GENBAND Releases Results of Its GENFuzion Developer Challenge

GENBAND (News - Alert), a developer of IP infrastructure and application solutions, has released the results of its first GENFuzion Developer challenge that was supposed to expand third party applications powered by the GENBAND A2 Communications Application Server. The challenge recognized top app developers from across several strategic categories, including lifestyle, productivity, mobility, video and unified communications.

According to the company, the GENFuzion Developer Challenge was designed to motivate and reward participants who are members of Coral CEA and the GENFuzion Developer Community who develop innovative, creative, functional and original applications for the GENBAND A2 Converged Applications Server.

GENBAND awarded first place honors to Switchpoint Solutions, who developed a queuing alert application for businesses such as restaurants to better manage customer wait times. As per the terms of the challenge it is supposed to get $15,000 as prize money. The second prize of $10,000 was awarded to Cliniconex whose new app can be used to notify stock brokers or stock traders when configurable thresholds have been reached and allowing them to communicate with each other faster to buy or sell stocks. SaskTel's IDnoodle Department won the third prize of $5,000 for their myCentrex application, an end user web portal and mobile smartphone application.

One of the judges who analyzed the participants of the GENFuzion Developer Challenge maintained that it is a new era in telecommunications, as companies like GENBAND are enabling developers to rapidly supply service providers with compelling and potentially revenue-generating applications. The speed with which the developers created such value added and viable applications for service providers were one of the many surprising elements of this challenge. The creativity of the winners represents the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is to come as a result of tools and resources now available to the service provider development community.

Officials with GENBAND commented that the immediate and powerful impact of opening GENBAND APIs to developers and providing them a collaborative testing environment for application development has been extraordinary. Their first ever GENFuzion Developer Challenge has unleashed outstanding innovation and proven to be a highly effective accelerator for fostering all types of application development for service providers to leverage. They congratulate the top three winners of the challenge along with several honorable mentions, which are all already connecting with new potential customers as they facilitate go-to-market opportunities through the GENApps Showcase.

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