odyssey software inc. type private industry mobile device management founded 1996 1 1996 1 headquarters west henrietta new york u.s. key people mark gentile president and ceo founder greg siembor cfo tom robinson evp sales and marketing james sullivan evp technology number of employees 40 2010 2 website www.odysseysoftware.com odyssey software provides mobile device management and software development tools to enterprise companies either directly primarily through its athena product or through partner solutions . its technology allows companies to manage multiple mobile operating systems at a detailed level including functions such as inventory collection software management remote control and device configuration . contents 1 history 2 products 3 technology 4 customers 5 partners 6 external links 7 references history edit odyssey software was founded in 1996 by mark gentile 1 and originally focused on building software development tools . however it now focuses on developing software products that enable developers to architect build deploy and manage enterprise applications for managing mobile and embedded devices as well as mobile device management solutions it can deliver to enterprises directly . the company has been sold to symantec in a deal completed on march 2 2012 . 3 products edit athena device management software that extends microsoft system center solutions adding the ability to manage support and control mobile and embedded devices such as smartphones and ruggedized handhelds . 4 appcenter an application manager that restricts end user activity to a set of authorized only applications preventing non productive or unauthorized device utilization . 5 viaxml a mobile and wireless application infrastructure that enables web services which provide access to data business logic knowledge and application components to be exposed and called over the internet and corporate intranet using open internet standards xml http and https . 6 cefusion a set of mobile and wireless application data access infrastructure for rapidly building and deploying rich mobile enterprise applications . it extends the core windows dna data access technologies ado activex data objects mts microsoft transaction services and msmq microsoft message queuing to the mobile application environment . 7 technology edit mobile device management capabilities such as remote provisioning inventory collection including location based data software management remote wipe device lock remote control device configuration and microsoft exchange activesync management . 8 management of multiple mobile operating systems through pre defined or administrator defined device groups . support for a wide range of mobile operating systems such as ios blackberry android symbian windows mobile windows phone 7 windows embedded and palm webos . the ability to easily integrate with and help power most device management solutions including blackberry enterprise server 9 such as those of its partners see below . application management capabilities such as restricting end user activity to enterprise approved applications controlling the availability of applications on a device automatically launching applications and restricting the use of certain functions of the operating system . 5 customers edit coca cola freestyle 10 wegmans officemax dhl intel j. c. penney plymouth foundry others . 11 partners edit motorola microsoft htc mobilitynow trust digital airwatch conceivium cloudsync optical phusion stay linked janam others . 12 external links edit odyssey software homepage references edit a b remote control software for mobile device management odyssey software company odyssey software company profile linkedin symantec acquires odyssey software odyssey software s athena continues to improve mobile device management a b http www.motorola.com business us en business product and services software and applications mobility software mobile application utilities appcenter us en viaxml symbol technology center cefusion enterprise extends e warehouse to windows ce based devices . free online library remote control software for mobile device management odyssey software configuration manager 2007 athena http www.mobileenterprisemag.com me2 sites dirmod.asp sid & nm & type multipublishing & mod publishingtitles & mid b4771c6f22f34e4ca3fffda61e0ea2c5 & siteid a21ca82741174e568c7febcdbb5aa3d0 & tier 4 & id 99ec7106e76d4fde940c3c58ee7f06a0 odyssey software enables new coca cola freestyle fountains to phone home west henrietta n.y. dec. 6 2010 prnewswire youtube athena remote control software for mobile device management odyssey software partners retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title odyssey software mobile device management & oldid 720600744 categories mobile device managementmobile software programming tools navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view 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