Odyssey Software Supports Gartner's Vision for Mobile Device Management Today and in the Future

WEST HENRIETTA, N.Y., Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Odyssey Software, a leading provider of enterprise-class mobile device management (MDM) products, today reaffirmed that its award-winning offering, Athena™ supports Gartner's latest vision of comprehensive management. The report establishes the benefits of managing leading mobile device platforms from the same existing platform used by organizations for the management of laptops, PCs and other enterprise resources.

According to the Gartner report, "Hype Cycle for Wireless Devices, Software and Services 2011," many organizations have been using MDM tools that are specific to a device platform or that manage a certain part of the lifecycle (e.g., device lock or wipe), resulting in the adoption of fragmented MDM toolsets.  

The newly identified trends in the Gartner report include:

• New dynamics are driving the adoption of tools to manage the full lifecycle of mobile devices
• IT organizations will be looking to manage more types of mobile devices from a single management framework
• Mobile devices will increasingly be supported in the client computing support group in most organizations
• Mobile devices will become peers with notebooks and desktops from a support standpoint, so PC configuration lifecycle management (PCCLM) tools should be leveraged whenever possible

The report goes on to note that many PCCLM tools do not natively have strong mobile device support; so third-party tools may be required.

Athena has been seamlessly adding industry-leading mobile device management capabilities to enterprise management platforms such as Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager for more than six years.  In addition, many of the companies identified as Leaders and Visionaries in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Mobile Device Management Software" license and incorporate Odyssey Software's MDM technologies into their solutions.  Odyssey Software's unique approach has enabled leading organizations to align their MDM strategies with their lifecycle management of other computing resources, and incorporate this support directly into their client computing support groups - just as outlined in the recently released Gartner report.

"We are pleased that Gartner has confirmed trends that we've been observing with our customers for many years," said Mark Gentile, CEO of Odyssey Software. "Most organizations are interested in leveraging the existing enterprise management platforms that they've already invested in, to comprehensively manage their mobile devices throughout their complete lifecycle."

About Odyssey Software

Odyssey Software is a leading provider of enterprise-class mobile and embedded device management software products for today's most popular device platforms. Our mission is to provide industry leading software technology innovations that make it efficient and cost effective for IT organizations to remotely manage, support and control the complexity of enterprise deployments. More information is available at: www.odysseysoftware.com or by calling +1-585-214-2409. 

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