Pervasive's Managing Director, Brian Stein was interviewed on Your Weekend with Jim Brickman. The nationally syndicated radio show airs weekly in over 50 markets and features contemporary hits, celebrity interviews and lifestyle tips. Brian was featured as a "tech expert" and enjoyed talking with Jim about the mobile market and app discovery, connected devices and [...]
The key to developing a new app, and having it stand out in today's crowded app stores, is making it functional and engaging to your audience or customer so they actually want to use it. Whether it's simplifying the interface to support easy transactions, or providing fun, reactive and unique interfaces, engaging your users in [...]
When creating solutions for the web and mobile, one of the first things new designers and developers are taught is accessibility. In its broadest definition, accessibility includes tailoring the interface, and all usability aspects of the product, in order to make it easier for people with disabilities to access and utilize your solution. What we [...]
Today when we think of technology we envision the tools and machines that help us solve everyday problems. We often forget that humans are responsible for those technological creations and advances from personal computers to mobile devices. That human element is slowly seeping back into the way in which we interact with one another while [...]
Travel has become easier than ever as mobile technology has begun to enable every step of the travel experience. Nowadays, you can book a trip, check-in and receive rewards all using your smartphone. But aside from customer using mobile to find relevant information, the travel industry is embracing location-based technology to proactively find and customize information specific to [...]
Although most brands have a mobile app, most of them lack a cohesive user experience which results in lower overall customer engagement. We wrote about how important strategy is when developing an app to ensure you are meeting your users needs and creating sustainable engagement. So why are more large brands receiving poor ratings from customers who have [...]
Hyped as the new way to pay, Apple Pay has seen a slow start since it launched last fall. We even questioned, Is Apple Pay an In-Store Payment Failure? According to a recent report from Reuters: While some of the country's top merchants said they use and like the mobile payment system, fewer than a [...]
Go mobile! That’s the latest advice to increase customer loyalty for your brand. Previously, we wrote about how loyalty programs need to engage customers to be successful. Now, it’s time to get rid of the plastic cards and key tags that often get left at home and replace it with a mobile rewards loyalty program. [...]
Mobile is here to stay and it’s drastically impacting how we make purchases. Several of the latest technologies are striving to permanently alter the retail landscape as we currently know it. In the future, we may never randomly walk into a store to make a purchase with paper currency. Instead, it is likely we will have [...]
Recently, we wrote about the rise of mobile on-demand services. With a push (or tap) of a button, you can have a car pick you up or your groceries delivered to your home. This disruption of the traditional way of purchasing goods and services is rapidly evolving and now, making purchases is even easier and you [...]
