MobileIron Sees Explosive Growth in Asia Pacific Region

SYDNEY, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ —MobileIron, the leader in security and management for mobile apps, documents, and devices, today announced that is has opened new offices in Sydney, Australia, and in Singapore following a wave of explosive growth over the last year. Recent customer wins include Australian Capital Territory Government which is using MobileIron to support a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) program; Allens, one of the largest law firms in the Asia Pacific region; and Sensis, which is managing its iPad deployment with MobileIron.

“In Asia Pacific region, the demand for mobile app management and mobile device management is growing exponentially and the need spans all industries. In the last few months, we have won major customers in financial services, hospitality, and aviation industries among others,” said Bob Tinker, CEO, MobileIron. “More and more companies look to mobile apps and devices to drive business transformation and they are choosing MobileIron because they know that we are the only vendor that can make their Mobile IT initiatives successful.”

MobileIron Growth Metrics in Asia Pacific:

  • Grew customer base 300% year over year, adding many of Asia Pacific’s largest investment firms, banks and government agencies.
  • Tripled the number of MobileIron employees on the ground.
  • Increased distribution through partnerships with over 50 reseller partners and more than 10 carriers including SingTel, Telstra, and Optus, with more than 200 partner engineers trained to deploy and support MobileIron.
  • Opened data center in Australia to deliver the MobileIron Connected Cloud, the only cloud-based mobile application and mobile device management solution with real-time integration into existing enterprise resources, regional customers. The state-of-the-art data center features 24×7 on-site security, SOC-1 Type II compliance, and is ISO9001/27001 certified.

Continued Product Innovation
In September, MobileIron launched Version 5, the first platform to solve two critical Mobile IT challenges: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for iOS email attachments and real-world scale for global deployments.

  • DLP for iOS email attachments: MobileIron V5 enables Docs@Work, a secure document container that provides the industry’s only mobile DLP solution for iOS email attachments. Mobile IT can now prevent corporate email attachments from being uploaded from native iOS email to consumer services such as Dropbox.
  • Scale: MobileIron V5 delivers the industry’s most scalable architecture, supporting 100,000 devices fully configured with email, apps, Wi-Fi, VPN, and certificates per server. MobileIron V5 is the only Mobile IT platform to be purpose-built for the real-world security and scale requirements of Global 2000 companies.

About MobileIron
The leader in Mobile IT, MobileIron has been chosen by thousands of organizations that are transforming their businesses through enterprise mobility. Available as an on-premise or a cloud solution, MobileIron was purpose-built to secure and manage mobile apps, documents, and devices for global companies. MobileIron was the first to deliver key innovations such as multi-OS mobile device management (MDM), mobile application management (MAM), and BYOD privacy controls. For more information, please visit www.mobileiron.com .