Top Analyst Firm Places Spring Wireless in the Leaders Quadrant for Its 2008 Mobile...

Top Analyst Firm Places Spring Wireless in the Leaders Quadrant for Its 2008
Mobile Enterprise Application Platform Magic Quadrant
Leaders Placement Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

SEATTLE, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Spring Wireless, the global leader in
mobile software and services today announced it has been positioned by
Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Mobile
Enterprise Application Platforms report, published Dec. 19, 2008, and authored
by William Clark and Michael King.
In addition to providing a mobile platform, according to Gartner Inc.,
leaders must not only be good at supporting their own platforms, but they also
must have a good vision of the multichannel enterprise, a solid understanding
of IT requirements, and scalable channels and partnerships to market. They
also have to provide platforms that are easy to purchase, program, deploy and
upgrade. Smaller vendors that have focused on key elements of multichannel
functionality and offer application-centric solutions compete head-to-head
with broad platforms, but some are side-stepping this to be pluggable. With
the revised criteria, the MEAP vendors offering applications may not have all
the flexibility but can provide enough product substance in terms of
nonfunctional requirements (for example, device management, transport stacks,
security and policy enforcement) to be included in the Leaders Quadrant.
"We believe being placed in the Leaders Quadrant by Gartner is important
third-party recognition of our approach and business model. With more than
240,000 users worldwide in more than 220 Fortune 2000 customers and an annual
growth rate of more than 100 percent since its inception in 2001, Spring
Wireless has one of the largest install bases in the industry and
significantly faster growth than competitors," said Marcelo Conde, Chief
Executive Officer of Spring Wireless. "Spring Wireless offers the only
complete mobile solution that combines powerful platform technologies with
applications and services, acting as the single point of contact for all of
our customers' mobile needs. Our customers report reduced time to deployment
and lower cost of ownership over other solutions. We're thrilled to be
recognized for what we consider to be our groundbreaking work and included in
the Magic Quadrant Leaders category."
In the report, Gartner renamed the "multichannel access gateway" category
to the "mobile enterprise application platform" category, reflecting the
market's maturation and the move of mobile tools and platforms to the
application development mainstream. More stringent requirements have narrowed
the number of companies that were eligible for inclusion in this year's
report. Vendors were evaluated against such critical capabilities as: IDE
(Integrated Development Environment) and tooling; multichannel development and
debugging (client and server); management and security; enterprise application
integration (tools and libraries); device integration and peripheral support;
application client runtime; device/operating system support; packaged mobile
applications; hosting; architectural flexibility.
Gartner estimates the overall size of the mobile enterprise application
platform and packaged mobile application platform market was between
$625 million and $750 million in 2007 and that it grew at a rate of about
20 percent since 2007. Gartner projects the market will top $1 billion by
2010.
Spring Wireless offers an extensive inventory of pre-built applications
for business-to-employee transactions and business-to-consumer transactions
for financial services and government organizations that offer an intuitive
user interface design. Spring Wireless also connects employees to existing
backend systems (ERP, CRM, WMS, SCM etc.) via web-services or application
integration and its solutions can be delivered to more than 180 devices
supported across multiple operating systems. Additionally, Spring Wireless has
the capability to purchase, manage and deploy mobile devices and wireless
communication services on behalf of its customers.
About Spring Wireless
Spring Wireless is a mobile platform and services company. It connects
people to the enterprise information they need through a robust platform,
pre-built applications and services. Spring Wireless delivers mobile solutions
by acting as the single point of contact for its customers, deploying and
managing solutions comprised of software, infrastructure, connectivity and
services. Global enterprise customers use Spring Wireless' solutions to
increase sales, streamline distribution, enhance marketing and gain strategic
insight into their business.
About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2008 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with
permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace
at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how
certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by
Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in
the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those
vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended
solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action.
Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this
research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a
particular purpose.
SOURCE Spring Wireless

Kate Whitman, +1-206-268-2222, Kate.Whitman@edelman.com, for Spring Wireless