Sybase 365, a Sybase Inc. subsidiary that offers mobile messaging services, announced a global partnership with 2sms to extend SMS services to small and midsized companies on an instant provisioning basis.

A new full-service Web site offers a suite of messaging products and services and combines the functionality of 2sms with the Sybase 365 messaging platform, enabling enterprise customers to register and use SMS to communicate with employees, suppliers and customers.

Enterprises continue to embrace SMS as an efficient and cost-effective medium through which to communicate.

2sms has 1,500 business customers from 35 countries, and is the only SMS provider to be certified ISO27001 for Information Security. 2sms.com is a business communications solution provider.

Sybase 365 is a key player in SMS, MMS and GRX mobile messaging interoperability, the delivery and settlement of SMS and MMS content, mobile commerce and enterprise-class messaging services.

Processing more than 200 billion messages per year, Sybase 365 reaches 700-plus wireless carriers and 3 billion subscribers around the world.

The new service will enable businesses with increasingly mobile workforces to instantly deploy SMS services.

The applications for SMS are limitless, per Sybase 365.

Current customers of the service include divisions of Unilever, EDS and Alstom Transport. All are using SMS to communicate effectively and efficiently while reducing manhours and costly phone bills.

SMS is extended into the corporate IT infrastructure, using open standards (XML) for ease of customer integration.

The service is available immediately at http://www.sybase365sms.com. Customers are able to log onto the site and connect their own IT systems to the SMS network via an ISO27001 certified platform.

2sms software plug-ins include Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, Salesforce.com and Java, allowing businesses to download applications that enable desktop messaging.