International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), the world’s biggest computer-services provider, is acquiring Worklight Inc., a closely held maker of software for smartphones and tablets to enhance its mobile-service offerings.

Worklight’s software accelerates the delivery of employee and consumer mobile applications to multiple devices and enables secure connections to a company’s information-technology systems, Armonk, New York-based IBM said today in a statement. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.