Frost & Sullivan confers its 2004 Business Development Strategy Leadership Award on Followap
The award citation is the fullest contemporary account of the product line — OMA IMPS, BREW, Symbian, J2ME, Smartphone and SIP/SIMPLE clients, an enterprise gateway bridging Microsoft LCS and IBM SameTime, and customers including Vodafone, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Cellcom.
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:
Frost & Sullivan believes that Followap is one of the fastest growing companies today which is focused on consistently increasing its stakeholder value within the European market.
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.
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, the Vodafone Group.
Their other distinguished customers also include SFR and Bouygues Telecom of France and Cellcom of Israel.
Followap has achieved noticeable penetration with its user-friendly clients and offers a wide range of them, including 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.
Followap’s IM and Presence clients have been acclaimed by many within the mobile industry to be of superior standards due to its ability to integrate well with the handset features and provide a simple user-friendly interface for the end users.
Followap supports the major presence standards, including OMA IMPS, SIP/SIMPLE, OSA/Parlay PAM and XMPP and enables mobile operators to create a robust, standards-based presence infrastructure.
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.
Followap’s foresight on how presence and messaging services need to be introduced and deployed has largely contributed to their success.
It is this foresight which has helped them in setting up a mobile enterprise gateway with 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.
About Followap, Inc.
Followap is the leading provider of carrier-class IM and Presence solutions. Its iFollow suite of products has been commercially launched by tier-one mobile operators, serving millions of subscribers. Followap delivers systems based on industry standards optimized for quick deployment on operator’s networks. Followap also offers an extensive Presence Development Environment, enabling mobile operators and 3rd parties to presence-enable existing and future services.
For additional information please visit Followap's Web site at http://www.followap.com