"Sybase iAnywhere has announced that Afaria now supports Open Mobile Alliance Device Management (OMA DM) standards for device management. The latest release of Afaria expands upon its proven, enterprise-class device management and security capabilities by offering OMA DM-based device management functionality for over a billion feature phones shipped worldwide using the native OMA client pre-installed on the device. Afaria provides businesses with a proven, enterprise-class solution that manages and secures a wide array of mobile device types, including laptops, smartphones and now, open standards-based feature phones and PDAs across the entire enterprise, all from a single console...
The latest release of Afaria provides the following capabilities via OMA DM:
* 'Clientless' device management using OMA DM standards and technology
* Ability to initially provision device configurations via SMS using OMA DM
* Trusted server configuration allowing for silent management of devices
* Policy Editors to define device configuration settings for GPRS, WLAN access points, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Skinny Client Control Protocol and Cisco Call Connect
* Over-the-air application delivery, installation and activation
* Variable substitution from external sources (e.g., LDAP server) allows for personalization of device settings
* Full integration of OMA DM functionality with the Afaria management console"
