An hour or so ago, the official announcement of the iotum Relevance Enabled channel partner program hit the wires. For system integrators, VARs and Service Providers, the program has a pretty simple premise. Add iotum to your customer offerings, and we’ll share the revenue with you.Â
Programs aren’t worth much, though, without customers for those programs. The best news about today’s announcement is the great group of partners who’ve signed on to use them, including Angel.com, Core Telecom Innovations Inc, ESCAUX, The Flat Planet Phone Company, Integrics Limited, and Nufone Incorporated. More information on each of these partners can be found at www.iotum.com/partners.php.
Here at Astricon, iotum is continuing to generate interest, and we hope to be able to announce more new relationships in the future.Â
More than a partner announcement, though, for me this is a validation of the use of XML based web services to connect up new communications applications. This idea is a foundation of the Voice 2.0 platform, and these companies are living breathing proof points for that concept.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
