AppSense announced it intends to acquire RAPsphere, a mobile IT company developing mobile information management solutions enabling CIOs to contend with BYOD in the enterprise and the critical need to protect corporate applications and data on mobile devices.
The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close within the quarter. This will be the first acquisition made by AppSense and will expand the application of user virtualisation across the mobile enterprise.
The move will advance efforts to further establish greater controls and IT management of enterprise users who, whether enterprise IT consents or is even aware, are choosing how and where they want to work. RAPsphere delivers on the AppSense vision to enable Enterprise Consumerisation through people-centric computing.
“Today, CIO’s are seeking a simplified management of corporate data and applications regardless of which mobile end points or desktops users choose,” said Sachin Kundra, CIO of Chevron Federal Credit Union. “We have been independently working with both AppSense and RAPsphere to better understand people-centric computing and accelerate BYOD initiatives.”