour schemes.

Flexibility can also be transferred to the front-end application, allowing the user to set up instrument portfolio and to amend preferences such as font size, refresh rate, etc.

The type of data displays which can be provided in the application are suitable for professional users, and the chart functionality available includes intra-day and historical charts, with several studies and indicators for technical analysis.

The front-end application is supported on different platforms, depending on the technology used by the phone carrier; currently these are: Java™ (MIDP, JSCL, DoJa and DoJa LE) and BREW®. The development environment also provides a phone simulator, running on Windows PC, with the same user interface as the mobile product.

For more information on JigsawMobile, with examples of screen displays and customised solutions for specific customers, please visit our JigsawMobile web site.