Enterprise and mobile software vendor Sybase has announced a partnership with Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN) to provide a one-stop-shop for enterprise mobility solutions.
Both vendors see a demand for mobile workers accessing their data and communications regardless of location.
Marcus Birkl, vice president of mobility solutions for SEN Group said by partnering with Sybase it can offer customers management capabilities for all forms of mobile devices.
Claudio Castelli, analyst at IT&T research group Ovum told CRN that enterprise mobility was becoming a complex mesh of different products and services across multiple access networks and mapped to different devices.
According to Forrester Research, 73 percent of global enterprise workforce are expected to be mobile users by 2012, which would represent 397.1 million users in 2012. "Players will have to partner if they want to be the one-stop-shop chosen by enterprises," said Castelli. "The Sybase Unwired Enterprise vision and its capabilities in mobile device management will help SEN to expand its offerings in enterprise mobility."
The partnership will see Sybase's Afaria embedded into SEN's HiPath MobileConnect V2.3, an enterprise solution that unifies fixed enterprise VoIP, VoWLAN and cellular mobility.
The solution consists of a component dubbed 'MobileConnect Appliance' located at the central site, sitting on the wired network between the WLAN and the SIP PBX. It continually monitors and manages mobile user sessions regardless of whether they are on the corporate or public network.
Another component of the solution, MobileConnect Client, is software that sits on dual-mode handsets and works with the MobileConnect Appliance to navigate enterprise-to-cellular exchange.
Issue: 277 | March, 2010