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Mobile Device Management Framework

One billion mobile devices will ship this year, including hundreds of new models from dozens of manufacturers. New devices are introduced constantly, and software updates are becoming more frequent. All of these phones need to be activated, configured and updated remotely, across a wide range of networks.

The combinatorial explosion of hardware and software configurations makes the management of mobile devices an expensive and daunting proposition. Among the challenges, how do you know which phones need to be reconfigured in a particular way? Furthermore, users make mistakes, erase settings, misconfigure devices, lose phones, etc., resulting in expensive calls to the helpdesk.

The Funambol Mobile Device Management (DM) Framework enables you to manage these situations with ease. It provides the core services and protocols to support efficient, centralized, automated device management. Implementing the full suite of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Device Management (DM) 1.2 features, the Funambol DM Framework makes comprehensive multi-vendor device management possible.

Funambol's DM Framework enables developers to create custom applications that leverage the DM features in the latest mobile devices. Because the OMA DM client features are standardized, a single DM application can manage dozens of different mobile devices. These applications can significantly improve ease-of-use while reducing the most common helpdesk calls: misconfigured devices and user error.

Centralizing device configuration and administration lowers costs, increases quality of service and improves security across your fleet of devices.

Funambol is the low-risk choice — it lowers risk in several ways:

Based on SyncML, the industry's leading standard for mobile device management
The protection of open source
Industry's broadest device compatibility
Tested by the world's largest virtual mobile QA team in over 200 countries

Features

Device configuration
Device setup
Device monitoring
Software provisioning
Phone lock-down
Phone erasure
Battery drain
Phone disabling
Custom admin app development

Benefits

Remotely configure devices
Disable stolen / lost devices
Protect data on stolen / lost devices
Lower costs and risk

To learn more about the Funambol Device Management Framework:

Check out this Nokia document about Funambol Device Management that is freely available from the Nokia Forum. The document provides an excellent end-to-end example of how to add DM features to a mobile operating system. It demonstrates how to implement a simple DM adapter in mobile devices that interact with the Funambol DM Server, including how to set up and use the DM Server, how to store and update the data received from the DM Server and how to make the data available to another application. The example has been implemented using freely available back-end components (Apache and JBoss Servers; MySQL RDBMS). Sample code is available as is documentation for configuring the system. To download the free document and code, click here
View the Funambol Mobile Device Management Data Sheet
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