Ubisys and Cognito Partner to 'Turn Up' Mobile ROI.

BIRMINGHAM, England -- Cognito, and Ubiquitous Systems Ltd (Ubisys) today announced a technology and commercial partnership. The partnerships will bring together for the first time the ability for organisations to deploy solutions for their end users through the integration of Digital Pen and Paper in to the Cognito Managed Mobile Workflow Solution.

As Steve Austin, Cognito's UK Solution Partner Manager explains, "As the demand for mobile solutions grows so does the need for suppliers to deliver a choice of data entry method for their mobile workforce". He continues "Until now, organisations saw the options as either PDA or digital pen; however, through our agreement with Ubisys we can now harmonise these technologies and bring to market a combined solution offering many benefits to customers."

The power of harnessing of these two technologies has been successfully proved already at Peterborough City Council where Gas Servicing engineers, using Cognito software and PDAs for job scheduling are now completing the Corgi CP12 form using the Digital Pen and seamlessly passing the information through the Cognito system.

Steve Austin explains "This newly integrated process enables the mobile worker to issue a paper record to the client whilst, at the same time, capturing data directly on the PDA. This data is merged and communicated, as data fields, over the Cognito service to update back end data sources with timely and accurate data."

The two companies intend to market the solution further in to the Public and Private sectors. Tarek Ghouri, MD of Ubisys explains "Together Ubisys and Cognito are delivering a unique solution that enables organisations to enhance the Return On Investment either already being achieved or being planned through mobile workforce enablement"

About Digital Pen and Paper

Digital Pen and Paper gives an organisation the opportunity to mobilise a workforce within weeks without changing the working practice of the user. Simply by writing on normal paper, that has had a pattern of tiny dots printed on it, the pen captures hand writing and stores it in its memory. Once the form is complete, by ticking 'Send', the data is sent over a mobile network or by USB docking to Ubisys software. At this point, hand writing recognition is performed and outputs can be developed to PDF, Word, Excel and XML enabling organisations to integrate tightly in to their backend applications.

About Cognito:

Cognito has been delivering mobile data solutions since 1992. Awarded a public radio data network licence in 1992 - the first in the UK - they have owned and managed their own network ever since. With this strong heritage in providing the infrastructure and services that bridge the gap between management systems and the mobile workforce, Cognito Services empower businesses to communicate with and manage their mobile workforces. Cognito customers, both private and public sector organisations, include Avery Weigh-Tronix, CitySprint, Dalkia ETS, Homeserve Servowarm, Peterborough City Council, Scottish Borders Housing Association and Volvo CE. Cognito currently have over 14,000 subscribers.

About Ubisys:

Ubisys ('you-be-sys') is the trading name for Ubiquitous Systems Ltd, a leading Digital Pen and Paper specialist service provider dedicated to providing robust, easy to deploy and useable mobile solutions to both the private and public sectors. Through their extensive and close partnerships with leading mobile operators, other software vendors and hardware manufacturers, Ubisys delivers low cost but high ROI solutions in conjunction with our customers.