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Get ready for a major shift

Imagine a business about to embark on a project to develop an advanced mobile service. The risks are high. They need to hire a team of fully-qualified software developers. Before they know it, they have a complex project on their hands – and it’s heavy on code. The application will need testing. The application has been developed on one device. But it has to work on over 1,500. That’s a lot of testing. The result? Costs ambush the project before the mobile service is ready, the project gets binned, and the business model is taken out with the garbage.
 
PicoWidgets simply solves the problem: it’s the universal platform that enterprises and mobile operators have been waiting for.
 

Why business decision makers will love PicoWidgets

PicoWidgets relegates long, complex mobile services development projects to the history books. Whether you want your widget to optimize workflow, raise the productivity of your business, or simply chart the progress of your performance on the golf course, PicoWidgets will deliver a stable, high-quality application that will run on any cell phone – in the time it takes to produce a simple web-page.
 
The business benefits of PicoWidgets include:
  • Universal platform: you can run widgets on any hand-held device, so you can reach your entire target audience
  • Rapid deployment: you can plan your widget in the morning and have it up and running by the time you leave the office
  • Easy to write: the PicoWidgets platform takes care of the tricky stuff – so there’s no need to hire an expensive expert software developer, test the code and debug it. Don’t code it, write it.
  • Consistent user experience: our widgets will look the same and work just as effectively on any mobile phone
  • Simple to manage: with no complex code to debug or update, maintaining your stable of widgets is as easy as managing your web pages

In short, PicoWidgets will not only allow you to develop and manage your mobile services at a fraction of the time and cost, it enables you to embark on such a project in the first place.
 

Why developers will love PicoWidgets

We didn’t take any shortcuts on route to developing PicoWidgets. The entire platform is based on W3C standards, and uses XHTML, XForms and CSS which area well-known standards supported by universities, developers and companies all over the world.
 
The benefits for developers and mobile operators include:
  • Write it once: PicoWidgets is compatible with all mobile devices, so you only need to develop your widget once, saving you time, and allowing you to focus on realizing your vision
  • Test it once: you only need to test new widget on one mobile phone, because the PicoWidgets works on all of them
  • Quick to write: there’s no hard coding involved – PicoWidgets has done it all for you – so you can develop your stable of widgets in no time
  • Open standards: we are using the W3C standards to make sure your mobile services are born fully compliant with solid support

At PicoForms, our central guiding philosophy is “You know you have a good design when there’s nothing left to take away.”

 

Can you the deliver mobile services that your business or customers need?

Using PicoWidgets, you can.
 
The potential of mobile phones goes way beyond phone calls, texting and email – way beyond real-time communication. But it is yet to be fulfilled. The lack of a universal has prevented enterprises and mobile operators developing the kinds of widgets that can take our mobile experience to the next level.
 
Here are just some of the mobile services and widgets that PicoWidgets will make it easy to realize:
 
  • A software sales company could track sales performance of its sales reps in the field in real time – and keep them up to speed on new leads, delivery timelines, inventory, special deals, as well as personal incentive schemes and bonuses
  • A bookmaker might need a range of widgets that allow him to deliver the latest odds and offer his customers the most lucrative deals
  • A customer self-care application that help customers when and where they need it directly on their mobile phone.
  • A multimedia application could stream video from a live football match in real time – perhaps from a user’s mobile camera – and enable others to discuss what they’re watching as it happens
  • A widget that manages your work-out program, recording your performance, monitoring your health and tracking your progress. And you could plug it into your social network so you can and your friends can share and compare performance – all highly motivating
 
 
Using today’s methods, these widgets would be difficult – and costly – to develop and test on all mobile phones. But using PicoWidgets, any of the above could be up and running fast and easy – without writing a line of code.
 

Can you afford to turn down the PicoWidgets business proposition?

PicoWidgets enables mobile providers to host an ever-expanding stable of secure lifestyle widgets that will attract new customers and open opportunities for new revenue streams.
 
Here are some of the advantages mobile operators will experience using PicoWidgets:
  • Chance to corner the market for 2-way content with a well-functioning, low-risk platform
  • Mobile operators will quickly develop a range of widgets at little or no cost that are tied in to its own base of end-users
  • Enable end-users to expand their social networks enrich their mobile phone experience
  • Encourage end-users to embed their mobiles even deeper into their lifestyle – making the mobile operator an essential supplier in everyone’s life
  • Meet the growing mass market demand for 2-way content in an effective, easy-to-manage way

PicoWidgets enables enterprises (content owners) to effectively develop and manage key applications that will run on any mobile device.
 
Here are some of the advantages enterprises will experience using PicoWidgets:
  • Produce your own cost-effective widgets – developed by anyone who can manage a blog
  • Give your business a strategic advantage – tailor mobile business applications that will run on an ordinary mobile, and open up new business opportunities, increase the efficiency of existing operations, and make your employees’ jobs easier and more fun
  • Low risk and low cost of ownership – PicoWidgets enables widgets that are easy to write, implement and maintain on any mobile phone
  • Maximise your former investments – dig out your mobile service  development projects that ran out of steam, and breathe new life into them