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London - November 17, 2004
Followap, the leading provider of carrier-class presence and
messaging solutions, has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2004
Business Development Strategy Leadership Award. Some of the reasons
for Followap's selection are:
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Frost &
Sullivan believes that Followap is one of the fastest growing
companies today which is focused on increasing its stakeholder
value consistency within the European market. |
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Within a short
period of time Followap has been successful in building a
strong brand image as one of the leading providers for the
presence and IM platform. |
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Followap’s focus on
specialty based customization of products and services has led
them to win the confidence of the world’s leading mobile
telecommunication company that being the Vodafone Group. Their
other distinguished customers also include SFR and Bouygues
Telecom of France and Cellcom of Israel. |
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Followap has
achieved noticeable penetration with the user-friendly clients
that they offer and have a wide range of clients which include
the OMA IMPS, BREW, Symbian, J2ME, Smartphone client and the
latest SIP/SIMPLE client which is designed to operate on 2.5G
networks as well as in IMS environments. |
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Followap’s IM and
Presence clients have been acclaimed by many within the mobile
industry to be of superior standards due to it ability to well
integrate with the handset features and provide a simple
user-friendly interface for the end users. |
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Followap supports
the major presence standards, including OMA IMPS, SIP/SIMPLE,
OSA/Parley PAM and XMPP and enables mobile operators to create
a robust, standards-based presence infrastructure.
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Followap provides a
variety of presence-based value added services and enables
operators to convert their Presence and Messaging contact list
into a presence enabled launch pad for various multimedia
applications such as Push-to-talk (PTT), online multiplayer
gaming, dating, voice/video conferencing and content services.
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Followap’s
foresight on how presence and messaging services need to be
introduced and deployed have largely attributed to their
success. It is this foresight which has helped them in setting
about a mobile enterprise gateway which has a built-in support
for Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS) and IBM
SameTime, thereby allowing corporate users to access corporate
contact lists, exchange instant messages and receive calendar
alerts or other corporate information through their mobile
devices. | |
