
Quotes
About Synchronica
"Synchronica is a key player within the emerging open industry messaging market. Its zero footprint software architecture and low TCO proposition for mobile email synchronization to most mobile devices available today represent a major challenge to the proprietary middleware players currently dominating this space."
Emma Mohr McClune
Principal Analyst
Current Analysis
About Mobile Gateway
"We are delighted to partner with Synchronica, as Mobile Gateway is an outstanding product. As a global leader we seek value-added solutions for the global wireless market, and Mobile Gateway is best in class. We see a huge opportunity for push email and synchronization solutions, and Mobile Gateway is sure to generate tremendous interest across the world."
Michael Tate
Vice President, Data Centric and Enterprise
Brightstar Corp.
We expect very high annual growth rates in penetration [for wireless push email] over the next four years, an average of roughly 107 percent per year in growth. And likewise, we expect rapid revenue growth rates in this space as well. We forecast roughly 49 percent of annual average growth in revenue in wireless push email space through to 2011."
Matt Anderson
Senior Analyst
The Radicati Group
"We have always believed that OMA DS and IMAP formed a critical basis for open standards-based vendors to take their slice of the mobile email market. This acquisition [of GoodServer] will open up mobile email and PIM synchronization to the majority of consumer and corporate mobile phones, with the potential for significant incremental mobile data revenues to operators, ISPs, and service providers."
Andrew Brown
Director, Wireless Practice
Strategy Analytics
"We're excited to be working with Synchronica, because this relationship extends Sun's reach beyond the already wide range of desktop clients to a large number of mobile devices. This collaboration also enables our application server developers to build feature-rich and scaleable mobile applications that support both connected and disconnected operations."
Karen Tegan Padir
Vice President, Software Infrastructure
Sun Microsystems
"Unlike other vendors that have opted for either Push IMAP or SyncML for mobile email, Synchronica's Mobile Gateway supports both SyncML and Push IMAP, enabling business and consumer users to benefit from the optimization delivered by both technologies."
Emma Mohr McClune
Principal Analyst
Current Analysis
"Mobile email is on the verge of mass market adoption, and the number of mobilized email accounts will explode over the next three years. Mobile operators have every interest in rolling out mobile email solutions to their networks, and see it as an indispensable element in their competitive strategy. Solutions that are based on open mobile standards, such as Synchronica's Mobile Gateway, are in the best position to take advantage of this growth."
Alaa Owaineh
Associate Analyst
Datamonitor
"We have added the Synchronica Mobile Gateway to our product range, because it is the most competitive solution for the mobile workforce today: over-the-air email, calender, contacts, and tasks. That's mobile freedom for our SME companies."
Eugeen Gruyaert
Director
PCTECH
"Synchronica's Mobile Gateway convinced the jury with its broad field of application. The email push functionality for employees on the road - from Board members to the sales force - is its most desired feature. Unlike other solutions, the Mobile Gateway synchronizes with both Microsoft Exchange Server and Sun Java Enterprise System (JES)., as well as this, all mobile devices compliant with the industry standard SyncML (OMA DS) can be integrated. This encompasses a wide range of devices that is only set to increase in the future. What also speaks well for Synchronica is the easy configuration of the system, as well as the fact that the solution can be applied by both the service provider and the enterprise."
Arne Grävemeyer
Chief Editor
TeleTalk
"Maturing open mobile email standards and notably more aggressive mobility plays among email ASPs will prove to be major catalysts in mobilizing over 15 percent of business inboxes by 2009 and cutting today's USD 30-plus ARPU's in half. By wringing cost, complexity, and IPR uncertainty of out of the solution delivery equation, we see both ASP models and the advent of standards as critical, long-term enablers that will put a good mobile email experience well within reach of the average business user […] Standards pioneers like […] Synchronica […] show significant upside potential in the long term."
Cliff Raskind
Director, Wireless Enterprise Strategies
Strategy Analytics
"If they execute well, newcomers, such as Synchronica […], are well positioned to exploit an expanding base of OMA DS (Open Mobile Alliance Device Sync, formerly SyncML) and eventually P-IMAP-enabled handsets. Open standards promise to deliver services comparable to today's midrange mobile email solutions free of licensing costs, behind-the-firewall servers, and NOCs […] Synchronica has a robust solution leveraging OMA DS and P-IMAP."
Cliff Raskind
Director, Wireless Enterprise Strategies
Strategy Analytics
"Open-standard products promise low cost solutions on a wide range of devices. While the better-known middleware providers fight it out (and push up end-user costs) these vendors, such as Synchronica […], are often providing solutions behind the scenes through tier 2 carriers / ISPs, device vendors within particular geographies, and indirectly through OEMs and VARs. In the case of SyncML / OMA DS-based device management and synchronization (vs. a proprietary solution, such as RIM's BES, for example), there is much less complexity, broader device diversity, and the end-user does not have to do anything themselves […] Synchronica focuses on serverless automated solutions, using carriers and ASPs to host the device management and push email / PIM functionality."
Kathryn Weldon
Principal Analyst, Enterprise Mobility
Current Analysis
"Synchronica has a compelling solution that enhances Ogo's value, and we are excited to be working with them."
Tal Raeside
Vice President, Marketing & Strategic Development
IXI Mobile Inc.
"The internet has become increasingly mobile. Does this mean the internet will conquer the mobile world? We believe that Synchronica's Mobile Gateway has exactly that potential. We are sure that this will become an alternative to popular SMS text messages in Germany."
Dr. Bettina Horster
Head of M-Commerce Task Force
eco Association
About Mobile Manager
"Mobile Manager is a powerful tool that allows customers to easily manage their Windows Mobile devices. This is clearly a key benefit for today's business users whether they are SMEs or large organizations that require complete device control."
Jason Langridge
Mobility Business Manager
Microsoft U.K.
"OTA is becoming increasingly important in the enterprise world where companies are arming their employees with smartphones which often contain confidential data including corporate email, Word and Excel documents and remote access to corporate database information. Synchronica's solution provides a simple and effective way to protect corporate data and the personal privacy of smartphone owners."
David Wood
Executive Vice President, Research
Symbian Ltd.
"Organizations that deploy effective mobile management solutions have 10 to 15 percent lower overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than companies that deploy mobile devices / solutions without a mobile management plan. While TCO varies by device type and application, it is not uncommon to see USD 150 to 250 savings per user per year. With mobile management tools costing USD 50 to 100 per user (depending on functionality and volume), it is clear that mobile management has an attractive ROI."
Jack E. Gold
Founder and Principal Analyst
J. Gold Associates, LLC
"Mobile device management is a key issue. Synchronica's Mobile Device Management products do answer manufacturers', operators', and enterprises' requirement for a software solution that is easy to deploy, yet provides a comprehensive set of capabilities for deploying, managing, and securing a wide range of mobile devices, and for enforcing the policies necessary to protect corporate assets and comply with regulation."
Abraham Joseph
Principal Analyst
Inteligentis
"We wanted to be able to offer our customers an OTA backup and restore facility for their personal data which would mean that a change of phone - either due to loss or upgrading - would not mean losing all their important information. With the Synchronica solution we can provide our customers with seamless data migration from one device to another, quickly and easily. We also liked the fact that Synchronica's software is based on the SyncML open standard, meaning it works on a wide range of devices."
Arne Igesund
Manager of Data Services
NetCom
"It can take a user who has lost a device upwards of three months to restore their contacts, thus taking upwards of three months to return to previous revenue-generating call levels and text messaging."
Mobile Data Backup
Monetizing User Content
Zelos Group





