Synchronica launches self-care push email solution for businesses

Details: Category: Consumer Ecosystems; 24 June 2009; 7174 views

Synchronica has launched a self-care mobile email solution for businesses that works with employees' existing handsets...

Synchronica has launched a self-care mobile email solution for businesses that works with employees' existing handsets. Mobile Gateway Enterprise Edition enables Nokia Series 40 mobile phones to connect to Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Sun Java Communications Suite and IMAP/POP3 email back-ends, meaning that employers do not need to invest in a fleet of expensive new Smartphones in order to cascade mobile email down the organisation.

The Mobile Gateway Enterprise Edition is targeted at SMEs as well as the middle/junior management layers in large enterprises where it can complement existing Smartphone-based solutions. It is available immediately from the www.synchronica.com/e website and can be purchased, downloaded and deployed on a mobile phone fleet within a few hours.

The solution provides "carrier-grade security, reliability and scalability and has already been selected by a major Indian bank for its middle and junior management tiers. The bank is in the process of deploying Mobile Gateway Enterprise Edition to an initial 10,000 employees, to supplement the Smartphones used by executive staff. Synchronica now expects this approach to be replicated in other businesses."

Mobile Gateway Enterprise Edition includes a Microsoft Windows installer, which allows businesses to install and host it on their own servers. Other major features mean that the product:

supports Microsoft Exchange, Sun Java Communications Suite, and IBM Lotus Domino corporate email servers, as well as IMAP/POP3 consumer email back-ends;
is based on the dominant open industry standards Push IMAP (IMAP IDLE) for mobile email and SyncML (OMA DS) for contact and calendar synchronisation;
requires no additional client software to be installed on the handset as there is zero-footprint architecture;
enables end-users to configure their devices automatically without requiring corporate IT involvement via built-in over-the-air device provisioning (OMA CP) using a self-care portal;
provides strong security (SSL encryption) and scalability from five users up to tens of thousands of users; and
works on a wide range of handsets in use today - from Smartphones to entry-level phones such as the Nokia Series 40.

Research conducted in 2007 by Freeform Dynamics concluded that businesses view mobile email as an integral part of operational infrastructure. When it is coupled with contact and calendar management, it becomes the most important resource for mobile workers, ahead of SMS and Sales Force Automation.

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