Our experience at MWC 2009

Hi,
For second year we exhibited at Mobile World Congress 2009, at Innovation Zone. We are very happy, even the final number of the event this year was aproximately 5% less due to economic downturn, we received much more visitors than last year, and what is more important, very focused in understanding our products and the applications for their businesses.



We showcase our portfolio: our usability (multimodal interaction) platform (AVISG), VoxServe, the PTT platform to create compelling services using push to talk, and the LiveServe 3.0, our LiveServe Solution FrameWork to create added value use cases based on mobile video.
Carrier technologists and enterprise segments leaders, IT integrators, banking CIO's, start-ups possible partners...made impossible with their kind an positive visits to take a few minutes rest :-)
We were also visited by several VC partners and we expect we can get the funding round planned during this year to positionate Solaiemes as a mobility solutions infrastructure reference in the market.
Solaiemes booth was also visited by several IT/Telco Analysts and we were shocked this week when being mentioned in the Frost & Sullivan MWC Key Takeaways keynote (by Ronald Gruia). Update 7/March/2008. The keynote is now available at slideshare.net. It is an easy to read/understand MWC highlights and foreseeing the trends summary.

Barcelona Steeplechase: Takeaways From MWC'09

View more presentations from Ronald Gruia. (tags: mwc mobile)

We still believe in Push to Talk as a powerful service enabler

Hi, during the MWC we will be showcasing our whole portfolio, and yes, we still are firmly believer in PoC (push over cellular) potential. There are a lot of fields, both, mass market and enterprise/government activities needing a quick audio and/or pic reporting. Those use cases are needing PTT as a easier mechanism to carry voice to server based solutions.
Fortunately, several companies are developing following OMA standards the PTT servers and even devices focused in complex application areas. One of them is Sonim Technologies, with very useful (and affordable) PTT enabled ruggedized devices XP1 and XP3 (and also their OMA PTT Server).




Solaiemes is working with their VoxServe technology to provide a solutions framework to offer as license and/or SaaS a layer to combine the PTT service and the PTT devices to build added value solutions. Mass market and enterprise/government field daily activities can take profit of reporting, recording, real time information sharing PTT can provide. A wide range of use cases for PTT are not replacing circuit switch voice calls (main fear of mobile carriers reluctant to promote PTT). Please, all we must open minds and boost Mobility.

Find our stand at MWC'09 ;-) We look forward your visit.

Just to help you to find our location at Mobile World Congress 2009, you can find how to arrive to Hall 7 and our location there in the Innovation Zone space.

The all exhibition area map where you can see how to arrive to Hall 7,


and the Hall 7 detailed map with our stand pointed :-)

Hope to see you there !!! We will be there full time showcasing our technologies, explaining our mobility vision and answering your questions, collecting your feedback...etc, if you do prefer a more formal meeting, please, let us know your schedule availablity.

Solaiemes to join GSMA's Rich Communication Suite programme (RCS)

Solaiemes is joining GSMA's Rich Communication Suite (RCS) programme, first born as a initiative launched by several big players and now opened to participants outside that circle, under the GSMA aegis (more information about GSMA's RCS programme at http://www.gsmworld.com/rcs/programme.shtml).

We hope to bring forward our marketplace vision, hopefully different and enriching, and help with our technology, specially LiveServe.

LiveServe is right in the crossroads between open enablers (VideoShare and videocall), affordable handsets and Web 2.0. It is probably the most advanced mobile video platform for social uses, enterprise and vertical markets. We are saying it aloud: we can, let us work together with you: achieving more with less. Read about our disruptive approach here: instead of rely on applications only for high-tier devices, we promote powerful and standardized enablers, common across device range and vendors.

Yes, We Can... enable a new mobility path

In the following ppt Solaiemes wants to point out certain assumed myths about mobility are not so true....A wide spectrum of rich experiences are not limited to high-tier devices, and the way to create use cases is not only with external applications to be installed. Mobile classical enablers are powerful enough (voice, browser, ptt, videoshare, videocall, etc) when using it properly combined with innovative infrastructure solutions :-)

Solaiemes Awarded Red Herring Top 100 Global Company.

We visited San Diego, past week it took place the Red Herring Global Conference and we participated as finalist company. I had the opportunity to share our vision about entrepreneurship, mobility, technology with other entrepreneurs and venture capitalist from more 10 countries around the globe.

During the final phase of Red Herring Awards we have to present our company, technology achievements and new milestone with a 12 minutes pitch followed by 3 minutes of Q&A from the audience.
I also was invited to participate in a panel about the Saas and its potential in enterprise markets. This gave us the opportunity to explain our vision about Communication SaaS.
We also had time to hold meetings with potential partners also finalist and previously scheduled meetings with a US based company offering communication/reporting services for contruction industry and a business development company from México. Hope to be soon in those countries making deals :-)
During the fridays dinner the winners were announced and Solaiemes was listed. It was such a perfect moment compensating the hard task of entrepreneuring :-)
We want to congratulate all companies winners and finalists, specially to spanish start-ups also winners, Sclipo, the best e-learning social network and AquaMobile, innovating in the mobile marketing field.
The final list of winners and finally here
We will post shortly soon to summurize the key points of VC's and industry leaders keynotes there and the panels we attended.

Hope this achievement help us to acomplish the 2009 goals :-P

juan

Communications Solutions as a Service, our vision

Just introducing our concept about Communications Solutions as a Service. Solaiemes currently offer try and buy SaaS of their platforms. Next ambitious project once completed tested reliable & stable release of our porfolio is to be able to offer "as a Service" with full scalation, sharing platforms for different customers but allowing own customization of final solution by customers, user tracking, billing reports, exporting media repository and additional enhanced features.
This keynote (brief) is our introductory vision and its relationship with SaaS landscape.
Feedback welcomed :-)

Solaiemes finalist at Premio Vivero

Today we were named Finalist at Premio Vivero (Award) organized by Fundetec.
We congratulate the winner IncarSoft and the other 2 finalists (elected from 60 projects participating), Balzac.tv and e-Quantium.
This mention granted as a free of cost booth for next SIMO'09 (IT Exhibition in Spain).
The jury members come from public administration (Red.es) and Fundetec sponsors as Telefonica, HP, Intel etc.
The speeches during the ceremony (by Fundetec President, a member of Incarsoft and a Madrid Council representative) were clear about the key role of entrepreneurship and innovation to left behing current crisis. All the first revenues of each start-ups are generating real time new qualified employement, and both, government entities and powerful companies should trust the start-ups innovations in products and services.
We welcome the awards and mentions sponsorized by public organizations and private companies, and hope they will be more active in the role of "early adopter" of entrepreneurs innovation :-)

First snowing Solaiemes day :-) but next week California

Today we saw the snow in Madrid, the first snowing day lived as Solaiemerssss. A spanish sentece says "Año de nieves, Año de Bienes" meaning "years when you the snow fails will become succesful years" :-) Obviously we are happy and cross the fingers, this ancient sentence must be true.

We look forward the next week events. Solaiemes is finalist in an entreprenurship Awards in Spain ( Premio Vivero ) and we will be attending the Red Herring Global 100 final in San Diego meeting a lot of entrepeneurs and investors.

We will keep you updated !!!

Solaiemes New Year's Goals !!!

just a quick list of our goals (10 from a longer list) for this new year 2009,

1) Improve our brand awareness with starting point the Red Herring Global 08 in San Diego.
2) Impress people/partners/investors with our demos at Mobile World Congress and CTIA.
3) Make public references some current trials in tier 1 companies.
4) Get a Series A funding round from international VC with links in mobile/it industry.
5) Increase the sales force and business development actitivity with new resources.
6) Get distribution/integrators global partnerships. Projects in several countries.
7) Become partners of big suppliers of telco infrastructure and mobile devices.
8) Convert public references in success cases / get market research analysts aware.
9) Launch our Communication SaaS line globally with enterprise/personal solutions mashables with Web 2.0 popular sites.
10) Profitability, of course :-)

if you think we should add more goals, let us know, feedback welcome
the solaiemes team

Happy New Year 2009 !!!

Solaiemes is Red Herring Global 2008 Finalist.

Solaiemes has been selected finalist of Red Herring global 100. Red Herring Global is composed of companies from four continents and over 25 nations. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers regard the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation. Past award winners include Google, Yahoo!, Skype, Netscape, Salesforce.com, and YouTube.
The list, looking to match in the final round the 100 top tech start-up is not restricted to the internet/software industry, but nanotechnology, bio, renewable energies, microelectronics, etc.
We think this will help us to "evangelize" our value purpose for mobility. We will attentding the San Diego conference, next January 14-16th.

see you there.
If you are VC o potential partner attending San Diego conference and want to schedule a meeting, please, contact us.

Solaiemes, to exhibit at Mobile World Congress 2009

We are glad to announce we will be present at Mobile World Congress 2009. Barcelona 16-19th February 2009.
Our booth will be located in the Innovation Zone at Hall 7 (booth IZ9). The Innovation Zone is an initiative of the GSMA Mobile Innovation Market, the GSMA branch trying to approach mobility start-up's to major telco and big infrastructure suppliers. Solaiemes is an innovator member of Mobile Innovation Market.
Close to the exhibition days we will publish a "how to arrive..." map :-)
This year we will showcase new features of our LiveServe (framwork for mobile to web live and posted video) , AVISG (multimodal interaction, voice guided browsing, co-browsing call-center, push predictive BI browsing) and the new product line VoxServe creating added value usecases in UGC, ERP and CRM using Push-To-Talk technologies.

Hope to meet you there, if interested in scheduling a meeting do not hesitating contact us.
Solaiemes team

WIMS 2.0. Solaiemes, partner of this initiative.

WIMS 2.0 is a recent initiative promoted by Telefonica trying to converge WEB 2.0 concepts with the new carrier enablers coming with IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem). Solaiemes joined the initial partner list of this initiative from the begining. This Telefonica initiative is a very good move to boost mobile services and increase the mobile data users.
Solaiemes vision matches the final goals of WIMS 2.0 Manifesto. We believe walled-garden is not a valid model to take profit (consumer, MNO, service provider) of all the cellular networks can offer, but the bit pice aproach is ok for personal computing but it lack of the needed usability when we are talking about mobile devices, and succesful services should be addressed to mass market with heterogeneus device types.
We believe in network capabilities and common device features to deliver compelling user experiences, and to reduce adoption curve lengths of new services. In spite of IMS adoption is being carried very slowly, IMS and their associated initial services as PTT, VideoShare, Presence, will be enabling a common interface wide range of services.
If we analyze properly the reasons of SMS unexpected huge success, perhaps the main reasons are:

• common interface, you can do a lot of things (message a friend, tele-vote, sending message to be inserted in TV program, buying ringtones, ok to banking operations...)
• supported in all devices, then all services have initially all population as possible target user.
• device suppliers had realized of SMS importance and simplified the user interface, (Shorcuts to compose, iTap, etc).

Solaiemes is working to demonstrate with compelling user experiencies that VideoShare, PTT and mobile browser with push technologies will become the key revenue (for MNO's) and key service enabler (for users) next future. Our target is then, aligned with WIMS 2.o goal.

We are happy to cooperate inside WIMS 2.0 with other partners as Alcatel-Lucent, Unkasoft, UPM and Kimia helping to make feasible new concepts of Mobility.