FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Synchrologic's iMobile Suite Delivers Key New Features for Managing Information and Devices in Mobile Enterprise
Simplifies mobile management
while making workers more productive
ATLANTA, Feb. 26, 2001 - Synchrologic today announced new features across its iMobile Suite enterprise mobile infrastructure solution. iMobile Suite provides a single solution for pervasive access to vital business information as well as managing the mobile devices used to access that information. iMobile Suite now includes more advanced technology and features to help corporations make mobile workers more productive, while decreasing the management burden for IT and maintaining a higher level of support for end users.
"Enterprises that are deploying a mobile solution are presented with a whole new set of challenges not met by most traditional desktop management vendors," said Ronni Colville, principal analyst, software infrastructure, at Gartner Group. "What worked on the desktop doesn't equate success in the mobile world. This fact brings up the need for mobile vendors to solve requirements varying from connection consistency to how a company distributes software and files across its mobile devices."
iMobile Suite's individual components are based on a common, shared technology platform. The new iMobile Suite features include, double-byte character set support, new client architecture for localization with international users, user profiling capabilities within the administrator console, and real-time scanning, providing real-time changes to mobile users.
Additionally, significant new functionality has been added to individual iMobile Suite components, as detailed below:
iMobile File Distribution Automates Intranet Publishing
iMobile File Distribution ensures that important files are delivered and stored locally on mobile devices. This guarantees that all users have the same mission-critical information on their devices at all times.
Key features include:
- Automated distribution of file and Web-based information such as human resource policies and forms, departmental spreadsheets and documents, contracts, product information and pricing sheets, and service manuals. Users do not have to dial-in to the intranet to check for new versions of key files.
- Assignment of Internet or intranet pages to particular users or groups of users, giving mobile workers only the information they need.
- New file delivery options to streamline communications handling for laptops where mobile user administrative rights are limited. This gives administrators the added security to 'lockdown' mobile machines if necessary.
- Clean retired files from users devices.
"We recently selected iMobile File Distribution to help provide our sales force and key executives with easy access to key management reports and product information on their Palm handhelds," notes Mark Foster, director, Internet sales & channel development at Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. "Synchrologic's software suite was easy to install and the administrative tools are simple and powerful."
iMobile Software Distribution Mobile Device Management
iMobile Software Distribution frees users from the burden of installing software updates on their mobile devices by allowing system administrators to remotely track, configure and install applications.
Key features include:
- Protects companies' "device image" for mobile laptops and handheld PDAs while leveraging their investment in the existing systems management tools they use for managing LAN connected PCs.
- Integration with Microsoft� Systems Management Server (SMS), allowing administrators to import SMS publications for optimized delivery to the mobile devices.
- Enhanced sample scripting code to help administrators build intelligent install packages.
- Improved asset inventory collection options to optimize communications.
"Deploying a mobile work force that is efficient and productive is very difficult. Enterprises are faced with multiple devices, networks and data types as well as training issues," said Brian Ladyman, vice president of marketing at YOUcentric. "In addition to wireless offerings, we sell Synchrologic's software suite to our customers because it's the most comprehensive product for managing mobile enterprise applications."
iMobile Data Synchronization Mobilizes Enterprise Applications
iMobile Data Synchronization puts enterprise applications onto handhelds and laptops so that mobile workers have access to the same enterprise data on the road as in the office. This product replicates subsets of core enterprise application data warehouses onto targeted users mobile devices to enable employees to be more responsive to customer and partner inquiries and make more informed decisions on the go.
Key features include:
- Increased scalability and reliability based on a clustered server model with dynamic load balancing, fault tolerance and error recovery. Because multiple servers support an enterprise user community, if a given server fails mid-transaction, iMobile Data Synchronization recovers that transaction and dynamically routes it to another server to complete the work without any data loss or interruption to end users.
- Instant alerts of any failure to pagers, cell phones, or network messaging.
Also, Synchrologic received a Mobility Award by Mobile Insights. iMobile Suite was recognized as the best software product for mobile resource management at the Mobile Insights Conference.
Pricing
iMobile Suite pricing is based on the particular components purchased, devices supported and the number of users supported. The full suite for PCs would be $449 per user and for Palm or Pocket PC would be $259 per user, each assuming a 100-user license. The components above can each be purchased individually at prices ranging from $59 - $329 per user for PCs and $29 - $139 per user for handheld devices, assuming 100-seat minimum.
About Synchrologic
Synchrologic, the leader in synchronizing Business Data Anywhere, offers the most comprehensive mobile and wireless enterprise infrastructure software, providing the essential synchronization platform required for managing mobile devices and enabling anywhere access to vital business data and applications. Synchrologic has several patents pending for their advanced synchronization and ReadySyncGo! technologies. Its mobile and wireless technologies are licensed by corporate and OEM customers including Cisco, Hertz, Citicorp, 3M, JD Edwards and Nintendo. The company is privately held and is headquartered in Atlanta. For more information, contact the company at 888-345-SYNC or 770-754-5600, , or visit http://www.synchrologic.com.
Copyright © 2001 Synchrologic, Inc. Synchrologic and ReadySyncGo! are trademarks of Synchrologic, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Greg Wood
A&R Partners for Synchrologic
[email protected]
650-762-2838
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