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June 27, 2000
SMARTNER JOINS HEWLETT-PACKARD'S MOBILE E-SERVICES BAZAAR
Smartner, a Finnish software and professional service company specialising in mobile e-services solutions for business, today announced its membership in Hewlett-Packard´s Mobile E-Services Bazaar. The Mobile E-Services Bazaar was founded in October 1999 in Helsinki to ensure and encourage the development of the rapidly growing market for mobile e-services. For Smartner, cooperation with Hewlett-Packard and its partners brings improved technical, marketing and sales support on a global scale. Hewlett-Packard and the Bazaar partners will benefit from Smartner's expertise in terminal device independent mobile corporate solutions.
"A key to success in the quickly emerging mobile e-services market is clearly device independence. This is a very important requirement in the enterprise market where you want your services to work on a wide variety of devices like WAP phones and various PDAs. We believe Smartner will bring a lot of valuable skills and competencies to the Mobile E-Services Bazaar community and we are very excited about Smartner joining our program", says Peter Vesterbacka, Business Development Manager of the HP Mobile E-Services Bazaar.
"As a provider of corporate mobile solutions, we are delighted to join HP's Mobile E-Services Bazaar. Extensive cooperation with well-established systems and device providers is one of the key objectives of Smartner's strategy. The Bazaar gives us access to a global base of suppliers and enterprise customers", says Robert Rasmus, president and CEO of Smartner.
Smartner is one of the first providers of terminal device independent mobile corporate solutions. Smartner's software solution allows the utilisation and management of different corporate information systems via mobile devices. The main product, Smartner Airis, is a flexible and scalable mobile application platform enabling swift enterprise-wide mobile solution implementation. In addition to the platform, business process specific applications are offered that can easily be tailored to individual needs.

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