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August 30, 2004

SMARTNER INTRODUCES REVOLUTIONARY UPGRADE OF ITS MOBILE OFFICE SOLUTION

Keeping Costs of Ownership to a Minimum, Enterprises Can Now Deploy Full Mobile Email Functionalities to Thousands of Users and Dramatically Increase the Efficiency of Their Mobile Workers

Helsinki, Finland – To help mobile professionals increase their work efficiency and customer responsiveness, Smartner has added major capabilities to its Duality mobile office solution. The new Smartner Duality 4.0 is the first solution to enable over-the-air push of calendar functions on Symbian smartphones. In addition, Smartner Duality 4.0 features corporate network load reduction in large installations, security enhancements and support for global languages.

“Our vision is to bring an easy to use and affordable mobile office solution to our customers for wide-scale deployment,” said Paul Hedman, CEO of Smartner. “I am proud to introduce Smartner Duality 4.0 which is a big step towards that goal. Our solution has proven to increase our customers’ efficiency, responsiveness and save deployment costs. I encourage everyone to try it and start reaping the benefits of mobile office already now.”

The first Solution Worldwide to Push Calendar on Symbian Smartphones
Together with real-time email and other corporate data, mobile professionals using Symbian-based devices can now also access their personal organizer. Answering the ever rising demand for mobile calendar functionalities, this functionality is available on Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones for both, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino environments

With Smartner Duality 4.0, all calendar events are pushed to and from the mobile device automatically, without the need to dock the device. In addition, meeting requests, accepting, declining, as well as creating new meeting requests is now available.

Reduced Corporate Network Load in Large Installations by 70 Percent
In addition to email-based firewall tunnelling which provides an ultra-rapid installation of Duality without any changes in corporate firewall, direct TCP-based firewall tunnelling is now available. Direct TCP-based firewall tunnelling enables considerably lower workload on corporate email server in large installations.

Also, a more efficient Duality Enterprise Server can now serve thousands of users reducing considerably the costs of deployment in comparison to competing solutions.

Enhanced Security to the Mobile Devices
Smartner Duality extends corporate-level security to the mobile devices and provides enterprise administrators with tools to manage this security. As a new enhancement in this direction, now the enterprise administrator is enabled to remotely send commands to the mobile device to lock or delete information in case of device loss or theft.

Global Language Support
Smartner Duality 4.0 now works in all language environments ranging from Russian to Arabic and Chinese making it a perfect solution for deployment in multicultural environments.