With Kapow, Audi delivers real-time web data feeds through their in-dash mobile navigation system.
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Challenge
- With the launch of its new A8 in Germany, Audi wanted to enable real-time access to web-based services – delivering information on restaurants, hotels, recreation areas and more from the car's in-dash mobile navigation system.
- While it was easy for Audi to create business relationships with the information providers, they found it would take too long to obtain a usable real-time data feed from them. And those feeds would need to be transformed to be presented properly on the A8's navigation system.
Solution
- Audi uses Kapow to collect web data feeds directly from information providers' websites.
- Feeds are transformed and presented in real-time through the A8's in-dash mobile navigation system.
Results
- Using Kapow, Audi built 7 feeds in just 1 week.
- Today, Audi collects content directly from the service providers' websites, transforms it and feeds it to the A8's navigation system, giving customers real-time access to valuable travel information.
Kapow developed a mobile version of the Commerzbank site in 35 days, with almost no change to underlying systems.
Challenge
- Commerzbank was under pressure from competing banks – and their Chairman – to provide mobile banking access for their customers.
- The bank's existing web platform took several years to develop using multiple system integrators.
- Having developers rewrite their existing web platform to transition to a mobile platform would take years and involve significant costs.
Solution
- Kapow provided an innovative alternative – instant web services.
- They wrapped legacy banking applications as a Java/REST API to be consumed by a mobile front-end.
- Using this approach, it was easy to create a new and highly optimized mobile front-end, with standards-compliant markup for iPhone and other handsets.
- Decoupling old and new HTML via a web service layer allowed for innovative new workflows and functions that didn't exist in the original banking application and are more suitable for small devices with potentially weak data connections.
Results
- Kapow developed a full functioning mobile website. The site is optimized for all modern handsets, including iPhone and Android, and is designed to serve XML/JSON-based web services for native apps.
- The mobile site was developed in just 35 days, without significantly changing underlying systems.
Pearson, the world's leading education company, thought it would take 1 to 2 years to mobile-enable their websites. With Kapow, it took 2 weeks.
Challenge
- Pearson's customer base is largely made up of students, who prefer mobile access to information.
- They wanted to revise existing web content to support both large screen and mobile screen formats, but it would take an estimated 1 to 2 years, exceed budget and cause significant disruption to existing websites.
Solution
- Pearson used Kapow to leverage existing web content and underlying e-commerce infrastructure “as is.”
- With Kapow, Pearson created a service and database layer on top of their existing websites, and then built a mobile front-end on top of the new layer.
Results
- Pearson delivered mobile-enabled websites to students in just 2 weeks.
- They saved over 7 months of developer resources.
- “With Kapow web services, we saved 3 months of development time and costs for each mobile project.” Aravind Pochiraju, Chief Architect, Pearson
Kapow partnered with IBM to create a full production Web 2.0 Expo conference scheduler iPhone application in just 3 hours.
Challenge
- Create a Web 2.0 Expo conference scheduler iPhone app.
- Showcase Web 2.0 technology
Solution
- Kapow partnered with IBM to create a full production Web 2.0 Expo conference scheduler iPhone application in just 3 hours, with no coding.
- In 90 minutes, Kapow built web automation robots to access relevant business logic and data through the browser and created a REST service as output.
- With an additional 90 minutes, 1 developer used IBM's rational EGL development tool to create the application presentation layer with a familiar iPhone UI.
Results
- The Web 2.0 Expo Conference Scheduler iPhone app was developed in 3 hours.
- Thousands of conference attendees were able to get conference information in real time through their iPhones.
Mobile commerce leader uses Kapow to automate web data extraction, freeing technical staff from routine maintenance tasks.
Challenge
- The company's value proposition depends on seamless integration with partner sites.
- They were using custom-built web data extraction technology that was costly to build and maintain.
Solution
- Kapow automates web data extraction, with no coding required.
- Using a single PIN, users can check rewards information and view targeted, timely offers from their mobile devices.
Results
- Supports company value proposition by enabling users to view offers in real time from mobile devices.
- No coding approach to web data extraction frees technical staff for higher value work.