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New mobile Rational, Lotus and Domino apps hit the street, backed up by new carrier partnerships designed to cash in on a booming trend.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) continues sounding the charge on bringing its enterprise software to mobile users, today introducing several new offerings as well as partnerships with carriers AT&T (NYSE: T) and Sprint (NYSE: S) to extend its Rational, Lotus and Domino applications to wireless devices. Products include Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), an application that allows mobile devices users to access mainframe applications. The new WebSphere Business Monitor software, which enables enterprises to measure business processes and performance, is now available for Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices, and will be provided for the Apple iPhone in the fourth quarter of 2008. IBM also said the carriers certified its Lotus Notes Traveler software for select smartphones. The news marks the latest in IBM's push to extend its collaboration tools to mobile enterprises and capitalize on the growing momentum behind remote workers and ever-more-powerful wireless devices -- trends that IBM views as a natural extension of the desktop work environment, according to John Dunderdale, vice president of sales at IBM Lotus. RELATED ARTICLES iPhone Knocking on the Enterprise 5 Factors Driving Mobile Device Growth Greater Mobile Use Brings Bigger Virus Threat Sybase iPhone Support for Notes, Exchange IBM Lotus Goes Mobile via the BlackBerry IBM Unveils Web 2.0 Server Model IBM Scoops Up Softek For more stories on this topic: "Enterprises... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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