Capricode is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 software company providing solutions to telecommunications software problems. Capricode’s main product is SyncShield, a solution to Mobile device management

Mobile device management

Mobile Device Management software secures, monitors, manages and supports mobile devices deployed across mobile operators, service providers and enterprises...

 (MDM) problems.

Capricode is a privately owned company having the head office in Oulu, Finland. Capricode has a software project factory in Budapest, Hungary.

Capricode focuses on standard-based software products and services. In research and development activities Capricode uses Agile software development

Agile software development

Agile software development is a group of software development methodologies based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams...

 methods.

History

Capricode was founded in 2002 as a spin-off from Nethawk Plc. Capricode acquired Engi Oy and FlexIns Oy in 2002 and VoiceBit Oy in 2003.

In 2005 Capricode sold its subcontracting business area to Sweco.

SyncShield Mobile Device Management

Capricode SyncShield is a solution to Mobile device management

Mobile device management

Mobile Device Management software secures, monitors, manages and supports mobile devices deployed across mobile operators, service providers and enterprises...

 problems providing over-the-air

Wireless

Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...

 management of Smartphone

Smartphone

A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...

 security, applications and settings. SyncShield is a device manufacturer and solution to application software manufacturer independent problems that support Symbian

Symbian

Symbian is a mobile operating system and computing platform designed for smartphones and currently maintained by Accenture. The Symbian platform is the successor to Symbian OS and Nokia Series 60; unlike Symbian OS, which needed an additional user interface system, Symbian includes a user...

, Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is...

, Android and Apple iPhone devices.

SyncShield supports both Service Providers and operators that offer mobile device management for businesses as a managed (MSP) or hosted service (ASP

Application service provider

An application service provider is a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network. Software offered using an ASP model is also sometimes called On-demand software or software as a service ....

).