Open Terra Launches Breakthrough Mobile Collaboration Technology TeamConnect - New Wireless Enterprise Application Throws Its Hat into ‘Killer App Arena

Open Terra, a notable entrant in the explosive enterprise mobility market, has unveiled TeamConnect, an ambitious next generation business application for mobile collaboration.

Indian Wells, CA (PRWEB) May 10, 2005 -- At the Mobile Showcase conference today, Open Terra, a notable entrant in the explosive enterprise mobility market, has unveiled TeamConnect, an ambitious next generation business application for mobile collaboration. With this application, employees will have instant access to the status, whereabouts, and availability of their co-workers – known as presence technology – through their mobile devices. The application also provides the ability to send each other alerts and urgent messages, within a graphically rich and dramatically simple user interface and utilizing the highest level of security and AES encryption. While in the field, employees can update their status and view their teammates availability anytime and anywhere. Also included with the TeamConnect service is a Web interface that provides a dashboard, especially crucial for receptionists, dispatchers, and managers, whom will have immediate visibility into their co-workers whereabouts and their availability, and the ability to push While You Were Out" messages and critical alerts, wherever their co-workers may be.

TeamConnect is an impressive undertaking and shows Open Terra's breadth of understanding for enterprise mobile applications." said J. Gerry Purdy, Ph.D. principal analyst for MobileTrax, a leading market research and analysis firm in the mobile and wireless space.

We commend Open Terra for tackling a difficult problem that could become an important application used by enterprises. Its guys like these who could develop the killer app of enterprise wireless.

"We commend Open Terra for tackling a difficult problem that could become an important application used by enterprises. Its guys like these who could develop the killer app of enterprise wireless."

David Sasson, CEO and Founder of Open Terra, adds, TeamConnect solves many problems that organizations have with lost productivity. With the TeamConnect service, employees that traditionally have called the office to have a co-worker tracked down, only to find out minutes later that they are not at their desk, is a thing of the past. The ability for a receptionist or dispatcher to have a centralized view of the comings and goings of their fellow co-workers, as well as the ability to update a co-workers status availability, and push ‘While You Were Out messages and priority alerts to the workforce will dramatically improve productivity. TeamConnect provides a more social, interactive team environment throughout a distributed organization."

To facilitate exponential growth of user base for this innovative new product, Open Terra will also be launching a noteworthy viral marketing campaign for TeamConnect, which will include a multi-level bounty offering. Existing TeamConnect users who refer other companies for TeamConnect service will be rewarded with cash incentives, with cascading fees for referrals of referrals. Moses Ma, a Board director at Open Terra and managing partner at Next Generation Ventures, adds, The addition of a network marketing revenue model is a first for enterprise software sales. Done right, this could be the Amway of the Internet. The company is betting that the viral effect will be significant, because if youre the first to refer TeamConnect into major Fortune 500 accounts… the accumulated bounties could be pretty substantial. Think of it as social networking with money."

TeamConnect will initially be available on Java enabled mobile devices. For information, please visit Open Terra at www.openterra.com.

About Open Terra
Open Terra is establishing new benchmarks in the ever-changing world of mobile applications. Founded in 2002, the company helps enterprises achieve their wireless strategies by empowering remote workforces. The company's online, instant mobility solutions deliver unprecedented connectivity and access to information from databases, applications and Web services that will help businesses run more productively and profitably. With the worldwide emergence and explosive growth of 3G, WiFi, and WiMax wireless technologies, along with the Internet, Open Terra's advanced mobile enabling technology is positioned to meet this demand. For information, call 732-765-9600, email at press@openterra.com or click to www.openterra.com.

About Next Generation Ventures
Next Generation Ventures is a San Francisco-based venture accelerator leverages innovative techniques in ideation, customer-centric design, and venture ethnography to generate insight and foresight regarding the future of technology and markets. The firm is focused on digital convergence, the mobility revolution and the emerging real-time enterprise infrastructure. For information, go to www.nextgenerationventures.com.

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