Pervasive is proud to be a sponsor of the re-launched Mobile Monday Cleveland, a knowledge sharing and networking group focused on the impact mobile technology is having on businesses. Mobile Monday is an international organization, holding events in over 140 cities since 2000. The Cleveland chapter previously had over 250 registered members and regularly had [...]
A colleague recently shared with me a, fantastic write up by Jim Marous on “Building a Winning Mobile Banking Strategy” that helps assess some of the findings from Forrester’s 2012 Mobile Playbook. One of the key findings was that, while there are definitely examples of successful mobile banking implementations, far too many banks are not doing [...]
Pervasive recently led a workshop on Next Generation Mobile Financial Services at PaymentSource’s 25th annual Card Forum and Expo in Boca Raton, Florida. Through our partnership with Banker’s Hub, we are pleased to offer you a recording of that event. Unfortunately due to some technical difficulties, the sound quality is not as good as we’d want, but hopefully [...]
Pervasive is leading a workshop on Next Generation Mobile Financial Services at PaymentSource’s 25th annual Card Forum and Expo in Boca Raton, Florida. For those not able to join us in person, we invite you to join us for an online interactive session, presented through our partnership with Banker’s Hub. The 2 hour interactive workshop [...]
In the past week, two separate reports from Compuware and Siteworx highlighted consumer preference and behavior. Both studies demonstrate how important user experience is to customer engagement and mobile adoption. However, when it came to the all-important question of whether customers preferred mobile websites or apps, the studies showed conflicting results. Compuware reported that 85% [...]
I was disappointed to learn today that Google has announced the retirement of their Google Reader service, effective July 1st. Google Reader allowed for users to subscribe to blogs, newspapers and other content sources via RSS feeds. RSS subscription services have waned in popularity as mainstream users have gravitated towards more magazine like, content rich interfaces, such as those provided [...]
CapitalOne announced a partnership today to integrate their credit cards into the ShopSavvy mobile wallet application. Like many financial institutions, CapitalOne is looking for ways to remain relevant to the consumer and is struggling to retain control over payment transactions. As digital wallet and coupon applications continue to gain mind-share among consumers, financial institutions risk disintermediation and partnerships [...]
As part of our continuing series on going beyond the glass, we continue to look at different ways that mobile technology can improve interactions and engagement beyond the screen of a smartphone or tablet. Today, Google provided an exciting preview of their work with project Glass. This “How it Feels” preview video shows what Google [...]
Pervasive is pleased to announce that Brian Stein, our Managing Director, will be leading a pre-conference workshop at the 25th Annual Card Forum and Expo on Sunday, April 7th, 2013 in Boca Raton, Florida. The workshop will cater to payment and digital executives from financial institutions and will explore how to overcome the challenges of [...]
In a recent article on Business Insider, their editor, Henry Blodget argues that the emerging trend towards a “mobile first” approach to designing applications is wrong, and argues that “mobile first” is based on two incorrect assumptions (“myths”): 1) The future will be mobile ONLY 2) All companies should design for mobile FIRST, treating the [...]
