Nokia to Spend $430 Mln on Intellisync

Nokia has announced it plans to buy wireless email company Intellisync for some $430 million to increase Nokia's appeal to the enterprise market.

Finland’s Nokia has announced it intends to acquire platform-independent wireless email provider Intellisync Corp. for some $430 million dollars in an effort to expand Nokia’s messaging services in corporate and enterprise markets. Intellisync’s product offerings are used to develop platform- and device-independent messaging and synchronization solutions across a wide variety of devices and technologies, from Web browsers and PDAs to the latest smartphones and wireless technologies. Nokia hopes to be able to offer corporations and enterprises a top-to-bottom solution for messaging services.

“Enterprises face increasing challenges when it comes to selecting devices, enabling access to email and securing corporate data, while carriers are facing more and more complexity to support these demands. We want to make it simple for our business customers to mobilize their workforces no matter what their starting point,” said Mary McDowell, executive VP of Nokia’s Enterprise Solutions business group.

Intellisync is already behind some of the largest wireless email implementations in the world, covering a wide array of devices and application platforms, including systems in use by more than three quarters of the Fortune 500 companies and 35 wireless carriers worldwide, including firms such as America Online, Domino’s Pizza, Microsoft, NTT DoCoMo, Oracle/PeopleSoft, Pfizer, T-Mobile, Union Pacific, Verizon Wireless, and Yahoo!.