Sendia launches to deliver next-generation wireless enterprise solutions.Sendia Corporation has announced its formal launch as a new provider of wireless enterprise solutions that extend desktop applications to mobile workers and announced that it has secured funding from two top-tier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] , Globespan Capital Partners and Mobius Venture Capital. This funding, acquired in December December: see month. 2003, is being used to enrich and market the industry's most advanced solution for making enterprise applications available from wireless handheld handheld: see personal digital assistant. devices, such as the Research in Motion's (RIM) BlackBerry blackberry, name for several species of thorny plants of the genus Rubus of the family Rosaceae (rose family). See bramble. blackberry Wireless Handheld and Palm's palmOne Treo. "As one of the premier VC's in the country, we're extremely selective as to which firms we fund," said Venky Ganesan, a principal at Globespan Capital Partners of Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. "The solutions that Sendia has developed uniquely and successfully overcome the challenges of wireless deployment. For example, their products are easy to use, easy to manage, highly customizable and work independent of wireless networks. This is powerful technology, and Sendia is the first company we've seen that is truly delivering on the promise of wireless." "Sendia possesses all of the qualities a wireless company should have--great technology, great management and a deep understanding of not only the challenges facing the wireless data industry, but how to solve them," said Robin Bordoli, principal at Mobius Venture Capital of Palo Alto, Calif. "Sendia came to us with a fully functioning wireless technology platform unlike anything on the market today. More importantly, their executive management team had an extraordinary track record and a vision capable of changing the way mobile users work forever." "It is a huge honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. for us to receive venture capital funding from two such renowned firms as Mobius Venture Capital and Globespan Capital Partners," said Andy DeMari, co-founder and chief executive officer of Sendia Corporation. "Our goal continues to be to develop the industry's most advanced, innovative wireless technology solutions by delivering products that are fast, reliable and easy to deploy and use. Securing this funding from such prestigious firms only further validates the direction of our technology and the possibility it holds for expanding the way mobile professionals interact with company data." Sendia is paving the way for companies to realize a positive 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). from their wireless applications. The company's products aggressively address such issues as lost connections, customizability, low bandwidth and usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. in a mobile environment, producing innovative technologies that are poised to shape the future of the wireless data industry. |
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