XcelleNet's Mobile Infrastructure Technology & Intel LANDesk Mobile Manager Suite Team

XcelleNet's Afaria Extends Reach of Intel LANDesk to Mobile Devices
XcelleNet, Inc., a leading provider of Mobile Infrastructure solutions and expertise, today announced that Intel Corporation and XcelleNet, Inc. have collaborated to create an enterprise wide mobile management solution which will extend the reach of the award winning Intel®LANDesk® Management Suite of products to mobile PC and PDA devices. Launched today, the Intel®LANDesk® Mobile Manager, combines the mobile infrastructure technology of XcelleNet's award winning Afaria product with Intel's desktop management solution. The Intel LANDesk Mobile Manager will enable IT managers to quickly and cost effectively incorporate critical device management and data synchronization features into their enterprise infrastructure support network for mobile PCs, handheld PDA and other mobile wireless devices.

"We needed a state-of-the-art and reliable mobile infrastructure technology to act as the backbone of our first mobile device management offering," said Robert Naegle, director of marketing development, Intel Software Products and Services Division. "XcelleNet brought a combination of solid industry experience and strong infrastructure technology to the table. XcelleNet's Afaria enables the Intel LANDesk Suite to extend its reach to mobile devices."

The number of workers who depend on mobile devices for access to critical business information and applications is increasing significantly. XcelleNet, with a long history of providing software and services for mobile business, offers award-winning mobile infrastructure technology and solutions that enable users to inventory and view mobile devices, distribute and maintain software, deploy and synchronize handheld databases with corporate groupware and enterprise data, enforce system configuration, and backup and restore critical information from laptops to PDAs to smartphones. 

"With the explosive growth of wireless devices, enterprises have been forced to combine the products of several vendors to build a comprehensive infrastructure management solution," said Ronni Colville, research director, Gartner Group. "Combining the configuration management and synchronization features of XcelleNet's mobile infrastructure technology with Intel's LANDesk Management Suite will offer enterprises the ability to manage their network PCs, laptops and mobile devices from one central console. XcelleNet and Intel are showing progressive technology development in responding to this growing market need."

XcelleNet's infrastructure technology enables the Intel LANDesk Mobile Manager to extend mobile device support to a variety of operating environments, including Windows 32bit laptops, Windows CE / Pocket PC, and Palm devices, and to provide advanced mobile optimization capabilities such as bandwidth throttling, checkpoint restart, byte-level, segmented delivery and opportunistic execution. The collaboration with Intel enables XcelleNet to reach thousands of LANDesk customers and prospects with its mobile infrastructure technology through Intel's well-established channels of distribution. 

"During the past year we have seen a dramatic shift in our market, with most organizations realizing the need for solutions that enable them to control every aspect of their mobile devices, from installing new software to updating applications to tracking mobile devices to synching data," said Joan Herbig, CEO of XcelleNet. "We are delighted to be working with Intel to help power its first mobile device management solution. Bringing together two best-of-breed solutions such as the Intel LANDesk Management Suite and XcelleNet mobile infrastructure provides users with a comprehensive management solution for mobile devices, laptops and LAN environments."

About XcelleNet
XcelleNet, Inc. is the leading provider of Mobile Infrastructure solutions and expertise. For 15 years, XcelleNet has been on the leading edge of helping companies build business solutions that guarantee the continuous flow of information across a widespread computing environment to a broad range of device types. XcelleNet today meets the challenges of mobile deployments by providing solutions that (1) gain control over a myriad of devices, from laptops to PDAs to smartphones (2) maintain corporate applications (3) ensure currency of data (4) enable communications over diverse networks and (5) enforce security policies to protect corporate data. Industry leaders such as Schering-Plough, Federated Insurance, American Association for Lutherans, BNP, Coinstar, Blockbuster, Clark Shoes, Hercules Incorporated, TVF, American Greetings, Novartis, Schwarz Pharma, Movie Gallery and Chick-fil-A are just a few of the more than 2,500 customers worldwide benefiting from XcelleNet's products. XcelleNet's partners include technology leaders such as Microsoft, HP, Casio, Verizon IT, Symbol, RIM, Palm, and Handspring.

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MobileInfo Comments and Advisory:  This is a good win for XcelleNet.