Otago Polytechnic Deploys BlinkMobile Enterprise App

Otago Polytechnic Deploys BlinkMobile Strategic Mobile Enterprise Application Platform

Auckland, 24 May 2012 – Otago Polytechnic, a provider of quality tertiary education and training to a broad range of communities, has announced that it will deploy the BlinkMobile Interactive mobile enterprise application platform. This will enable administration staff, lecturers and students to benefit from the mobilising of information across the organisation on a wide variety of devices such as mobile phones, tablets and kiosks.

The Blink Mobility Platform is a cloud-based service that allows users to take any existing back-end information systems or web-accessible services and, through a single management platform, deliver many different applications or mobile services to any device.

Otago Polytechnic’s students will benefit from BlinkMobile’s unique interaction-oriented architecture which will enable the organisation’s IT department to deliver tailored interactions that individual students require onto the devices they want to use.

The architecture’s unique user focus behind all development will allow the polytechnic to repurpose its existing web-based information while embracing other external sources of content (such as transport and accommodation) that build additional value for students and their need for information.

“We had originally developed several native applications but were aware of the application breakout and their costs and wanted a new approach to enterprise mobility across multiple devices. We ideally wanted to deploy an enterprise mobilisation strategy.

“At the outset, we did our due diligence for solutions which could support our enterprise mobilisation plans. We prized BlinkMobile’s ease of use and its track record of successful deployments. Not only did they have first-class reference sites in the tertiary education sector but we also had confidence in their ability to support our strategy while presenting a good cultural fit and value for money,” said Michael Collins, CIO, Otago Polytechnic.

Once BlinkMobile is fully deployed in August this year, the polytechnic will be able to rapidly and reliably create, test, deploy and support any number of real-world solutions from a single platform.

“We’ll be able to remove hundreds of databases and centralise information. Students will be able to register their interest for courses, request course content information and submit their assessments for marking just to name a few applications,” says Collins.

Otago Polytechnic will deploy various solutions from Blink Mobile including blinkAnswers which allows marketers and prospective students to browse the prospectus and select courses of interest for future review. blinkForms will enable students to submit their assessments for marking while blinkLive will enable students to engage with administrators, careers advisors and lecturers in a secure, closed mobile environment.

“The opportunities are endless and looking to the future we’ll review how the BlinkMobile platform may be integrated into our core IT curriculum course as both a tool for application development and a backbone for innovation.

“Beyond, we also see major opportunities to extend the use of the platform throughout the Otago region with organisations such as Dunedin Tourism with whom we recently trialled the technology for the organisation’s regional events and promotions activities,” says Collins.

Otago Polytechnic is one of the largest employers, service providers
and consumers in the Otago region and is also a cornerstone of the area’s economic, social and cultural development. The polytechnic has 8,650 full and part-time students, more than 700 staff and offers over 100 programmes from foundation certificates to postgraduate degrees.

“Collaboration is our preferred mode of operation, whether that involves learning partnerships with our students, international collaborations or practical business partnerships with other providers in our sector. The BlinkMobile Interactive platform will support this focus moving forward,” says Collins.

About Blink Mobile Interactive
BlinkMobile Interactive develops and markets a mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) that allows any organisation to provide rich mobile interactions and response mechanisms from their existing web-based information and business systems. Focused on enterprise style customers, the Blink Mobility Platform provides a comprehensive deployment and management structure for corporate-wide mobility from any data source and through one platform, can deliver multiple services to all mobile devices quickly and reliably, from iPads and tablets to the latest smartphones and simple 2G SMS-only non-browsing phones. The Blink Mobility Platform offers enterprise customers a new, low cost, fast and agile service that focuses on their users and each user’s need to access interactive systems from mobile phones.

Visit http://www.blinkmobile.com.au

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