MobileSys Establishes Regional Headquarters in Asia.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2001 MobileSys Extends Global Presence Into Asia With New Hong Kong Offices and Strategic Partnerships with ATOS ORIGIN, C&T Group and Asian Bourses Corporation MobileSys, Inc., the leading global wireless infrastructure services provider, today announced its expansion into Asia with three new strategic partnerships, the appointment of Siu-Fung Chan as general manager of MobileSys Asia, and new Hong Kong headquarters and data center. MobileSys offers the Mobile Communications Solution(TM) to free enterprises from having to build their own infrastructure for wireless messaging. The Mobile Communications Solution(TM) includes the MobileSys Network, to assist customers who want a secure, reliable service for message delivery to global carriers and their users' devices. Also included is MobileSys MX(TM), messaging software that can be fully integrated into existing enterprise applications, allowing businesses to push mission-critical text messages and actionable alerts over any wireless protocol to any data-enabled device. In a recent Gartner(a) report, total mobile subscribers in Asia/Pacific and Japan reached 229.61 million during the last quarter of 2000, an increase of 13 percent over the previous quarter. China, with 24 percent quarterly growth, set the pace in the world's fastest growing market. "We've been monitoring the explosive growth of the Asian wireless market, and mobilizing Asian enterprises with our new partners, data center and local Asian MobileSys professionals is key to our long term growth strategy," said MobileSys founder, president and chief executive officer David Coelho. MobileSys Signs Three New Strategic Partners MobileSys has created alliances with IT services companies ATOS ORIGIN, C&T Group and financially-focused e-business company Asian Bourses Corporation to bring MobileSys' wireless messaging capabilities and infrastructure management to Asian enterprise and e-business customers. "By partnering with MobileSys, all our existing e-business solutions can immediately be made accessible through mobile devices," said ATOS ORIGIN managing director Dominic Tsang. "MobileSys Mobile Communications Solution(TM) gives our clients the advantage of extending their existing IT investment without the capital investments." "The MobileSys Mobile Communications Solution(TM) fits well in our strategy to bring best-of-breed IT solutions for our customers," said C&T Group senior vice president and chief technology officer Andrew So. "By pre-integrating C&T and MobileSys solutions, we can significantly reduce the time-to-deployment and up-front investment for our customers in their mobile enablement projects." "Asian Bourses sees great synergies with MobileSys, which we see as the registered mail of the new economy, carrying our mission-critical financial content to investors around the world," said Asian Bourses chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Yeong Wai Cheong. Experienced Local Leadership MobileSys is proud to appoint Siu-Fung Chan as general manager of MobileSys Asia. Chan will lead the regional team to work closely with local wireless carriers, application and system vendors and solution providers to offer integrated mobile business solutions to enterprise customers using MobileSys MX and the global MobileSys network. Under Chan's guidance, the new Hong Kong-based data center will allow fast connections and direct wireless data delivery, while a MobileSys point of presence directly routes message traffic in Asia. Prior to joining MobileSys, Chan worked at regional ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. Asia Online where he was director of e-business enablement and applications services and with international consulting firm Monitor Group. He also founded and ran a software start-up in the mid-90s. Chan has an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, and a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in computer science and information systems from the National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (Abbreviation: NUS) is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered. . About MobileSys Headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., with offices throughout the U.S. and in Europe, MobileSys provides a global wireless data platform for enterprise and e-business organizations. The MobileSys solution enables secure, guaranteed delivery of data worldwide from business applications to a variety of wireless devices such as digital phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and pagers. The MobileSys Network provides customers with an outsourced solution for deploying, managing and tracking wireless messages globally. MobileSys has more than 700 customers worldwide including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson and Johnson, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic, Qualcomm, Qwest, Stockpoint, Sun, and more. For more information, please visit www.mobilesys.com. About ATOS ORIGIN ATOS ORIGIN was born from a merge between ORIGIN and ATOS ATOS American Theatre Organ Society ATOS Air Transportation Oversight System ATOS Australian Treatment Outcome Study (National Drug & Alcohol Research Center) ATOS Advanced Topometric Sensor ATOS Automated Technical Order System in November 2000. ORIGIN was a subsidiary of Philips Electronics specializing in enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. implementation and outsourcing services. ATOS is a French-listed information technology company specializing in e-business, m-business and financial solutions. ATOS ORIGIN is a global IT services company with worldwide revenues of 2.8 Billion Euros and 27,500 professionals in over 30 countries. Its Hong Kong operations, established since 1993, serves most multinationals in high technology electronics and large local enterprises including utilities. ATOS ORIGIN provides end-to-end solutions in enterprise resources planning (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ), supply chain management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ), customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) and electronics document management systems (EDMS (Electronic Document Management System or Enterprise Document Management System ) See document management. EDMS - Electronic Document Management System ). For more information, please visit www.atos-origin.com. About Computer And Technologies Holdings Limited (C&T) Computer And Technologies Holdings Limited ("C&T") is an information technology services company publicly listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) Only stock exchange located in Hong Kong. (0046) and a constituent company of the Hang Seng Hang Seng An index of the leading stocks on the Hong Kong stock market. Notes: The Hang Seng Index (HSI) comprises different stocks that are representative of the whole Hong Kong market. See also: DAX, Index, Nikkei, S&P 500 IT Index. Founded in 1991, C&T is headquartered in Hong Kong with offices established in major commercial regions in China in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen etc. C&T has a long-standing track record in delivering world-class innovative solutions and in implementing large-scale mission-critical I.T. projects such as its Auto-Matching System for the Shanghai Stock Exchange Shanghai Stock Exchange One of two major securities markets in China. and the world's first Electronic Tendering System and Electronic Service Delivery project for HKSAR HKSAR Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. C&T was named one of the "300 Best Small Companies in the World" by Forbes Magazine and one of the "20 Fastest Growing Chinese Enterprises in the World" by YaZhou Zhoukan, the International Chinese newsweekly. For more information visit www.ctil.com. About Asian Bourses Corporation Singapore-based Asian Bourses Corporation Pte Ltd provides financial information analytics and customer relationship management (CRM) technology to portals and institutions serving the man-in-the-street. Asian Bourses aims to help the layperson lay·per·son n. A layman or a laywoman. Noun 1. layperson - someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person layman, secular make well-researched decisions on a wide range of financial instruments. For more information, please visit www.asianbourses.com. Note to Editors: MobileSys is a trademark of MobileSys, Inc. Other company or product names have been used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. (a) Gartner Report,"Asia/Pacific and Japan Cellular Market Fourth Quarter 2000 Review" by Ann Liang, 26 Mar 01. |
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