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Nokia and Software AG Cooperate to Create WAP Solutions for Mobile Electronic Business
October 20, 1999
Nokia Corporation of Helsinki, Finland and Software AG of Darmstadt, Germany are cooperating on the development and marketing of WAP solutions that will make existing business applications accessible to mobile phone users.
This agreement marks another important milestone in creating mobile communications solutions forenterprises . Concrete results from this co-operation will be released on the market later this year.
Using Software AG's integration software, any enterprise can extend the Nokia WAP Server based solutions to be able to initiate business transactions and access enterprise data via mobile phones without extensive additional work. Software AG and Nokia will meet future challenges by working together in various ways, including coordinated development efforts, in addition to thesemarketing and sales initiative.
The market forces that are currently driving WAP technology will generate a dramatic increase in mobile business applications. To gain maximum benefit from this development, organizations must integrate their mobile business applications with existing IT infrastructures. Software AG delivers the crucial link that connects Nokia's WAP server with existing applications, for example those already used by banks, insurance companies, and airlines, among others.
"This is the first technology that delivers seamless integration of mobile agents with enterprise computing, allowing true business transactions using a mobile device such as a mobile phone," states Dr. Helmut Wilke, Member of Software AG's Board of Management.
"We expect the leading enterprises to come up with completely new WAP applications leveraging existing IT Infrastructures," says Gerhard Romen, Vice President Sales & Marketing of Nokia Wireless Software Solutions. "In principle, any type of transaction that can be initiated today over a PC will in the future be possible using a mobile telephone. A mobile telephone will become a terminal for universal multimedia services," he states.
Nokia, as one of the founding companies of the WAP Forum (the specification body with over 200 member companies), has had a head start for WAP product development. Nokia was the first company to launch a WAP phone, the Nokia 7110, and also the first company to launch a WAP server for corporate solutions, the Nokia WAP Server.
The new, jointly developed software solutions are already demonstrated today in the Systems -99 fair in Munich. They are currently being tested and will be released to the market this year as an additional feature to Software AG's product EntireX.
About Software AG
Software AG, based in Darmstadt, Germany, with more than 2,200 employees and sales amounting to DM 626 million (euro 320 million) in 1998, is one of the largest system software companies worldwide. Software AG is the premier provider of integration technology. Both products and services, used in more than 90 countries, are focused on mission-critical electronic business applications spanning heterogeneous platforms, from mainframe, OpenVMS, AS/400, Unix and Windows NT to the Web. Software AG's technology expertise is based on three major product areas: The transaction systems Adabas (database management system), and Natural (tool set for commercial application development), the integration system EntireX (middleware) and the Web systems Bolero (Application Factory for Electronic Business), and Tamino (Information Server). About one third of the company's revenue is achieved through professional services. Software AG has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Main Market) since April 1999 (Security identification number 724260 / SOWG.F).
About Nokia
Nokia is paving the way to the mobile information society with its innovative products and solutions. Nokia is the leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile, fixed and IP networks including related services. It also supplies multimedia terminals and computer displays. In 1998, net sales totaled EUR 13.3 billion (USD 15.7 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on the New York (NOK), Helsinki, Stockholm, London, Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges and employs more than 51,000 people.
Nokia Wireless Software Solutions, part of the Nokia Internet Communications unit, focuses on the development of WAP technology and mobile solutions and applications for corporations and service providers, as well as mobile software platforms for software developers and system integrators. Internet: www.nokia.com/corporate/wap
About WAP
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open de-facto standard for Internet content and advanced telephony services in digital mobile phones and other wireless terminals. The standard enables manufacturers, network operators, content providers and application developers to offer compatible products and secure services on all digital devices and networks resulting in greater economies of scale and universal access to information. The WAP Forum (www.wapforum.com), which now has over 200 members, has published a global wireless protocol specification for all wireless networks. The WAP-Forum is open to all participants.
Contact information:
Otmar F. Winzig
Vice President
Corporate Communications
Software AG
Uhlandstraße 12
D-64297 Darmstadt
Tel.: 06151-92-1669
Fax: 06151-92-1383
press@softwareag.com
www. softwareag.com
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