Tuesday March 28, 8:03 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Wireless Knowledge LLC
Wireless Knowledge and Managemark Announce Strategic Alliance
Industry Leaders in Wireless Solutions and Mobile Workforce Management Collaborate to Deliver Business-to-Business Wireless Internet Applications
SAN DIEGO and SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Wireless Knowledge LLC, a Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) and QUALCOMM Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM - news) joint venture that brings wireless data to mobile workers, and Managemark(TM), provider of the best-selling expense management solution ExpensAble.comSM, today announced a strategic alliance to enable wireless access to Managemark's applications. The combined efforts of the two companies will enable use of Managemark's ExpensAble.com web-based service on a wide variety of mobile phones and devices, anytime, anywhere. Wireless access to ExpensAble.com will be available in the second half of 2000.
``Wireless Knowledge is focused on delivering applications for the fast- growing mobile workforce with wireless Internet applications that speed business processes, bringing greater efficiency and productivity,' said Eric Schultz, chairman and CEO of Wireless Knowledge. ``By leveraging our technology to enable wireless access to Internet applications such as ExpensAble.com, we deliver high-value tools to mobile workers.'
The wireless version of ExpensAble.com is targeted towards the exploding mobile communications and computing industries. International Data Corporation estimates that there will be over one billion wireless devices in use by 2003. Of those devices, it is expected that 40 percent will be used for wireless data applications such as ExpensAble.com.
``The new economy often demands that geographically distributed teams work around the clock and around the world,' said Ken Grunzweig, CEO and president of Managemark. ``By offering wireless access to ExpensAble.com and our future mobile workforce management solutions, our customers will benefit from increased convenience, flexibility and productivity. This alliance with Wireless Knowledge enables us to round out the mobile capabilities of our family of business-to-business web applications.'
ExpensAble.com is a web-based subscription service that allows mobile workers to manage expense reporting using any web-enabled computer, including a variety of desktop and laptop machines, WindowsCE and Palm computing platform devices. Users simply log onto the ExpensAble.com site to gain access to their corporate expense reporting system to create, submit, review and gain approval for their expense reports through an automated system. Now with Wireless Knowledge's technology, ExpensAble.com users can manage business expenses real-time using wireless Internet-ready devices like mobile phones. For example, at the end of a cab ride a user quickly enters in the amount of the fare including tip via a mobile phone. The amount is instantaneously recorded by the expense reporting system and is now included in an expense report and ready for submission.
About Managemark
Managemark is a leading producer of web-savvy business-to-business applications for next-generation e-business portals and companies seeking to connect employees to their workplace, creating new efficiencies, economies of scale and revenue models. With more than a million copies shipped, Quicken ExpensAble is the first name in expense management, while with over 12,000 subscribers, ExpensAble.com is the online expense management solution of choice. Founded in 1997, in cooperation with Intuit Inc., Managemark is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information on ExpensAble.com and the Quicken ExpensAble product family, visit www.ExpensAble.com and www.managemark.com.
About Wireless Knowledge
Wireless Knowledge LLC, a joint venture between Microsoft and QUALCOMM, provides platforms and services to corporate customers and application providers to enable applications for the mobile Internet. The company's products deliver productivity and compelling mobile solutions to business users, providing personally relevant, business-critical information and applications using any device, over any network or airlink. For more information on Wireless Knowledge, please visit the company web site at www.wirelessknowledge.com.
Revolv is a service mark of Wireless Knowledge. Microsoft and Microsoft Exchange are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Managemark and the Managemark logo are trademarks of Managemark, Inc. ExpensAble is a registered trademark and ExpensAble.com is a service mark of Managemark, Inc. Quicken is a registered trademark of Intuit, Inc. used under license. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE: Wireless Knowledge LLC |
