Grant Thornton LLP Chooses Sybase iAnywhere To Manage 3000 Mobile Devices

Grant Thornton LLP Chooses Sybase iAnywhere To Manage 3000 Mobile Devices

Sybase iAnywhere today announced that Grant Thornton LLP, one of the largest accounting, tax and business advisory firms in the U.S, has selected Information Anywhere® Afaria® mobile device management technology, to ensure that its policies, procedures and other technical reference information are current and available to its 3,000 Assurance mobile professionals on their desktop and laptop computers. Information Anywhere suite is a platform that addresses converging enterprise requirements for mobile email, collaboration, security, device management and application enablement.

Sybase iAnywhere device management has enabled Grant Thornton to improve the efficiency of its information distribution – pushing only changes in policies and internal methodologies to its professionals, rather than repeatedly sending an exhaustive re-publish of the entire electronic library every time there was a change or addition to the source documents. Improvements in efficient, reliable distribution mean less bandwidth usage on Grant Thornton’s network. Having immediate access to current policies and procedures assists Grant Thornton Assurance professionals in providing quality service to their clients.

“Client service is the life-blood of our business. Providing what our firm refers to as the ‘Grant Thornton Experience’ to our clients requires that our Assurance professionals have remote, fingertip access to an ever increasing and ever changing body of knowledge consisting of regulatory and other technical reference literature,” said David Holyoak, partner and chief information officer, Grant Thornton LLP. “As a firm focused on quality client service, we are always enhancing our technology in ways to better serve our clients. Afaria enhances our ability to deliver the ‘Grant Thornton Experience’ to our clients.”

“Grant Thornton chose our mobile device management for its superior ability to remotely manage all types of mobile and desktop devices,” said Shirley Macbeth, senior marketing director, Sybase iAnywhere. “With this new solution, the firm can simplify and streamline the process of getting compliance and regulatory content out to its Assurance professionals in a more efficient and less costly way.”

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