SEVEN Networks

SEVEN Networks, Inc.
Industry Mobile software
Founded 2000
Headquarters San Carlos, California
Products
Website Seven.com

SEVEN Networks, Inc. is a privately funded American corporation founded in 2000 with headquarters in San Carlos, California. The company has research and development centers in California and Finland. It had about 265 employees in 2010.[1]

SEVEN mobile messaging products are turnkey multi-device, multi-service computer software for operators and device manufacturers. The company claims its products have a desktop-like experience for core messaging applications like email, instant messagings and social networking.

History

The company was formerly known as Leap Corporation and changed its name to SEVEN Networks, Inc. in December 2000.[2] In 2004 the company was selected for FierceWireless' list of 15 promising and innovative wireless startups of the year.[3] By 2005, colorful CEO Bill Nguyen had left to start another company.[4] In 2006, the company announced Sprint as a customer.[5]

Since then, the company expanded its products to support email services, added mobile instant messaging applications, analytics and social networking. In 2010, the company announced it was selected by Samsung Electronics to provide push technology for Samsung Social Hub, a social networking and integrated messaging service available on several of the company’s handsets.[6] In January 2010, the company claimed in a press release to have more than eight million accounts actively synchronized on mobile devices using its software.[1][7] In early 2011, the company announced Verizon Wireless as a customer[8] and also announced Open Channel.[9]

Open Channel

The Open Channel product line focuses on mobile traffic management and optimization. There are Open Channel products for wireless signaling optimization, carrier network policy enforcement, and mobile data offloading.[10] Open Channel was launched in February 2011 to help carriers manage the impact of push technology for message notifications on their networks. It works by monitoring all requests for data from smartphone applications, such as Facebook, email, Twitter, which make up to hundreds of requests per hour, with only a small fraction of them actually returning data.[11]

The platform acts as a buffer in the network, determining when content for a particular app is available and then allowing the phone to get that content.[12] Early tests estimated mobile devices might reduce their time on a network by up to 40 percent and mobile traffic by up to 70 percent while boosting battery life by up to 25 percent.[13]

Open Channel is transparent to connected applications and requires no changes or special integration by mobile developers. Additionally, it does not require changes to the network and can work in conjunction with new standards for fast network dormancy, smart signaling and other network optimizations.[14] In February 2011, Open Channel received the GSMA Global Mobile Award for Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough in2011.[15]

In February 2013, Open Channel added offerings for policy enforcement and offloading.[16] Also in early 2013, Toronto-based wireless operator Public Mobile selected Open Channel to manage network signaling and help reduce service costs stemming from non-optimized mobile applications and unnecessary data traffic that was creating excess network congestion.[10]

Partners

The firm works with mobile platform providers, device manufacturers, email messaging solutions and providers of services in the cloud, and infrastructure partners, to sell mobile messaging services.

Its systems use commonly deployed mobile platforms including Android,[17] bada, BREW,[18] J2ME,[19] Symbian and Windows Mobile.[20] They work on products from device manufacturers, including: HTC, INQ, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Sanyo, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson; and are embedded on more than 550 device types.[21] The firm has partnered with many of the top Internet Service Providers including Google, Microsoft (Exchange and Windows Live) and Yahoo!, and infrastructure providers such as Equinix,[22] Savvis and Oracle.

Competition

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Monica Alleven (December 14, 2010). "2 Straight Out of 10 for Seven". Wireless Week. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Company Overview of SEVEN Networks, Inc.". Business Week web site. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ Fiercewireless, retrieved 20 May 2010
  4. ↑ "Bill Nguyen: The Boy in the Bubble". Fast Company. October 19, 2011. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ Mobileburn, retrieved 20 May 2010
  6. ↑ Phonescoop, retrieved 20 May 2010
  7. ↑ Seven Press Release, retrieved 20 May 2010.
  8. ↑ FierceWireless, retrieved 17 March 2011
  9. ↑ Light Reading Mobile, retrieved 17 March 2011
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 RCR Wireless, retrieved 04 April 2013
  11. ↑ RCR Wireless News, retrieved 17 March 2011
  12. ↑ Connected Planet Online, retrieved 17 March 2011
  13. ↑ GigaOM, retrieved 17 March 2011
  14. ↑ IntoMobile, retrieved 17 March 2011
  15. ↑ GSM World, retrieved 17 March 2011
  16. ↑ FierceBroadbandWireless, retrieved 04 April 2013
  17. ↑ Downloadsquad, retrieved 20 May 2010
  18. ↑ Astricon, retrieved 20 May 2010
  19. ↑ Csnet, retrieved 20 May 2010
  20. ↑ Gomobi, retrieved 20 May 2010
  21. ↑ Seven, retrieved 20 May 2010
  22. ↑ Equinix retrieved 17 March 2011

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