The announcement coincides with today’s launch of CA’s mobile eBusiness initiative.
The solutions integrated by CA and Motorola will enable organizations to rapidly deploy WAP-enabled devices for access to corporate data and applications. These integrated solutions – which encompass Motorola-supported devices, the Motorola WAP Server, and CA’s award-winning suite of eBusiness infrastructure management solutions establish a strong foundation for the deployment of a mobile eBusiness infrastructure within an enterprise.
Management, security and rapid application development have always been essential requirements in any IT deployment from mainframes through distributed client/server computing to the Web, said Jennifer DiMarzio, Industry Analyst, Summit Strategies. By addressing these fundamental needs, CA and Motorola are removing some of the primary inhibitors to the mobile enterprise.
Through this alliance, CA and Motorola bring together the best-of-breed WAP-based solutions that enable IT to easily and securely access corporate data and applications from WAP-enabled cell phones with full confidence in the reliability of the end-to-end eBusiness environment. With such secure, manageable WAP infrastructure in place, IT departments can more readily design and deploy mobile applications to accelerate eBusiness processes and improve corporate performance.
CA and Motorola have each been early-to-market with field-proven packaged mobility solutions that address customers’ primary wireless technology implementation challenges.
Motorola is among the industry leaders in supplying WAP-enabled devices. Motorola’s WAP Server is designed to meet the high-performance, scalability and high-availability needs of today’s demanding environments. Some of the key capabilities that customers require and which are offered by the Motorola WAP Server include interoperability, multiple methods of authentication, system management tools, a provisioning system, a Billing API and multiple security methods that enable businesses to securely access confidential information and perform secure transactions.
CA’s eBusiness infrastructure management solutions, including the widely acclaimed Unicenter TNG eBusiness management solution and eTrust security solutions, provide the infrastructure services necessary to maintain the reliability and security of both the mobile and wired eBusiness environment.
Motorola continues to prove its value as an instrumental partner, said Tarkan Maner, vice president of corporate marketing for CA. Through this relationship, we can ensure that CA customers who want to mobilize their enterprises can do so in a secure, manageable way.
CA’s extensive eBusiness solutions portfolio will be instrumental in helping enterprise customers take advantage of Motorola’s powerful WAP technology solutions, said Janiece Webb, senior vice president and general manager, Internet Software and Content Group, Motorola. The combination of Motorola’s highly adaptable wireless infrastructure and CA’s unique solutions for managing that infrastructure is extremely compelling for organizations that want to move ahead with wireless services.
In addition to WAP, the companies are planning to extend these types of solutions to include other technologies, such as additional mobile data solutions, voice recognition and smart device management.
