XcelleNet Demonstrates Value of Mobile Resource Management, Again Takes Demo Award at “Go Mobile” Conference
ATLANTA — September 20, 2000 — XcelleNet, Inc., the leader of the fast- growing market for mobile resource management, today announced that it won the "Silver DemoGod Award" for a unique, interactive demonstration of its Afaria(TM) product for managing mobile devices. XcelleNet was honored at the recent "Go Mobile" show in Las Vegas and edged out competing product demonstrations from more than 30 vendors-including Callisto and Synchrologic. Sponsored by Mobile Insights, the world's leading authority on mobile computing and data communications, the conference was held from September 10th to 13th in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Following on its award-winning Afaria demo from this summer's Go Mobile Europe, XcelleNet unveiled a technology-driven morality play featuring two sales professionals: in the heat of competition for a sale, one rep deletes a crucial application off the other's handheld in a cruel attempt to sabotage her sales efforts. However, using Afaria, a quick connection to the home server instantly restores the critical application to the handheld and good reigns over evil.
XcelleNet's Afaria offers the most complete suite of mobile resource management capabilities in a single product, including software distribution, backup, inventory, file transfer and event management. Afaria provides IT managers with the only complete offering to centrally and securely manage mobile business solutions across a company's entire fleet of mobile systems, including laptops and devices based on Windows CE, Palm OS, and RIM Blackberry platforms. "At industry gatherings like Go Mobile, the most compelling demonstrations are the ones that entertain while illustrating a product's unique features and benefits, in terms the audience can easily identify with," said Henry Rosen, senior vice president of marketing and business development for XcelleNet.
"Our unique demonstration of Afaria succeeds in doing both, as the reactions both here and in Europe have shown."
The Go Mobile DemoGod awards are positioned to recognize excellence in product design, execution and presentation, especially when they are demonstrated before a highly-skeptical audience of IT managers and executives," said Tim Scannell, an analyst with Mobile Insights and featured speaker at the event. "XcelleNet's Afaria presentation was not only informative, highly interactive and entertaining, but managed to hit the mark for these managers who come to the show looking for real world solutions to mobile and wireless problems."
About Mobile Insights
Mobile Insights is the world's leading authority on mobile computing and data communications. Established in September 1994, the company provides professional services to vendors of hardware, software, and services in the mobile computing and data communications industry. In addition to market analysis, consulting, and publishing, Mobile Insights' service brands include: Mobile Letter, an electronic newsletter that provides reviews of new products and offers industry insights; MobileTrax Online, a syndicated continuous Internet information subscription service, publishing 50+ reports annually; the Mobility Awards, which are given annually to top products and services in 27 categories; Go Mobile, a new conference for leading Information Technology decision-makers; and the flagship Mobile Insights conference, an annual conference that brings together 400 to 500 of the mobile industry's key vendor executives. Mobile Insights' clients include 3Com, AMD, Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Toshiba, and more. For more information on Mobile Insights and its services, visit the company's Web site at www.mobileinsights.com .
About XcelleNet
XcelleNet is the leader of the fast-growing market for mobile resource management. The explosive growth of the mobile economy, and the race to implement Internet-enabled mobile applications has created a new challenge for IT: management of smart mobile devices, including laptop computers, handhelds, smartphones and interactive pagers. XcelleNet's Afaria(TM) family of solutions enables businesses to implement and maintain web-enabled applications and content for mobile resources that depend on wire-line or wireless communications. Afaria's products keep mobile devices up and running, business applications current and available, information fresh and accessible, and the people that count on them productive and competitive. XcelleNet's RemoteWare (R) is a world-class retail polling and management solution for remote PCs and Point of Sale devices. A pioneer in remote and mobile resource management with 2,500 customers worldwide, XcelleNet serves a broad range of industries, including healthcare, insurance, retail, manufacturing and pharmaceutical. XcelleNet solutions reduce total cost of ownership, accelerate end-user productivity and enable the management of applications and content to a desired configuration from a central location. More information is available at http://www.XcelleNet.com .
XcelleNet and RemoteWare are trademarks of XcelleNet, Inc. Afaria is a trademark of Afaria, Inc. XcelleNet and Afaria make no claims of ownership to all other products and company names mentioned herein which may be the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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CONTACT:
Deborah Cox of XcelleNet, 678-585-7133, or Deborah.cox@xcellenet.com ,
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Ed Harrison or Stefan Cencarik of Schwartz Communications, Inc., 781-684-0770, or xcellenet@schwartz-pr.com , for XcelleNet