Finance
Banking institutes and insurance companies take great advantage from mobile technology
In the financial sector, business processes can be improved mobilizing applications and creating new customer oriented services. Services can be informative or transactional and they can be delivered to different mobile devices (mobile phones, smartphones, PDAs), both via SMS/MMS and via micro-browsing.
Financial institutes and insurance companies on the move
Mobile Banking and Trading is today a consolidated service and it represents one the most important channel for customers to interact with their own banks. Customers can monitor their stocks, buy or sell them, order a payment simply sending and receiving SMS/MMS messages or by browsing the mobile site of their banks.
The most immediate benefits that a bank gains from a mobile banking and trading application are a lower number of visits to the local branches and the opportunity of supplying their services without business time limits. Customers appreciate the change of use banking mobile services everywhere they are, without any time limit.
Also insurance companies can exploit the features of multichannel communication to offer mobile services to their customers. Through asynchronous services based on the exchange of SMS or MMS messages, an insurance company can keep up to date its customers about the status of their compensation inquiries.
Banking institutes and insurance companies can optimize and transform their business processes introducing mobile applications for their employees: Mobile Office and Sales Force Automation applications are the most widespread. Sales operators can access up to date information about customers, contracts, pricing and products; they can request reports with statistical data and communicate with their headquarters.
Reply and Kimia announce the Alembik project at the Mobile World Congress 2008
Reply and Kimia are proud to announce the Alembik project. Alembik is an OMA STI compliant media transcoding server based on Java (J2EE) technology. Alembik is the evolution of GAIA Image Transcoder, the component of GAIA Reply™ that implements and offers image adaptation functionalities.
Alembik is integrated into GAIA Reply™ to provide transcoding services for different media types (image, audio, video, etc).
Alembik can be downloaded here:
Alembik project site
GAIA Web Information System
Reply is proud to announce the release of the final version of GaWis (GAIA Web Information System). GaWis is an information system, based on database technologies, that allows merging data from heterogeneous standard sources (such as UAProfs or WURFL files) and also from users' inputs. GaWis features let you create, manage and use a customizable information source that maintains device capabilities.
GAIA Web Information System can be downloaded here:
GaWis project site
GAIA Mobile|Living|Framework consists of five main functionalities:
• Heterogeneous Data Source Integration – the framework is able to interface heterogeneous data sources to retrieve the requested information and content;
• Protocol Management – the framework includes a variety of connectors that implement both synchronous protocols as WAP and HTTP and asynchronous protocols as SMPP, 3GPP MMx, SMTP and others;
• Device Detection – the framework recognises the terminal that requests access to the content or services and picks up its characteristics from the device database;
• Device Management – the framework maintains a database, periodically updated, with a set of extendible attributes that describe the characteristics of the devices;
• Content Selection, Adaptation and Protection – the framework selects and adapts the content according to the characteristics of the terminal that initiated the request. Further, the framework allows to protect content through the use of DRM functionalities.
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