Wilbur-Ellis Selects Visage MobilityCentral to Manage Its Enterprise Mobility

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Wilbur-Ellis, a leading international marketer and distributor of agricultural and industrial products, today announced it has selected Visage MobilityCentral to manage Wilbur-Ellis's enterprise mobile devices.

MobilityCentral is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that helps companies fully manage their mobile devices. It gives visibility into and control over smart phones, cell phones and other workforce mobility solutions.

Rick Cahoon, enterprise support manager for Wilbur-Ellis, looked at solutions from carriers and telecom expense management (TEM) players before choosing MobilityCentral. "When we moved the mobility management function into the IT department, the first thing we set out to do was get a handle on our telecom. We wanted a solution that gave us day-to-day management of our devices -- plus benchmarking tools -- in one central program. We found exactly what we were looking for in Visage MobilityCentral."

Cahoon and the Wilbur-Ellis team had been using spreadsheets to track inventory for the company's 1,400 lines of service spread over three carriers and hundreds of different handset models. Keeping their spreadsheets current with staff, carrier, and handset changes was time consuming and nearly impossible given the pace of business today. The carriers' management solutions were confusing to use because each carrier had their own system for invoicing. Moreover, the carriers' software could not be combined with each other to give Cahoon the one overarching management tool he desired. The traditional TEM offerings were far too complex and too costly for Wilbur-Ellis' needs and budget.

"Wilbur-Ellis is a prime example of the difficulties enterprises are facing as workers become increasingly mobile," said Dean Alms, vice president of strategy for Visage Mobile, the creator of MobilityCentral. "We are so pleased to be able to work with Rick in helping Wilbur-Ellis take control of its mobility. We built MobilityCentral with customers like Wilbur-Ellis in mind. MobilityCentral takes a complex problem and simplifies it. It tackles the five essential elements of mobility -- policy management, spend control, inventory, end-user allocations, and configurable reporting. That data is communicated through elegant, intuitive dashboards. And, because it is Software as a Service, MobilityCentral is affordable and fast to implement."

"MobilityCentral is going to be the wave of the future because it fills the need between spreadsheets and full blown TEM solutions," said Cahoon. "With MobilityCentral, you hit the ground running. You log in and immediately see which employee has which plan, you see what they are spending and you drill down into details as needed. It all rolls up into one overview report. It could not be easier to use."

To sign up for a demo of MobilityCentral, visit www.visagemobile.com.

About Wilbur-Ellis

Incorporated in 1921, Wilbur-Ellis Company has grown to become a leading international marketer and distributor of agricultural and industrial products, with sales exceeding $2.012 billion in 2007. The Company remains privately held, with ownership concentrated primarily within the founding family.

To support our diverse customer base, we maintain a multinational marketing / distribution network of offices, formulation facilities, retail centers, and warehouses strategically located throughout North America and the Pacific Rim. Whether transporting fertilizers from warehouses to fields, supplying chemicals to paint factories in Asia, or exporting compressed hay bales from the Western United States and Canada to Japan, we have the technology, experience, integrity, and relationships to deliver what we promise.

About Visage Mobile

Visage Mobile, based in San Francisco, is a leading provider of management solutions for enterprises seeking to gain visibility and control over its smart phones, cell phones and other workforce mobility solutions. Its flagship product, MobilityCentral, provides policy management, spend control, inventory tracking, end-user allocations, configurable reporting and more. Moreover, MobilityCentral is a Software as a Service and the only Do It Yourself (DIY) approach to mobility management; a clear alternative to expensive and often unsatisfactory outsourced approaches. In 2008, Visage Mobile was named one of "Nine Wireless Companies to Watch" by Network World. Additional information is available at www.visagemobile.com.