Amtel, Inc. is a

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management company based in

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. Founded in 2004, the company provides

cloud-based Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

mobile device security and expense-management products.

Operations

Amtel primarily focuses on providing integrated enterprise mobility management,Bill Shock Coming to New iPad Owners – Byte Magazine
/ref> telecom expense management (TEM), and

secure messaging Secure messaging is a server-based approach to protect sensitive data when sent beyond the corporate borders, and it provides compliance with industry regulations such as HIPAA, GLBA and SOX. Advantages over classical secure e-mail are that conf ...

software as a service for enterprises. Amtel's cloud-based solutions are secured with

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Type II-compliant hosting, offering the highest level of

data security Data security or data protection means protecting digital data, such as those in a database, from destructive forces and from the unwanted actions of unauthorized users, such as a cyberattack or a data breach. Technologies Disk encryption ...

and reliability compared to other

mobile device management Mobile device management (MDM) is the administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, and laptops. MDM is usually implemented with the use of a third-party product that has management features for particular vendors of ...

(MDM) and TEM vendors. Amtel’s

SaaS Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike oth ...

product for managing smart mobile devices allows organizations to manage mobile device security, mobile apps, and fixed telecom services from a

web-based A web application (or web app) is application software that is created with web technologies and runs via a web browser. Web applications emerged during the late 1990s and allowed for the server to dynamically build a response to the request, ...

console.Amtel's SaaS Assists Businesses Using New iPads to Stay Within Budget – TMCNet.com
/ref>Amtel Breaks Out Biz, Personal Calls – InformationWeek
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History

Amtel originally developed and marketed an integrated

product for telecom and mobile life cycle management.Free Service Offers Basic Enterprise Mobile Management – Computerworld Magazine
/ref> The company’s MDM product for

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(iPhone, iPad),

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(Smartphones, Tablets),

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and

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devices was launched in 2010. With this program, Amtel combined mobile device security management with

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management into a telecom information management system (TIMS) platform. The components of the system - obile device management mobile expense management, and telecom expense management could be set up separately or managed together from a single Web based console. On 16 April 2016, the business was acquired by Netplus, before being acquired later on by StoneCalibre.

References

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