Key Messages:
-ChangingWorlds has been selected by O2 UK for implementation of its Device Management solution, ClixSmart Device Manager, and personalization solution, ClixSmart Navigator on the O2 Active mobile portal in the UK.
- ChangingWorlds was successful in meeting O2 UK?s critical business, strategic and implementation needs for Device Management in a rigorous vendor selection process. The deployment with O2 UK follows on from an earlier deployment of ClixSmart Intelligent Navigation and Device Management with O2 Germany.
- ClixSmart Device Manager is a comprehensive set of device management tools to provide efficient and effective delivery of mobile content and services to all kinds of mobile devices.
- ClixSmart Device Manager ensures the optimised presentation of content and services to many different handsets. With ClixSmart Device Manager, O2 UK is able to create a truly seamless mobile portal experience with consistent branding throughout the portal no matter where the content is coming from.
- The advanced content transcoding in ClixSmart Device Manager supports all popular mark-ups including: WML, HTML, cHTML and XHTML MP with CSS and more.
- The launch by O2 UK further strengthens ChangingWorlds? position as a leading platform provider for intelligent, personalized multi-access portals.
For Immediate Release
Dublin, Ireland and London, UK, Tuesday , February 17th
ChangingWorlds has been selected by O2 UK for the implementation of its Device Management solution, ClixSmart Device Manager, to support the device recognition requirements of the O2 Active mobile portal and to optimise content presentation to any kind of mobile device. ClixSmart Device Manager ensures that the O2 Active mobile portal is displayed optimally on all mobile devices therefore making it possible for end users to take advantage of the latest advances in each handset.
ChangingWorlds was the successful company in a rigorous vendor selection process, having met O2 UK?s critical business, strategic and implementation needs for Device Management. The deployment with O2 UK follows on from an earlier deployment of ClixSmart Intelligent Navigation and Device Management with O2 Germany.
ChangingWorlds Device Manager underpins O2 Active, the colour icon menu that offers O2 customers a simple means to access a wide range of colour mobile data and multimedia services including ringtones, multimedia messaging, games, information, alerts and pictures.
ClixSmart Device Manager is a comprehensive set of device management tools to overcome these challenges and provide efficient and effective delivery of mobile content and services to all kinds of mobile devices. The solution optimises the presentation of mobile content on any mobile device and can also enhance the user experience.
O2 UK is also benefiting from ClixSmart Menu Manager, an advanced colour mobile portal management tool. ClixSmart Menu Manager provides sophisticated Colour Portal Management functionality that enables O2 UK to rapidly develop, update and publish the O2 Active mobile portal to multiple devices with minimum effort.
?Presenting optimised, personalized services and content to many different handsets is key to the success of the O2 Active mobile portal. We need to provide our customers with an intuitive and consistent surfing environment in line with the O2 UK brand no matter what device they are using. With ClixSmart Device Manager we can import the content feed from different content sources into a unified format and maintain brand consistency and data integrity over all mobile devices with minimum effort? said Anders Wasterlid, Group CTO Products & Vice President of Data Product Supply, mmO2.
Speaking today, CEO of ChangingWorlds Luke Conroy said, ? ChangingWorlds are delighted to announce the successful implementation of our ClixSmart Device Manager solution with O2 UK. ChangingWorlds is committed to delivering solutions that enhance the mobile Internet experience for the end user and focuses on enabling mobile operators to deliver the most effective mobile data services that are available on any device, whenever people need them and personalized to their specific interests. With the ClixSmart solution, ChangingWorlds can assist O2 UK to strengthen its presence in high value markets and in the provision of mobile data and Internet services.?
The advanced content transcoding in ClixSmart Device Manager supports all popular mark-ups including: WML, HTML, cHTML and XHTML MP with CSS and more. The transcoding enables all content and images to be adapted to match the capabilities of the requesting device. This enables vital savings of bandwidth and device-processing power. With ClixSmart Device Manager, an unlimited number of device types can be supported with minimum of effort.
ClixSmart Device Manager is an integral component of the entire ClixSmart Intelligent Portal Platform. The ClixSmart Intelligent Portal Platform is the most complete multi-access portal solution for mobile operators that combines unique intelligent navigation and advanced personalization technologies with sophisticated colour portal and device management tools to offer subscribers an improved mobile Internet experience.
About ChangingWorlds
ChangingWorlds delivers the most complete multi-access portal solution for mobile operators offering unique intelligent navigation and service personalization technologies combined with sophisticated colour portal and device management tools to offer subscribers an improved mobile Internet experience.
ChangingWorlds state-of-the-art personalization technologies transform mobile data and services into real revenues by targeting the right users with the right information and services at the right time, every time.
ChangingWorlds was founded in 1999 to commercialise the innovative and award-winning ClixSmart personalization technology that forms the core of the ClixSmart Navigator product suite. The ChangingWorlds product vision stems from more than twelve years of scientific research into the provision of intelligent information systems and user interfaces. This research has been carried out at the Smart Media Institute in University College Dublin and in the departments of Computer Science in University College Dublin and Trinity College Dublin since 1991.
With a strategic focus on the mobile market, the company has developed and designed applications specifically for this domain.
Contacts
Vincent Ryan, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, ChangingWorlds Tel: +353 1 4359800 Email: vincent.ryan@changingworlds.com
Kathrina Gallogly, Marketing & PR Executive, ChangingWorlds Tel: +353 1 435 9805. Email: kathrina.gallogly@changingworlds.com
