Martin Kane, Director of Customer Relations at Severn Trent Water will present the organisations business case for implementing a mobile solution and the selection process they undertook to find a suitable vendor. Martin will discuss the methodology of the implementation, specific challenges the organisation faced and their plans for moving forward.

• The expanding role of mobile apps in business efficiency
• Trends and case studies in mobile enterprise apps
• The future of enterprise mobile apps and what should be on your radar

With offerings coming to market from major players and a promise of a single device for end users, do the benefits, protocols, standards and technologies deliver for business or residential users today?
With options around customer premises or carrier technology offerings available, what works for your business and where is this heading?

An O2 story
Hear about our own experience of creating a new vision for ‘Our Space’, and our journey in creating a welcoming, inspiring and highly effective workplace that better connects our people. This inspiring seminar will share real, practical examples of how we’ve changed working life at O2 and delivered benefits for both our people and our business.

We all understand how Unified Communications and mobile operations are essential to enable field workers to work more efficiently and effectively, but what about the customer? Is your company using the latest techniques to minimise the amount of time your field workers spend on the road and your customers spend waiting for field workers to arrive?
In this session, Yuval Brisker will share specific customer examples to highlight how companies can increase mobile workforce efficiency and at the same time improve the customer experience by setting schedules, managing appointments and maintaining customer communication whilst on the road.

At the heart of every business is the goal of driving increased efficiencies whilst delivering more customer value and revenue growth or new revenue streams. Mobile applications have provided a key role for many organisations in enabling them to drive efficiencies across their field and sales force. Join us to learn about how companies have achieved these efficiencies and how even more value can be delivered by joining up these applications across organisations

At the heart of every business is the goal of driving increased efficiencies whilst delivering more customer value and revenue growth or new revenue streams. Mobile applications have provided a key role for many organisations in enabling them to drive efficiencies across their field and sales force. Join us to learn about how companies have achieved these efficiencies and how even more value can be delivered by joining up these applications across organisations

Enterprises world-wide are adopting Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), IM, online video and other Unified Communications (UC) applications for communications cost-savings, and business continuity.

However, VoIP and UC networks have their own unique security challenges. In this presentation, we will discuss vulnerabilities and solutions. Attendees will glean valuable information on many UC vulnerabilities and risks, tools used -- and protection measures.

AcumenMobile 3.0 enables your business to deliver new business line and business income services to mobile device users. Deliver best of breed mobile-based publishing, collaboration and mobile worker solutions to PDA, Blackberry, Iphone and Mobile Device users. Visit the innovation Pods - stand 802 for a demonstration and technical details

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Casio is a global leader in the design and manufacture of handheld terminals. This is reflected in the innovative design of the DT-X30 terminal. An IP67 terminal, drop tested to 1.8 metres, for use in demanding applications and environments. Casio are launching the IT-800 with some new touch screen technology.

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CommonTime - Experts in Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms. • Mobilizing paper based business processes for increased efficiency. • Simplifying mobile application development and deployment. • Mobilizing workforces and their business processes. • Flexible solutions that operate across a range of mobile devices and operating systems. • Delivering immediate ROI for our customers.

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DevelopIQ is an Elite BlackBerry Alliance Member, winner of the 2009 BlackBerry Innovation Award and a proven technical leader in developing and deploying enterprise & consumer applications on the BlackBerry smartphone At UC EXPO, we will be demonstrating PaperIQ, which is the market leading enterprise-class digital pen solution for BlackBerry with successful deployments in healthcare, insurance, construction, field sales/service, retail and local government. If you are looking to strea...

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DeviceAnywhere is an award-winning company that provides a simple route to mobile application testing, test automation, QoS monitoring, application certification and post-development support. – enabling organizations worldwide to bring better mobile content to the market faster than ever before. DeviceAnywhere supports 2000+ devices on over 30 different carrier networks.

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About Forum Nokia Nokia's global developer program, Forum Nokia connects developers to tools, technical information, support, and distribution channels they can use to build and market applications around the globe. From offices in the U.S., Europe, India, Japan, China, and Singapore, FNDC provides technical and business development support to developers and operators to assist them in achieving their goal of successfully launching applications and services to consumers and enterprises.

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About O2 •Telefónica O2 UK Limited is a leading communications company for consumers and businesses in the UK, with 21 million mobile customers and over 520,000 fixed broadband customers as at 30 September 2009. •Telefónica O2 UK Limited is part of Telefónica Europe plc, a business division of Telefónica S.A. which uses O2 as its commercial brand in the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, Germany and the Czech Republic, and has 46 million customers across these markets. For further press information ab...

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Research In Motion Limited is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market, notably the BlackBerry® smartphone range. Through the development of integrated hardware, software and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM tech...

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TigerSpike is a personal media company with a specialisation in mobile. With offices across three continents, our global telco and media experience combined with R&D from our Innovation Lab keeps us and our clients ahead in New Media. We’re leveraging this experience to bring innovative expertise to the B2B marketplace

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When it was announced that support for the Intellisync solution was coming to an end, Teknos needed to find a suitable replacement that would provide the same, if not better functionality. The solution needed to be cost effective, highly secure, work with their current IT infrastructure & Nokia E-Series devices and provide simple, centralized administration.

Find out how CommonTime mSuite met their needs.

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Find out how Gteq, a provider of telecoms packages to a wide range of businesses in the UK, benefits from partnering with Outsourcery to provide its customers with the latest innovative mobile and data solutions.

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Merseyrail needed to improve the way that its Revenue Protection Officers could process ticketing transactions whilst on board moving trains - but without access to networked computers. Staff previously always had to use paper based systems which were, cumbersome, inaccurate, inefficient and time-consuming. They wanted to be able to be able to interact better with customers and generally improve customer service. Read how Interchange developed a mobile billing and ticketing application for BlackBerry Smartphones combined with a Bluetooth printing facility to give Merseyrail’s Revenue Protection Officers instant access to everything required to help customers get the right ticket easily.

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Find out how Pall-Ex expects to save £52,000 annually through the use of a Unified Hosted IT solution for its email and mobile working.

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TigerSpike designed and built a mobile and social media platform (powered by Phoenix*) for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, launched in 2009. The objective was to improve the awareness of PwC values and improve employee engagement. Research demonstrated that few people use the suggestion box or the company intranet to share their ideas. This mobile and web platform is intended to be used whenever and wherever the employee has the inspiration - ideas are more likely to be generated in the pub or on the way home than they are sat at your desk.

The PwC WhatWouldYouLikeToChange program was so successful with staff that it is now planned to roll it out to customers as well.

The Social Media Platform TigerSpike delivered allows the PwC team to:

- Start discussions
- Leave comments
- Rate content
- Post videos
- Respond with videos
- Share the content with colleagues
- Integrate with a mobile presence, RSS and Twitter.

The site utilises TigerSpike’s established Social Media platform (powered by Phoenix) and allows consumers to contribute to numerous discussions by text, image and video.

* Phoenix is TigerSpike's propriety award-winning, carrier grade Service Delivery Platform.

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TigerSpike designed and built an entire MMS Broadcast and messaging platform (powered by Phoenix*) for Vodafone Australia, launched in 2008. The objective was to create a platform that would allow Vodafone to communicate to staff and customers. For staff the core objectives were to improve employee engagement and provide a method for instant company communication. Up-to 600,000 per day are now being sent out, with close to one billion messages having been sent in total.

TigerSpike host, manage and support the platform and manage the creative execution of the MMS campaigns. We also run quarterly Innovation Lab workshops that help acquaint the Vodafone Australia team with knowledge of its platform.

An example of a campaign that was used to improve employee engagement is below:

TigerSpike designed a user-generated content campaign; an integrated mobile, flash-based website and MMS competition. Users sent MMS self-portraits to the Vodafone shortcode for the campaign, which were then uploaded to the Vodafone website. After logging on, the user was able to crop his/her image and apply the face to one of four festive character templates. This classy photo could then be downloaded to their mobile handset and sent off for the joy of holiday cheer. TigerSpike handled the full strategy, concept development, design, development and implementation of the campaign

* Phoenix is TigerSpike's proprietary award-winning, carrier grade Service Delivery Platform.

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The efficient utilisation of field resources is critical to the success of many business processes. Torex contacted Interchange Group, as their long-time service and customer management software supplier, to help them replace an ageing mobility application for their European field service engineers.
Torex wanted to benefit from current mobile technology that could carry them forward for the next five years and beyond and also enable them to decrease costs and improve productivity, customer service levels and security.
Torex required a distributed application that could work happily in or out of the office across all their European businesses, that was reliable, would support current needs, and that would provide a foundation for ongoing extension of the functionality to improve and streamline on site customer service. Interchange Mobility Suite™, a highly flexible mobile working workflow platform that enables business applications to be accessed via a single user interface with a single user log-on, was selected for the task.
Within just 12 weeks, Interchange was able to implement the solution where for Torex’s back office service management application integrates with Mobility Suite on BlackBerry® smartphones using Web Services to provide robust and efficient communications between the BlackBerry Enterprise Server and BlackBerry.

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The field engineers at Portsmouth Water were spending a great deal of their time on the road visiting customers all across the region. To receive vital information about the next job or close down a completed call out, staff had to travel back to the company’s headquarters in Havant to fill out the requisite paperwork. This labour-intensive process not only increased staff travelling time, it also reduced how many calls each engineer could handle in a day.
When Interchange analysed the requirement with the Portsmouth Water team it was identified that a key need would be to both minimise the “in use” cost of operation and keep the service team in the field to maximise productivity. The Interchange solution now integrates seamlessly with the company’s existing software package, to enable engineers to complete and submit job forms in real time. Engineers can receive electronic job sheets and send emails on the move, as well as access their Outlook calendars. All information relating to the status of jobs is now dispatched straight to the BlackBerry® smartphone.

IG1037_0210 Portsmouth Water CS.pdf 582.81 kB

All of the recent hype in the mobile industry has been around the iPhone. But with the unveiling of the open-source, license-free mobile operating system Google Android, that is destined to change.

And why is that so?

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There has been much hype surrounding the latest product offering from Apple – the iPad. On Wednesday 27th January 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the product would begin shipping in March 2010 to customers in the United States with international rollout, whilst unconfirmed by Apple, expected to follow soon after. Apple claims that the iPad falls under a totally new genre of device, and is positioning the product somewhere between the laptop computer and the mobile smart phone.

The iPad is being priced according to this market positioning, with US prices ranging from $499 to $829. International pricing is yet to be announced which will clearly affect the uptake of the device. If the market does not respond as favourable to Apple’s initial proposition, there is currently speculation that the pricing may be dropped to increase the uptake.

Think about how the iPad will feel in your hand. Is it really just a ‘large iPhone’ or is it an opportunity to create a brand new interface with your content? Web has traditionally been a 3 to 4 vertical column set up, mobile a 1 vertical column set up, but the iPad has a dynamic, flexible grid like structure that opens up great new interface opportunities. Of course content creators can treat it like a large iPhone, but those content owners who create a unique interface that captivates consumers will win. As content moves to become ubiquitous it is the user interface that will define choice of content provider. Make sure your interface is so great that consumers will pay for it and can’t wait to virally share it with their friends.

TigerSpike_iPad_WhitePaper_February2010.pdf 209.75 kB

Already a crowd pleaser for consumers and marketing managers alike, the new features will ensure the iPhone becomes an integral part of ongoing digital brand strategy. After all, it is an ever evolving global platform that now comes with a proven track record.

This is the new device that runs the 3.0 software. The ‘S’ stands for ‘speed’ and loosely draws
parallels with the Porsche Boxter S or the Aston Martin DBS. Sleek, stylish, and swift? The new
phone was announced on 8th June at WWDC and at first glance does appear to live up to
expectations.

Primarily, this document deals with the new features of the 3.0 software as it is these that will
impact most upon the marketing world. In terms of the device upgrade, the only real differences
are speed and the enhancements made to the camera.

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The Nokia Ovi Store is a mobile storefront and media portal designed to allow customers to download applications & other media. Guided by its “social discovery” and networking features, the new Ovi Store is positioned to rival Apple’s iTunes App store as a viral hub for developers to deliver new applications to the mobile masses outside of the iPhone bubble.

This document summarises the Ovi offering from Nokia

TigerSpike_Ovi_White_Paper_FINAL040909.pdf 299.55 kB

In order to objectively assess the business case for deploying handheld devices, it is critical that the organization understands the ramifications of their choice of device. As with any buying decision, consumers perform a cost benefit analysis, weighing options versus the benefits relative to the initial cost of the unit. Cost should be measured over its expected lifespan from purchase to disposal rather than a point in time. Over time, device performance can seriously affect the overall performance of the business and the return on investment (ROI).

Providing mobile workers with computing devices that help them do their job in the field creates great opportunities to improve organizational efficiency and productivity. When deploying into mobile environments, ruggedness is a key consideration - not only must devices be able to support the application, they must also withstand the physical challenges inherent to potentially tough environments.

Ruggedness_White_Paper_A4.pdf 653.72 kB

The CommonTime Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP) is a complete set of products and services that enable enterprises to design, develop, deploy, and manage dynamic mobile applications.

CommonTime_MEAP_Datasheet.pdf 1.13 MB

51% of organisations believe that unified communications capabilities will be standard in 2012.

Gradwell's Hosted Unified Comms service changes the way you communicate within your business by focusing on the individual user, and not their number.

It provides a consistent single view of the status of colleagues across mobile, desktop phone and computer based softphone, so that you get your calls on the device you are currently using, and if you make a call on your mobile, then colleagues using a desk based handset will know you are engaged.

Hosted Unified Comms offers customers a complete mobile phone system so that all the traditional functionality associated with the office PBX is now available on your mobile

http://www.gradwell.com/phoneservices/multiuser/hosteduc

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Business continuity plans often fail to address staff communication and collaboration - essential when information is needed quickly in a crisis. InstaNet Business Continuity from Interchange provides a total corporate information tool that doesn’t rely on email. With InstaNet you can securely deliver documents, procedures, service manuals, diagrams, videos, rotas etc directly on to individuals’ BlackBerry smartphones, unobtrusively and reliably; and be assured that the information will be refreshed each time it is updated at the office. So when staff need to access critical information, it is available immediately - even if your IT systems or mobile network isn’t.

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The IT-800 with digital camera, smart card reader, UMTS, telephony and GPS offers optimum functionality and increases efficiency.

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Two significant benefits of providing officers on the beat with access to PMA are increased visibility and enhanced operational efficiency. Officers won’t have to return to their stations so frequently, or need to spend nearly as much time on computers while they’re there. That’s because they will be able to achieve far more while they’re on the beat: “admin” time becomes transformed into active time in the community.
While we can provide PMA as an end-to-end solution, BlackBerry’s included; forces that have already deployed such devices can also take advantage of PMA to generate real benefits for those deployments.

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As a service provider, fabbricadigitale offers an enterprise level pool of managed and hosted services targeted in a ‘private label’ model allowing the clients to access to the benefits of a great technologic experience and to the benefits of the SaaS (Software as a Service) licencing model.

. Private Label Hosted Exchange 2007 / 2010
. Dedicated Exchange 2007 / 2010
. Private Label Hosted OCS R2
. Dedicated OCS
. Enterprise Hosting for Blackberry
. Development Services for Blackberry
. Development Services for iPhone