Sybase iAnywhere adds IM to mobility suite

Sybase iAnywhere announced today that it will add mobile instant messaging and mobile presence capabilities to its Information Anywhere suite of applications. In addition to the mobile email, collaboration, security, device management and enterprise application functionalities that Information Anywhere offers, users will now be able to send and receive IMs on the go. The new IM app will also allow business users to check the mobile "presence" of co-workers who might be away from their desks. The new IM client supports all of the popular mobile platforms as well as a variety of IM protocols, including Microsoft Communications Server, Lotus Notes Sametime server and the XMPP protocol (used by Google talk and ICQ). The real draw here, however, is Information Anywhere's security and archiving abilities, which will allow IT departments to deploy an in-house mobile IM solution while meeting all of the enterprise's security, compliance and auditing requirements. "There's business communication going on over IM, sales communications going on over IM," Sybase iAnywhere product manager Bryan Whitmarsh told DailyTechRag. "The whole idea is being able to control the solution from the enterprise."

For more on Information Anywhere's mobile IM capabilities:
- see this press release