Frost & Sullivan reportedly awarded its 2009 North American Portfolio Leadership of the Year Award in Mobile Resource Management to AT&T. AT&T (News - Alert) is a global provider of solutions designed to automate MRM and the company has more than a century of experience in this field.

 

MRM includes managing resources through time and space and incorporating real-time operational needs. MRM helps the companies to track the progress of your mobile resources in real-time and assign the right job to the right resource.

 

The award by Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert) recognizes AT&T's portfolio of MRM solutions for its broad array of features and functionality, high quality, innovation, brand awareness and customer scalability. AT&T MRM solutions a highly secure, scalable, upgradeable, enterprise-class platform by providing real-time MRM infrastructure integrating wireless communications, location-based services, software applications, transaction processing and the Internet.

 

“AT&T's best-in-class portfolio of MRM solutions provides a well-designed range of product and price options, allowing even the most price-sensitive customer to find a comfortable purchase point,” Jeanine Sterling, senior mobile analyst, Frost & Sullivan, said. “AT&T's macro view and understanding of the MRM sector's overall device needs provide well-informed guidance to its device partners and a range of device options.”

 

The MRM solutions from AT&T are provided in hosted, on-premise or hybrid environments that seamlessly connect mobile workforces to real-time corporate data on-demand. By working with dozens of alliances in 14 industries, AT&T wants to enhance the delivery and support of mobile applications to companies. Frost & Sullivan made use of a customized Decision Support Matrix, an analytical tool, to select the recipient of this award.

 

Recently, the company announced that it is partnering with Wallace Wireless (News - Alert), Inc. to offer a Wallace Information Communicator Pager, a premium group-alert notification solution for hospitals and healthcare organizations to help address their productivity, security and coverage needs. The solution provides an integrated communication experience to healthcare professionals and hospital departments by allowing centralized administration, group notification and real-time delivery statuses for alerts.