Sybase, Orange Business Services To Offer Mobile Device Mgmt Services

Sybase, a player in the enterprise and mobile software space, and Orange Business Services, a global communications solutions integrator, have announced a partnership to offer innovative mobile device management as a managed service to enterprises who want to control their mobile assets. This service is available on any carrier in the world, many mobile devices and numerous operating systems.

Managed Cloud-Ready Mobility Service

Orange Business Services will leverage Sybase’s enterprise device management platform to help companies tackle the challenge resulting from the increasing number of mobile workers, devices, applications, and ever-growing heterogeneity of corporate mobile environments. Orange Business Services will enable enterprises to consolidate their global mobile assets (devices and SIM cards), implement a mobile security policy, deploy all mobile applications and control wireless spending. This device management service is hosted in the Orange network, with Service Level Objectives, and can be easily accessed by any enterprise that requires cross-operator, cross-device management and is scaleable to meet both large mobile fleet demand and bursting usage.

New Device Management and Security Service

Orange Business Services uses Sybase’s mobility platform to support the new managed service with:

* Mobile Device Management for device inventory, corporate settings, upgrades and distribution, application management, e-mail control, cost management, monitoring the end-user experience;

* Mobile Security that enforces access codes, establishes ‘lock/ wipe’ policies, encrypts devices and data cards, delivers firewall and anti-virus applications, and controls mobile access to corporate applications.