Invited to Join Microsoft’s Mobility Partner Advisory Council
MATERNA Information & Communications Chosen by Microsoft for Strategic Alliance
Dortmund, Germany, 01 March 2004
Today, in conjunction with the second anniversary of the Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council (MPAC), MATERNA Information & Communications, a leading software company in the field of information and communication technology, announced its participation in the council. Microsoft formed the council in an effort to work more collaboratively with companies who are investing heavily in mobility.
Since 1992 MATERNA is focused on the development and marketing of products and services from the areas of mobile solutions and unified messaging. MATERNA solutions for the Windows Mobile platform include:
- Anny Way MMS Client for Windows Mobile based Smartphones and Pocket PCs, enables device manufacturers and network operators to combine the unique and thoroughly entertaining mobile phone experience of the Windows Mobile platform with a convenient multimedia messaging solution. It completes successfully the rich messaging features of the platform and promises increasing revenue due to the simplification of picture messaging for the end user.
- Anny Way WAP Browser for Windows Mobile based Pocket PCs, offers comfortable and easy access to the mobile internet and the various services of the network operators.
“MATERNA looks forward to participating in the Mobility Partner Advisory council because it will enable us to work closely with some of the leading developers in the industry and help us to bring the most innovative and successful mobility solutions to market.' said Helmut an de Meulen, CEO of MATERNA. 'We want to advancing our relationship and jointly serve the needs of our mobile customers.'
"We are delighted to support Materna as part of the Mobility Partner Advisory Council," said Julie Wymetalek, manager of the MPAC program at Microsoft. "Materna's world-class MMS client and browser products successfully complement Microsoft's strategy of making Windows Mobile-based devices the market's most robust and extensible clients for mobile users today."
MATERNA GmbH Information & Communications
MATERNA is a leading software company in the field of information and communication technology. The company employs worldwide 1.200 staff members and its turnover was estimated to more than 145 million euros for the year 2002. Beside the head office in Dortmund, the company has offices and subsidiaries located all over Germany as well as in Austria, Belgium, Czech republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Thailand and USA. In the Business Unit Information, MATERNA develops integrated IT solutions for process optimization involving companies and public administration. This includes the topic fields Portals, Information Management, Service and IT Infrastructure Management. The Business Unit Communications offers products and solutions from the business area Mobile Solutions and Unified Messaging. This includes in particular mobile and fixnet value-added services on base of SMS and MMS, WAP and Mobile Java which are distributed under the brand name Anny Way. The Anny Way Academy is active on the market in terms of trainings and consulting services as found in practice.
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MATERNA Information & Communications
Antje Krämer
Vosskuhle 37, 44141 Dortmund, Germany
Phone +49 231 55 99 –531
Fax +49 231 55 99 -67 531 
antje.kraemer@materna.de
www.materna.com, www.annyway.com
