Ondeego Launches AppCentral, First Mobile Application Store for the Enterprise
Ondeego Launches AppCentral, the Mobile App Store for the Enterprise
Ondeego launched AppCentral, the Mobile Enterprise App Store, today at GigaOM’s Mobilize09.
AppCentral is the first mobile application store for the enterprise, addressing the unique needs of enterprise workers and their IT departments while creating an ecosystem of enterprise-focused mobile developers.
Benefits include:
- Employees can select the mobile applications they need to do their job without long purchasing and procurement cycles.
- IT departments can manage application deployments across multiple mobile platforms.
- 3rd Party developers can sell their productivity and enterprise applications, gaining distribution to an incredibly lucrative but difficult to access market.
Most of the current mobile app stores are focused on the consumer, promoting games and entertainment applications. AppCentral is an app store for the secure enterprise, with only serious applications that can help employees improve their work. Additionally, unlike other app stores, AppCentral allows companies to manage 3rd party and proprietary applications remotely while simultaneously securing data within them.
Mobile applications in AppCentral can use Ondeego’s patent-pending ‘Securitization’ technology, enabling 3rd party application data to be remotely locked or wiped. “Now, the loss of a phone doesn’t mean the loss of proprietary data. Enterprises can empower their employees with the most advanced mobile software without compromising IT security policies,” says Ken Singer, CEO of Ondeego. “It’s an honor to be selected as a top ten mobile start-up of the year, and thanks to the organizers of Mobilize09 and GigaOM for having us.”
Ondeego’s AppCentral provides a new channel for application developers to reach enterprise customers. Before AppCentral, independent software companies needed to hire an expensive and difficult-to-manage direct sales force to reach the enterprise. Now, independent software developers can reach enterprise customers in an easy, cost-effective way.
“Ondeego’s AppCentral changes the game in how we deliver to our enterprise customers. As the provider of a sophisticated mobile service for business users, AppCentral will enable us to reach an untapped market for mobile applications – the enterprise,” says Terry Hughes, President and CMO, Widality Inc., AppCentral Launch Partner and developer of Momentem, the most popular business application in the BlackBerry App World. “At last, corporations can deploy and manage mobile applications like ours thanks to AppCentral’s securitization technology.”
For more information, visit http://www.ondeego.com. To participate in the private beta of AppCentral, go to http://www.theappcentral.com.
About Ondeego:
Ondeego provides AppCentral, the Mobile Enterprise App Store. Ondeego helps employees get the mobile applications they want, IT departments manage these mobile applications, and developers to reach enterprise users. Ondeego is based in Berkeley, CA. Ondeego was founded in late 2007 by veterans of the mobile industry. For more information, go to http://www.ondeego.com.
About Widality:
Widality is the new home of mobile business intelligence and mobile semantic tagging, starting with the award-winning “momentem” call tagging and time tracking service for BlackBerry. Widality partners with RIM, Rogers, and AT&T among others to get momentem to market. Widality has offices in Sunnyvale CA and Calgary Canada. For more information, visit http://widality.com.
