 To enable the secure transmission of critical business data to mobile workers, Oracle has announced that Oracle(R) Database Lite 10g Release 2 will support Symbian OS(TM), the global open industry standard operating system installed on more than 39 million data-enabled mobile phones.
Oracle and Symbian Partner to Provide Mobile Users
with Access to Critical Business Applications
Oracle's support for Symbian OS will deliver the many benefits of Oracle's
grid technology, including continuous data and application availability, from
the enterprise to mobile workers. Oracle is a Symbian Platinum Partner and
will distribute its mobile database alongside Symbian OS, enabling
interoperability of data-enabled mobile phones with mobile networks,
applications and services. Together, the companies will be able to extend
enterprise applications, such as customer relationship management and sales
force automation to the growing number of Symbian OS-based smartphones
worldwide.
"Symbian's partnership with Oracle is delivering on the promise of
workforce mobile enablement -- improving business user productivity both in,
and away, from the office," said Jerry Panagrossi, vice president of U.S.
operations, Symbian. "The combination of Oracle's market leading mobile
database technology with Symbian's industry leading mobile handset operating
system, Symbian OS, assures that enterprise mobile workers will have access to
all of their mission-critical data when they need it."
Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2 for Symbian OS will enable enterprise
and consumer applications to have data access with high performance and
complex data manipulations. Together, Oracle and Symbian are working with
leading mobile network operators and phone manufacturers, including NTT
DoCoMo, Motorola and Nokia to deliver an integrated solution. Oracle Database
Lite 10g Release 2 is already available on NTT's DoCoMo Business FOMA(R) M1000
environment, Motorola's A1000 and phones based on both of Nokia's Developer
platforms, Series 60 and Series 80 such as Nokia's 9300 and 6630. Oracle is
also working with independent software vendors (ISVs) such as NID-IS,
Softbrain, and TENIK to deliver applications and tools required by businesses
to support their mobile initiatives.
"NTT DoCoMo welcomes Oracle's commitment to the mobile technology and
industry," said Kiyoshi Tokuhiro, Managing Director, Ubiquitous Services
Department, Products & Services Division, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. "By utilizing
DoCoMo's Business FOMA environment, Oracle takes full advantage of development
and validation to adopt Oracle Database Lite 10g for Symbian OS, enabling
people to access all of their critical data whenever they need it. We believe
we are in a position to roll-out development of new, value add services that
will positively impact our enterprise customers and their businesses."
Oracle Database Lite 10g Release 2, which became generally available in
July 2005, boasts significant enhancements that make it easier to create
mobile schemas, deliver high availability options and leverage the Microsoft
.NET development platform. Relying on the Oracle Grid Computing
infrastructure, the mobile database provides customers with a secure and
reliable technology architecture that enables increased performance and
incremental scalability to support thousands of concurrent users.
"Handset vendors and carriers are always looking for new services to
maintain and increase revenue generating opportunities," said Andrew
Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Server Technologies, Oracle.
"Oracle Database Lite provides the perfect high performance, reliable and
secure database to manage handset data to support these new services."
Mobile technologies are no longer simply the domain of sales force and
field service workers, increasingly adopted by industries such as defense,
national security, health care and public safety. With organizations
entrusting their critical data to mobile technology, centralized management,
security and application functionality have become essential as applications
are rolled out to tens of thousands of mobile users.
About Oracle Database Lite 10g
Oracle Database Lite 10g is the first database to extend the power of grid
computing to the mobile workforce. Oracle Database Lite 10g is a complete and
integrated solution for developing and deploying vital database applications
for mobile and embedded environments and delivers features common in mission-
critical systems to mobile and embedded devices. Enabling persistent access
to critical information and applications without requiring continuous
connectivity to back-end enterprise systems, Oracle Database Lite 10g enables
users to increase efficiency, productivity and responsiveness of mobile
workforces, reduces costs, and improves customer satisfaction.
About Oracle
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