Specialization is Key for Companies Dealing with Mobile Connectivity Issues

We came across a good example of a company that have admitted the waters around you have grown. These times they are a changing and MACH recognizes this. They've been around since 1989, but today they are considered a leading provider of hub-based mobile communications exchange solutions, uniting the global telecommunications marketplace.

MACH has the connectivity technology that many realms of mobility require. They connect any provider of any mobile application over any technology to create mobile business models. They also link together Communications Service Providers (CSP’s) at every stage of the mobile application value chain and allow for processes such as mobile traffic, billing information, or service updates to flow. 

Their website tells us the following information about the company:

MACH is the largest provider of data and financial clearing solutions for wireless roaming, and more than 50% of the world’s roaming calls are processed through MACH systems. 15 out of the 24 members of the GSMA executive committee use MACH’s clearing services. MACH operates the world’s largest open connectivity roaming hub, Link2One, and more than 60% of all NRTRDE files are processed and verified in MACH’s NRTRDE hub.

We want to point out that connectivity in the sphere of mobility takes on many forms and while MACH seems to provide qualitiy solutions and services for wireless roaming, there is the tricky problem of data management within enterprise mobility floating around too.

Megan Feil, January 30, 2012

JackBe's Presto Solution Makes Insights Appear Quicker Than the Blink of An Eye

Big data has precipitated the need for better business intelligence solutions. What makes a BI solution better? The ability to conduct analysis in near-real time. Late in 2011 a BI solution entered the arena that has proven itself worthy of attention: JackBe's Presto 3.2.

According to the press release, this solution:

Features broad self-service support to deliver real-time operational dashboards and apps for smartphones and tablets in an intuitive mobile interface for mobile business users. Unlike other mobile BI solutions that only offer developer-created reports and views, Presto 3.2 supports intuitive self-service through a simple point-and-click approach to create mobile BI solutions from any enterprise and social media data.

Essentially, the goal of this technology is to allow executives to make wise decisions in the blink of an eye while delivering instantaneous insight straight from live sources when and where organizations need them.

We see a major need for near real-time data to be in the hands of enterprise professionals whenever and where ever they need access. For this reason, we are glad to see JackBe focusing heavily on mashables, mobility, and the user experience. ROI is a sure thing when these forces come together.

Megan Feil, January 30, 2012

Cinch Brings Voice to Social Media with New App

As the mobile phone industry continues to grow with Smartphones leading the way more applications are becoming available every day. One recent article, 22 Hot New Social Media Tools Worth Exploring, on Social Media Examiner, highlighted an exciting new social media tool that also happens to be a convenient mobile app. 

Cinch, is an app that allows its user to record their voice and easily send the recording to their Facebook or Twitter page. Of the application Cinch’s website describes itself as:

Cinch is a free and easy way to create and share audio, text and photo updates using your phone or computer. Cinch enables you to capture and report on your experiences in a way that simple text just can't do. Using a simple interface, you can make and broadcast your content creations through Facebook, Twitter, cinch.fmand more.

Suddenly individuals and businesses are able to explain pictures and concepts to a social media audience using their voices, the time-honored method that works best. Cinchcast is a division of the company that offers tools for the corporate world from offering platforms for meetings to developing marketing and PR programs. To further help, businesses analytics are built into Cinch’s programs. 

Mobile apps like Cinch are remarkable and allow businesses to do much more with their information but do produce new types of data that can be difficult to manage with traditional data management plans. Once companies begin incorporating mobile application technology into their data, new data management solutions must be adopted if the data resulting from said apps is to be efficiently searched and accessed.

Catherine Lamsfuss, January 30, 2012

People From All Walks Recognize the Value of Cutting Data Down to Size

The buzzwords of mobility and big data have joined forces with the Onavo app. "Mobile Data Shrinking App Onavo raises $10M, Working on Compression for Android" Thanks an extra $10 million in a second round of funding from Horizons Ventures and Motorola Mobility Ventures, Onavo's work thus far has been reaffirmed.

The company continues to strive for consistency in quality across all platforms. The article states:

One big task the company still needs to tackle is making its mobile apps comparable in functionality. The Onavo Android app doesn’t offer data compression but does feature slick ways to track which apps are using data. It also has a crowdsourced engine that tracks app data hogs. Meanwhile, the iPhone app doesn’t yet have access to the crowdsourced engine, even though it can compress mobile data.

Guy Rosen, Onavo’s co-founder and CEO told MobileBeat that his favorite award was the “Grandmothers Award” from the 2011 International Startup Festival in Montreal. We're not sure of his reasoning behind choosing this award. It is either from the clever name which implicitly refers to the award's benefactors of older women who are not steretypically tech savvy enough to recognize the value of innovative technology or from the very fact that Onavo won such an award. 

Regardless, information management solutions that cut data down to size exist are popping up around every corner, whether it is in the mobility market, the enterprise, or both, because grandmothers, venture capitalists, and enterprise CEO's see them as a necessity.

Megan Feil, January 27, 2012

Enterprise Search in Conjunction with Mobility Has The Answer to Big Data

CIO reported an important story recently entitled "Rediscovering Enterprise Search." The subtitle asks if enterprise search is the answer to big data. Many believe that it is.

The statistics speak for themselves in The Impact of Internet Technologies Search. The article identifies Erik de Muinck Keizer, the head of Google’s enterprise search division for EMEA, as citing this recent McKinsey report stating that one trillion dollars worth of productivity value that search has contributed to the global economy.

He linked this number to the IDC report that 39 percent of a user's time is spent hunting down the data point they need without luck on the first try. 

The article concludes: 

Given that the IDC report quantifies each knowledge worker as costing $200,000 a year(£128,000) (based on salary, training, maintenance and other factors) then, logically, each knowledge worker in your company is wasting $78,000 (£50,000) a year on fruitless searches.

Keizer was quoted further in the article asserting that enterprise search has failed because it its usability. 

We believe that mobility, paradoxically, will change the state of this situation. While mobile applications increase the amount and variety of data, they also inspire a new paradigm for application design. We have seen the lightbulb go off for many companies, for example PolySpot, that have taken the user experience into deep consideration in their design of enterprise search with the power of an index and a database.

Megan Feil, January 27, 2012