A Perfect Solution for Mobility?
IESE Turns to Good Technology for Mobility Solution

Last summer, IESE and the U.S. firm Good Technology initiated a technological collaboration to deploy an advanced mobility solution at IESE which would become a worldwide benchmark among all the international business schools. This project culminated on February 16, 2006 with the signing of an agreement by which Good Technology has officially become IESE’s Technology Affiliate in the realm of real-time mobile services.

IESE is Good Technology’s first Spanish customer. The company has been testing its comprehensive wireless e-mail and data access solution since summer 2005. It will provide all staff, professors and executives with permanent real-time synchronization of their e-mail, tasks, contacts, notes and calendar appointments, to facilitate coordination among working teams and associates. There will also be the additional possibility of accessing the school’s central services using smartphones and PDAs with the Windows Mobile operating system, which are compatible with any mobile telephony operator (the solution is totally independent of the mobile telephony operators chosen, unlike the other solutions on the market).

Additionally, the possibility is also being examined of extending the use of this solution to IESE’s own academic programs (such as the MBA) and perhaps even to the IESE Alumni Association through the “iese.net” e-mail accounts.

According to Jordi Vallet, head of technology at IESE, “the agreement with Good Technology is an important landmark for us given that it enables us to be pioneers in the deployment of an unprecedented mobility solution in an academic setting like ours, with a technological approach that is markedly different and superior to the other solutions on the market. Without a doubt, it opens for us a wide range of opportunities for improving our internal communication processes, among other areas, and for new corporate and academic activities that until now were not even feasible.”