Annotation technologies
Informal Software are the pioneers of the electronic annotation technology now known as "digital or electronic ink". Our product enotate® allows you to add hand written notes to your Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents or graphics and images.

RFID
We are also pioneers in the emerging RFID technologies. Our exciting Wave Data products tie together, for the first time, all the key components of: RFID scanning from a PDA, wireless ethernet communication between the PDA and desktop PC or server, and communicaton with an underlying SQL database.

Wireless PDA-Server Communication
Instant, real-time wireless or wired communication between a PDA and a server is a great basis for many new and useful products. Our core underlying communications technologies, and 'digital ink' informal interfaces, provide a
more intuitive user experience than current solutions.

At the heart of Informal’s software products is its core, proprietary, and extremely powerful Communications Engine, known as “VNA-2”

VNA-2 ties together:

a)      any number of PDAs (e.g. Pocket PCs, Palms, Smartphones)

b)      any number of remote PCs (Windows, Macintosh, Linux)

c)      any number of remote servers

d)      as well as underlying databases

e)      or other devices (e.g. RFID or barcode scanners)

all via:

f)        wireless (e.g. wireless Ethernet – 802.11b, 802.11g, Bluetooth, GSM, GPRS, IrDA)

g)      or wired (e.g. serial RS232, USB, FireWire, Ethernet)

Informal has developed on top of this physical network infrastructure a powerful yet lightweight real-time streaming protocol, known as LDF, which it utilizes for its Electronic Annotation, RFID, and other products.

LDF is a generalized and extensible packet-based Real Time Data Streaming and Command & Control protocol, which is used to communicate and transfer any sort of data in real time.

VNA-2 is Multi-Client/Multi-Server based, and can extend over merely local peer-to-peer connections, Intranets, or over the Internet.