Sybase iAnywhere, which is specialized in mobile computing and has incorporated its technologies in tens of millions of mobile devices around the world, announced on Tuesday its availability to offer support for e-mail on Apple’s iPhone, as part of its Information Anywhere Suite, reducing potential security concerns and at the same time providing a rich user experience for iPhone enterprise users. In the beginning the service will only offer e-mail possibilities, but other features are said to be included in the future.

“We’ve had significant demand from our customer base for iPhone support, as companies want to allow the iPhone as an approved device choice for wireless email, along with their other Windows Mobile, Symbian or Palm devices,” said Mark Willnerd, vice president of Sybase iAnywhere in a statement.

“In addition, we are excited by the recent release of the Apple iPhone SDK. We are currently exploring new possibilities for future product enhancements and additional iPhone support across our entire Information Anywhere Suite mobility platform,” Willnerd also said in his statement.

The company highlighted some of the key advantages to the new service, which is said to be released by the end of the month. Among them, the security issue, offline e-mail access, secured access to contact data, multi-device support (over 250 Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm-based devices, in addition to the iPhone) and the broad enterprise e-mail support for both Lotus Domino R6/7/8 and Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003/2007.

“We were glad to be selected as an iPhone beta participant with Sybase iAnywhere. The solution was easy to set up without any adjustment to our backend infrastructure and we were ready to go with our iPhone devices in less than a day,” said Melkon Torosyan, project manager, Comdirect AG. “We are looking forward to deploying the solution because it addresses the needs of the users and the security concerns of our enterprise customers.”