
Mobile Enterprise Transitions: Technical Dimension ◾ 147
updates can occur simultaneously from mobile users in real-time. For example, the
moment the user moves his or her location, the location-specific information (e.g.,
the location itself) of the source changes. Mobile applications that use location-
specific information need to handle not only the conflicts resulting from multiple
updates but also identify—in the first place—that there is a conflict even when the
sources of data are at two different locations. Mobile database architectures need to
reconcile the movement of the client especially when there are multiple entries in a
database by ...