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LegiTime Technologies Launches Enterprise SMS and Device Management Suite

Posted on: Tuesday, 16 June 2009, 06:00 CDT

New management and product development team deliver "enterprise-class" SMS archiving and mobile device management solutions

FARMINGTON, Conn., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- LegiTime Technologies, the integrated SMS and mobile device management company, today launched its revamped product suite and announced a new executive team. The LegiTime suite of products allows corporate IT administrators to treat SMS like any other business communication. LegiTime's new offerings store and archive text messages, as required by financial service and healthcare industry regulations, and remotely disable lost or stolen mobile devices, while retaining the information contained on them. Driving the company's strategic vision are two additions to the management team: Chairman Michael Michigami, who brings more than 30 years of technology management experience, and CTO Sanjay Jinturkar, who leads the company's product development efforts and guides its engineering strategy.

The LegiTime suite of products delivers the following capabilities to the mobile enterprise:

• LegiText(TM) SMS Archiving: A copy of each message sent is backed up on enterprise servers - required for compliance in regulated industries and desirable for many enterprises
• LegiText(TM) Inbox Management: Enables message authentication, prioritization and categorization
• LegiAlert(TM) Group Messaging: Integrates with Exchange to allow group/broadcast SMS communication tools, such as one-click group designation, message prioritization and group messaging
• LegiTrac(TM)/Ring, Ping & Lock: A mobile device management option that stores all of a phone's information on LegiTime's servers, locates lost devices and then disables them.

"Although more than one trillion text messages were sent in the U.S. last year, until now, SMS has had limited acceptance in a corporate setting," said Michael Michigami, Chairman, LegiTime Technologies. "Today, LegiTime provides the enterprise with a secure SMS and device management system that allows corporations to incorporate SMS technology into their businesses and make them truly mobile."

Enterprise-Class SMS

According to CTIA-The Wireless Association, SMS use in North America increased at a compound annual growth rate of more than 230 percent from 2005 through 2008. As part of this trend, mobile professionals are increasingly using SMS for informal business interactions. LegiTime's products address this trend and allow the use of SMS for more "official" business communications.

Now, enterprise users can backup and archive their SMS messages. In addition to providing the necessary record of communications in regulated industries, this also allows for policy management and searchable SMS conversation "threads," making SMS communications as easy and accessible as email. In addition, LegiText's message management capabilities allow users to authenticate, classify and prioritize messages into designated inboxes, similar to their email inboxes, based on its patent-pending Demonstration of Legitimacy (DoL) technology. The capability to broadcast messages to the entire enterprise, or any group within the enterprise, is also available.

Centralized Mobile Device Management

LegiTime also helps the enterprise to address the challenge of managing many mobile devices in the field. Traditionally, lost or stolen devices results in the loss of sensitive corporate information as well as lost productivity. LegiTime's Ring Ping and Lock offering addresses this issue. Now, corporate IT administrators can track and immobilize lost phones and have the data from the phone for downloading to a new device.

New Executive Team Drives Product Vision

LegiTime's management team is focused on delivering integrated enterprise SMS services for any operating system and any carrier network. Driving this vision are two additions to the management team:

Chairman Michael Michigami has served as CEO to three public companies: Electronic Associates, Inc., Digital Microwave Corporation (also Chairman) and Datapoint Corporation. Additionally he held senior management positions at United Technologies Corporation, General Electric Capital, Booz Allen Hamilton, Texas Instruments, and Data General Corporation.

CTO Sanjay Jinturkar has more than a decade of experience in the development and delivery of communications and applications software and has extensive experience in the area of mobile applications and platforms. He currently holds 10 patents in embedded systems architecture and software, and has more than 20 conference and journal publications in computer architecture, compilers, communications systems and multimedia protocols.

Pricing and Availability

LegiTime is offering its downloadable mobile client software for a monthly per-device service fee. It can be downloaded for a 30-day free trial at www.legitimetechnologies.com. Fees increase as additional features, such as LegiAlert are added.

LegiTime's client software is currently in beta and is available for phones using the Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1 operating systems. A beta version of LegiText is also available for download to Blackberry handsets with operating system version 4.2 and higher.

About LegiTime

LegiTime provides enterprises with a secure SMS environment that provides for text archiving, message management, and centralized control of all mobile assets. Founded in 2005, LegiTime Technologies is headquartered in Farmington, Conn. For more information on the company, please visit www.legitimetechnologies.com.

SOURCE LegiTime Technologies

Source: PR Newswire

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