Government Solutions
governmentM is a cloud platform that provides all you need to deliver mobile apps for local government and public services.
Education Solutions
Available worldwide, campusM is already the preferred mobile solution of more than 25% of UK universities.
Our Cloud Platform
Underpinning our solutions is cloudM – offering user features and management tools you won’t find elsewhere.
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With our solutions and deployment teams it couldn’t be easier to get your mobile services up and running.
governmentM™
governmentM provides citizen apps – both native and web – that deliver against Channel Shift strategies.
The time to shift to mobile is now
Smartphones are now mainstream devices, and are making huge inroads into hard-to-reach groups. Our native apps work with the specific capabilities of mobile devices to provide a quick and easy route into local services that increases completion rates and won’t leave citizens phoning for help.
Cutting the cost of avoidable contact
governmentM generates significant savings by turning high-cost transactions into satisfying mobile experiences. Our mapping pinpoints services, like bin collection days, to user location. Push notifications give you all the benefits of SMS text messages but with none of the costs. Citizens can even access council information offline without face-to-face support.
governmentM™ Cloud Platform
governmentM™ is a cloud platform solution that fully complies with the G-Cloud model.
Cost-effective mobile apps for the G-Cloud era
governmentM is a multi-tenant platform. Deployment is quick and easy and maintenance overheads are low – upgrades go direct from the cloud to your citizens’ mobile devices with no intervention needed. And our transparent subscription model has no lock-in clause.
A hybrid cloud platform
governmentM offers a wide range of cloud-based tools to support your citizen apps. Your staff can extend our wide range of features, as well as reuse those developed by other local authorities. governmentM is a hybrid cloud platform, offering all the benefits of cloud computing without the data security risk – sensitive data remains secure in your own systems.
campusM™
campusM delivers everything your university needs to build world-class mobile apps.
A trusted solution
Available worldwide, campusM is already the preferred mobile solution of more than 25% of UK universities, including global league table leaders Imperial College London and University of Edinburgh.
The complete package
Solutions for student recruitment, the student experience and alumni communities are all part of the standard package. In the fast-moving world of higher education, it couldn’t be easier to develop new services and keep all your users’ devices updated with the latest information.
A Unique Hybrid Cloud Platform
cloudM underpins our government and education solutions – customers enjoy all the benefits of our shared mobile platform, while keeping their sensitive data inside the firewall.
Lower total cost of ownership
Deployment takes place within the short timescales that typify cloud-based solutions. With minimal in-house skills and infrastructure requirements, cloudM eliminates the burden of recurring upgrades, and reduces maintenance requirements dramatically.
The very latest mobile innovations
cloudM updates the mobile devices of all your users automatically with the latest features and platform innovations, without any intervention on your part. Customizations and integrations are safeguarded during upgrades. With cloudM, your mobile services are fully available and highly resilient.
cloudM App Manager
The cloudM App Manager is a powerful portal that makes it easy to manage, customize and publish updates to our mobile apps.
Putting you in control
From a simple interface you can update features, maps and geolocations, mobile branding, and manage content, without specialist skills.
Publishing updates to all mobile platforms
The publishing feature updates mobile apps on all platforms directly with changes and customizations as you make them – eliminating time-consuming upgrades to the different app stores.
cloudM Mobile Apps
Our cross-platform strategy delivers the best possible user experiences on every device.
All the inclusivity of multiple-device support
To deliver rich experiences across all devices, we design and develop native campusM apps for the iPhone®, iPod touch®, iPad®, Android, and BlackBerry. We also make available a mobile web browser app, so everyone can access your mobile services.
Advanced integration and synching
With their own secure integration framework, cloudM apps integrate easily with legacy and third party systems. Our apps also detect updates on the cloudM App Manager and perform automatic synchronizations.
cloudM App Extension Kit (AEK)
Our AEK gives you the power and flexibility to extend cloudM apps, meeting local needs with features developed in-house.Support your in-house developers
Based on HTML5, the AEK gives your developers the power to extend cloudM apps with screens, toolbars, new menu items, and integrated services.Write once, deploy instantly
Developers need not develop separate solutions for each mobile platform. Once a new feature is built, it is automatically deployed across our platforms instantly – eliminating time-consuming upgrades to the different App Stores.- Student Finance
- Live Bus Timetables
- Help Desk Integration
- PC and Room Booking
- VLE/LMS Module
- Student Surveys
- House Finder
- Mashups of Announcements from Blackboard and Sharepoint
- Moodle Extensions
- Live Washing Machine and Dryer Availability
Student Finance
Students can view their university finance statement - invoices, credits and payments.
cloudM Insight Analytics
cloudM Insight gives you full usage reporting designed specifically for today’s mobile environment.
Business intelligence for your mobile services
cloudM Insight goes beyond website-based analytics to capture mobile-specific data such as button-press metrics, and the devices, operating systems and platforms in use across the user base. cloudM Insight records the offline usage that is common with mobile apps, and reports on features and pages added locally to your mobile app.
cloudM Alerts
cloudM Alerts is a cost-free and comprehensive communications channel delivered in real time.
A joined-up alerts system
The cloudM Alerts Server can send community-wide push notifications to iOS, Android, and BlackBerry mobile devices anywhere in the world. Where a user has registered more than one device, the Alerts Server simply messages both devices. Your alerts can include rich text with links to maps and other resources.
Flexible Personalized Alerts
The cloudM Alerts Server integrates with back-end systems to send out timely personalized communications. Keep your users on track with deadline reminders and library notifications. Our alerts also work with text messaging systems to keep your SMS costs down.
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Imperial College London
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University of Edinburgh
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University of Wolverhampton
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University of Roehampton
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Lancaster University
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Harper Adams University College
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Manchester Metropolitan University
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Coventry University
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Liverpool John Moores University
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University of Derby
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London South Bank University
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Plymouth University
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Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Keele University
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CQ University
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University of Exeter
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UCISA
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Copenhagen Business School
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University of Bradford
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University of New England
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UCL
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LSE
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Apple
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Trinity College Dublin
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Royal Holloway – University of London
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University of Southampton
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Staffordshire University
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University of Winchester
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London Metropolitan University
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University of Sheffield
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University of Birmingham
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University of Sussex
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University of Westminster
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Bournemouth University
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Kings College Road
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University Centre Milton Keynes
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University for the Creative Arts
Implementation
We offer a range of professional services to suit your skills and the scope of your implementation.
Transferring all the skills and knowledge you need
We give your staff the training and ongoing support they need to manage your mobile app independently.
A track record you can rely on
With well-proven processes in place, we will get you up and running smoothly and quickly. Our technical consultants have a strong track record for rapid deployments. Their deep knowledge of education and government systems means ease of integration with legacy and third party systems.
Integration
Integrating our mobile apps with your systems delivers rich and convenient services to your users, wherever they are.
Fully-integrated mobile services
cloudM complies with leading standards, simplifying integration with legacy and third party systems. Our wide range of pre-built connectors to the most popular management and front-end systems minimizes deployment time.
Experience you can trust
We have successfully integrated cloudM apps with an impressive range of back-end systems.
Design & Branding
Smartphones and tablets are changing the way the world interacts with organizations, so your mobile presence needs to be in the vanguard of brand design and management.
Mobilizing your institution’s prestige
We deliver exciting unique designs specifically for mobile. Customized and styled by our mobile design specialists, our apps help to generate and sustain brand recognition, trust and loyalty from the earliest interactions.
360 Degree Support
We are always available to help you meet your mobile goals.
Thrive after go-live
Our customers can count on us to help with anything from basic queries and managing app store processes, to bespoke customizations. Our standard 360 Degree Support package includes regular Health Checks of all customer deployments, and recommendations to keep them ahead of the pack with leading mobile experiences.
Welcome to the oMbiel community
Join the oMbiel online community, and access its growing knowledge base. Let your developers share customizations and marketers discuss best practice. We listen closely to our customers, feeding their ideas into the product roadmap.
iLancaster mobile app shortlisted for Times Higher Education award
Lancaster University has been shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Times Higher Education awards, in the category ICT Initiative of the Year. The team at Lancaster has played a pioneering role in using the campusM mobile platform to extend its iLancaster app, meeting local needs and student expectations. By sharing good practice, which they are always happy to do (Lancaster’s Brian Green is Chair of the campusM User Group, for example), they drive up standards of mobile provision right across the sector. Among the raft of features on iLancaster that make university life easier, is a service that Brian and his team have developed to locate available washing machines in the various launderettes on campus.
So fingers crossed for Thursday June 20th, when the winners will be announced.
US-based Empire Education Group chooses campusM
Empire Education Group has selected campusM to provide its students with personalized information from its student records system on any device. Empire, which runs more than 100 beauty schools in the US, first heard about campusM through an Educause event. We’re now planning implementation project – due to start next month – which will provide mobile apps to Empire students across 21 states.
LinkedIn goes native
In what’s been described as “a stunning reversal”, LinkedIn has become the latest social networking provider – following a similar move by Facebook last year – to break from HTML5 and return to native mobile apps. In this interview, Kiran Prasad, Senior Director for Mobile Engineering, reveals that LinkedIn has suffered from memory problems as users spend more and more time in the app, and HTML5 has also limited the development of an attractive look and feel (animation, for example, is smoother and more sophisticated with a native approach). One striking quotation from Prasad: “we recognize now that HTML5 is not allowing us to do the best for our users” sums up LinkedIn’s current position and really chimes with our own thinking here at campusM.
campusM is now recruiting for a Moodle and E-Learning Systems Developer
Having developed a core set of features to integrate our campusM mobile platform with Moodle and other VLEs, we’re looking for someone who can help us to deliver its full potential.
Are you the Moodle and E-Learning System Developer we’re looking for?
You’ll need seasoned business skills to identify future developments for the mobile learning component of the campusM platform roadmap. Technically you’ll need to be able to develop Web Services, run our VLE test environments, and generally pitch in with our hard-working and dynamic mobile technology team here in Wolverhampton, where the position is based.
This is a full-time position reporting directly to the CEO of oMbiel. Interested? Check out our website (on the Careers page, under the About Us tab) for further details, then send your CV to enquiries@ombiel.com.
Counting down the days to Thursday’s campusM User Group meeting
Thursday’s campusM User Group meeting will be Andrew Taylor’s first as Client Satisfaction Manager. He was telling me this morning that almost 50 representatives from UK and European Universities have signed up to attend the all-day event which University College London (UCL) has kindly agreed to host.
In response to feedback, we’ve filled the agenda with customers telling their own stories of campusM developments. We always look forward to CEO Hugh Griffiths’ update on the campusM roadmap, and I know that he’s planning to demonstrate a very exciting new development at the meeting. Finally, in case you’re not aware, we’ve lifted the technical developer sessions out to a separate event which we’ll be running some time in July.
See you at UCL on Thursday?
campusM delivers Offline Prospectus Order For the University of Derby
Jon and Mike went to the University of Derby a couple of months ago to deliver some AEK training. A key requirement identified by University staff was a solution to capture prospectus requests from visitors attending UCAS recruitment events, where internet connectivity may not be present.
In collaboration with the University of Derby we built a mobile service to help staff at the event to record expressions of interest onto an Offline Prospectus Order Form using their iPads. After an event, the team upload the data from each device, and by calling the University’s Web Service, campusM is able to feed the records into University systems. Marketing staff at the University of Derby have now attended a number of events, and are delighted with the service.
Anglia Ruskin University invests in campusM Enterprise
Anglia Ruskin University has signed up for campusM Enterprise to deliver what every higher education institution needs – well-designed mobile apps providing personalized information and services to everyone from prospective students to academic staff. At last week’s Technical Discovery Workshop (a one-day familiarization session that is part of the standard campusM package), the enthusiasm right across the team at the University was palpable. They’re setting to work on customized services for staff and students, and have plans to use the mobile app to support open days and conferences. They really like the alerting facility, and may use it for overdue library book notifications and for timetable cancellations.
We’re all looking forward to seeing what innovative new services they come up with using the powerful combination of Enterprise and the AEK (App Extension Kit).
Try out our location-based services at UCISA’s annual conference in Liverpool
This year, campusM is once again partnering with UCISA to provide a mobile app for their prestigious annual conference.
For this event, UCISA is working with us on a bit of an experiment. We’ll be placing QR codes and NFC touchpoints at key locations across the venue, mainly outside presentation rooms. Delegates can use these touchpoints to find out, on their phones or tablets, what’s happening next in that room, or maybe get more details about the current session.
We’ve been developing ideas around location-based services for universities for some time now, and this will help us test them out. So if you’re at UCISA next week, we would love to know how you get on with these touchpoints. Come and visit our exhibition stand and give us your feedback.
oMbiel presents its ‘third way’ of mobile development to local authorities
At a Socitm West Midlands event last week, David Seeds and Hugh Griffiths introduced the audience to oMbiel and the governmentM mobile platform. Around the Government’s Digital Strategy, which leans towards HTML5, for cost-saving reasons, a polarized debate is emerging. Local authorities push for HTML5, which offers a ‘one size fits all’ app, while commercial suppliers advocate a set of native apps, to make best use of the capabilities of specific mobile devices.
With governmentM, though, local authorities can produce a full range of mobile apps as easily and inexpensively as developing a single HTML5-based app. So Hugh and David were able to dispel a few myths in offering a viable ‘third way’ to this local government audience, many of whom are now engaged in conversation with us.
Integrating campusM mobile apps with content management systems
We’ve been working with TerminalFour to build and test an integration solution. Their Site Manager CMS can now push content directly into App Manager and then out to a campusM app. We are using it internally as we continue to develop the myCU app. CMS integration is something that many universities ask about when they meet our sales people; however, to be candid, very few have chosen to implement this feature so far. We are hopeful that the myCU demo will encourage more customers to take this step.
oMbiel’s mobile platform, campusM, goes from strength to strength. Already the market leader in UK Higher Education, the platform brings campus services to life on university mobile apps. oMbiel is now playing a pioneering role in mobile learning by developing a suite of features that integrate with Moodle and other VLEs, offering sophisticated but intuitive learning solutions on mobile devices.
To fully deliver on this ground-breaking work, we have identified the following vacancy:
Moodle and E-Learning Systems Developer (full time)
Location: Wolverhampton, UK.
Start date: As soon as possible.
Reporting directly to the CEO, you will take end-to-end responsibility for our VLE mobile solution. You will identify key trends in mobile learning and select VLE features to build into the campusM mobile platform and its product range.
You will develop Moodle Web Services for campusM solutions, and either develop or identify third-party Web Services to integrate with other VLEs (including Canvas, Sakai and D2L). You will also administer and manage our VLE test environments.
We are looking for candidates who can demonstrate the blend of technical, business, creative, communication and interpersonal skills needed to meet the challenges of this position.
If you think you’ve got the right skills and qualities to join our hard-working team in the dynamic area of mobile technology, send your CV to enquiries@ombiel.com. Strictly no agencies.
oMbiel is a trusted supplier of mobile solutions
Meteoric rise of a mobile pioneer
In only three years, oMbiel has risen to become the leading mobile app supplier in UK education. Its mobile platform is in use at some of the country’s most prestigious universities, as well as institutions in Denmark and Australia. oMbiel supplies into the government sector, delivering apps for public services. The company also provides conference apps for Apple’s education teams located around the world.
A flawless track record
oMbiel’s founder Hugh Griffiths has a flawless track record as both technical consultant and start-up entrepreneur, and is relentless in his innovation of the platform. His team of mobile specialists provide customers with all the features, tools and support they need to deliver compelling mobile apps.
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