founded 1996 headquarters sunnyvale california parent blackberry limited website www.good.com good technology owned by blackberry limited is a mobile security provider headquartered in sunnyvale california united states . the company serves more than 5 000 organizations worldwide in industries such as financial services healthcare manufacturing energy and utilities legal government and technology . 1 2 good makes products for managing and securing mobile devices in a business environment . 3 the company focuses on securing apps and data on mobile devices . 4 contents 1 history 2 platform and products 3 industry status 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links history edit good technology in its current form is a continuation of two previous companies . one was visto founded in 1996 and initially known as roampage . 5 visto acquired the original good technology in 2009 and assumed its name . the original good technology had been founded in 2000 ; it was initially known as springthings and sold an mp3 player for the handspring visor before shifting to email products for mobile professionals . 6 7 prior to the acquisition both companies were known as market leaders in email access from portable devices . 7 8 9 in november 2006 motorola announced plans to acquire good technology as part of its plan to compete with research in motion s blackberry product line in the enterprise sector and expressed its intention to continue licensing its technology to other phone manufacturers . 9 10 at the time of the acquisition good s flagship products were good mobile messaging good mobile intranet and good mobile defense ; the company had 470 employees . 11 on february 23 2009 motorola announced that it had agreed to sell good technology to rival push email provider visto . in 2009 visto announced that it had renamed itself good technology effectively taking the name of the former independent company . 12 from 2009 to 2012 good technology grew through acquisitions among them intercasting corporation may 2009 13 copiun 2012 14 and appcentral 2012 . 15 16 in december 2009 good technology began supporting iphone and android devices . 17 the company launched good dynamics a set of mobile application development tools for enterprise and consumers in october 2011 . 18 with the good secure mobility solution released in june 2013 good technology aimed to address real world usage in which professionals use several apps to accomplish a task . building on its app containerization approach and the good dynamics platform the company presented a system that was both secure and responsive to customers usage habits . 19 in september 2013 the company s good for enterprise gfe solution became the first cross platform mobile collaboration solution to achieve common criteria evaluation assurance level 4 augmented eal4 and the only containerized solution to meet this level of security certification on either ios or android . 20 on september 4 2015 blackberry announced that it is acquiring good technology for 425 million dollars . 21 the news of the acquisition was confirmed by good technology ceo christy wyatt in a blog post on the good blog . 22 the acquisition was completed on november 2 2015 . 23 platform and products edit the good dynamics secure mobility platform serves as a foundation for the good collaboration suite and also for the good mobile alliance isv ecosystem in which independent developers create and distribute apps of their own . in october 2013 good announced the good dynamics shared service framework as part of good dynamics including services such as printing file sharing and email . 24 the framework is also designed to make it easier for developers to reuse code and connect apps . 25 26 good also announced direct connect in fall 2013 ; this technology enables companies to control the way data flows through their networks for instance with respect to corporate or national boundaries . 27 the good collaboration suite includes email calendar contacts tasks instant messaging browsing and document sharing features that go beyond the consumer oriented features of ios windows phone or android and are more tightly integrated with one another . 28 it also includes business oriented features such as single sign on secure access to corporate networks and administrative functions . 28 good for enterprise the core component of the collaboration suite provides a strict separation between personal and corporate content allowing both to coexist on an employee s device without compromising security . 29 other components of the collaboration suite include good share for sharepoint based file sharing and good connect for lync and sametime instant messaging . 30 good s product offerings also include good vault offering enhanced data protection for good for enterprise and using two factor authentication ; 31 good for oems carriers which enables telecommunications companies to create integrated social messaging experiences for their customers ; good secure mobility solution which supports developing securing deploying and managing workflows for mobile workers . 30 industry status edit good technology s reports and executives have been cited as experts in the adoption and use of mobile technology in the enterprise sector . 32 33 34 in particular its quarterly mobility index report tracks data based on good s customers device activations and more recently app activations . 35 good s client base includes those with high security needs such as government agencies and financial institutions . 36 good s security products offer customers a way to migrate from the blackberry platform to ios windows phone and android . 37 in fall 2013 good opened offices in benelux and stockholm . 38 it also has offices in new jersey new york washington texas australia china germany italy south korea spain and the united kingdom . 30 the platform has earned accreditations and certifications that enable companies to comply with government regulations around the world . 39 good software was required in the u.s. department of defense s first approval of android devices in 2012 . 40 in 2013 the platform became the first cross platform mobile collaboration solution to achieve common criteria evaluation assurance level 4 augmented eal4 and the only containerized solution to meet this level of security certification on either ios or android . 20 it was also listed on australia s defence signals directorate s evaluated products list . 41 a fall 2013 info security magazine feature article on women in the information security industry which quoted good ceo christy wyatt and noted that good s workforce was 27 % female and its executive team 40 % female both ahead of an estimated 10 % female workforce in the industry . 42 references edit king rachel june 5 2013 . good technology enterprise mobility trends don t mirror consumer use . zdnet . villavicencio patrick september 18 2013 . good technology enters philippine market keen on emerging mobile enterprises . interaksyon infotek . lomas natasha october 2 2012 . good technology acquires appcentral to bolster ios android and wp app security manageability and distribution in byod era . tech crunch . gallant john august 12 2013 . good technology ceo we focus on the data not the device . cite world . visto profile on crunchbase shim richard september 28 2001 . good challenges rim s blackberry . cnet news . a b maney kevin may 7 2002 . so far so good for tech start up . usa today . visto e mail solution for kpn s i mode . telecompaper . november 14 2003 . a b motorola takes on the blackberry technology & media international herald tribune . new york times . october 10 2006 . lemon sumner february 23 2009 . motorola sells good technology to visto . idg news service . frulinger josh june 11 2012 . motorola buys mobile app company . it world . loizos connie august 18 2010 . dawn of a new era hundreds of millions of dollars later . pe hub . rao leena january 27 2010 . good technology buys up cloudsynch . techcrunch . endler michael september 5 2012 . good technology buys copiun . informationweek . lomas natasha october 2 2012 . good technology acquires appcentral to bolster ios android and wp app security manageability and distribution in byod era . techcrunch . madden jack september 6 2012 . good technology acquires file syncing company copiun . brianmadden.com . finley klint august 4 2010 . iphone and android both see meteoric enterprise growth according to good technology . readwrite . dignan larry october 10 2011 . good technology eyes developers launches good dynamics . zd net . faas ryan june 25 2013 . good technology recognizes that no app is an island . cite news . a b budmar patrick september 11 2013 . good technology gets eal4 certification . computer world . edmonds rich september 4 2015 . blackberry to acquire good technology for 425 million . crackberry . wyatt christy september 4 2015 . a letter to our customers employees and partners . good blog . blackberry completes good technology acquisition . blackberry ltd. press release . november 2 2015 . clark melody november 17 2013 . 54 new apis adobe bittorrent synch and shopyourway . programmableweb . boyd mark october 16 2013 . good technology releases semi open api . programmableweb . mobile industry on the move october 12 . mobile enterprise . october 12 2013 . parkerson stuart november 20 2013 . good technology makes enhancements to its good dynamics security mobility platform part of its enterprise mobile solution services . a b arlotta cj november 19 2013 . good technology updates mobile collaboration suite . mspmentor . barwick hamish 27 november 2013 . slater & gordon lawyers makes the case for mobile security . computerworld . a b c good technology releases next generation secure mobile collaboration suite . bloomberg businessweek . november 12 2013 . hamblen matt december 4 2012 . good vault launches two factor authentication for iphones iphones would use sleeves to read smart cards and microsd cards . computerworld . holmes lindsay november 23 2013 . 19 signs you need to unplug from your smartphone . the huffington post . dipietro ben january 22 2014 . the morning risk report how asian management culture affects risk . grayson ian november 19 2013 . personal device usage can create a security nightmare . australian financial review . madden jack october 18 2013 . check out all these enterprise mobility management announcements from mobilecon . brian madden blog . finneran michael december 4 2013 . how mobile security lags byod . information week . tausche kayla november 26 2013 . meet good the new blackberry killer on wall street . baburajan rajani november 19 2013 . good technology expands mobile device management services in nordics . tmcnet . parkerson stuart november 20 2013 . good technology makes enhancements to its good dynamics security mobility platform part of its enterprise mobile solution services article author . app developer magazine . serbu jared january 5 2012 . dod approves first ever android devices . federal news radio . anderson steve september 16 2013 . good for technology proves good for mobile security with eal4 cert . sap mobile secure . dallaway eleanor 17 october 2013 . let s hear it for the ladies women in information security . info security . further reading edit lemon sumner february 23 2009 . motorola sells good technology to visto . pc world . retrieved december 28 2011 . gohring nancy july 21 2011 . t mobile securing android phones with good technology . pc world . retrieved december 28 2011 . good technology buys up cloudsync . techcrunch.com . january 27 2010 . retrieved january 1 2012 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title good technology & oldid 730553770 categories computer companiesmobile softwarecompanies established in 1996companies based in sunnyvale california navigation menu personal tools 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