Hot on the heels of
enabling the SAP suite of business applications for the iPhone and
Blackberry mobile handsets, Sybase iAnywhere is now enhancing
itsiAnywhere Mobile Officefor
Windows Mobile, Symbian and iPhone users in the
enterprise.
iAnywhere Mobile Office enables
email and product
information management (PIM) data from Lotus Domino and Microsoft
Exchange to extend a variety of wireless devices. The new
release is said to offer improvements in business process
mobilisation, enterprise administration and network security that
should deliver reduced total cost of ownership when extending email
and business processes to wireless devices.
A simplified email-driven approach is designed to enable
business and workflow processes on Windows Mobile and Symbian
devices allowing users to take action from mobile devices to
complete business processes, such as approval of expense reports,
human resources requisitions and purchase orders, or notifications
from CRM activities. New business process widgets have been created
to lower both the cost and effort necessary to develop and deploy
applications.
The new security features facilitate secure communications with
mobile devices by not requiring any open inbound ports into the
corporate network, with the added bonus of no impact on device
processor or battery performance (no VPN software required). These
work across multiple mobility components, providing a single
security solution for all device communications. Users can also
have data roaming control of client connections to the server when
the device is not on the carrier’s home network.
“To ensure secure email access and protection of on-board
corporate data for wireless users, companies need to add a third
party application that extends the offering provided with the
device,” commented Jack Gold, President of Technology Analyst J.
Gold Associates. “Products that offer enhanced network security,
data protection, device management, profile administration, support
and deployment features… should be considered for any enterprise
deploying wireless devices. This especially holds true if the
product allows for cross-platform support which is so common in the
enterprise.”
A free 30-day IBM Lotus Domino- and Microsoft Exchange-comptible
trial version version of the Mobile Office product is available at:
www.sybase.com/getmobileoffice. Sybase has
also expanded iPhone support and availability on the iPhone App
Store with an iPhone client is available on the App Store as a
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download.