Vodafone Ireland partners with Furious Tribe to offer mobile apps consultancy and development
2nd April 2012, Vodafone Ireland announced an exclusive partnership with Furious Tribe, a multi award winning Irish technology company. Furious Tribe will provide a consultancy service to Vodafone business customers to develop their own mobile applications strategy. The partnership will also enable Vodafone and Furious Tribe to build and deploy specific mobile applications for Vodafone’s business customers.
Under the partnership, Vodafone customers will receive access to Apptivate, Furious Tribe’s unique content management system, enabling a company to manage their mobile applications easily without having specialised IT skills.
Businesses are now using mobile applications to maximize employee productivity, increase efficiencies and to provide service channels to their own customers. Under the exclusive agreement, Vodafone will be the only communications provider in Ireland to provide the specialised consultancy service offered by Furious Tribe. Vodafone and Furious Tribe will work alongside the customer right through from inception to design and development. Vodafone will act as a one-stop-shop for the service, managing the contractual and billing relationship with the customer.
“Vodafone is a market leader in bringing innovative propositions to the market as the world of mobility evolves at lightning speed,” said Fergal Kelly, Vodafone Ireland Chief Technology Officer. “Mobile applications are becoming a major strategic focus for companies and business customers are increasingly coming to us for advice on how they can implement a mobile app strategy. With Furious Tribe’s expertise we now have the ability to add value to our business customers, through this highly specialised consultancy service.”
Commenting on the new partnership, Patrick Leddy, CEO Furious Tribe said, “Partnering with a brand like Vodafone is huge recognition of the reputation that Furious Tribe has carved out in the market. We are a highly innovative company in the mobile applications sector and by combining our offering with Vodafone’s customer focused propositions, we believe that we have a truly unique service to offer businesses.”
For more details visit www.vodafone.ie/business-mobility-solutions. Vodafone customers can also contact their account manager.
About Vodafone
Vodafone is Ireland’s leading total communications provider with 2.47 million customers across mobile, fixed line and DSL. At 31st December 2011 Vodafone Ireland’s mobile telecoms base was 2.24 million.
Vodafone is one of the world’s largest mobile communications companies by revenue with approximately 398 million customers in its controlled and jointly controlled markets as at 31 December 2011. Vodafone currently has equity interests in over 30 countries across five continents and more than 40 partner networks worldwide. For more information, please visit www.vodafone.com
About Furious Tribe
Furious Tribe are a multi-award winning Irish technology company that provide a consultancy service on developing a mobile app strategy. Their relentless focus on user-experience design, strategy and quality has earned Furious Tribe international visibility. Furious Tribe are headquartered in Dublin but they also have satellite offices in London and New York. They have one of a kind proprietary technology called Apptivate, which allows enterprises to build and maintain mobile apps in house. This simplifies the maintenance of apps for non IT-specialist staff so enterprises can constantly keep their app up to date.
