Antenna Software and Cingular Wireless to Deliver Innovative Mobile Enterprise Data Solutions; Antenna Joins Cingular Data Solution Providers Program; A3 Solutions Certified for the Nationwide Cingular GSM/GPRS/EDGE Network.JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Antenna Software Inc., the largest privately held mobile enterprise solutions provider in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , announced today that it has aligned with Cingular Wireless through its Data Solution Providers Program to deliver fully certified GSM/GPRS/EDGE-powered mobile enterprise data solutions for Cingular Wireless' nationwide(a) wireless data network. With this certification, Cingular customers now have access to Antenna A3 ready-to-deploy mobile solutions that are fully integrated into leading business systems such as Siebel, SAP, J.D. Edwards (J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, CO, www.jdedwards.com) A developer of multinational, integrated enterprise software for distribution, finance, human resources, manufacturing and supply chain management. , ClarifyCRM and Oracle. Antenna A3 allows companies to automate and extend into a mobile environment the complex daily business processes of field service, sales and other strategic, mobile organizations so that customers can enjoy maximum reliability, performance and transaction integrity. Antenna A3 is supported on a wide range of popular devices enabled for Cingular's GPRS/EDGE wireless data network to deliver a customized solution that ensures a consistent, common end user experience. Handheld devices supported by Antenna A3 mobile solutions include those from industry leaders such as RIM, palmOne, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, Intermec, Symbol and others enabled for the Cingular Wireless GPRS/EDGE network. Cingular's EDGE network is the largest and fastest digital wireless data network in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , with availability in 13,000 cities and towns and along 40,000 miles of interstate highways. In addition to staying connected while in the field, enterprises using Antenna A3 on the Cingular Wireless GPRS/EDGE network can take advantage of Antenna's built-in industry best practices and comprehensive management functionality that ensures ease of use, comprehensive visibility and rapid ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . Customers have the flexibility to maintain the application themselves or have Antenna host it for them. Applications can be downloaded wirelessly so that the deployment of a solution and subsequent updates to the software can be done while workers remain mobile. "With the Cingular DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive stamp of approval, Antenna Software's solutions can be a customer's single source for their wireless networking See wireless network. needs by combining our vertical solutions with Cingular's first-class services," said Karen Davis-Farage, VP business development, Antenna Software Inc. "The Data Solution Provider Program is an ideal way to differentiate ourselves in the marketplace while simultaneously delivering an extremely robust set of applications to our customer base." "We are pleased to collaborate with one of the leading providers of mobile enterprise technology in offering end-to-end wireless field service and sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. solutions for mobile professionals," said Laura A. Johnson, director, industry solutions, Cingular Wireless. "Cingular customers in a wide range of industries can leverage the nation's largest and fastest digital wireless data network and Antenna's mobile technology to provide better service to their clients -- which can be a real competitive edge." Antenna A3 combines hosted services, software and development environments to extend run-the-business applications in real time to popular mobile devices. Today, Antenna operates in 37 countries -- with hundreds of customers empowering more than 100,000 users -- and manages 12 million monthly data transactions for Global 1000 customers. Leading organizations such as Intralase, L3 Communications and Siemens Business Services are profiting from the combination of Antenna's technology and the performance of the Cingular wireless data network. Taking enterprise solutions "on-the-go" by delivering time-critical data to mobile professionals at the point of need, Antenna's A3 mobile solutions are improving employee productivity, increasing operational efficiency and ensuring the highest levels of customer satisfaction. Cingular Wireless provides wireless services to 95 of the Fortune 100 companies, and counts more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 and more than 1,200 federal, state and local government agencies as customers. About Antenna Software Founded in 1998, Antenna Software, is the largest privately held mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings company in North America. Integrating 40+ Enterprise software applications with 150+ different devices across 200+ global networks, for 100,000+ customers. Antenna manages 12 million+ monthly mobile transactions for leading Global 1000 organizations such Pitney Bowes  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems, Siemens and Fujitsu. About Cingular Wireless Cingular Wireless is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, serving 50.4 million customers. Cingular, a joint venture between SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. Communications Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SBC) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE: BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ), has the largest digital voice and data network in the nation -- the ALLOVER(SM) network -- and the largest mobile-to-mobile community of any national wireless carrier. Cingular is the only U.S. wireless carrier to offer Rollover A graphic element in an application or on a Web page that changes its color or shape when the pointer is moved (rolled) over it. See JavaScript rollover. See also n-key rollover. (SM), the wireless plan that lets customers keep their unused monthly minutes. Details of the company are available at www.cingular.com. Get Cingular Wireless press releases e-mailed to you automatically. Sign up at www.cingular.com/newsroom. (a) Coverage not available in all areas |
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