UniVirtua and UCC's Financial Services Innovation Centre collaborate on validating Majic development process



April 2010 - For the past twelve months, UniVirtua has worked in collaboration with the Financial Services Innovation Centre, University College Cork, to validate the development process for UniVirtua's Majic mobile client-server platform. Majic provides a means whereby smart phones can download and run mobile applications which require a high level of flexibility and security.

The Financial Services Innovation Centre (www.fs-innovation.org) provides a collaborative environment to develop innovative solutions with a rich partnership between university staff and the financial services sector. Sustainability of the Centre is ensured through highly focused innovation and development-seeking solutions for the real IT problems faced by Financial Services institutions.

In this case FSIC staff worked with the development team from UniVirtua to set up a suitable Majic development environment and then develop prototype applications using Majic technology. This project was funded by Enterprise Ireland under its Innovation Voucher scheme. The environment setup and development steps were all documented. In addition some early experimentation was performed on porting the Majic platform to Android.

A consequence of this investigative work is that a Majic client-server development environment can be quickly and easily set up. In addition the FSIC was able to determine that Majic technology is easily utilised by any competent Java programmer. It is particularly suited to the Android platform. The Majic platform provides exceptional security for mobile applications. In addition it provides a transparent means to upgrade mobile applications without the need for user intervention.

Further to this initial validation work, the FSIC, UniVirtua Ltd and a commercial third party have secured further funding from Enterprise Ireland and are now exploring the use of both Majic and Android technology to develop a commercial financial product.

17 July 2009 - The FSIC supports Univirtua’s research goal of developing prototype mobile solutions for banking and other applications, using Univirtua’s Majic development platform to permit secure delivery of rich mobile applications to a wide range of handheld devices.

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Majic unleashed in Ireland
UniVirtua’s Majic Mobile Technology Platform debuts at University College Cork

Portmarnock, ROI, 30 April 2009
Ireland and UK-based software technology company, UniVirtua Limited, is pleased to announce that it has been successfully granted an Enterprise Ireland Fast Track Innovation Voucher.

The objective of the Innovation Voucher programme is to build links between Ireland's public knowledge providers and small businesses. In this instance, the grant will be used to allow a small team of University College Cork (UCC) graduates to develop advanced financial services software for mobile devices, based on UniVirtua’s core product, the Majic Mobile Technology Platform.
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