Nokia introduced Business Center — MobileMonday Global: Industry News

^{Available to other companies} Nokia introduced Business Center

13 Sep 2005 at 19:45 GMT Timo Poropudas

Nokia announced today the Nokia Business Center, a new software solution enabling collaborative business applications for the mobile world, starting with push email. Nokia is looking to increase the sales of top end smart phones by supporting secure business communications. The Business Center’s key point is that corporate customers can manage their mobile communication from inside the firewall without having to trust outside providers. Nokia Business Center brings mobile email to the corporate masses, changing the economics of mobile email adoption so that employees at all levels can reap the rewards of virtually anytime, anywhere access to their corporate email. Nokia Business Center complements Nokia’s existing portfolio of today’s popular email solutions available for its business-optimized mobile devices. Nokia Business Center is designed to expand the universe of potential mobile users by leveraging the broad availability of standard mobile phones and by providing a two-tier client strategy. The standard client will be licensed on an unlimited basis with each Nokia Business Center server. A more richly featured professional client will be available for a minimal upgrade fee. The product is a Java-based solution that can be deployed on any Java MIDPI 2.0-capable phone, once certified by Nokia. Initially, Nokia Business Center will support mobile email over the Nokia 9300 smartphone, Nokia 9500 Communicator, as well as the Nokia 6630, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, and Nokia 6682 integrating with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, followed shortly by support for Lotus Notes and Domino, and an expanded range of Nokia certified devices. The standard Nokia Business Center client offers the ability to compose, read and delete email, manage local folders, and provides support for working offline, in addition to push-email and state-of-the-art security. The standard client also includes support for English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. The professional client version offers all the features of the standard version as well as a rich, graphical email experience similar to using desktop email. Other professional client version features include support for handling meeting requests, sorted views, full attachment support, the ability to access any employee’s contact information from the company’s corporate directory, the ability to search local folders, and more.