iAnywhere Solutions announced today that the new version of its M-Business Anywhere mobile middleware platform adds tablet, laptop and PC support.

M-Business Anywhere already enabled companies to deliver on- and offline web content, including CRM, ERP, and other enterprise solutions and applications, to PDAs and smartphones. Now businesses can extend the same web-based content to other types of mobile computers and desktops. So web-based applications already created for PDA delivery can now be seamlessly extended to tablets, which have, for example, become popular in certain sectors, such as healthcare.

"By supporting tablets, laptops and PCs in addition to PDAs, iAnywhere has made M-Business Anywhere an even stronger enterprise platform," said Warren Wilson, practice director, Mobile and Wireless Business Solutions at Summit Strategies.

In addition to PC support, the company said new usage tracking capabilities have been to added to better enable IT to monitor user adoption. The company has also added the ability to make global deployments of content. This means client device user interfaces now support multiple languages. As a result, not only can a company use a single server to deliver localized content, but each user can also access a user interface in their local language.

The core technology used in M-Business Anywhere is also behind a tool that should be more familiar to most mobile users, the AvantGo mobile Internet service.

Last week, iAnywhere Solutions parent company, Sybase moved to shore up its mobile software offerings by agreeing to acquire XcelleNet, which makes software to help workers manage information from for wireless devices and remote locations, for $95.2 million in cash.

Sybase plans to integrate XcelleNet into iAnywhere Solutions. The goal is to compliment the company's mobile database software and middleware with XcelleNet's remote device management and mobile security technologies.