Pervasive is pleased to present at the Annual IT Security Professional Breakfast in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 10th, 2013. Technology professionals from all over Cincinnati and the region will be coming to hear valuable, IT speakers, see the latest technology vendors and enjoy a great networking breakfast. This is a close-knit event where all come together [...]
Pervasive is please to sponsor the first of the newly re-launched speaker series, hosted in the old United Bank vault at Crop Bistro. The evening will include an opportunity to network with other local business and IT leaders who are interested in the impact that mobile technology is having on business. When: Monday, September 16th, [...]
A recent blog post by Forrester’s Thomas Husson argues that marketers are failing to keep up with rising consumer expectations and are failing to deliver on the mobile opportunity. Husson notes that “customers have experienced a mind shift: They expect any desired information or service to be available, on any appropriate device, in context, at their [...]
Pervasive’s Brian Stein is proud to be teaching at the Graduate School of Banking at University of Wisconsin. Brian will be teaching this fall about “Mobile Banking Opportunities and Lessons Learned” to the 230+ students enrolled in the program, which incidentally, just announced they are sold out for the coming year. Since 1945, the Graduate [...]
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 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 [...]
