Covigo, eFORCE partner to accelerate expansion of wireless solutions globally

BELMONT, Calif. (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Covigo, Inc., the wireless platform provider enabling businesses to adapt to the changing mobile world, announced today that it has teamed up with eFORCE to accelerate the delivery of its comprehensive product suite to the marketplace globally. By combining the robust Covigo Platform with eFORCE's rigorous, comprehensive eBRIDGE methodology, this alliance will provide businesses with robust mobile applications to adapt to the dynamic wireless industry.

Covigo will leverage eFORCE's substantial resources and expertise as an eBusiness solutions integrator of IT systems and applications. eFORCE is recognized as one of the top eBusiness solutions integrators by IDC and other research analysts. The new Covigo Platform combines advanced software technology to significantly accelerate the development and deployment of wireless solutions.

eFORCE will leverage Covigo's unique wireless platform to enable enterprises to rapidly and economically build, deploy and manage wireless applications using Covigo's rapid development and deployment environment, seamless integration of voice and data and complete support for secure, end-to-end transactions and analysis.

"Covigo offers the most flexible and robust platform for building mobile applications," said Stuart Bagshaw, Chief Executive Officer, Covigo. "eFORCE, in turn, brings combined strength of their multi-domain expertise, strategic alliances, and rigorous implementation methodology. Together, we can increase our revenues and expand the wireless market space globally. This alliance is an endorsement of Covigo's wireless platform as being cutting edge, easy to use, highly modular and providing a complete, end-to-end wireless solution."

"With its strong capability to support next-generation global wireless transactions through the intelligent integration of technology and services, Covigo has taken a leading position in the mobile commerce and content delivery marketplace," said John Hitchcock, Vice President of Marketing for eFORCE. "In order to meet the mobile eBusiness requirements of our Global 1000 clients, eFORCE is forming strategic alliances with technology leaders such as Covigo. Covigo's dynamic rendering technology and highly scalable server architecture will enable eFORCE to provide our clients with flexibility in a rapidly changing mobile marketplace."

"I am very excited about the value that the Covigo partnership provides our European customers," said Pete Sherrill, Vice President of European Operations, eFORCE. "Through this partnership we enable our customers with wireless solutions for a broad set of services across all our major industry sectors such as multi-channel retailing, transportation, telecommunications and financial services."