Andre,
> 1. Will it be possible to setup a data replication process within Aware that populate a subset of data (based on a filter) in the offline version of MYSQL on the user's laptop? This is necessary for reporting areas of no connectivity.
The short answer is yes. This can be done by configuring an Aware IM process that uses Web Services as a communication channel between two Aware IM systems. One would be running on the central server and the other on a laptop. The process will control filtering, synchronization and other data transfer issues. Depending on the amount of transferred data a more efficient channel may be desirable. Such a channel can be built and plugged into Aware IM. We provide development services for building custom channels.
> 2. Any licensing requirements for this?
If you purchase the Professional Edition for use within your organization, then each holder of the named user license can install a single-user version on his/her laptop. Certain number of the named user licenses is included with the Professional Edition of Aware IM. Additional named user licenses can be purchased separately. If you distribute your applications to your clients using Aware IM Runtime then a separate Aware IM Runtime license would be required for each installation of Aware IM, whether on the central server or a laptop. Please refer to Aware IM licensing page for more details.
> 3. If a fully functional copy is necessary on both the server and the laptop, is my assumption correct that you need the server to run on both machines (with 2 x runtime licences). How will AwareIM synchronise the data?
Please see the answers to #1 and #2.
> 4. Can you integrate e.g. Crystal reporting into AwareIM apps?
Since Aware IM uses a standard SQL database you should be able to use it as a data source for report engines that work with SQL databases.
> 5. Any plans of integrating OMR Scanning (e.g. checkbox surveys) and bar-coding solutions in the future
Support of special software/hardware can be added to Aware IM as custom plug-ins written in Java. Aware IM comes with documentation on building plug-ins including the necessary APIs. We also provide development services for building custom plug-ins.
