Sirma Mobile won mobile innovations contest SIMagine

The leading Bulgarian mobile development company was awarded first place at SIMagine Awards 2011, an annual international contest for mobile innovations held by the SIMalliance. Amongst the key members of the strategic alliance are world’s largest SIM cards producers Giesecke & Devrient, Oberthur Technologies, and Gemalto. Sirma Mobile, a subsidiary of Sirma Group Holding, was honored in the “Best Mobile Internet Security Award” category over competitors like Turkcell and Palm Tree Technology.

The award ceremony took place on October 18, 2011 at SIMPOSIUM Asia 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Sirma Mobile won the competition in its category with a core mediation platform “On-Air Smart Security”, which enables wide range of software developers to deploy unified SIM ToolKit (STK) applications not only on SIM cards (as it is today) but on various types of smart cards in order to serve extensive opportunities like mobile and card payments, access control and certificate management.

The prize is indicative for the grade of innovation delivered by the winning solution and represents a serious reference for the Bulgarian company, which is being recognized not only as a experienced software development supplier, but also as a research center for innovations. The SIMagine awards aim to distinguish precisely the biggest achievements in the area of mobile innovations that would have worldwide impact and are an important reference for quality, innovation and added value for business solutions.

Sirma Mobile’s presented solution is a comprehensive API platform (Application Programming Interface) which enables any software company to deploy its present and future SIM card STK applications on bank cards as well on many other smart card types for a wide range of industries. Until now SIM ToolKit application developers were limited to provide applications for vendor-specific SIM cards only, whether applications for smart cards had to be completely separate versions and therefore additionally developed. Using the “On-Air Smart Security” platform now developers can unify and seamlessly reuse their applications and run them on various types of smart cards as well.

“The SIMagine awards traditionally distinguish leading innovators from all over the world, and the fact that a Bulgarian company won a prize like that is also a great acknowledgement for the whole Bulgarian software industry. Even more important for us is that we have been honored for innovation precisely in the area of mobile security – an industry segment, which is now developing at even greater pace nowadays. The fact that we won against such strong competition is a well-earned and valuable reference for our team”, said Momchil Zarev, head of Sirma Mobile.

“The platform we developed is an important step for the mobile technologies business, since it is practically expanding the smart card market for external application developers and is building new great opportunities for the development of small and medium-sized businesses. Mobile network operators, virtual mobile network operators (MVNOs), and various other service providers working in the field of smart card and SIM card solutions are potential users of our product”, added Svilen Radichkov, “On-Air Smart Security” Project Manager in Sirma Mobile.

Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Fri, 21 Oct 2011
tags: sirma mobile, sim, simagine, mobile, innovation

Sirma Mobile launches custom interactive map application for Android

June 23, 2011

All kinds of events are being organized everyday – trade shows, sport events, cultural festivals. Finding your way to what might be interesting is getting harder and harder every time, but new technologies provide solution for that too. How about using your Android mobile phone to find your way to a booth you are interested or being reminded of promotional give-aways?

Sirma Mobile’s customizable interactive map application is the ideal solution for event organizers to promote their events and sponsors, providing a powerful tool to interact with visitors and bring their attention occasionally to certain stands and promotional events. Among the major application features are:

• Customizable interactive map with visitor positioning;
• Event comprehensive calendar with variety of filtering options to ease visitor’s experience on large events;
• Ability to add event calendar entries directly to mobile phone’s calendar, so visitors can make sure they won’t miss what they are interested in;
• Sponsor options - multiple choices for ‘welcome screen’ advertisements and events reminders when application is started or already running.

Being a leading mobile software development company, Sirma Mobile provides multiple options for partnerships and software development in this tool or other applications not only for Android, but also for all major mobile platforms currently available on the market.

All parties interested in using the application are welcome to contact us to discuss the opportunity.

Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Thu, 23 Jun 2011
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New Mobile Application For Public Transport In Sofia

The Sirma Mobile software company which is part of Sirma Group Holding announced a new mobile application enabling users to receive real time information about the location, distance and direction to the busstops in Sofia, as well as the traveling schedule of buses, trams and trolleybuses. The program is called "Sofspirka and is based on the emerging mobile platform Android. Sirma Mobile's team will soon create versions for other most popular mobile operating systems. The application uses GPS for determining the exact location of users and receives information from a Sirma Mobile's server about the location of stops and buses. The company will participate with "Sofspirka" at the M-Tel contest for Android - based applications with local function. "Sirma Mobile vision is to use fast emerging platforms for developing mobile applications in order to create services with a significant positive effect on the society. Our aim is not simply to make attractive applications, but applications which can improve our life, save time or provide useful information for a large number of Bulgarian consumers. Therefore after we created the first Bulgarian mobile solution to improve communication in schools today we launch an application which informs citizens for the best traveling options with public transport in real-time” - stated Momchil Zarev, Head of Sirma Mobile. According to him "Sofspirka” is particularly relevant given the big traffic jams in the capital and the lack of updated information on bus arrivals, and because of the frequent changes in busstop locations and the routes of buses and trams in recent months. "As an European capital Sofia is now an international destination for tourism and conferences. Daily hundreds of people from all parts of Bulgaria and other countries arrive here and we have to put more efforts for their comfort and notification when using urban transport infrastructure. With Sofspirka we answer the need for easy to use application which can help even foreigners who step for the first time in our capital to intuitively find the nearest bus, trolleybus and tram stops and check for oncoming vehicles - said Anton Gavrailov, Sirma Mobile's manager.

Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Thu, 17 Jun 2010
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A new software solution by Sirma Mobile for connecting teachers, school parents and students

A new software solution called Zvanche is connecting school parents with teachers and students at eleven Bulgarian schools. The tool has been developed by the software company Sirma Mobile, a part of Sirma Group, in partnership with Ministry of Education and Science. It is based on the company`s technology of sending mass massages that can be used successfully in a wide range of public and business spheres. Zvanche is designed to meet the needs of the schools and allowed an intelligently organization of the contacts according to specific cases, as well as it is easy to use from non-specialists.

“The investments in education are investments in the future of our society and I am certain that the creation of new and effective communicative network between teachers, students and school parents increasing the chances for our country to take its place in the forthcoming economy of knowledge. Over the last months our team has been working hard for the realization of this initiative and we are delighted that the platform has been accepted exceptionally positive by all participants in the educational process during the pilot projects”, said Sirma Mobile`s Manager Anton Gavrailov.

Zvanche is a web-based tool that delivers text messages to mobile phones and it is optimized for work within educational institutions. The system is assigned to meet the necessity for an intensive and qualitative interaction and facilitating the communication by notifications on such issues like events, emergency cases, absence of school, school grades, etc. Up to the moment there are over 17 000 registered recipients of messages and 448 users (teachers). Since the end of last year till now over 81 000 messages have been sent via Zvanche.

“When we decided to introduce the system we have been led by our necessity of a quick and reliable communication by accessible tool. Zvanche offers an easy and affordable interface and the teachers are working smoothly with it. At the same time, they are saving expenses, because they used to send messages from their personal mobile phones in such cases. The school parents are pleased to receive information about everything which is important in the school life of their children, directly on their mobile phones. The respect for students` rights required to discuss the individual problems in private and Zvanche helps us to arrange meetings with the school parents”, said Valentina Velkova, 32nd School`s assistant-director.

The project in the metropolitan school is realized for less than a week after collecting necessary database. With the decision tool the directors and class teachers are able to send text messages to all of 1850 students at 32nd School and their parents. Zvanche helps teachers to inform parents for the students` absence and problems, important events and emergency cases. The contacts are organized according to the school process and the messages could be send to groups of recipients, or a particular student and parent alike.

Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Tue, 27 Apr 2010
tags: sirma mobile, Zvanche, mobile platform, mobile school service

Sirma Mobile signed a partnership agreement with Motorola

Sirma Mobile (http://www.sirmamobile.com/), a Bulgarian company for mobile applications and technologies development has entered into a partnership agreement with Motorola Inc. The partnership agreement was signed on 01st of February 2010 and Sirma Mobile received the status of a Global Independent Software Provider. The objectives of this partnership, unique for Bulgaria and the region of South East Europe are to create solutions to enable independent SW developers to explore applications and services for the Motorola iSIM platform.

"This partnership is of great importance for Sirma Mobile. Motorola is not only one of the leading brands in the telecom industry. It is a company with a significant presence with more than 80 years of successful history of innovations like the first radio communications, first cellular communications network and nowadays plays a key role in the development of the telecom sector – specified the Director of Business Development at Sirma Mobile, Mr. Anton Gavrilov - "The partnership is even more valuable, because it is related to one of the most perspective fields such as developing solutions for Motorola iSIM platform.“

The iSIM platform as believed by many, has the potential to change the mobile telecommunications sector in the near future. It enables the interface of software applications on the subscriber's SIM card. It will allow the subscribers of various mobile phones models to use new applications for mobile payments, parental control, mobile commerce, secure authorizations, business to business communication, transport services and etc. Sirma Mobile is developing a solution, which will facilitate the creation of iSIM applications from third parties allowing wider development community contribution to the iSIM technology market popularization. “We are very pleased, that our Team will have the chance to participate in such a revolutionary project, which we believe will soon significantly enhance the mobile phones capabilities and features”, added Mr. Gavrilov.

Sirma Mobile is already a development partner of Bipper Communications AS – one of the first and most successful applications for parental control based on iSIM platform. The parental control application is a web based interface allowing parents to control mobile phone use and location of their children. The platform is enabled through a miniature SIM card-sized device, installed in the mobile phone and a web interface for settings synchronization. Bipper Communications AS is an exciting example of future innovation and creativity, addressing large market demand. “The technology is unique for many European countries. It is a model of a technological partnership with a significant social impact.”, Mr. Gavrilov affirmed.

Posted by Sirma Mobile Team on Thu, 22 Apr 2010
tags: sirma mobile, motorola, iSIM, mobile communications, mobile services, mobile applications