SCout is an “application switch” that enables
interoperability between applications and across
both telephony and internet platforms

 

What does SCout do?

1. Connects legacy applications as well as emerging voice and data applications;
2. Captures user information and combines it with connected applications to create new services;
3. Delivers the new services in a way dictated by the user’s preferences, context and location.

 

Who needs SCout?

Ultimately, every mobile user that has shouted at their device because they can’t understand “why the darn thing won’t work like it should”! We wager that’s almost everyone on the planet… but end users are not our customers.

SCout is for developers of awesome (yet proprietary) applications and solution providers that want to expand their capabilities. You are most likely experiencing one, or all, of these:

These are just a few scenarios where SCout can solve pain points, but SCout can help with so much more.

 

Key product features of SCout:

Ease of integration to third-party subsystems:

  • Scalable way to connect to proliferating web services – eg: social networking sites, user-generated sites
  • Scalable way to connect to proprietary services – eg: enterprise apps, Public Safety services
  • Scalable way to connect to telecom services – eg: telephony, Push-to-Talk, Push-to-X, unified communications, proprietary apps
  • v2.0 UPDATE: 2500 call initiations per second
  • v2.0 UPDATE: Redundancy protection for long-lived session state

 

Handling of data “formatting” required to integrate to third-parties:

  • Transformation, augmentation and transcoding of data

 

Real-time adaptation of services based on user, network and device conditions:

  • Context information is made available to the application business logic to adjust features based on contextual indicators, such as location and calendar information
  • Context is based on a matrix of events, capabilities, rules and usage patterns  
  • v2.0 UPDATE: User has single identity with relationships to specific applications

 

Patented software formula:

  • Re-useable templates
  • v2.0 UPDATE: Lua-embedded programming language 
  • v2.0 UPDATE: Access to extensible adapter API calls 
  • v2.0 UPDATE: Create and modify templates during runtime
  • Adapters can be written in a matter of days rather than months - saving development time and massively reducing development costs
  • v2.0 UPDATE: Deploy new adapters at runtime 
  • v2.0 UPDATE: Automatic registration/update of new API calls