Listed SA IT company Gijima has formed a partnership with US company MobileIron as it ups its focus on the consumerisation of IT in business.

Founded in 2007 and based in California, MobileIron provides mobile device management and security to large corporations.

Gijima says the partnership will give it the capability to provide enterprise mobile device management and security solutions to its clients. It comes just a week after the company signed a systems integrator agreement with Apple, whose products such as the iPhone and iPad are being increasingly used in corporate environments.

MobileIron designs solutions that allow companies to integrate smartphones and tablets with company networks. It offers solutions for devices running Apple’s iOS, Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS, Microsoft’s Windows Phone and Windows Mobile, Symbian and Google’s Android mobile operating systems.

Gijima CEO Jonas Bogoshi says MobileIron’s products help companies “gain insight and visibility into data that is running on the various mobile devices of employees, enabling security, compliance, information management and cost control”.

One of MobileIron’s products is Virtual Smartphone Platform that allows companies to control and view user activity, device content and mobile applications and provide secure and controlled access to corporate information systems.

Gijima recently deployed MobileIron internally to secure, manage and monitor the 3 300 Apple iPads it is in the process of distributing to its workforce. The company says it has also provided MobileIron products to two large auditing firms. — Staff reporter, TechCentral