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May - 2013 - issue > siTech10 2013

Openstream: Making Devices 'Come Alive'

Sandeep Sen
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Sandeep Sen
Context aware mobile applications have the potential to change our world. With multimodal technology the user can interact with their devices using their voice, gesture and other natural interaction capabilities. Coupled with context-awareness, it makes devices 'come alive' and be more responsive to the user. With this technology, users will no longer need to sift through their mails to locate the most important ones; their mobile devices can do that for them. Users need not switch profiles on their phone during meetings; their Smartphone will simply play appropriate message for the caller as they 'know users' preferences and schedules. With such applications, this technology will see high demand not only in the enterprises but also in the consumer mass.
There are over 3.3 Billion mobile phone users in the world and it is only a matter of time before the enterprise is on the move with full mobility for its employees. Foreseeing this shift in demand in the near future, Openstream built a unique mobile authoring platform which allows for the development of products for the future. With revolutionary solutions such as SMP-SmartBroker, SMP-Pharma, SMP-Smartcare to offer, the company has already taken a giant leap to reach the future.

Products Shaping Our Future
Cue-me™ Openstream’s flagship product, is a context-aware multimodal mobile platform that allows the developer to make applications capable of working across all mobile platforms without any tweaks or structural changes in the programming. With Cue-me platform, enterprises and developers can take advantage of simultaneous multimodality, through the convenience of speech, touch, and key press to naturally interact with applications seamlessly and be more productive.

Based on Cue-me, Openstream has developed SmartMail and SmartAssistant. SmartMail attempts to aid how mobility and pervasive access to emails has changed the way email interaction occurs in the enterprise. So while most mobile email solutions focus on connectivity to specific email servers, SmartMail addresses the consumption model. Moreover, many enterprises have adopted the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) movement which raises serious questions about security. As a result of which many employees do not have access to official mails on their devices. With SmartMail Container, enterprises can sandbox the email offering and selectively control email, document, contacts and other information content remotely, from a single management platform.

Another fascinating product that has been developed on Cue-me is SmartAssistant; a context-aware "mobile virtual personal assistant", that provides intelligent multimodal interaction through a service that combines the services of call-manager, calendar, alerts, social-networking and other custom applications. The company also offers SMP-SmartBroker, SMP-Pharma, SMP-Smartcare which operates in finance and healthcare domains.


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