Microland's new Smart Future Mobility Service solves complexity, increases security and reduces risks for Enterprises in managing the growing mobile workforce
Sybase Software (India) Pvt. Ltd.("Sybase India"), the Indian subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., (NYSE:SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobility software, and Microland Limited, a leading provider of IT Infrastructure Management Services, today announced a partnership which will enable enterprises to effectively manage and support their growing mobile workforce.
Microland's new offering, Smart Future Mobility Service, utilizes Sybase's proven mobility services expertise and best-in-class enterprise device management platform, Afaria to help global businesses meet the complexities surrounding increased demand for hosted/managed services, richer applications, broader mobile device support, access to backend systems, centralized management and security. This new service also enables enterprises to develop and implement mobility strategy, support their mobile workforce and manage their mobility infrastructure 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
Sunil Jose, Managing Director-India & Sub-Continent, Sybase said, "The rapid influx of employee-owned smartphones into the enterprise has helped boost employee productivity and satisfaction. Business requires that organizations connect partners, suppliers, manufacturers, remote offices and remote employees directly to their systems, applications and information to make better informed decisions and increase the overall productivity. Globally, best-in-class companies are using a step wise Mobility Management approach to take control of their burgeoning mobile infrastructures. Security compliance, centralized mobile device control, and application deployment are major challenges that global enterprises must overcome to benefit from the existing corporate mobility world. Focus is on cutting mobility TCO and support costs; reduced security risks and increase mobile user productivity. Microland and Sybase will solve these issues at a cost effective price point."
Commenting on the partnership, Pradeep Kar, Chairman and Managing Director, Microland Limited said, "Today, mobility is creating a new, convenient communication and transaction channel to end- users. However, enabling and managing mobility for the workforce of tomorrow pose significant challenges to enterprise IT operations. Microland's Mobility Service addresses challenges such as securing flow of information, simplifying the management of devices and enabling mobile transactions across multiple business processes. By partnering with Sybase, we can offer our customers leading-edge management capabilities for all forms of mobile devices, to increase productivity and competitiveness. We chose Sybase as a strategic partner based on the capabilities and strength of its enterprise device management platform."
Sybase also announced that its latest version of Afaria supports iPad and Android devices and this enables Sybase to extend its ubiquitous device support to a list that includes iPhone, Windows Mobile, Windows, Symbian and BlackBerry.
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"We have listened to our customers and responded by providing our management and security solution for the widest range of mobile devices. In addition to providing enterprises with multiple sites and business units with a cohesive way of managing company-issued and employee-owned devices, Afaria now enables customers to manage various device types in hosted environments while maintaining centralized control." said Sunil.
"Both Sybase and Microland recognize the rapid changes in the mobile workforce and are in the unique position to provide an easy-to-consume service that reduces the complexities of today's 'on-the-go' enterprise" said Pradeep Kar.
About Sybase, Inc. and Sybase Software (India) Private Limited
Sybase is an industry leader in delivering enterprise and mobile software to manage, analyze and mobilize information. We are recognized globally as a performance leader, proven in the most data-intensive industries and across all major systems, networks and devices. Our information management, analytics and enterprise mobility solutions have powered the world's most mission-critical systems in financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing and government. For more information, visit http://www.sybase.com. Read Sybase blogs: http://blogs.sybase.com.
About Microland
Microland is a pure play provider of IT Infrastructure Management Services and its Smart Future and Smart Now Infrastructure Management Services encompass all services that relate to monitoring, managing and enhancing the performance of a client's IT Infrastructure. These include Collaboration, Virtualization, Mobility, Cloud, Server Management, Messaging (e-Mail) Management, Data Center Management, Network Management, IT Security Services, Device Management, Application Management and Process and Technology Consulting among others. Microland's Operation Management Centers are ISO 20000-1 & 27001 certified. Amongst the recent awards won by Microland are - Top 10 Best Performing Infrastructure Providers by Global Services Media in 2009 for the 3rd consecutive year; Top 100 Outsourcing service providers globally by The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) in 2009; The Best Infrastructure Services Partner (India) for the fourth time in a row by Microsoft since 2005; Ranked 8 and 2 among
The Top 20 Remote Infrastructure Management vendors and for Data Centre Management capabilities respectively by the Black Book of Outsourcing. Microland provides a proven and reliable alternative to global customers in managing their enterprise IT infrastructure. Microland is headquartered in Bangalore and employs over 2,300 professionals worldwide. For more information, visit www.microland.com
Sybase and Afaria are registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
Smart Future and Smart Now and are a service mark of Microland Limited. For more information, please visit www.microland.com