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Sybase Subsidiary Updates Mobile Portfolio


Information Anywhere Suite rounded out with releases of Afaria 5.5 and OneBridge 5.5

By P. J. Connolly
November 15, 2006 — 
iAnywhere, a subsidiary of Sybase, used last month’s Mobile Business Expo in Chicago to unveil the latest update of its Information Anywhere Suite. The release of new versions of the Afaria management and security package and the OneBridge messaging platform rounds out the first phase of the company’s portfolio for mobile devices, ranging from PCs to smart phones.

“A big focus of the Afaria 5.5 and the OneBridge 5.5 products is around interoperability between these two product lines…making all of those technologies operate seamlessly together,” said iAnywhere product management director Shari Freeman.

Afaria 5.5, with OneBridge and Microsoft Exchange Server, enables end-to-end security of e-mail and other data, including cryptographic modules validated to the U.S. government’s FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 requirements. “We can keep the e-mail secure, and not interrupt the flow of new e-mail to the device,” said Freeman.

The Afaria security manager now offers customized password entry screens for mobile devices, improvements to the look and feel of the user interface and full-disk encryption technology for Windows devices managed by Afaria.

The new release also features improvements in wireless provisioning: “Now with 5.5, directly from the administrative console, an administrator can type in the phone number of a new device, and Afaria will send out an SMS message to that device. Users [can] click on that message, and Afaria gets downloaded and installed,” Freeman noted.

Afaria 5.5 also adds the ability to remotely control and manage Windows Mobile devices. This can reduce support costs by allowing users to keep devices in the field instead of continually sending them back to the home office for one issue or another.

OneBridge 5.5 works with more than 130 mobile devices, and now those running the Symbian 9 OS, including Nokia’s E and N series, and Sony Ericsson’s m600 and P990 phones as well.

Developers can take advantage of new features in OneBridge that leverage the Windows Mobile smart phone platform and allow OneBridge components such as communication, data synchronization and remote object access to be embedded into applications. They now can also use the OneBridge Mobile Data Suite to access servers running Sybase SQL Anywhere through Windows Mobile, as well as Windows.

From a user’s perspective, OneBridge 5.5 adds the ability to perform lookups in a corporate directory, without downloading the entire address book. The new version also allows the user to define when mail and other data get pushed to the device, and includes an enhanced interface that allows users to subscribe to subfolders that they wish to replicate to the device.


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