Colibria Wins Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy of the Year
Frost & Sullivan has awarded Colibria, the leading Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) provider, its 2007 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy of the Year. Colibria secured this accolade through its innovative and extensive product portfolio which was judged to offer the superior performance and richer feature set required by Operators, Service Providers, and their subscribers globally.
This Frost & Sullivan award win is supported by Colibria’s record growth of 220% in 2006, which saw the company increase its customer portfolio of Operators and Service Providers reaching over 300 million subscribers worldwide.
Sharifah Amirah, Manager, ICT Growth Partnership Services for Frost & Sullivan commented, "Colibria’s ability to accommodate different market segments and continually look to enhance and innovate with its product offerings meant the company has eclipsed its competitors. Product and service strength, and in particular its end-to-end offering, were the key differentiators that have enabled Colibria to capture an ever increasing share of the IM market and made it the clear winner for this year’s award."
Keith Gibson, CEO of Colibria commented: "As the Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) market moves into a new phase, driven by mobile communities and converged services, Colibria is continually innovating its offerings to introduce powerful and relevant new products to assist the adoption of mobile IM services. Our product line is designed to not only establish IM, but also to build and adapt new generation messaging services in an integrated and seamless way."
The Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy of the Year recognises the company’s ability to introduce and enhance a strategically positioned product line that accommodates different markets within an industry.
About Colibria
Colibria is the leading global provider of new generation Mobile Instant Messaging (MIM) and Presence solutions for Operators and Service Providers. Founded in 2000, Colibria has offices in the UK, Norway, Belgium, Spain, Singapore and the Philippines. Colibria powers a growing number of mobile communities throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America with a total addressable subscriber base in excess of 300 million worldwide.
The messaging industry is in a new phase of growth driven by mobile communities, social networking and convergence. Colibria created its Elevate platform to unlock these new revenue streams for Operators and Service Providers. Elevate is a flexible, market-leading server and client product suite which enables the deployment, expansion and growth of MIM, IMS based messaging and Presence services.
Colibria is an active participant in the evolution of international standards, contributing to the OMA IMPS forum, as well as the GSMA’s Personal IM initiative. Colibria is also a founding member of the COMET alliance.
Colibria’s investors are Northzone Ventures (www.northzone.com), Verdane Capital (www.verdanecapital.com) and Ferd Venture (www.ferdventure.no).