iAnywhere Solutions, the mobile and wireless subsidiary of Sybase, has introduced iAnywhere Mobile Manager, designed to reduce the cost and simplify the deployment and support of m-business solutions. The product eases installation and maintenance of applications on multiple devices, including laptops and PalmOS- and PocketPC-based handhelds.
"Companies can incur significant annual cost savings per device by employing a mobile device management solution due to the reduced cost of application distribution, user support and device inventory management," says iAnywhere SA channel manager Deon Engelbrecht
iAnywhere Mobile Manager technology is a key component of iAnywhere Solutions' m-business platform, an integrated, end-to-end technology architecture for extending the reach of e-business applications, enterprise data and content to mobile and wireless devices.
"iAnywhere Solutions' m-business platform enables the development of applications that give mobile workers the ability to work online or offline," says Engelbrecht. "This gives them always available access to their data and corporate applications, vital for organisations to keep their mobile workers productive with the information they need, when they need it, while reducing the costs associated with connection times." With over 6 million seats of iAnywhere Solutions' technology deployed worldwide, many businesses employing the company's SQL Anywhere Studio or iAnywhere m-Business Studio products stand to gain immediate benefits from the new mobile device management capabilities.
"As enterprises deploy increasingly large numbers of mobile devices - from laptops to PDAs - they find their current device management solution does not meet the needs of mobile workers, resulting in a loss of productivity," notes Engelbrecht. "iAnywhere Mobile Manager is optimised for the mobile environment where devices are not always connected to the network, use wireless and dial-up access and exist outside the corporate firewall." The number of mobile workers is increasing steadily, making mobile device management of growing importance for businesses. IDC values the market for these solutions as increasing by nearly 50% annually from $83 million in 2000 to $629 million in 2005.
Engelbrecht says companies delivering mobile management software in addition to other enterprise mobile solutions offer their customers additional value and provide a comprehensive approach to mobile projects.
iAnywhere Mobile Manager provides an effective solution for distributing, installing and managing software, data and files on remote systems, enabling a central IT support team to manage distributions to an entire workforce or a single user. Intelligent agent technology is used automatically to check device configurations at specific intervals, restore missing files and self-heal corrupted applications. The solution is also designed to address organisations' security needs, with the ability digitally to sign data communications to ensure reliability, and the ability automatically to back up corporate information residing on remote devices.
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