DevelopIQ was delighted to have been recognised by Research In Motion in the BlackBerry® EMEA Innovation Awards last night, winning the Entertainment on BlackBerry accolade.

DevelopIQ, a long-standing BlackBerry Elite Alliance Member and winner of the same accolade in 2009, won the award with the Official Rugby World Cup 2011 App, that provided over a million users in 187 countries with the latest Rugby World Cup news, videos and team information in addition to real-time match statistics and live commentary.

The Entertainment on BlackBerry category is designed to reward apps and solutions that have done something special in entertainment that users can get from their BlackBerry smartphone.

"We felt that Rugby World Cup 2011 was an opportunity to create a brand new mobile sporting experience for BlackBerry smartphone users everywhere. The combination of compelling daily news and video content, real-time match commentary and statistics as well as calendar integration and BBM social integration allowed users to follow their favourite team's progress wherever they were.", said James Shannon, Co-founder and CTO of DevelopIQ.

"The Entertainment on BlackBerry category recognises attributes including "wow factor", market impact, potential to drive purchase intent and potential to become a "SuperApp" - i.e. that it can leverage the BlackBerry platform to interact with other apps and deliver a new layer of value to end users," said Rory O'Neill, VP EMEA Marketing, RIM. "DevelopIQ demonstrated top-class innovative thinking with the Official Rugby World Cup 2011 App, and is a highly deserving winner of this category."

The BlackBerry EMEA Innovation Awards are designed to celebrate partner achievements in delivering that innovation to end users, and to recognise partners who have highlighted the differentiating qualities of the BlackBerry® platform by creating something truly exceptional. The awards recognise a diverse range of innovations for BlackBerry customers, in all areas of their life, whether it is work or personal.

The awards were announced at the BlackBerry Alliance Summit, an annual event that brings together BlackBerry with its Alliance Program partners.

Visit http://www.blackberryalliancesummit.com/awards for the full list of categories and winners.

DevelopIQ's digital pen platform, PaperIQ Enterprise Server, has been successfully deployed for some of the largest digital pen contracts in Europe, with particular focus on the NHS, security services, local and central government. Commenting on this achievement for DevelopIQ, Robert Bakewell, CEO, said "Recently some of our customers, particularly NHS Trusts concerned with the security of sensitive patient data, have insisted on full encryption of handwriting data within the digital pen before they will sanction wider deployments. We have therefore worked very hard to build support for encryption into our PaperIQ digital pen platform and we are proud to be the first Anoto Solution Provider to offer this capability in the European market and only the second one to achieve it worldwide."

Support for digital pen encryption in PaperIQ Enterprise Server has been developed to facilitate easy implementation by organisations with a small or large deployment of digital pens via a simple digital pen firmware upgrade and change of the Anoto dot pattern. Each digital pen is flashed with an organisation's unique public encryption key and a digital pen specific signing key. The public encryption key is used in conjunction with a symmetric session key to store the encrypted pen strokes and the private signing key is used to digitally sign the data prior to transmission to the server. PaperIQ Enterprise Server then uses the digital pen's public signing key to validate the digital pen data on receipt, prior to decryption of the symmetric session key and the captured digital pen data using the organisation's private encryption key. This combination of AES encryption and RSA digital signatures ensures not only the privacy of the digital pen data but also the authenticity of the digital pen from which it was transmitted to the server.

The latest release of PaperIQ Enterprise Server incorporating support for digital pen encryption is expected to be released next month.

In addition to the real-time tournament information, the Official RWC 2011 apps also leverage unique BlackBerry platform features to ensure an optimal mobile user experience, such as pushed match commentary updates, calendar integration and BBM social features including in-game chat.

James Shannon, DevelopIQ CTO, commented, "The Official RWC 2011 apps were an unmissable opportunity to show what's possible when you combine a compelling live sporting event with an intelligent cloud distribution service and innovative mobile apps. The real-time integration of on-site data gathering and 3rd party aggregation with our cloud push distribution platform demonstrates where the next iteration of mobile apps are heading."

The Official RWC 2011 apps have been a huge hit with rugby supporters everywhere - the app is currently being enjoyed by millions of users in over 150 countries - with South Africa currently topping the leaderboard of rugby-loving app users.

Despite challenging weather conditions, gruelling terrain and continuous walking through the night, the DevelopIQ Trailwalker team completed the UK's most inspiring team challenge this year - to walk 100km in 30 hours with the Gurkhas in aid of Oxfam and the Gurkha Welfare Trust.

The team completed the course, which followed the South Downs Way from Queen Elizabeth Country Park near Petersfield to Brighton race course, in 29 hours 11 minutes - a significant achievement given the weekend's unexpectedly wet weather.

The team not only comprised 4 walkers, but also a committed support crew that fought the mud and met the team at each of the 10 checkpoints to provide shelter, food, fresh socks, blister plasters and even massages to the weary trekkers.

Many thanks to all involved in this memorable event and especially to all the friends, family, customers, suppliers and partners who helped the team raise over £1,750 in sponsorship for the two charities, helping the event as a whole raise over £1m.

DevelopIQ has scooped yet another award for its work with Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. The TechWorld Award for Mobile Working Project of the Year was awarded to DevelopIQ at an evening awards ceremony in the Central London on June 29^th.
 
The Trust's midwives use Digital Pen and Paper technology combined with BlackBerry smartphones to take notes during consultations with expectant mothers out in the community - a simple solution that has helped the trust create a projected annual saving of £220,000. The midwives use the Digital Pen to fill out the patients' maternity notes, which are then automatically updated on the maternity unit's digital patient records system.

Commenting on the award, Robert Bakewell, CEO, said "We are thrilled by the recognition and high profile that Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has had for the digital pen solution we designed and implemented for their midwifery team. We are working hard to extend the very significant cost savings generated by Portsmouth to maternity teams across the wider NHS and this latest award from TechWorld will only help to maintain the momentum of this initiative. Thank you to all at TechWorld".

Full winners list: http://awards.techworld.com/2010/winners

Richard Sargent, Project Delivery Director at DevelopIQ receives the 2011 TechWorld Award from Mike Simons, Editor of TechWorld

This new integration now ensures that forms completed with an Anoto digital pen during a patient visit are always linked to the "Care in Motion" visit information and that processed digital pen forms and associated data can be held against the right patient record in the main back-end Patient Administration System.

Commenting on the launch for NDL, Declan Grogan, Managing Director said "There is a very significant demand for Anoto digital pen technology in the NHS right now and particularly for community healthcare. We are delighted to announce this exclusive arrangement to provide tight integration between the PaperIQ digital pen and the "Care In Motion" application on BlackBerry".

Robert Bakewell, CEO at DevelopIQ said "right now simple yet effective mobile applications that free time to care are in high demand across the NHS. Scheduling patient visits and effective capture of patient data are top of the list for requested applications and we are very excited and optimistic about the prospects our partnership with NDL.

To cater for DevelopIQ's rapid growth in providing managed smartphone services, the company has relocated to a new network operations centre in Chineham Park's flagship office building, Rosewood.

"We chose Chineham Park due to its strong communications infrastructure, good transport links and future flexibility to upgrade within the park", commented James Shannon, co-founder & CTO of Develop IQ.

The new 5,000 sq ft offices will accomodate DevelopIQ's rapidly growing app development, data collection and cloud services teams in an innovative environment optimised for security and productivity.

Robert Bakewell, co-founder and CEO added "Having outgrown our existing offices, we expect our new premises in Chineham to cater for our rapid expansion from 22 employees currently to over 40 in the next 3 years, as well as providing an innovative technology showcase for our prospective customers".

Rupert Batho, Managing Director of MEPC, Chineham Park said "It is always exciting to be able to welcome companies such as DevelopIQ and with their world class expertise in mobile technology, they are a perfect fit with our other specialist telecoms occupiers.  We have an excellent track record in supporting the future expansion plans of our occupiers and pride ourselves on being able to accommodate even the most ambitious growth".

DevelopIQ's new office address is: Rosewood, Crockford Lane, Chineham Park, Basingstoke, RG24 8UT.

 In 2009, Information Age launched its Innovation Awards to highlight some of the more innovative uses of technology developed by IT suppliers. Visitors to www.information-age.com were invited to vote on video submissions from shortlisted companies and the awards go to those products, projects or services that visitors to the site consider to be the most innovative.

This year'sInformation Age Innovation Award for business applications has been awarded to Research In Motion, manufacturers of BlackBerry, and DevelopIQ for a solution that enables the midwives at Portsmouth Hospitals to complete their paper work efficiently - freeing up time to care.

Midwives were expected to capture data on traditional paper forms then transcribe this information into the expectant mother's maternity records. To reduce this duplication of effort, without entirely disrupting the way the midwives were used to working, the Trust chose to deploy a system that combined BlackBerry smartphones, Anoto digital pen technology and the PaperIQ digital pen platform from DevelopIQ.

Daniel Morrison-Gardiner, Healthcare Director at Research In Motion, says the combination of BlackBerry and Anoto digital pen allows midwives to spend more time with mothers-to-be and their families. "That time is also now better quality, because they've got access to all the information they need and the ability to collect and transmit information securely in real time from wherever they are."

Morrison-Gardiner says that the midwives have found other ways in which a BlackBerry can aid them in their day-to-day work. These include using GPS to optimise routes to the homes they visit, communicating securely with co-workers on BlackBerry Messenger and synchronising appointments via a shared calendar. "They've very quickly got accustomed to the technology and taken to using it in areas that we didn't necessarily think would be in the original scope."

He says that in the first year of using the devices, the Trust expects to have saved more than £220,000 in administrative and petrol costs. However, Morrison-Gardiner believes that the greatest benefit brought by the project is the improved experience for the patient: "These are healthcare workers experienced in dealing with expectant mothers and their families - this technology allows them more time to do that".

Commenting on the award on behalf of DevelopIQ, Richard Sargent, Project Delivery Director, said "This solution has won several major industry awards, but each one is a huge thrill for our team and for our customer - the midwives at Portsmouth. We would like to thank all those that took time to view the case study videos on the Information Age website and for giving this solution their vote".

Richard Sargent joins DevelopIQ as Project Delivery Director. Richard is an extremely experienced project manager and a qualified ITIL V2 &V3 & PRINCE2^® Practitioner. Richard joins from Portsmouth NHS Hospitals Trust where he worked in IT Services. More recently he was responsible for rolling out a digital pen solution on BlackBerry supplied by DevelopIQ which has won several industry awards. Richard has a very strong network across the NHS and in addition to managing the quality of DevelopIQ's project management processes he will be very involved with delivery of mobile data collection solutions to the company's many NHS customers.

Daniel Noakes joins DevelopIQ as Infrastructure Solutions Architect and will lead DevelopIQ's Cloud Services team. Daniel joins us from Cobweb Solutions where he built and managed the largest multi-tenant Microsoft Exchange and BlackBerry Enterprise messaging infrastructure in Europe. Daniel is a well respected expert in hosted messaging and collaboration and therefore adds a new dimension to DevelopIQ's existing experience in managing secure, business-critical cloud services.

Tim Dinsmore will lead Customer Support and Tim joins from Lan2Lan where he managed a large customer support team. Tim is passionate about mobile and has a development background so he is an experienced hand to ensure that customers seeking help get a fast, friendly and informed response. DevelopIQ plan to move quickly to offer a 24/7 service and Tim will manage this evolution of our customer support team.

These new hires come on board as part of a significant capital investment in new systems and a new office in Basingstoke which the business will move to in March 2011. "For us finding people with great experience, a passion for mobile and personalities that fit well with our existing team and customers is one of the hardest challenges. It is therefore really exciting when you discover and attract staff with the calibre of Daniel, Richard & Tim. We wish them all the very best at DevelopIQ where I am confident they will flourish", commented Robert Bakewell, Co-founder & CEO.

Under this agreement, DevelopIQ will integrate its award winning digital pen solution, branded "PaperIQ" with the mobile version of the Guardian24 Lone Worker Support application via the BlackBerry® Smartphone. This new integrated solution will enable any mobile worker to trigger a lone worker alert by ticking the Guardian24 alert box printed on a paper form with their digital pen, rather than reaching for their mobile device.

Once triggered by the digital pen, the Guardian24 application on the BlackBerry® opens a communications channel with security services or nominated respondents, relaying live audio and providing up to date details about the user and their GPS location so that appropriate assistance can be sent. This information is invaluable if emergency services need to be notified.

The Guardian24 and PaperIQ solution has been developed in close partnership with the ICT team at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, where it was deployed to their midwifery team. Richard Sargent, Digital Pen Project Lead at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, said "This discrete solution has been extremely well received by our community midwives who often have their BlackBerry® smartphones in their bag and not readily to hand. The fact that they can now trigger a lone worker alert with two strokes of their digital pen gives them much greater comfort for their community visits".

Geoff Hayter Strategic Channel partner Director for Guardian24 said " This is a very significant partnership that will enable Public Sector organisations to use state of the art technology providing multiple value added applications and still demonstrate significant savings rather than cost.The application that Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust have already deployed has demonstrated savings of £220,000 over a 9 month period."

He continues: "The addition of the Guardian24 Lone worker application enhances the present DevelopIQ application and provides a British Standard 8484 compliant covert solution that is easy to use, all from one device."

Both DevelopIQ and Guardian24 see great potential for sales of this new solution to their respective clients, and plan to offer support for other mobile platforms in the near future. Speaking on completion of the partnership agreement with Guardian24, Robert Bakewell, Commercial Director for DevelopIQ, said "this integration of two separate BlackBerry® applications is a great demonstration of the synergies that are possible when BlackBerry® partners work closely together and is a significant step in our aim to offer the healthcare sector compelling mobile applications for productivity and security".

The Guardian24 & PaperIQ solution will be available at the end of July on the BlackBerry® smartphone. Both DevelopIQ and Guardian24 plan to offer support for other mobile platforms in the near future.