Tags: Accenture, British Airways, global telecoms infrastructure, Google, O2, Soprano Design, SOPRANO Mobile Financial Suite, SS7, T-Mobile, Tyntec

Soprano Design (www.soprano.com.au), the leading provider of mobile enterprise messaging infrastructure and applications, today announced that it will partner with mobile messaging services provider TynTec (www.tyntec.com) for the delivery of mobile financial services globally. This partnership will bring to market a joint text transmission and mobile banking applications solution to all financial institutions worldwide.

Soprano’s mobile finance product, the SOPRANO Mobile Financial Suite (MFS), provides financial institutions with a ready-to-use and simple-to-integrate mobile financial application suite. This includes text banking, mobile internet banking, J2ME banking, real time and configurable alerting engine, 2-factor authentication, mobile payment and P2P stored value account transaction engine.

TynTec operates a unique, high quality SMS transmission service using a portfolio of connections to the global telecoms infrastructure (SS7) and a purpose-built operator grade SMS-Centre. This unique set-up enables TynTec to offer a strict SLA to its customers, providing a new level of timeliness, quality and visibility. TynTec’s infrastructure and rigorous SLAs match the expectations of financial institutions seeking absolute assurance on the delivery of SMS.

Richard Favero, CEO of Soprano Design, said: “The partnership with TynTec ensures that our customers can deliver mobile messages more reliably to more locations with our proven integration and financial applications. The joint, pre-integrated and validated solution for the financial services market means financial institutions can focus on their customer value rather than the application connectivity and text delivery.”

Markus Kramer, Head Enterprise Messaging of TynTec, said: “For global financial institutions the delivery and privacy of any form of personal data takes high priority. It is absolutely crucial for these organisations to be certain that their SMS is delivered securely within a specified period of time, which TynTec can ensure thanks to our unique infrastructure. By partnering with Soprano Design we can make the most of our high quality SMS offering by providing a complete financial services package, complete with mobile application suite.”

About Soprano
Soprano Design helps mobile network operators and service providers make mobile messaging and wireless applications relevant and valuable. Soprano’s technology, applications and solutions simplify and automate critical but common personal interactions to improve staff, customer and supplier communication. Soprano’s core software infrastructure and flagship product SOPRANO CGP that sends, routes and receives SMS, MMS and 3G traffic, underpins these solutions, which are accessible to everyone.

Soprano’s recognized innovation and expertise in mobile marketing, staff communications, 2 factor authentication and mobile payment solutions are captured in it’s ready built applications and core software infrastructure. The applications capture the experience of hundreds of organizations communicating with customers, staff and suppliers. Soprano’s validated integration points with leading CRM, ERP, HR, and Billing systems is our investment to ensure fast and effective activation and operation.

Soprano Design counts as its clients leading mobile network operators, financial institutions, government departments, hospitality, logistics and manufacturing organizations. Soprano Design is headquartered in Sydney, Australia with offices in Paris and London and representation in the USA.

About TynTec
TynTec is a mobile messaging service provider, offering powerful SMS functionality to operators, enterprises, aggregators, ISPs and message resellers. Through partnerships with mobile operators the company has unique, multiple points of access into the deep level (SS7) mobile telecoms network, enabling it to offer a new level of quality in messaging services.

TynTec offers a range of services that leverage its network access including international SMS hubbing, outsourced operator messaging services and enterprise SMS.

TynTec works with a wide range of mobile operators and major global businesses including O2, T-Mobile, Accenture, British Airways and Google.

Products
IMT - International Messaging Transit (IMT) is an SMS hubbing technology – it facilitates the seamless global interoperability of SMS between operators without the need for hundreds of costly individual bi-lateral interoperability agreements

Managed services - TynTec’s Managed Services enable operators of all sizes to outsource non-core technical activities such as long-number SMS reception, OTA, number range hosting and even the entire SMS-C

Enterprise SMS - TynTec’s enterprise services division offers businesses carrier-grade SMS messaging, enabling them to use SMS in mission critical applications and corporate communications