The company says its SMS add-in enables seamless, direct integration of on-device management functions exposed by the Athena Device Management Suite into the SMS Administrator Console. This approach is claimed to take advantage of the inherent "scalability, manageability, security, and reliability" of SMS 2003.
According to Odyssey, the Athena Device Management Suite is installed co-resident with the SMS DMFP on each Windows Mobile or Windows CE device, such that its XML Web Services engine and plug-in services can provide remote access to any on-device function. Capabilities include remote control, software metering, hardware/software asset reporting and management, and software package delivery/installation. Operation is supported over any IP-based network to which the SMS Administrator Console has access.
"The availability of the Athena Device Management Suite Add-In for SMS is a major milestone for us," said Mark Gentile, Odyssey Software's President. "It not only underscores our commitment to Microsoft's mobile enterprise platforms, the Add-In also demonstrates how the open and extensible architecture of the Athena Device Management Suite can be applied to directly integrate with leading enterprise management systems such as SMS 2003."
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