Axeda and GlobalSoft Integrate Data with SAP CRM and ERP
Axeda is a leading provider of cloud-based service and software for managing connected products and delivering machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. GlobalSoft is an SAP Gold Certified partner — bringing deep functional and technical expertise in SAP CRM, ERP, Analytics and Mobility and providing SAP customers a range of ready-to-run solutions in the customer facing applications area.
With a significant number of organizations looking to leverage crucial equipment/asset data to better service their customers, GlobalSoft has pioneered an integration kit that enables connected asset data from Axeda to interact with SAP CRM and ERP in a seamless manner.
"Enterprise systems such as ERP and CRM have struggled to evolve and become more nimble," said Michael Maoz, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner, Inc. "If they do, they have the opportunity to serve their customers beyond their original purpose. The more data that they are able to integrate with, analyze, and make useful, the more they become an indispensable 'system of record' for their customers."
By connecting real-time product data from the Axeda® Platform to SAP, information such as asset owner, location, product configuration, health status, usage, inventory levels and alerts automatically populates in the SAP CRM Contact Center. This data can automatically trigger business process workflows such as automated service ticket/case creation, pay-per-use billing, warranty management, replenishment of consumables, compliance management, product recalls, planned maintenance and more.
"In close collaboration with SAP and Axeda, GlobalSoft Solutions is excited to offer an integration solution for various use case scenarios that can be leveraged by SAP customers who are running ERP or CRM or BI or SCM. Organizations looking to integrate SAP with Axeda could immediately leverage this easy-to-deploy solution kit," said Santosh Menon, President, GlobalSoft Solutions. "The solution is configurable, scalable and easy to maintain — helping organizations achieve integration across various use cases in a matter of days, and creating additional value for clients who have invested in SAP and Axeda."
From Consume to Cash (C2), to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) and SAP's business analytics capabilities, enterprise-wide business processes can be optimized with high-value connected product data.
"We see a major trend emerging to integrate connected product data with enterprise business systems," said Keith Bartlett, vice president of business development, Axeda. "This is a continuation of our strategy to enable our customers' competitiveness through connectivity and collaboration. In particular, M2M data increases the value of SAP CRM and ERP systems for many of our large enterprise customers. From campaign management, to customer service and support, to inventory management and business analytics, detailed operational product data can help optimize nearly every facet of their business."
The Axeda platform accelerates integration with third-party enterprise systems due to its open architecture built on standards-based technology and built-in Web Services for two-way communications. It is uniquely qualified to handle the complex requirements for M2M solutions, such as managing multiple types of connections and assets, processing massive amounts of unstructured data, and providing enterprise grade scalability and security.
About Axeda
Axeda provides cloud-based service and software for managing connected products and implementing innovative M2M application — taking the cost and complexity out of connecting and remotely servicing the products of the world's leading companies. Axeda customers use its M2M cloud service to deliver innovative M2M solutions and optimize their business processes with data from their connected products.
By relying on the Axeda® Platform to power their connected products, companies are transforming their business by improving customer satisfaction, reducing costs, and generating new sources of revenue. The M2M solutions behind these connected products range from remote service, fleet management, usage-based insurance, asset tracking, mHealth, and more. Join Axeda's developer community at: http://developer.axeda.com. Learn more about Axeda at www.axeda.com.
About GlobalSoft Solutions
GlobalSoft Solutions is a Gold Certified SAP Services Partner with experience in implementing SAP suite of solutions in the area of CRM, Analytics, Mobility and ERP. With its ready-to-run pre-configured suite of CRM solutions and integration kit that adds immediate value to clients, GlobalSoft has delivered cost-effective solutions to clients in diversified industries. GlobalSoft's group comprise staff with decades of SAP implementation experience across various processes such as lead to cash, contact to care, procure to pay and demand to storage. Learn more about GlobalSoft's SAP and integration competencies at: http://globalsoft-solutions.com/.
Source: Axeda
Axeda and GlobalSoft Integrate Data with SAP CRM and ERP
Axeda is a leading provider of cloud-based service and software for managing connected products and delivering machine-to-machine (M2M) applications. GlobalSoft is an SAP Gold Certified partner — bringing deep functional and technical expertise in SAP CRM, ERP, Analytics and Mobility and providing SAP customers a range of ready-to-run solutions in the customer facing applications area.
With a significant number of organizations looking to leverage crucial equipment/asset data to better service their customers, GlobalSoft has pioneered an integration kit that enables connected asset data from Axeda to interact with SAP CRM and ERP in a seamless manner.
"Enterprise systems such as ERP and CRM have struggled to evolve and become more nimble," said Michael Maoz, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner, Inc. "If they do, they have the opportunity to serve their customers beyond their original purpose. The more data that they are able to integrate with, analyze, and make useful, the more they become an indispensable 'system of record' for their customers."
By connecting real-time product data from the Axeda® Platform to SAP, information such as asset owner, location, product configuration, health status, usage, inventory levels and alerts automatically populates in the SAP CRM Contact Center. This data can automatically trigger business process workflows such as automated service ticket/case creation, pay-per-use billing, warranty management, replenishment of consumables, compliance management, product recalls, planned maintenance and more.
"In close collaboration with SAP and Axeda, GlobalSoft Solutions is excited to offer an integration solution for various use case scenarios that can be leveraged by SAP customers who are running ERP or CRM or BI or SCM. Organizations looking to integrate SAP with Axeda could immediately leverage this easy-to-deploy solution kit," said Santosh Menon, President, GlobalSoft Solutions. "The solution is configurable, scalable and easy to maintain — helping organizations achieve integration across various use cases in a matter of days, and creating additional value for clients who have invested in SAP and Axeda."
From Consume to Cash (C2), to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), High-Performance Analytic Appliance (HANA) and SAP's business analytics capabilities, enterprise-wide business processes can be optimized with high-value connected product data.
"We see a major trend emerging to integrate connected product data with enterprise business systems," said Keith Bartlett, vice president of business development, Axeda. "This is a continuation of our strategy to enable our customers' competitiveness through connectivity and collaboration. In particular, M2M data increases the value of SAP CRM and ERP systems for many of our large enterprise customers. From campaign management, to customer service and support, to inventory management and business analytics, detailed operational product data can help optimize nearly every facet of their business."
The Axeda platform accelerates integration with third-party enterprise systems due to its open architecture built on standards-based technology and built-in Web Services for two-way communications. It is uniquely qualified to handle the complex requirements for M2M solutions, such as managing multiple types of connections and assets, processing massive amounts of unstructured data, and providing enterprise grade scalability and security.
About Axeda
Axeda provides cloud-based service and software for managing connected products and implementing innovative M2M application — taking the cost and complexity out of connecting and remotely servicing the products of the world's leading companies. Axeda customers use its M2M cloud service to deliver innovative M2M solutions and optimize their business processes with data from their connected products.
By relying on the Axeda® Platform to power their connected products, companies are transforming their business by improving customer satisfaction, reducing costs, and generating new sources of revenue. The M2M solutions behind these connected products range from remote service, fleet management, usage-based insurance, asset tracking, mHealth, and more. Join Axeda's developer community at: http://developer.axeda.com. Learn more about Axeda at www.axeda.com.
About GlobalSoft Solutions
GlobalSoft Solutions is a Gold Certified SAP Services Partner with experience in implementing SAP suite of solutions in the area of CRM, Analytics, Mobility and ERP. With its ready-to-run pre-configured suite of CRM solutions and integration kit that adds immediate value to clients, GlobalSoft has delivered cost-effective solutions to clients in diversified industries. GlobalSoft's group comprise staff with decades of SAP implementation experience across various processes such as lead to cash, contact to care, procure to pay and demand to storage. Learn more about GlobalSoft's SAP and integration competencies at: http://globalsoft-solutions.com/.
Source: Axeda
DN2K Creates HTML5 Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Platform for Mobile Devices
Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), HTML5 is a core technology of the Internet. Microsoft has announced that Windows 8.0 will be based on HTML5 and many developers such as Apple, Google and Pandora Internet Radio have also announced their commitment to the technology. In addition to supporting major mobile devices such as Android, iPhone and iPad, HTML5 offers superior graphics, video and audio performance while enabling cross-platform portability.
"There's a storm of new advanced applications and systems that are using HTML5 as the core technology," said Vince Cook, retired IBM Corporate Officer and industry consultant. "By using HTML5, DN2K's solution offers cross-platform flexibility for business and industrial applications. Previously, these applications required companies to rewrite a significant portion of their software to run on new systems."
DN2K's solution can securely extend the functionality, user interface and controls of business applications to secure mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. This opens up large opportunities in new markets for application developers, without the need to rewrite application code. For instance, Gartner projects that the number of tablets shipped worldwide will be over 100 million by the end of 2012, and will increase to 394 million tablets by the end of 2015.
"DN2K has committed to HTML5 for one of our key technologies and we are expanding our development team with HTML5 experts," said Susan Lambert, President and COO of DN2K. "Our solution will offer any business or industrial application provider a way to future-proof their native applications by enabling functionality on virtually any device, including the new wave of smartphones and tablets."
About DN2K
Founded in 2011, the DN2K team has over 12 years' experience in developing software-based systems that can remotely monitor, display and control important assets. DN2K brings visibility and control to a new level by offering a secure M2M Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that performs real-time aggregation of data from business applications, global SCADA systems, sensors and probes from different manufacturers into single view.
DN2K takes large amounts of data from sources throughout an enterprise and turns them into a highly visual information display accessible from laptops, smart phones and tablets. DN2K Also enables this information to be shared with others in real-time.
DN2K primarily serves enterprise, oil and gas, agriculture, smart grid, electric power, utilities and industrial sectors worldwide.
Source: DN2K
DN2K Creates HTML5 Monitoring and Analytics Cloud Platform for Mobile Devices
Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), HTML5 is a core technology of the Internet. Microsoft has announced that Windows 8.0 will be based on HTML5 and many developers such as Apple, Google and Pandora Internet Radio have also announced their commitment to the technology. In addition to supporting major mobile devices such as Android, iPhone and iPad, HTML5 offers superior graphics, video and audio performance while enabling cross-platform portability.
"There's a storm of new advanced applications and systems that are using HTML5 as the core technology," said Vince Cook, retired IBM Corporate Officer and industry consultant. "By using HTML5, DN2K's solution offers cross-platform flexibility for business and industrial applications. Previously, these applications required companies to rewrite a significant portion of their software to run on new systems."
DN2K's solution can securely extend the functionality, user interface and controls of business applications to secure mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. This opens up large opportunities in new markets for application developers, without the need to rewrite application code. For instance, Gartner projects that the number of tablets shipped worldwide will be over 100 million by the end of 2012, and will increase to 394 million tablets by the end of 2015.
"DN2K has committed to HTML5 for one of our key technologies and we are expanding our development team with HTML5 experts," said Susan Lambert, President and COO of DN2K. "Our solution will offer any business or industrial application provider a way to future-proof their native applications by enabling functionality on virtually any device, including the new wave of smartphones and tablets."
About DN2K
Founded in 2011, the DN2K team has over 12 years' experience in developing software-based systems that can remotely monitor, display and control important assets. DN2K brings visibility and control to a new level by offering a secure M2M Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that performs real-time aggregation of data from business applications, global SCADA systems, sensors and probes from different manufacturers into single view.
DN2K takes large amounts of data from sources throughout an enterprise and turns them into a highly visual information display accessible from laptops, smart phones and tablets. DN2K Also enables this information to be shared with others in real-time.
DN2K primarily serves enterprise, oil and gas, agriculture, smart grid, electric power, utilities and industrial sectors worldwide.
Source: DN2K
Cellocator Fleet Management Services Selects Cinterion
Cellocator, a Pointer Telocation Save division, is a leading Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) technology provider with more than 750,000 units installed in over 55 countries. CelloFamily all-in-one, compact-sized products leverage Cinterion-powered communications with intelligent telematics to help fleet managers, insurance companies and car manufacturers optimize operations, increase vehicle security and improve driver safety.
CelloFamily products integrate the newest release of Cinterion's solderable Land Grid Array (LGA) BGS3 module, which provides reliable Internet communication over cellular networks. The module's sophisticated jamming detection enables enhanced security features and immediate alarm notification if communication interference is detected. In addition, its extremely low power consumption prolongs module use in the field, while the industrial grade operating temperature range ensures reliability in the most extreme environments. Combining ubiquitous GPS and Cinterion-powered cellular communications, CelloFamily fleet management solutions enable route planning, driver management, vehicle access control, event prioritization and other AVL services. Advanced CelloFamily solutions add leading-edge tools for vehicle security and recovery of stolen assets.
"CelloFamily products required a reliable module with advanced jamming detection that can be quickly integrated for mass market deployment," said Norbert Muhrer, CEO, Cinterion. "Cinterion's BGS3 offers an ideal feature set for secure telematics and its flexible solderable surface mounting enables precise process manufacturing with very little waste to help lower total cost of ownership for our customers."
"To improve the efficiency of our solution, we selected Cinterion as our communications partner for its high quality modules with field proven reliability and for the company's engineering know-how and support services that set them apart," said Noam Cimand, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Cellocator. "We look forward to expanding our partnership in the future by integrating Cinterion's leading modules in additional Cellocator product lines."
About Cinterion, a Gemalto Company
A Machine-to-Machine (M2M) industry pioneer and market leader for more than 15 years, Cinterion gives customers the confidence to excel in a complex M2M ecosystem through the foundations of expertise, security, simplicity and partnership. Cinterion's award-winning products and services allow a wide range of connected machines, equipment, vehicles and other assets to securely communicate over wireless networks, helping enterprises simplify operations, increase efficiency and establish new business models.
Cinterion is a valued partner for equipment makers, integrators, MNOs, and end-users, offering unique competence in combining wireless M2M modules with Machine Identification Modules (MIM), MIM personalization capabilities, cloud-based Service Delivery Platform for M2M applications and device management platforms in a trusted and secure environment. Cinterion products power M2M technology for diverse vertical markets including: automotive, tracking and tracing, industrial mobile computing, metering and smart grid, payment systems, healthcare, security systems, routers and gateways, remote maintenance and control and more.
About Gemalto
Gemalto is the world leader in digital security with 2011 annual revenues of EUR2 billion and more than 10,000 employees operating out of 74 offices and 14 Research & Development centers in 43 countries.
Gemalto develops secure software that runs on trusted devices which we design and personalize. We manage these devices, the confidential data they contain and the services they enable, throughout their life cycle. We innovate so that our clients can offer more ways of enhancing the convenience and security of their end-users' digital lives.
About Pointer Telocation
Pointer is a leading supplier of MRM (Mobile Resource Management) for the motor vehicle industry. The combination of technological supremacy and innovation enables Pointer to develop and manufacture unique communications solutions to meet customers' needs. The Company provides a range of services to insurance companies and vehicle owners, including road services, car towing, locating stolen cars, managing vehicle fleets, safety products and other value added services.
Pointer has grown in recent years also through successful implementation of acquisitions in Israel and in Argentina and establishing business branches and partnerships in Mexico, Romania and Brazil. In April 2004, the Company acquired the assets and operations of Shagrir Ltd., and in 2007 the Company acquired the assets and operations of Cellocator. Pointer has offices in Israel, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Romania.
Pointer has a growing list of customers and products installed in more than 45 countries. Among the Company customers are insurance companies that offer or require towing services and locating services of vehicles as part of the insurance policies they sell. Pointer shares are traded on NASDAQ (PNTR) and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (PNTR). The Company's top management and the development center are located in the Afek Industrial Area of RoshHa'ayin.
Source: Marketwire
National Health Service (NHS) Selects MaaS360 for Mobile Device Management
Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chose MaaS360 over MobileIron and AirWatch due to its speed, simplicity and ease of use. With a commitment to improving patient outcomes and efficiency, Ashford and St. Peter's is leveraging mobile devices to access, manage and modify documents in order to streamline its management processes.
James House, health informatics engineer at Ashford and St. Peter's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, commented, "The NHS guidelines cement Ashford and St. Peter's prior conviction that no NHS trust should distribute mobile devices without having first deployed an MDM solution. Too many public sector organisations have been embroiled in data loss crises in recent years for the NHS trusts to approach this issue without careful consideration. When investigating which MDM solution was best for our requirements, we found MaaS360 to be the best solution by far. Fiberlink is attentive to our needs and MaaS360 has proven fast to deploy with a simple user interface."
The NHS provides its trusts with recommended supplier lists for most services, and technology is no different. MDM, however, is such a new field that the NHS is yet to draw up such a list, leaving trusts to investigate the technology independently. The NHS does, however, supply guidelines for the use of tablets and Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have found that MaaS360 is crucial to ensuring that they are using devices within these important rules.
MaaS360 enables Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to:
- Deploy tablets with passcode and encryption enforcement enabled
- Provide a standardized OS and firmware version, together with current security updates
- Restrict and remove unwanted applications and services
- Distribute authorized applications
- Whitelist, blacklist and enforce the status of required applications
- Provision over-the-air Wi-Fi and VPN profiles to access health data with the ability to restrict devices to specific trusted networks
- Distribute sensitive documents in a secure container with centralized management
- Perform remote device wipe for lost or stolen devices which may have contained or had access to sensitive information
Alan Giles, Fiberlink EMEA managing director, said, "We are really excited by this project with Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and expect this to be the first in a long line of NHS and wider public service contracts. MaaS360 exists to ensure that employees can work with the greatest amount of flexibility, whilst ensuring that employers are able to maintain a high level of security and control where it is really necessary. We are well aware of the sensitivity around data within all areas of the public sector and we are on hand to provide the perfect solution."
About Fiberlink
Fiberlink is the recognized leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for secure enterprise mobile device and application management. Its cloud-based MaaS360 platform provides IT organizations with mobility intelligence and control over mobile devices, applications and content to enhance the mobile user experience and keep corporate data secure across smartphones, tablets and laptops. MaaS360 helps companies monitor the expanding suite of mobile operating systems, including Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. Named by Network World as the Clear Choice Test winner for mobile device management solutions and honored with the 2012 Global Mobile Award for "Best Enterprise Mobile Service" at Mobile World Congress, MaaS360 is used to manage and secure more than one million endpoints globally. For more information, please visit http://www.maas360.com.
Elecsys Corporation Reports Third Quarter Financial Results
Sales for the quarter were $5,218,000, a decrease of 15%, or $891,000, from $6,109,000, in the third quarter of fiscal 2012. Total sales year-to-date increased 2%, or $254,000, to $17,024,000. The decrease in total sales for the quarter was the result of lower EDMS sales slightly offset by increases from overall sales growth in our proprietary products and services.
Operating income for the quarter was $473,000, compared to operating income of $429,000 for the same quarter in the prior year. For the first nine months of fiscal 2012, operating income grew to $1,344,000 from $929,000 reported in the first nine months of fiscal 2011.
Net income was $262,000, or $0.07 per diluted share, for the quarter ended January 31, 2012, the same as the third quarter of the previous year. For the nine-month period ended January 31, 2012, net income grew to $754,000, or $0.19 per diluted share, while for the comparable prior year period net income was $470,000, or $0.12 per diluted share.
Sales of proprietary products and services were $2,553,000 for the quarter ended January 31, 2012, an increase of 7%, or $164,000. Year-to-date proprietary product sales also increased by 7%, to $7,276,000 for the nine-month period ended January 31, 2012 compared to $6,782,000 in the comparable period of the prior fiscal year. Sales of wireless remote monitoring and industrial communication solutions increased 6%, or $114,000, from the previous year to $1,884,000 for the current quarter. The overall increase in sales of remote monitoring equipment and services was driven by an increase in customer orders combined with an increase in recurring data management services. The Company's Radix handheld mobile computing and eXtremeTAG RFID solutions reported an increase in sales of 9%, or $47,000, compared to the comparable period of the prior fiscal year. The increase was due to increases in sales of both our Radix FW950 handheld computers and eXtremeTAG RFID solutions.
Sales for the Company's Electronic Design and Manufacturing Services ("EDMS") business segment decreased by 28%, or $1,055,000, to approximately $2,665,000 for the quarter ended January 31, 2012, from $3,720,000 in the prior fiscal year. The decrease was the result of reduced sales to some existing customers due to uncertain economic conditions and the elimination of certain lower margin customers stemming from efforts to improve overall EDMS gross margins. Fiscal year-to-date EDMS sales were $9,748,000, a slight decrease of 2%, or $240,000, from $9,988,000 in the nine-month period ended January 31, 2011.
The Company expects that total sales for its proprietary products and services will continue to increase over the next few quarters. Increases in proprietary product sales will primarily be driven by wireless remote monitoring and secure industrial communication solutions but also by potential sales growth in our Radix rugged handheld computers and eXtremeTAG RFID solutions. The Company believes that its renewed investment in EDMS sales and marketing, along with its focus on adding customers that will benefit from its proprietary technologies, will lead to moderate EDMS sales and margin growth over the next few quarters.
Total backlog at January 31, 2012 was approximately $9,953,000, an increase of $4,195,000, or 73%, from a total backlog of $5,758,000 on April 30, 2011. The increase in backlog was largely due to an increase in EDMS bookings during previous quarters offset by a decreased proprietary product backlog. EDMS orders typically specify several deliveries scheduled over a defined period of time while our proprietary products are usually shipped to the customer soon after orders are received.
Gross margin for the quarter ended January 31, 2012 was approximately 38%, or $1,990,000, versus 34%, or $2,048,000 for the quarter ended January 31, 2011. Gross margin for the nine-month period also increased to 36% of sales, or $6,091,000 from a gross margin of 33% of sales or $5,522,000 from the nine-month period ended January 31, 2011. The increase in gross margin percentage was a function of the overall increase in proprietary product sales volume combined with the reduction of less profitable EDMS accounts.
Total selling, general and administrative expenses were approximately $1,517,000 during the quarter ended January 31, 2012 compared with $1,619,000 in the comparable quarter of the prior fiscal year. The decrease of $102,000, or 6%, was the result of decreases in research and development costs and general and administrative expenses along with an increase in sales and marketing expenses. Research and development expenses were lower due to a reduction in contract labor costs and lower support engineering expenses. General and administrative expenses also posted a reduction in costs during the period primarily due to the expirations of a royalty agreement and an office lease from prior product line acquisitions. The increase in sales and marketing expenses was attributable to the addition of an EDMS sales representative and increased travel costs. Selling, general and administrative expenses totaled $4,747,000 and $4,593,000, for the nine-month periods ended January 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.
Karl B. Gemperli, Chief Executive Officer, stated, "Elecsys continued to demonstrate solid performance during the third quarter as we enhanced our gross margins, expanded our order backlog and delivered our seventh consecutive profitable quarter. Although overall sales decreased from the third quarter of last year, sales of our proprietary products continued to grow and gross margin exceeded 38% of sales during the quarter. As we strategically build the profitability of our custom electronic design and manufacturing service business, we are actively developing long-term relationships with OEM's that value our innovative wireless M2M and display technologies while we ceased doing business with certain lower-margin customers."
Gemperli continued, "As we continue the transformation of Elecsys into a global M2M technology provider, we remain committed to expanding both our market presence and the breadth of our product offering. We will continue developing new and enhanced industrial M2M products and solutions, a key component of future expansion for both our proprietary product and custom OEM markets. In conjunction with new product and technology investment, our continuing business development initiatives are focused on both expanding applications for our products into new industry segments and increasing our business in developing international markets with attractive new business potential. Although the direction of the economy is difficult to predict, we remain focused on growing our company and expect positive trends in both revenues and earnings during the coming quarters."
About Elecsys Corporation
Elecsys Corporation provides innovative data acquisition systems, machine to machine (M2M) communication technology solutions, and custom electronic equipment for critical industrial applications worldwide. The Company's primary markets include energy, agriculture, safety and security systems, water management, and transportation. Elecsys proprietary equipment and services encompass rugged remote monitoring, industrial wireless communication, mobile computing, and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies that are deployed wherever high quality and reliability are essential.
Source: PRNewswire
Autovision Wireless Acquires SFT Telematics
SFT has been in business since 1998 and provides M2M services to several thousand subscribers in Canada and the USA. The terminals operate over cellular and satellite networks across North America.
Elaine Perri, the GM of SFT said "We are extremely excited with the acquisition as it provides us with a wider portfolio of products and services that complement our existing product lines. Our customers will benefit from the fleet management expertise that AutoVision brings to this acquisition and their depth in software development will enable us to enrich our services."
"The acquisition of SFT will strengthen our presence in Western Canada, primarily in the Oil and Gas Industry. SFT's diverse customer base will position us well as the global demand for Canada's natural resources continues to grow." said Mukhtar Rahemtulla, CEO of Autovision Wireless.
All SFT services will continue to be offered and the SMARTFLEET trademark and brand will also continue.
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Source: AutoVision Wireless Inc.
National Health Service (NHS) Selects MaaS360 for Mobile Device Management
Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust chose MaaS360 over MobileIron and AirWatch due to its speed, simplicity and ease of use. With a commitment to improving patient outcomes and efficiency, Ashford and St. Peter's is leveraging mobile devices to access, manage and modify documents in order to streamline its management processes.
James House, health informatics engineer at Ashford and St. Peter's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, commented, "The NHS guidelines cement Ashford and St. Peter's prior conviction that no NHS trust should distribute mobile devices without having first deployed an MDM solution. Too many public sector organisations have been embroiled in data loss crises in recent years for the NHS trusts to approach this issue without careful consideration. When investigating which MDM solution was best for our requirements, we found MaaS360 to be the best solution by far. Fiberlink is attentive to our needs and MaaS360 has proven fast to deploy with a simple user interface."
The NHS provides its trusts with recommended supplier lists for most services, and technology is no different. MDM, however, is such a new field that the NHS is yet to draw up such a list, leaving trusts to investigate the technology independently. The NHS does, however, supply guidelines for the use of tablets and Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have found that MaaS360 is crucial to ensuring that they are using devices within these important rules.
MaaS360 enables Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to:
- Deploy tablets with passcode and encryption enforcement enabled
- Provide a standardized OS and firmware version, together with current security updates
- Restrict and remove unwanted applications and services
- Distribute authorized applications
- Whitelist, blacklist and enforce the status of required applications
- Provision over-the-air Wi-Fi and VPN profiles to access health data with the ability to restrict devices to specific trusted networks
- Distribute sensitive documents in a secure container with centralized management
- Perform remote device wipe for lost or stolen devices which may have contained or had access to sensitive information
Alan Giles, Fiberlink EMEA managing director, said, "We are really excited by this project with Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and expect this to be the first in a long line of NHS and wider public service contracts. MaaS360 exists to ensure that employees can work with the greatest amount of flexibility, whilst ensuring that employers are able to maintain a high level of security and control where it is really necessary. We are well aware of the sensitivity around data within all areas of the public sector and we are on hand to provide the perfect solution."
About Fiberlink
Fiberlink is the recognized leader in software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for secure enterprise mobile device and application management. Its cloud-based MaaS360 platform provides IT organizations with mobility intelligence and control over mobile devices, applications and content to enhance the mobile user experience and keep corporate data secure across smartphones, tablets and laptops. MaaS360 helps companies monitor the expanding suite of mobile operating systems, including Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone. Named by Network World as the Clear Choice Test winner for mobile device management solutions and honored with the 2012 Global Mobile Award for "Best Enterprise Mobile Service" at Mobile World Congress, MaaS360 is used to manage and secure more than one million endpoints globally. For more information, please visit http://www.maas360.com.
Axeda Gives Customers More Choice with New Axeda Ready Devices
By enabling more devices and services to quickly and easily integrate with the Axeda Machine Cloud, the Axeda Ready program broadens the device options available to customers – allowing them to select the right communication device for their environment. For device manufacturers, Axeda Ready provides a testing and implementation program that validates their connectivity via the Axeda agent protocol or their own device protocol. The program includes development and certification of Axeda Codecs (protocol translators) that leverage the Axeda AnyDevice Service to enable device makers to connect to Axeda using their own device protocol.
"New business strategies offering connected services will rely on a diverse and broad array of devices and our customers want M2M platform solutions that give them the flexibility to use any device type," said Bill Zujewski, executive vice president of product strategy and marketing at Axeda. "The Axeda Ready program was created to enable easy connectivity using a long list of popular M2M communication devices for equipment, consumer products, fleets, smart homes, smart hospitals, smart cities and the Internet of Corporate Things ™. Our M2M application enablement platform is not tied to a single device like most of our competitors, but instead delivers a future-proof multi-device approach."
"Solutions that help simplify the process for manufacturers and remove time, cost, and complexity from developing a connected product solution will be the key force behind the industry's continued growth," said Sam Lucero, senior principal analyst for M2M research at IHS. "We expect the installed base of cellular connected devices in M2M applications to grow to approximately 327 million connections globally by 2016. This growth will be increasingly characterized by an evolution from standalone 'point solutions' to multi-vendor interoperability and then to a truly inter-connected 'Internet of Things'."
Axeda Ready Raises the bar in the connected product ecosystem. Axeda Ready products include:
- CalAmp' LMU 3000
- Danlaw's DataLogger 250/450/750
- GlobalSat's TR-151
- Lantronix's PremierWave XC and XN
- Multi-Tech Systems' MultiConnect™ OCG
- RF Monolithics' RFM LG2430E
- Xirgo's XT-2060G, XT-4760G, XT5060G
About Axeda
Axeda provides cloud-based service and software for managing connected products and implementing innovative M2M application — taking the cost and complexity out of connecting and remotely servicing the products of the world's leading companies. Axeda customers use its M2M cloud service to deliver innovative M2M solutions and optimize their business processes with data from their connected products.
By relying on the Axeda® Platform to power their connected products, companies are transforming their business by improving customer satisfaction, reducing costs, and generating new sources of revenue. The M2M solutions behind these connected products range from remote service, fleet management, usage-based insurance, asset tracking, mHealth, and more. Join Axeda's developer community at: http://developer.axeda.com. Learn more about Axeda at www.axeda.com.
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