Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Western Australia’s Water Corporation, which services customers over a 2.5 million square kilometre area of the state, has selected Sybase to provide management of mobile devices deployed to its field force.
The WA company said today it had selected
Sybase’s Afaria enterprise-grade, highly scalable mobile device
management and security solution, to be deployed with field service
crews equipped with hand-held computing devices and laptops.
The Water Corporation’s sourcing manager information services, Harry
Thompson, said the company was looking for a robust solution to protect
the data on its field service crew’s mobile devices, and following a
comprehensive review of the device management solutions available in
the market, it selected Afaria due to its “comprehensive feature set,
and competitive pricing.”
“Afaria was not only the best solution in terms of functionality but
we’re also expecting it to ease the administrative burden of managing
the fleet once it is deployed.”
Sybase managing director Australia and New Zealand, Dereck Daymond,
said Afaria would enable Water Corporation’s IT department to centrally
manage its field crew’s mobile devices in the most effective way
possible.
“Field staff use their devices to update Water Corporation’s systems
with job status, work and event details as well as information about
crew labour allocation. Work crews can also be located in near
real-time when the PDA is communicating to Water Corporation’s
enterprise IT systems.”
According to Daymond, more confidential information is being stored on
mobile devices, and organisations are looking for proven and tested
solutions to secure and manage their digital assets in a wireless
environment.
“Sybase’s deep expertise and longstanding commitment toward unwiring
the enterprise has enabled us to offer customers the most mature, open
and comprehensive mobile middleware platform available in the market
today.”
David Bass
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