Kony Acquires Sky Technologies to Accelerate Leadership Role in Fast-Expanding Global Enterprise Mobility Market
Combined Portfolio Offers SAP Customers the Industry’s Most Complete End-to-End Mobility Solution
This strategic acquisition by Kony comes during a shift in computing to mobile devices, both within the enterprise and among consumers. To meet the demands created by this shift, industry analyst firm Gartner, Inc. recommends that businesses take a multichannel approach to their computing strategies, creating a unified architecture encompassing mobile, rich client, desktop Web, and other digital channels to deliver optimized user experiences across the full variety of devices that users interact with every day.
“This move makes
“Sky Technologies and Kony share a customer-centric approach and dedication to delivering the world’s best mobile experience and technology through constant innovation and a focus on delivering enterprise-grade mobile solutions to businesses,” said Troy O’Connor, CEO and co-founder of Sky Technologies. “It is a compelling combination and great news for all those wanting to offer innovative multichannel and mobile solutions to billions of users, not only in the U.S. but worldwide. It also extends our existing offering to Sky customers who want to mobilize their Siebel, Peoplesoft, Microsoft Sharepoint and other non-SAP environments.”
“Kony’s acquisition and global deployment of Sky’s valuable technology is testament to the strength and innovation of its home-grown and funded Australian team. We can all be very proud that a high-quality Australian technology company will now merge technologies with one of the most exciting global companies in the mobile space,” said
With Sky Technologies, Kony can immediately offer customers a significantly broader range of B2E solutions, including certified integration with SAP environments. SAP customers in particular benefit from Sky’s ability to deploy from inside SAP and domain expertise in B2E environments. Meanwhile, Sky Technologies customers benefit from Kony’s broad array of pre-built B2C and B2E applications, its broad and deep multichannel application platform, and its mobile application management/mobile device management solutions. The acquisition, along with Kony’s existing strategic partnerships with Accenture, Cognizant and IBM, will allow Kony to operate mobility centers of excellence in
An established SAP partner, Sky Technologies has more than 100 Global 2000 customers using its technology to mobilize SAP in B2E applications. Customers include brands such as Konica Minolta,
The combined company will continue to provide full support of Sky Technologies’ products to new and current customers, prospects and partners.
Additional information about the acquisition can be found on Kony’s website at: www.kony.com/sky.
About Sky Technologies
Sky Technologies is a mobile enterprise applications company with more than 14 years of experience and has deployed mobility projects to SAP customers in more than 35 countries. Sky enables customers to mobilize any business process on any mobile device using a single technology platform, and their business solution suite of “code-free” enterprise applications can be seamlessly integrated to any back-end SAP application. Sky offers proven mobile solutions in areas such as CRM/Sales,
About
Kony is a mobile and multichannel application platform provider. Kony develops a suite of customizable pre-built apps, the KonyOne™ Platform and Kony Mobile App Manager, which give companies the confidence and control to build apps once and deploy and manage them everywhere -- across all smartphones, feature phones, tablets, kiosks and desktops, seven operating systems and multiple deployment modes, including HTML5 and mobile web, hybrid, native, and mixed-mode.
Kony’s customers include more than 70 Fortune 500 companies, the largest global bank, and global brands such as Toyota, Capital One, Hyatt, and
In 2012 Kony was named a “Visionary” in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Application Development Platforms (MADP) report. For more information, please visit www.kony.com or connect with Kony on Twitter, Facebook and Slideshare.
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