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Research Assignment: Sofant Smart Antenna Technology
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Quadriga Consulting Ltd has been commissioned to undertake a market research assignment for Sofant – a spin-out business from the University of Edinburgh.
We are conducting a series of interviews with mobile sector experts – with a strong focus on respondents with a good understanding of MEMS based ICs in mobile devices, and RF technology.
The research assignment is being overseen by Jeffrey Peel supported by Delphine Dufils. If you feel you contribute to our research assignment we’d like to describe the product concept to you in more detail – to gain your feedback on likely market receptivity.
Respondents who take part in the research assignment will gain a unique insight into a new breed of antenna technology for mobile devices.
We will be conducting face-t0-face interviews in London on March 4th – and telephone interviews until end of March.
SLA Mobile Announces Video to Mobile Offering for Mobile Operators and Content Owners
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Quadriga Consulting Client Media Release
SLA Mobile, the service delivery integrator for the mobile industry, has announced a new video to mobile solution specially designed for mobile operators and video content owners.
SLA Mobile, recently ranked by Deloitte as one of the top 10 fastest growing technology companies in the United Kingdom, has entered into a strategic partnership with New Zealand company Abdeus – which has developed a suite of enterprise proven video and media solutions.
SLA Mobile already has a relationship with Fox Mobile, a division of news corporation, and provides rich content to mobile subscribers across Asia.
Abdeus’ media delivery suite provides end-to-end content management and delivery – from content owner, to service provider to consumer. SLA Mobile ensures seamless integration between the Abdeus solution and the service providers’ service delivery platforms and content owners’ programming. The Abdeus suite incorporates the streaming platform and media server, a full CMS solution, video encoding and service level monitoring. SLA ensures integration into rating and charging engines, provisioning and BSS/OSS.
The combined SLA/Abdeus solution is a proven, scaleable, enterprise solution that supports live streaming and video on demand. All the main video formats are supported – MPEG4, Quicktime etc. – as well as the main video and audio compression protocols. All known 3G handsets are supported – including iPhone and Blackberry – and digital rights management (DRM) is integrated into the stream and download platform.
READ SLA MOBILE’S VIDEO TO MOBILE OVERVIEW >>
According to Philip Stanfield, SLA Mobile’s Head of Sales in EMEA:
“The benefits to be gained by operators and content owners alike in offering live streamed programming and video on demand to mobile devices are clear. They can achieve significant incremental revenue, and extended customer base, and recurring subscription based relationships across multiple channels.
“By working with SLA Mobile operators and content owners have the assurance of working with a proven high growth integrator and best of breed media delivery suite platform.”
New Mobile Advertising Alliance Launched at Mobile World Congress 2008, Barcelona
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New consortium of best-of-breed software players allows greater monetisation of mobile network resources and highly flexible advertising campaigns…
A new consortium of companies was today announced, prior to the Mobile World Congress (11th to 14th February, 2008), that promises to revolutionise the mobile phone network as an advertising and direct marketing opportunity.
The Mobile Advertising Alliance is a collaborative venture between software vendors Anam, Cibenix, Mobile Cohesion, Openet and SLA Mobile.
Each member firm provides a best-of-breed component of a mobile advertising platform. The Alliance has defined a platform that allows mobile operators to secure their position in the mobile advertising market and advertisers to reach a wide market with uniquely targeted campaigns. The platform also allows systems integrators to achieve rapid integration of proven software solutions with existing telecommunications infrastructure.
According to Nic Stirk of Alliance member SLA Mobile, “Our advertising solution is an easy-to-use platform that delivers both mobile advertising and direct marketing – something that has been very difficult to achieve in the past. The platform provides secure access to operator-owned demographic, behavioural and contextual profiling data and provides multiple media channels to deliver personalised and targeted campaigns. In the mobile medium personalization ensures that advertising is seen as appropriate and relevant for the mobile user – thereby overcoming the shortcomings of other approaches. Context is key.”
Gerry McKenna of Alliance member Anam agrees that the inherent flexibility of the platform is important for success. “Flexible campaign management and real-time feedback reporting ensure that Advertisers can continually refine campaigns and only pay for results. From an advertiser point of view they get the analytics, reach and purity of audience that is so essential in one-to-one marketing. We are confident that our combined skills and integrated platform will, for the first time, make mobile viable as an advertising medium.”
Mobile Cohesion Chosen as a TeleManagement World Award Finalist
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Quadriga Consulting client Mobile Cohesion announced today that it has been named a finalist in the TeleManagement Forum Excellence Awards. The TM Forum awards are given to member companies that are being recognized for distinguished contribution and innovation in the OSS and BSS industry. Winners will be announced in a formal awards dinner ceremony on May 21, 2007 at the TeleManagement World event in Nice, France.
“We congratulate Mobile Cohesion on their finalist status for the TM Forum Excellence Awards. This year’s competition was highly competitive, and as a finalist, they have stood out from their peers in outstanding contribution to Telecom OSS and BSS,” said Martin Creaner, President and Chief Technical Officer of the TeleManagement Forum.
Mobile Cohesion was named in the Most Innovative Supplier category which recognizes TM Forum member companies who have demonstrated exceptional thought leadership and innovation in the use of technology.
Per Lindblad, Mobile Cohesion’s CEO responded to the announcement:
“Being shortlisted for this award recognizes the dedication of our development team and the partner relationship management vision that is HYDRA. We have defined profit and performance focused partner relationship management for the mobile industry and have won the endorsement of a growing list of leading operators worldwide. Further recognition from the TeleManagement Forum is another great indicator of just how far we have come and how entrenched the product concept is in the market. We’re delighted to be short-listed and look forward to the awards ceremony in May.”
New SDP Alliance Unveiled at 3GSM World Congress
Posted by: | CommentsQuadriga Consulting is representing a new alliance of software vendors that will be on show at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona from February 12-15. The SDP Alliance incorporates seven companies – each of which delivers a key component of a pre-integrated, convergent, service delivery platform (SDP) to mobile & fixed line operators. Member companies are Aepona, ChangingWorlds, Cibenix, MobileAware, Mobile Cohesion, Openet and Xiam. For further information check out the Alliance web site.
According to the Co-Chairman of the Alliance’s Steering Committee, Denis Murphy (who is also Chairman of Alliance member Mobile Cohesion), “The model for implementing service delivery platforms has dramatically shifted. With the emergence of a group of mature, standards-based, software products operators no longer face the time-to-market, cost or risk associated with entirely custom built solutions. Today system integrators can create tailored solutions based on a set of proven software products. From the operators’ perspective this means faster, cheaper and lower risk projects.”
Colm Healy, CEO of member firm Xiam, endorsed this view, “This Alliance brings together the most important elements of a SDP and offers them either as a unified whole or in a subset of best of breed products. In the past our members have worked together on an ad hoc basis on certain implementations – but now we have a more formalised and unified go-to-market, technical integration and support strategy that deliver massive benefits for target customers. Operators simply want to be able to roll out revenue generating services faster and more efficiently capitalize on their underlying assets. The last thing they want is a massive services engagement to achieve things that should be done pretty much out of the box. And, remember, we’re talking about proven, implemented and integrated solutions that have come together under one roof.”
He continued, “There are also some technical developments that have taken place over the last few years that have helped our member firms. We’re all committed to standard open interfaces based on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services standards. However, the end game for the customer is lower risk, lower lifetime total cost of ownership and service deployment costs, and a more rapid return on investment.”
The SDP Alliance will be represented at the 3GSM World Congress from the 12th to 15th of February (Booth # 2J27).
About the Alliance
The SDP Alliance is a collaboration of seven software vendors each of which provides a best-of-breed component of a service delivery platform (SDP). Alliance members include Aepona, ChangingWorlds, Cibenix, MobileAware, Mobile Cohesion, Openet and Xiam. The key components of the SDP architecture provided by these member companies cover the following:
• Secure and open access to core network capabilities
• Intelligent personalised navigation for content discovery
• Content rendering and optimisation
• Content management and content push technologies
• Partner relationship management
• Convergent charging
• One-to-one marketing and content delivery
Follow-Up
We would be happy to meet journalists and analysts at the 3GSM World Congress for one-on-one briefings on the SDP Alliance. Denis Murphy will be available at the 3GSM World Congress from the 12th to the 15th of February.
For Further Information/Meeting Requests
Please contact in the first instance:
Jeffrey Peel
Managing Director
Quadriga Consulting Ltd
Telephone +44(0)2892 668968
Email Jeff @ quadco.co.uk (leave out the spaces)
www.quadco.co.uk
Mobile Cohesion Launches Hosted Version of HYDRA
Posted by: | CommentsQuadriga Consulting client Mobile Cohesion has launched a (hosted) Web version of its HYDRA partner relationship management solution.
The product will be showcased at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.
5 Years…
Posted by: | CommentsToday is Quadriga Consulting’s 5th Anniversary. On the 2nd of January 2002 we started trading and, since our first month, we’ve been profitable. Nearly all the work we undertake is international, and our client list in pretty equally divided between mobile software/services and enterprise software.
We hope to grow even more in 2007 and would like to thank our clients for their business over the last five years.
Quadriga Consulting and Mobile Cohesion
Posted by: | CommentsQuadriga Consulting client Mobile Cohesion will be exhibiting at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona from February 12, 2007. Mobile Cohesion provides a unique 3PRM solution called HYDRA that allows mobile operators to have better, more accountable relationships with third party content and applications providers. HYDRA is also playing an increasingly important role as a core component in Service Delivery Platforms.
At 3GSM the company will be announcing exciting new customer references and product enhancements. Media or Analysts interested in meeting the Mobile Cohesion management team should contact Jeffrey Peel at Quadriga Consulting in the first instance.
