We are happy to unveil our new product, the RCS-e Testing Solution, a web based tool based in our RCS-e API allowing carriers to speed up the interoperability testing of their RCS-e solution with RCS-e clients (UNI interface) and other RCS-e networks of other telcos (NNI interface).
The tool is also useful for client vendors and IMS and Instant Messaging suppliers to fine tune their products and improve the time to market.
Finally RCS-e is coming and the it seems that it will debut in Spain, just were we are based :-)
Vodafone, Telefonica & Orange will launch this H1 RCS-e interoperable, firstly with mobile app client and native RCS-e enabled devices will come along H2 this year.
We believe that it is the right move, users are demanding enriched comms, and the OTT had demonstrated the traction of this services. Once said that, we expect, and it is our focus that RCS-e will be something else than another person to person messaging alternative :-), you know our RCS-e Open & Ubiquitous approach being trialed in some telcos by today.
A funny anecdote, we saw the counter of one of our videos in youtube rising and rising with no reason and we discovered that our video was embedded by a online newspaper in Spain as what RCS-e :-). See http://noticias.lainformacion.com/economia-negocios-y-finanzas/asi-funcionara-el-nuevo-whatsapp-de-telefonica-vodafone-y-orange_LXeDdlCEz1pgABfd8jzrx7/
Thanks, hope in the next future RCS-e usage will be as what we are promoting.
We are pleased to announce that Solaiemes has joined the GSMA as an Associate Member (vendor status). Solaiemes since early stage company participated in the GSMA Mobile Innovation Market, exhibited at Mobile World Congress and participated in several GSMA awards competitions. Finally we are members as the company must join the relevant referent of our industry.
Solaiemes has been pushing RCS-e technology, and making contributions mainly in the RCSe APIs. With the new status we will be able to join the meetings and work more closely with telcos and other vendors pushing ahead RCS-e messaging.
The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide. Spanning more than 220 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organisations. The GSMA also produces industry-leading events such as the Mobile World Congress and Mobile Asia Expo.
This year ending today, 2011 we reached some important milestone, we won the RCS DevChallenge 2011, we got new customers in new markets. Also, finally RCS-e is happening and soon will be a common services launched by most of telcos. In this area, we are pioneering how messaging may be something else than person to person chat and the market.
We have still points to improve, and the key is the corporate development, some current & potential customers like what we do but they need to acquire technology to big stablished telecom suppliers. It's time then to work hard in corporate development to grow, funding, strategic partnerships, etc...and the coming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will be a good opportunity to meet with customers, potential customers, potential partners, VC's and other vendors.
We look forward that 2012 will be a good year for the telecom industry, with carriers lauching new services and suppliers working close with telcos and these new services improving the people welfare.
Happy New Year 2012.
the Solaiemes team
Solaiemes attended and presented its RCS-e portfolio in the Iberian Telecom Summit event in Santiago de Compostela on December 14th.
For us it was a good opportunity to meet new fix and cable operators which are now acquiring LTE spectrum and looking for applications and solutions to empower their offering. Also VoIP carriers were interested in having their own OTT solutions to offer to their customers.
We shared the stage with impressive companies as Acme Packet, Broadsoft, IPtego and the organizer (and our partner in some projects) Quobis :-) It is incredible how many companies are working hard to deliver outstanding solutions to the carriers to help them in the transition from legacy communications scenario to the new IP world with different types of competitors.
It is important that vendors and carriers will meet in this kind of events to share views and find spaces of cooperation. We are here to help them improve their business and customer loyalty.
Looking forward the next year one !!!
We have explain in several posts our views about the telco messaging possibilities and how we envision RCS-e as a platform, a common experience to create person-to-solution, and ubiquitous person-to-person use cases on top. We have compiled several of the things of our RCS-e API technology is making feasible. Feedback welcome.
Solaiemes participated in the New Digital Economy event, organized by STL partners (the original coiners of the term "Telco 2.0"), on Nov 9th. This is a "must attend" for strategists and anybody interested on, as the event name says, "Strategic Threats and Opportunities" for telco service providers.
The agenda covered many different topics and approaches, and RCS was the focus of several sections, with a very nice presentation on what RCS is, how it can complement and live along OTT offers, including a real live demo, by Dr. Rainer Deutschmann, Deutsche Telekom, and Cenk Serdar, Vodafone, and followed by a lively debate.
We were invited to present our view on how RCS-e is as much a platform as an end-user service, and showed some of the possibilities and sample use cases that could be enabled by allowing third parties to use enablers, very well received by an audience that have not been exposed to this approach before in the most part, and with encouraging tweets from the floor.
A very enlightening event, with many different point of views, and a format that encourages and makes very easy participation and exchange of ideas. "Chance Favors the Connected Mind" (Steven Johnson), don't miss the opportunity to attend the next one.
Jose Recio
Last week we attended the Rich Communication 2011 event in Munich, we participated in a panel defending our view about consider and deploying RCS-e as a platform to enable use cases and not a mere only person to person messaging. We explained our view in the panel, and previously in our demo slot we showed how we are this feasible with APIs and Thin Clients. Also we presented first time the demo of our new product RCS-e Personal Manager.
The G5 representatives from Vodafone, Telefonica, Deustche Telekom, Orange and TIM explained the project and the timeline, with all of them to offer the service by the H1 2012. It seems most of device manufacturers are committed to include RCS-e natively, and GSMA will launch a RCS-e App Client to cover other mainstream platforms (IOs & Android).
There was a lot of discussions about if RCS-e is the SMS replacement or something else (our view), how to monetize, and how to get traction in a very competitive segment with several OTTs (over the top) with interesting solutions.
In our opinion, both, companies creating communication services using the data connectivity (commonly referred as OTT) and telcos may be not considered full antagonists or deadly rivals. We believe in cooperation models and innovation to delight the users. A good communication shared model will allow internet companies with focus on e(m)-commerce, location, etc perhaps try to reach the users using universal communication services rather than creating a new "messenger" only for their use case. The task for telcos is how to design their wholesale offering of API's and perhaps some mediation of API usage to create a powerful model to boost mobility and user/customer engagement.
Finally, from the demos, we may say that there are RCSe available clients from different vendors, device client SDKs, and available server side REST APIs (ours) :-)
The networking was very good with senior representatives from telcos, leading vendors and analysts with different points of view, all of them enriching the discussion.
The technology is here, and time is gold to launch and let the ecosystem work.
We are glad to present the first demo of our new product, the RCS-e Personal Manager, the platform combining the principles of Intelligent Network applied to messaging and the user capability of customizing their own messaging strategy.
RCS-e Personal Manager allows to set filters and auto responses bases on the sender and/or time intervals, and create scheduled events to be sent using RCS-e on your behalf even if you are offline.
The user has a library to edit the media (text, pics, audios) to be used to create auto responses and scheduled events.
Soon more features as specific mobile configuration tool webApp and videoshare based events.
Feedback welcomed
Solaiemes team.
Last week we participated in the IMS Global Congress 2011. It was a very interesting event with very good presentations from vendors, carriers and analysts. Finally IMS is taking off and RCS-e is a key driver for IMS usage. Find below our presentation, in the last slides you will find de youtube links to our demos.
Last night Steve Jobs passed away. A lot of things about him are being written at the same time we are writting these lines, let us try to thank him from a different angle.
We are not an "Apps" company and we just try to create the antagonic approach to create solutions, based on carriers enablers.
Carriers are facing a difficult challenge due to Steve impressive work, the risk of becoming pipes, they are also increasing the revenues from mobile data, as today to include a data plan is a must have for every telco customer to enjoy the devices Jobs pioneered.
These days, telco related services and technology, delayed and delayed during years, as RCS-e, have been accelerated due to the competition between the telco & OTT world that this generation of powerful devices created. It means that we have right now a chance to fix the problem that Steve created to the carriers. Sometimes creating challenges to the counterparts is the best way to help them to improve. Innovation and passion may be present at 2 sides.
Finally, but not less important, Steve Jobs is the example of how passion is what really matters to make feasible the difficult things, to make real the technology challenges, that management should be involved in technology, a valuable guidance for everybody in the industry.
Goodbye & Thanks Steve.
We have been invited to speak at IMS Global Congress 2011 to be held in Madrid the coming 3-5, October.
Juan Mateu, Solaiemes co-founder will speak about the opportunities of RCS-e properly openned to the ecosystem with APIs as good opportunity for telcos to get new revenue stream and partner with the ecosystem.
We would thank IIR-Telecom this opportunity to explain our vision to a selected audience with carrier & telecom suppliers professional and analysts.
Oct, 5th. 15:30. API exposure: a valuable asset to create application innovation and revenue generation?
* A secure and consistent exposure layer to maintain secure control over network assets
* How can API provide application developers with access to network functionalities, such as billing, location or connection optimization, to enrich new applications?
* Customised mashup APIs to optimize network access, improve privacy and differentiate your offer
Here you have a new demo to point how telco messaging enablers as RCS-e can be used with API's (RCS-e Solution GW) combined with OTT APIs to create more powerful use case for mutual benefit. Yes, we firmly believe that telcos and OTT strengths could be mashed-up to build something better :-)
In this demo we used FourSquare App and the Twitter API to make arrive a chek-in to a couponing real time database, the coupon is sent using RCS-e, it means a common enabler.
regards
solaiemes team.
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