Consumers and businesspeople work in an increasingly mobile environment, facing a deluge of information wherever they go. As brokers switch from desktop devices to handhelds, Raj Tumuluri from Openstream tells Future Banking how to keep banking applications safe, secure and forward-thinking.

With over 3.3 billion mobile phone users around the world, everything is getting mobile-enabled. With the proliferation of the new mobile devices that combine popular technologies like GPS, cameras, RFID sensors and media players, mobile users today demand easy mobile access and enterprises need Secure-Data-Access-Synchronization.

Companies with field force ranging from 20 to 2,000 alike, require a sound mobile strategy to increase productivity and “do more with less.” However, in choosing a mobile solution, be it selection of devices or applications, companies often do not consider all the hidden costs that make up a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

The power of mobile usability has brought success to AppStores of various mobile device manufacturers. Now, it is time to focus on the enterprise mobility imperative in the changing landscape of mobile device evolution.

The keyboard and mouse as input devices have revolutionized the computer interaction for decades now. Perhaps, nothing could make me realize the profound effect these input methods have on the new generation, until I heard a friend’s daughter ask matter-of-factly, “Why do we have five fingers, when the mouse has only 2-buttons?”

Openstream was an si100 company in 2008. Back then, Openstream was sufficiently confident to predict its growth as well as the trends in the mobile technology evolution.
While enterprises across the industries are quick to realize the need to go beyond email access on mobile devices to drive productivity gains in the field, the challenges of viewing on a small-screen and cumbersome keypad input have limited the scale and success of mobile solutions.

Multimodality provides the users with a more natural, flexible and better way of interaction resulting in increased efficiency and productivity of the field workers.

Mobile Internet infrastructure platform and applications provider Openstream Inc. has launched a multimodal mobile browser with speech-recognition capability called Cue-me.

Within the last few hours at the at SpeechTEK 2008 conference in New York, Openstream announced the Cue-me Multimodal browser that’s designed for mobile phones.

Openstream's MoFA solutions with multi-modal capabilities made life of mobile workforce in enterprises easy.