Atbiz will be enabled by the partnership with AppGate to offer its customers mobile phone access to Intranet, e-mail, contacts and calendar as a managed service. With the development of the new AppGate Secure Mobile Office, this unique service has been made possible. Offering enterprises mobility and flexibility for co-workers to access business critical applications and services with no complex integration or expensive investment in hardware or software necessary, it's security functions make it possible for operators to deliver highly demanded mobile services in a secure and cost-effective way.

Independent of the caller's geographical location or device, this service has been developed to meet the demand from the market to manage user access to online information from a mobile device.

Atbiz are one of the pioneers in supplying advanced mobile data solutions as a hosted service. Partner at Atbiz, Katarina Löweberg, declares: "Our ambition is to make it simple for businesses who are reluctant to invest in products or competence, but who still want to profit from mobile simplicity and flexibility securely, with full product support. The solution from AppGate is a perfect match that fits our service offering, and now enables us to offer a mobile VPN service - "Managed Mobile VPN" - to businesses that want to achieve secure access to the company intranet, both from a mobile phone and a laptop PC".

CEO at AppGate, Göran Marby, comments: "Our partnership with Atbiz is very exiting. Demand for secure mobile services is increasing, and creating challenges as the borders between the outside and inside of the company network is disappearing and what mobile access means is hard to define. We want to show the market that this offer is spot on, especially the combination of security and mobility, usually two entities that normally are hard to combine".