With Denmark and Finland as the latest countries added to our global 2-Way SMS coverage fold, we’re proud to now have the 2-Way service available across Scandinavia!

Our easy-to-integrate SMS APIs, short codes and virtual long numbers, as well as an advanced set of management and reporting tools are available for a quick setup of the instant, reliable communication between businesses and consumers. Paired with 24/7 support, top technical performance and dedicated account management, Infobip’s 2-Way SMS service grows daily and is trusted by startups, brands and marketing agencies around the globe.

Check the list of 40 countries we cover at the moment; contact us for more information and consulting.

PCI DSS certification of m-banking services, database integrated solutions, notification and alerting functions via mobile, convergence of security components towards mobile phones – these are some of the topics discussed by Infobip CEO Silvio Kutic, interviewed for the recent Juniper Research report Mobile & Online Banking: Developed & Developing Market Strategies 2014-2019.

According to Juniper, more than 1.75 billion mobile phone users will have used their device for banking purposes by the end of 2019, up from 800 million people this year.

Infobip’s geo-redundant technology handles well over 1 billion mobile messaging transactions every month. With its global reach and excellent uptime and throughput, it performs an array of notification, alerting and security functions for financial institutions. Easy to deploy in enterprise environments, and hassle-free for end users, Infobip’s solutions are trusted by over 100 banks worldwide.

The report analyses the m-banking ecosystem, exploring how banks and MNOs incorporate branchless and mobile wallet strategies in developed and developing markets, as well as the business models for m-banking service providers.

It contains 27 forecast tables and nearly 1,500 data points; list of referenced companies includes VISA Europe, SAP, Gemalto, Banco Sabadell, CO-OP Financial Services, Doocat, Fiserv, Monitise and others. 

You can download the full report here. (Paid licence model applies).

Even after 6 days of networking, 100 speed meetings, 20 workshops and numerous Q and A sessions in, the Summer Connect company conference is still going strong.Constructive discussions were had

In total, the semi-annual gathering of Infobippers hosted by the halls of the Bradamante Palace in Vodnjan, Istria, played host to more than 140 people, with 260 more joining the weekend festivities and making this year’s Summer Connect the largest-ever Infobip gathering.

Bradamante Palace in Vodnjan

Saturday’s break in business action was welcomed by colleagues flown in from every corner of the world. The weekend party had lasted day and night in two attractive Istrian locations with two sports tournaments (volleyball and football) offering plenty of time for soaking in the sun and having lots of fun. 

The online payments have now been enabled for South Africa, meaning that Infobip clients can top up their SMS accounts with VISA and Mastercard, which were activated over the Paygate payment gateway to offer a smooth and convenient payment experience.

Visa, Mastercard and Maestro payments have also been enabled for clients in the United Kingdom alongside already existing PayPal and offline options. 

We’re happy to announce that have introduced the National Language Identifier for the Turkish market, offering this innovative encoding technology for the Turkish alphabet.

NLI allows SMS containing language specific characters usually treated as 16bit Unicode to be delivered as original text while only deducting 5 characters from the maximal SMS length – 155 characters allowed. Stay true to your language, stay true to your budget by using the most advanced SMS encoding solution!

Good news, another platform has been added to our Push portfolio! Along with Android, iOS, and frameworks like Cordova, Phone Gap and Sencha, we have now added Windows Phone, too.

Like all our solutions, integrating Windows Phone push notifications into your app is easy. All you need to do is to use our Windows Phone library and enable the platform usage on your push panel. If you already own an Infobip account, you’re ready to go!

Now, why not take a moment to introduce yourself to the Windows Phone notification types:

Notification tiles – A tile is an image that represents your app on the Start screen. (Flip tile – when receiving a notification, the app icon flips over, Iconic tile – you can set an image which appears in the centre of a tile when a notification is received) Notification toast – A toast appears on the top of the screen to notify the user of an occurring event, such as news or weather alert Raw – A “silent notification”; the user doesn’t get notified, but all notifications are stored in the app

And that’s it. Sending push on Windows Phone is now at the palm of your hand. With all 3 major platforms under a single push provider, we have your app completely covered, all you need to do is try it out!

What’s the role of open source tools in globally distributed systems that deliver billions of professional SMS messages to 190 countries achieving a throughput of 8000+ SMS per second? Well, our devs had quite a lot to say on this topic at the recent Dors/Cluc 2014 in Zagreb.

One of the oldest and most prominent IT conventions in the region, Dors/Cluc 2014 already saw plenty of evangelists of the open source movement in the past. This time, three of our devs, with a helping hand from our Head of Marketing, exchanged knowledge and experience with colleagues from the field and introduced them to some of the open source tools that Infobip uses. 

Apache Storm and Apache Kafka are both open source software we use for conducting real time analytics. At a high level, Kafka is a distributed, persistent message broker and Storm is a real time computation system, but they can also be used together. Kafka can be used to store the source stream and feed off that stream to conduct complex computations with Storm.

Additionally, we presented some use cases for different types of NoSQL distributed databases that we put to work on our Push project i.e. Cassandra, MongoDB, and Redis. Because we’re a large company, manually partitioning data over a large number of MySQL machines can cause quite a lot of trouble. This can be resolved by using one of these tools to create a layer below the app and one above MySQL that will automatically distribute data. Last but certainly not least, one of our devspresented the benefits that can be gained from the Chef – a framework which allows us to automate our IT structure so it can be properly defined in code.

Visitors and participants of this 3-day conference were able to structure content by their own interests. In fact, the entire program consisted of a half-hour lectures and five minute introductions of open source projects and communities. Furthermore, there were workshops where visitors had a chance to learn more about using and handling specific open source tool as well as open code. 

We are a large company, but it all started as a garage-type project of two IT enthusiasts, the same kind of enthusiasts that are bringing open source tools to our doorstep. But even if open source philosophy wasn’t rooted deep down in our company’s core, we would still be using these tools because of their high availability, system virtualisation, monitoring, alerting, centralised log ins and numerous other benefits. It’s about what fits best for your organisation. For us, it’s a mix of technologies that does the trick!

We’re happy to announce our increased USSD service reach, adding Russia and Malaysia to the list of countries covered by the service. With a dedicated local presence in both countries, this USSD coverage expansion was the next logical step and one of the company’s priorities.

The Infobip platform and high-end service characteristics coupled with extensive experience and close operator partnerships make us a reliable business partner for USSD services in Russia and Malaysia, offering efficiency and top transactional security.

The concept was simple – gather talented developers, give them 24 hours and a noble cause – create apps which can organise people and resources to help fix the damages of the recent Balkan floods.

Belgrade’s Flood Hackaton, held this weekend, offered Volunteering, Give and Help, React Now and Location as primary topics for problem-solving. The solution had to be original, stable and applicable for helping in different types of disasters. Around 50 developers had applied, splitting into 10 teams and coming up with some truly groundbreaking ideas.

The winning team, Super Volunteer from Novi Sad, developed an app which coordinates volunteers and provides precise, real-time information on where help is needed. Zoran Djekic, Borko Vasilev, Neven Kalakovic, and Milos Rujevic chose this topic because they saw that, during recent distastrous floods, some locations had too many volunteers, while others had only a few.

Super Volunteer helps people check where volunteer work is most needed at a particular time. It allows volunteers to apply and specify how much time they will spend on a trageted location. That way, the app serves as an information centre, a complete volunteering management and coordination tool.

A number of tech companies, including us, supported FloodHack in different ways and were committed to promoting the best apps. On our part, we offered teams to integrate A2P SMS notifications, 2-Way SMS and push notifications into their solutions, and our Nemanja Malisic was available via Skype and email for any kind of technical support during integration.

Congratulations to all the app creators and many thanks to the event organisation: Filip Ljubicic, Predrag Radenkovic, Ana Nikolic, Marko Dakic, and Marko Mitic. Here’s our toast to a group of friends and IT enthusiasts that came up with the whole idea and pulled it off in spectacular, charitable fashion!

Dev technologies, tools, bases, libs, best practices, and new methodologies  – everything we use and do to keep our technical platform on top of the game, was discussed at this weekend’s Dev Days 2014, a huge 3-day gathering of developers of all the four Infobip R&D centres.

While our dev teams and talents are diverse, they’re all working towards the same goal – making it easy for other companies and developers to access global messaging and payments capacity, i.e. our proprietary platform that processes over 1bn monthly transactions. And having skilled and innovative developers is vital for the top performance of technologies and services we build for clients around the world.

Conference topics ranged from the internal Deployment Manager tool, SMPP protocol, GIT versioning and concepts, Java7 & Java8 language features, to Infobip Maven conventions. Teams also concentrated on spring and databases. Discussions about the advanced spring concepts such as integration-test / dbunit / spring-test-dbunit, spring security, spring-data-jpa + spring-data-rest, and spring AOP (+ dynamic Java proxies), have attracted great interest, as well as dynamic SQL, best practices and some interesting tricks and magic in the database area.

Senior developers showed how to detect memory leaks with Eclipse Memory Analyzer, debug service in production using “shell”, service monitoring / graphing with JMX Transformer, and other tools and technologies our platform is based on. Younger generation has shown inspiring competence and a strong drive for innovation, while knowledge flow, team agility, best practices, and client-focused coding were examined in-depth.

See more Dev Days photos on our Flickr and Facebook profiles. Interested in a career in development? Contact us.