Nokia, IBM join hands for mobility solutions

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Nokia India and IBM today announced their collaboration to deliver business mobility solutions to Indian enterprises.

Building on their global alliance for business mobility, Nokia and IBM also shared an update on the deployment of IBM Lotus Notes Traveler for Nokia smartphones highlighting substantial traction among Indian enterprises, said a press release.

The solution, which delivers direct, secure access to email and personal information via organizations’ IBM Domino servers, is now available for Nokia Symbian S60 smartphones, the release added.

Nokia and IBM said the solution has undergone large-scale deployment at leading Indian enterprises including Asian Paints, Max New York Life, Britannia, Subros, Amtek Auto, Usha International Ltd. and Havells etc.

“IT directors are being pressurized to deploy business mobility solutions such as email, IM and intranet access for more employees, but without incurring high costs on additional middleware, licenses and maintenance,” said V Ramnath, Director Operator Channels for Nokia India.

“IBM Lotus Notes Traveler gives business professionals easy, secure and real-time access to their email boxes, corporate contacts and corporate calendar on their Nokia smartphones. Direct access mail also drastically reduces the cost of managing and maintaining servers,” he added.

IBM said this association will be a milestone towards smarter business mobility.

“The ability to connect securely to business email is an example of Tomorrow at Work, an IBM initiative that examines a changing work environment and anticipates trends in technology, business, society and culture,” said Pradeep Nair, director — Software Group, IBM India/South Asia.

According to industry reports, India will continue to remain the world’s second largest wireless market after China in terms of mobile connections with mobile connections expected to grow by 27.3 per cent in 2010 to exceed 660 million. Mobile service revenue is also expected to reach $19.8 billion by the end of 2010 up 19.7 per cent from 2009; by 2014 it is expected to exceed $23 billion.