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vVAULT & GENIENT
PARTNER TO DELIVER HIGH VALUE MOBILE PRODUCTIVITY SOLUTIONS
TO SERVICE PROVIDERS
Leveraging Web Services,
Firms Shorten Time-to-Market, Enable Flexible Integration
of Multiple Applications, and Reduce Deployment Costs
San Francisco, CA (January 7, 2002)
- vVault, a leading provider of mobile productivity
applications and software infrastructure, and Genient,
a provider of a Web services integration platform that
builds composite applications, today announced the integration
of their products to allow service providers to quickly
launch high value data services for mobile professionals.
The partnership is a significant element of both companies’
strategies to provide turnkey products and services,
and vVault’s expansion into the European market.
Through this partnership, operators
and service providers can leverage the combination of
Genient’s integration and composite application infrastructure
software and vVault’s mobile file access, management
and collaboration applications, allowing them to introduce
commercial mobile data services more quickly and efficiently.
Genient’s integration platform provides operators and
service providers with a rapid means to build and deploy
profitable composite applications from Web-based applications
while vVault’s productivity enhancing Web services enable
users to access files and attachments – whether stored
online, on users’ PCs, or on corporate networks – from
any connected browser-based device.
According to Neil Ward-Dutton, Research
Director for Ovum’s E-infrastructure practice, “vVault
and Genient’s partnership is a great example of Web
services deployment that helps carriers launch high-value
wireless data services and revenue streams more quickly
and effectively. The two companies’ technology platforms
in combination enable operators to offer really innovative
productivity services to business users.”
“As 2.5G data networks and devices
are being deployed across Europe and North America,
service providers are striving to launch services that
demonstrate solid value to their customers and the industry,”
said Karla Allen, Vice President of Operator and Channel
Sales for vVault. “Our joint effort with Genient has
resulted in a product that operators can take advantage
of today to build new revenue streams.”
“Enterprises, service providers, and
mobile network operators need to work together to create
the next generation of Web-based products for their
customers,” said Eric Guilloteau, CEO, Genient. “Genient’s
integration platform allows operators to rapidly assemble
disparate Web services and applications into customizable,
user-focused composite applications. This partnership
with vVault significantly reduces the time it takes
to bring compelling new services to market, benefiting
both suppliers and consumers of mobile services.”
The Web services approach, utilizing
standards-based software protocols such as SOAP (Simple
Object Access Protocol) and XML (Extended Markup Language)
represents a new component architecture for building
and distributing applications and facilitating the integration
process with benefits for operators, their partners,
and subscriber end users. These benefits include the
ability to integrate rapidly with existing infrastructure,
billing, and provisioning systems, as well as to extend
and enhance offerings more easily as business needs
evolve.
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