To address the issue, iAnywhere Solutions, Inc., a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc., has entered into a strategic agreement with Broadbeam Corporation to enable wireless messaging for m-business applications. Under the terms of the agreement, iAnywhere will license Broadbeam’s ExpressQ™ and SmartIP® wireless applications servers to be used with iAnywhere Solutions’ m-business technology platform. Broadbeam’s Smart IP provides interactive messaging capabilities while ExpressQ provides store-and-forward message queuing capabilities off-line.

The Problem
Many of the existing wireless applications require users to stay connected to a wireless network to access data, which overtime, results in high connections costs, slow application performance, and rapid battery and power consumption.

The All-in-one-Solution
Broadbeam’s wireless applications along with iAnywhere Solutions’ m-business technology platform, which includes iAnywhere Wireless Server and SQL Anywhere Studio, will enhance user productivity as workers will be able to do the following:

• Work either on- or off-line thus always having access to corporate data
• Store-and-forward features when outside of coverage area
• Utilize the synchronization and messaging technologies to exchange data at anytime as well as minimizing the amount of data sent over the network

• Mobile workers can access information and queue up transactions off-line
• Reduce communications costs
• Increase application and battery performance

The licensing agreement will allow iAnywhere Solutions to offer their customers a complete and comprehensive solution for developing and deploying m-business applications.