Ixonos App Agency Offers a Decade's Worth of Experience in Life-Cycle-Spanning Mobile app Design and Development

HELSINKI, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Ixonos, a world leader in creating wireless technologies, software and solutions for mobile devices and services, with a special focus on providing inspiring user experiences, launches an App Agency. With the new solution, Ixonos offers its long-standing experience in designing and developing mobile services to its global clientele to help develop a comprehensive mobile strategy and an attractive mobile app offering for them.

"Mobile apps have developed into a major B2C and B2B business in a very short time, which means that app development services are in high demand. Ixonos is the first established, large-scale and globally operating company to offer its unique skills and extensive resources to deliver the quality and consistency required for successful apps," says Antti Aumo, head of Ixonos' Global Solutions.

Ixonos App Agency is a comprehensive solution that covers all aspects related to app development, from business consultancy to production, deployment and maintenance and all the way to analytics. "Surprisingly many companies are entering this business without an appropriate toolkit or a comprehensive plan. We are the first solution provider to offer a service that fully covers all the phases of the app development and deployment life-cycle," comments Tiago Luchini, App Agency Solution Manager at Ixonos.

The App Agency clientele comprises companies in all industries looking for new business opportunities and success in mobile app ventures. Having been part of the mobile ecosystem for so long, Ixonos has the rare market understanding to help customers develop mobile strategies that address which phones, platforms and app stores they should focus their offering on to gain maximum impact. With solid technical understanding of all major platforms-iOS, Android, Symbian, Windows Phone and MeeGo-Ixonos helps develop mobile apps that offer consistent user and brand experiences. App Agency can handle localizations, version management for different platforms and app stores as well as offer full support for further development and hosting.

"Ixonos has been involved in the development of core mobile apps for major social-media, news and entertainment companies in all our operating regions: North America, Europe and Asia. We have the market understanding to deliver high-quality mobile solutions tailored to help our customers reach their target audience in multiple demographics," explains CEO Kari Happonen.

Ixonos is an ICT services company creating innovative solutions for mobility, social media and digital services. Together with our customers we develop products and services which let people enjoy inspiring digital experience, anyplace, anytime. Our client organizations benefit from new business opportunities and new productivity. We have offices in Finland, China, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Great Britain, Slovakia, South Korea and the U.S. Ixonos Plc is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. The company's turnover in 2010 was 84.9 MEUR and operating profit 5.3 MEUR.

For more information, please contact:

Ixonos:
• Kari Happonen, President and CEO, tel. +358-400-700-761, kari.happonen@ixonos.com
• Antti Aumo, Vice President, Global Solutions, tel. +358-40-505-0477, antti.aumo@ixonos.com
• Tiago Luchini, App Agency Solution Manager, tel. +358-400-514-171, tiago.luchini@ixonos.com
• Laszlo Gaspar, National Sales Manager, USA, tel. +1-310-930-5597, laszlo.gaspar@ixonos.com
• Roope Suomalainen, Director, tel. +44(0)7717-823-707, roope.suomalainen@ixonos.com

Links:

• Ixonos' website, or follow Ixonos on Twitter and YouTube.