KeyTools today announced that it had entered a collaboration agreement with Siemens Business Services for the sharing of resources for mobile software development for both the Palm and Pocket PC operating system environments and for systems integration purposes.
"Siemens brings a range of additional skills to the party that we need for our development program, " commented Richard Chalk, CEO of KeyTools. "These include Java, Microsoft .NET, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase expertise, and we are always looking for additional integration capabilities."
"KeyTools are a major participant within the mobile environment," added Peter Clark, Director of e-Business Solutions for Siemens Business Services. "We look forward to utilising our broad range of skills in conjunction with KeyTools on the many exciting developments that they and ourselves have planned for the future."
KeyTools already has many applications products in the local and international mobile marketplace, and is the developer of TransPhormer, a communications tool that significantly increases the capability of PDAs and notebooks communicating with corporate databases.
For further information, please contact Richard Chalk at telephone (011) 803 5379; fax (011) 803 4885; e-mail richard@keytools.co.za or Peter Clark at (011) 709 7197; fax (011) 709 7056; e-mail peter.clark@sbs.siemens.co.za
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KeyTools (Pty) Ltd, established in 1993, is a South African-based company specialising in providing hardware, software, applications, integrated solutions and support focused around the Palm operating system, and more recently, the Microsoft CE platform.
Siemens Business Services (Pty) Ltd provides e-business solutions, systems integration and IT-related services with a focus on end to end solutions for specific markets, inter alia, enterprise systems, networking, customer relationship management, knowledge management, network, database and system management, knowledge engineering and software development.
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