FUTURICE

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FUTURICE
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FUTURICE

• Design and development of mobile and web
  applications
• Multimedia, community apps, tech demos
• Roots in Otaniemi
• Young, innovative, dynamic ?
• High profile customers in Europe and US
  start-ups, telecom, media corporations

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TOPICS

• 3 interesting topics available
• Innovation Platform
• GPS for Golf Players
• Backup Service for Information on Mobile Phones
• Futurice provides test devices, technical
  assistance and a team room

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INNOVATION PLATFORM (1/2)

• Users play major role in the life-cycle of web
  2.0 on-line community services
• Tool for communication between the user community
  and software developers
• Gathering ideas from the community
• Rating, organising information
• Roadmapping
• Discussion area, blog
• What else you think is needed?
• Focus of the project is in concept design and
  user experience creation

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INNOVATION PLATFORM (2/2)

• Web application
• Preferred technologies Java/JEE or Ruby on Rails
• Re-use existing components if possible
• Mash-up
• Futurice provides server hardware
• Futurice internal project

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GOLF APPLICATION (1/3)

• GPS enabled golf application
• For golf players and golf clubs
• Client-server focus of the project on mobile
  client
• Parters map data provider, Golf association

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GOLF APPLICATION (2/3)

• For players
• location data
• game data (clubs, locations and score card
  information) for further analysis,
• see the other players on the map
• For golf clubs
• see the players on the field
• send messages to the groups
• speed up the playing time

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GOLF APPLICATION (3/3)

• Technology decisions up to developer (J2ME,
  native/C S60, Python, ...)
• Futurice provides test devices for the team and
  guidance on the application design
• Server interfaces and map material will be
  available during project
• The customer will get all the rights for the code

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BACKUP SERVICE (1/2)

• Backup solution for information on mobile phones
• Contacts
• Photos, video
• Messages
• Etc.
• Server mobile client on one chosen platform

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BACKUP SERVICE (2/2)

• Technology decisions up to the team
• Server JEE, Ruby on Rails, ?
• Mobile client on one chosen platform Java,
  Windows Mobile, Symbian, ?
• Customer gets all rights to the results
• Signing an NDA is not required

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FUTURICE

• Futurice Party on Friday 2007-10-12
• Other parties to come
• Job opportunities

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