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• Board member
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3. About KidoZen
COMPANY
Enterprise Mobile App Platform (PaaS)
Headquarters: Miami, FL
Development Center: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Privately Held
Series A of $5 Million: November 2013, Third Point Ventures
WHAT WE PROVIDE
Enterprise Mobile Backend-as-a-Service API
Mobile SDKs
Mobile Enterprise Application Center
HTML 5 Hosting
Mobile Data Virtualization
Mobile Data Management
Mobile Analytics
Mobile App Prototyper
CUSTOMERS
HIGHLIGHTS
• Large Number of Enterprise APIs
• Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud &
On-Premise
• Access and Manage Enterprise Data
Sources by Applying Security Policies
at the Data Level for Mobility
Management
• 100+ Global 1000 Customers
• Pricing starts at $5k/10M API Calls/10K
Users/200GB Store per Month
4. 25 partners in 50 countries
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a
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Geographic Coverage
5. Today’s Agenda
• Interpreting this summer’s mobility headlines
• A new thesis about the enterprise mobile market
7. Apple & IBM Announce Strategic Alliance
(http://www.kidozen.com/weeks-later-reflections-apple-
ibm-partnership/)
Industry Headline
8. Interpretation
• It’s not 1984 anymore
• Partnership seems highly irrelevant for IBM
• Single vendor strategy = lock-in
• Doesn’t address the biggest problem with enterprise mobile
business solutions: customization!
9. Industry Headline
Amazon Announces AWS Mobile Services
(http://www.kidozen.com/amazon-releases-aws-
mobile-services-love/)
10. Interpretation
• Mostly a consumer offer
• Complements AWS IaaS and PaaS capabilities
• Lacks support for on-premise integration
• Lacks support for EMM and MAM capabilities
11. Industry Headline
Yahoo buys Flurry for $250M
(http://www.flurry.com/blog/flurry-insights/flurry-yahoo-
next-chapter#.U_28lfldV8F)
12. Interpretation
• Signals Yahoo’s entrance into the mobile space
• Proves that mobile business analytics have to go beyond
advertising to achieve market domination
• Mobile business analytics for the enterprise remains an untapped
market
13. Industry Headline
Google Acquires Divide
(http://www.kidozen.com/google-acquires-divide-the-new-
generation-mdm-just-got-mainstream-2/)
14. Interpretation
• Google is surrounding Android with enterprise-ready offerings
• MDM is becoming an essential part of mobile OS’s
• Divide will be deeply integrated with Google Apps
15. Google acquires Appurify
(http://www.kidozen.com/google-acquires-appurify-
perspective/)
Industry Headline
16. Interpretation
• Google is surrounding Android with enterprise-ready development
tools and frameworks
• The acquisition proves that crowd sourced mobile testing vendors
are struggling to achieve critical mass
• The acquisition is a step to add mobile testing capabilities as part
of broader mobile platforms
18. Interpretation
• Provides the foundation for a “secure BlackBerry” ― encrypted
voice, SMS, media communications
• Expands BlackBerry EMM value proposition to highly secured
topologies
• Expands BlackBerry messaging services value proposition
19. Industry Headline
Lookout raises $150M
(http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/08/13/big-funds-bet-
150-million-on-mobile-security-startup-lookout/)
20. Interpretation
• The mobile device security value proposition should expand
beyond MDM providers
• Open and simpler platforms are destined to win in the space
• As the enterprise mobile market evolves Lookout’s value
proposition will become more relevant
21. Industry Headline
KidoZen announces general availability of mobile data
virtualization and mobile data management platforms
(http://http://www.kidozen.com/press-release/
kidozen_mobile_data_management/)
22. Interpretation
• First solution of its type in the market
• Mobile data virtualization = one API to access all your business data
from mobile apps
• Mobile data management = securing enterprise data assets used
by mobile apps
• >50 customers in production with the platforms
24. Thesis about the enterprise mobile market
The enterprise mobile market is
headed for consolidation
25. Interpretation
• Market will evolve from fragmented, isolated solutions to more
complete mobile platforms
• Many of the current mobile platform offerings won’t survive as
standalone categories
• Several factors are contributing to the consolidation:
• Enterprises like end-to-end solutions
• MDM is getting increasingly commoditized
• Mobile OS vendors are expanding their value proposition from devices
to enterprise capabilities
26. Summary
• Apple is getting more serious about the enterprise
• Google is surrounding Android with enterprise-ready technologies
• BlackBerry is doubling down on cyber security
• Yahoo! has entered the mobile market with the acquisition of
Flurry
• KidoZen is rapidly expanding beyond enterprise mBaas offering
and becoming a next-generation enterprise mobile platform
• The enterprise mobile market is consolidating
• We are already seeing the initial signs of consolidation