Nokia and IBM have announced their collaboration to deliver business mobility solutions to Indian enterprises. Building on their global alliance for business mobility, Nokia and IBM also shared an update on the deployment of IBM Lotus Notes Traveler for Nokia smartphones highlighting substantial traction among Indian enterprises.

The solution – which delivers direct, secure access to email and personal information via organizations’ IBM Domino servers – is now available for Nokia Symbian S60 smartphones. Support for Nokia’s new Symbian OS platform is prominently positioned in IBM’s mobile product roadmap.

The solution has undergone large-scale deployment at leading Indian enterprises including Asian Paints, Max New York Life, Britannia, Subros, Amtek Auto, Usha International Ltd. and Havells to name a few, which have benefitted through improved efficiency and at significantly lower cost compared to rival solutions.

“IBM Lotus Notes Traveler gives business professionals easy, secure and real-time access to their email boxes, corporate contacts and corporate calendar on their Nokia smartphones. Direct access mail also drastically reduces the cost of managing and maintaining servers,” said V Ramnath, Director Operator Channels for Nokia India.

“We are extremely happy to collaborate with Nokia, as our association will be yet another milestone towards smarter business mobility. This announcement is part of our continuing effort to expand mobile support for the Lotus software portfolio,” said Pradeep Nair -Director - Software Group, IBM India/South Asia.