Akira Technologies Picks Nacio Systems for Managed Web Hosting

HostReview.com
Thursday, December 15, 2005; 09:12 AM

Akira Technologies (www. akiraone.com), a provider in publishing technologies for mobile devices, today signed its first customer, Nacio Systems (www.nacio.com), a provider of high-reliability dedicated servers, web hosting, connectivity, and online brand development services. Nacio will use Akira's mobile publishing technology to offer a single, unified solution for visual design, authoring, hosting, deploying, and distributing rich, Akira-enabled content and applications to mobile devices.

"We target strategic partners that have intimate knowledge about hosting, professional services, and application development within the mobile space," said B. McKinley Hackett III, VP, Sales , Akira Technologies.

In addition, Nacio will provide application development and analytics for tracking metrics that are important for markets such as advertising, online marketing, CRM, and entertainment.

The single unified solution is based on the patented Akira Publisher™ system, an easy-to-use, server-based mobile publishing tool for advertisers, graphic artists, content providers, and software developers.

The Yankee Group estimates that 60 percent of all handsets sold worldwide in 2005 will support Java, and the installed base of handsets exceeds 500 million devices. In addition, according to the ARC Group, rapid growth will make Java ubiquitous in 2006, with over 1 billion handsets incorporating the technology around the world.

With Akira Publisher, content owners, advertising agencies, media companies, and brands that target mobile devices can easily author new and existing content for consumer solutions and marketing campaigns. The content is distributed as an Akira Postscript-like Portable Description Language (PDL) file with up to 20 times data compaction. Mobile phone users receive the content over-the-air (OTA).

As an integral part of the solution, Nacio will develop applications and management software tailored for their customers with data tracking, analysis, and other database needs.

Akira Technologies is a leader in new publishing tools for wireless networks and devices. Its enabling technologies allow content providers to author rich interactive media that is operating system, hardware, and network independent.

Nacio delivers hosted IT solutions to corporate customers, supporting their business with outsourced e-commerce, content management, document management, digital publishing, network software auditing, and customer relationship management.