Chennai, 7th February 2007 - GoDB Tech Pvt Ltd, a Chennai based Enterprise Mobility Platform Company, today announced that the company has joined the Symbian Platinum Program. This move is to support the growing market for Symbian smartphones and extending GoDB’s platform to the Symbian ecosystem.  Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading OS for smartphones. 

GoDB Tech has developed a platform ”GoDB” which assists rapid development of wireless applications & services for leading smart phones. Using GoDB Platform, developers can reduce the development cycle and shorten the time taken from development stage to the market. GoDB based applications have been deployed at Leading Enterprises in India like ICICI Group, HDFC Limited, HLL, 3M etc.

The GoDB platform currently supports S60 and UIQ software on Symbian OS. As a Platinum Partner, GoDB will work with Symbian to offer: -

a) Enterprise mobility solutions for enterprise customers
b) After market applications targeting end consumers to be sourced through operators, device vendors, ISVs

Symbian will enable GoDB Tech to extend its solution to the above segments through the Symbian ecosystem which includes the leading handset manufactures, network operators and ISVs. According to Mr. Raja Raman CEO of GoDB Tech “With this partnership we will aggressively pursue the opportunity to deploy GoDB based applications on the millions of Symbian smartphones in the market.”
 “With the rapid growth of the smartphone sales, after-market enterprise and consumer solutions have become an important part of the value chain,” said David Wood, executive-vice president, Symbian.
 “The addition of GoDB Tech to the Symbian Platinum Program underscores our joint commitment to bring such solutions to the ever expanding and increasingly sophisticated and successful Symbian OS ecosystem.” 

About Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones.

Symbian licenses Symbian OS to the world’s leading handset manufacturers and has built close co-operative business relationships with leading companies across the mobile industry. During Q3 2006, 13 million Symbian smartphones were sold worldwide to over 250 major network operators. To date, more than 100 million Symbian smartphones have shipped cumulatively.

Symbian has its headquarters in London, United Kingdom with offices in the United States, Europe (England and Sweden (UIQ Technology AB)), Israel and Asia (India, P.R. China, Korea, and Japan).

About the Symbian Platinum Program
The Symbian Platinum Program includes companies that have a technology or strategic position that is integral to the success of mobile computing technology surrounding Symbian OS. As part of the program, Platinum Partners benefit from a range of commercial services, including technical support and joint marketing opportunities as well as privileged access to Symbian OS source code and a dedicated Partner Support team. For more information please log on to 
http://www.symbian.com/partner/platinum/platinum.html

About GoDB Tech
GoDB Tech Private Limited (Formerly Consigntech- Consign Technology Private Limited) started focusing on Mobile technology since 2001 and developed GoDB – Enterprise Mobility Platform. The GoDB Mobile platform assist Enterprises in extending their existing applications like ERP/SFA/SCM (B2B) or M obile Portal (B2C) to Mobile devices like Laptop, PDA phones, Cell phones etc. The GoDB Mobile platform was launched in November 2004. The Enterprise customers in India using GoDB platform includes 3M India, HLL, ICICI Bank, HDFC, ICICI Lombard, Colgate Palmolive, AC Nielsen, Reliance Non life etc

GoDB has also established partner associates in India, UK, Germany, Italy, France, South Africa, Slovakia, US, Columbia, Mexico, China, Greece, Malaysia, Philippines, and the Middle East etc.

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