Sybase went for the iPhone in a major way this week. It released three solutions—one for enterprise-level device management, another for corporate database integration, and a third for mobile banking—to better allow businesses to service and support both internal employees and external iPhone users.

The company's new iPhone support includes components of its Afaria mobile management platform, which now extends enterprise device management and policy enforcement features to the iPhone. Here are some details regarding the addition of iPhone management support to Afaria:

 

Over-the-air provisioning and certificate-based policy enforcement

 

Enforceable administrative policy lockdown control (i.e., passcode, Wi=Fi, VPN/APN, IMAP/POP email settings, and application usage/installation restrictions)

 

Accurate compliance reporting

 

Device authentication to a corporate directory

 

Database and Enterprise Synchronization

Meanwhile, the addition of SQL Anywhere database and synchronization support gives companies a way to extend information in enterprise relational databases to business applications running on Apple's mobile devices. The platform, which is capable of scaling to over 100,000 users, delivers bi-directional synchronization between an iPhone and the Sybase ASE, SQL Anywhere, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and MySQL databases.

It also provides enterprise-caliber data management and synchronization technologies designed to operate in heterogeneous environments without regular on-site IT maintenance, according to Sybase.

Lastly, Sybase announced availability of its mobile banking solution, Sybase mBanking 365, in the form on an application for the iPhone and iPod touch. BBVA Compass, among the top 25 largest banks in the U.S., is one of the first adopters of the mBanking iPhone application.

See here to view a demo of Compass Mobile in action and here to download the free app if your a BBVA Compass customer..