Oulu, the Hi-tech Hot Bed.

Case: Successful Mobile Device

Management Project with Skillful Partner

Jukka Hieta

Executive Director, Sales and Marketing

Sofor Oy

+400 ICT companies

15 000 high-tech jobs

+7500 R&D experts

200 eHealth companies

300 start-up companies

16 000 students in University of Oulu

8000 students in Oulu Universityof Applied Sciences

Oulu, City of 240 000 people

”Every day some 2,6 billion people are

utilising the technology that hasbeen developed in

Oulu”

”Oulu is the world´s best place to

find a radio technology know-

how”

Rajeev SuriCEO, Nokia

The most intelligentcity in Europe 2012

and 2013

Intelligent communityForum (ICF)

2011 WIFIUS – High Capacity NextGen Cognitive Radio Solution

2010 World's First Fully 'Open' Mobile Device Powered by Moblin

2010 Linux Phone launch

2009 World 1st Cloud based mobile security services

2008 World 1st pedestrian navigation phone

2007 Launch of mobile Wimax test network

2005 The world’s 1st public NFC user

2004 The world’s 1st commercial Edge high-speed network

2003 Europe’s 1st free urban area WLAN network

2002 The world's 1st WCDMA (3GPP) telephone call

2002 The world's 1st security OTA-services for Mobile phones

2001 The world's 1st security products for Mobile phones

1996 The world’s 1st WCDMA telephone call

1993 Modern menu-driven user interface style for mobile phone

1992 The 1st contactless fare collection system for public transportation

1991 The world's 1st GSM telephone call

1991 The world's 1st GSM base station

1982 Europe’s largest science park

1981 The world's 1st NMT network

Oulu Track Record in Wireless

Leading Global ICT Brands in Oulu

Generation of 300 StartUp -companiesDuring year 2013 Oulu basedstartup-companies reachedabout 40 million eurosinvestments.

One of funders, Northern Startup Fund, is a VC fund managed by Butterfly Ventures that invests into early stage startups as the first asymmetric fund in Finland.

It means that the public investor, which benefits also in a form of tax income, lowers the risk of a private investor by offering a possibility for returning the invested capital and profit share before the public investor.

From the private investors’ point of view this improves the risk – return expectation ratio significantly.

The public investors in the Northern Startup Funds are the City of Oulu and the European Regional Development Fund (the Northern Ostrobothnia Centre for Economic Development, the European Union).

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Increase of mobile

applications and the possibilities they create was the reason for

the RFQ

There are 3000 mobile devicesin the City of

Oulu that needto be remotely

managed

• Mobile applications are increasing in the service

sectors of early childhood education and home care

• The increase of mobile applications and the

possibilities they create was the main reason for the

City of Oulu to ignite the sourcing and deployment

of the mobile device management project

• Recently mobile device management and the end-

user device technologies have gone through a

break-through and as a consequence it is possible to

do full blown mobile device management

Starting point

1. Market study

• City of Oulu started a 6-month market study in which the existing systems were mapped and different Gartner quadrants were analyzed

2. Biddingprocess

• Bidding process had two phases: Reviewing of the offer documents and Proof of Concept

3. Partnerchosen

• As a result of the bid process Sofor was chosen to deliver the new Mobile Device Management solution. Sofor delivers also support and expert services to the specialists in the Oulu Information Services Department

Project process

Technical solution consists of XenMobile 9 MDM

Edition including

• XenMobile Device Manager 9

• NetScaler

– ShareFile configurations (with ShareFile

Wizard)

– Virtual Server with SSL Offload

• ShareFile StorageZone Controller (for local

network CIFS shares)

Technical Solution

“Sofor has excellent professional attitude: Sofor keeps its promises. In addition to this Sofor has a good network. The tight cooperation goes well both with Arrow ECS and Citrix who are actively involved in the making of business and they provide support when needed. This is important today as through a good and wide network even the most difficult things can be managed swiftly”, explains Heikki Mikkonen Service Director in City of Oulu.

Why Sofor?

High Level Service,

Agility, Cost Efficiency

and Customization

All from One Partner

- Sofor