Coghead Partners with British Telecom (BT)
Coghead to Offer Applications to More than One Million BT Customers and Integrate BT Web Services into its Development Platform
Office 2.0 Conference, San Francisco, Calif. – September 6, 2007 – Coghead today announced it is collaborating with BT on web services integration to enable Coghead developers to create communications-enabled applications with BT’s Web21C messaging and telephony services. Coghead and BT are also collaborating to make web applications created by Coghead's burgeoning number of do-it-yourself application developers and entrepreneurs available to the more than one million BT customers.
Coghead’s do-it-yourself web-based development service provides a simple, powerful way for tech-savvy businesspeople to create, manage, and deploy custom web-based applications. Today more than 20,000 registered developers use the Coghead platform to create their own applications in a matter of hours or days, at a fraction of the cost of large packaged applications or custom development projects. To provide an outlet for entrepreneurs, Coghead is developing an affiliate program to help its members launch new business ventures based on the applications they create with the Coghead service.
BT and Coghead will work together to make BT’s Web21C messaging and telephony services easily consumable by Coghead developers, making it simple to create innovative communications-enabled applications. For example, Coghead developers will be able to easily build an SMS capability into Coghead applications or web pages containing Coglets, web gadgets that open Coghead applications to external users.
“With our Web21C services, BT is opening up a broad range of functionality based on BT’s application, data, and network resources to third party developers,” said Rory McKenna, Director of BT’s Web Services team. “Working with the Coghead community will extend this vision, providing the building blocks for innovative new applications and services for our customers.”
“Our partnership with BT will provide our affiliates the ability to leverage the powerful simplicity of BT’s Web21C services to extend the range of applications that can be built on the Coghead platform,” said Paul McNamara, Coghead CEO. “Through our relationship with BT our affiliates can build innovative applications and offer those applications not only to BT’s customers, but to any business or consumer with access to the Internet.”
About Coghead
Coghead provides a radically new way for tech-savvy businesspeople to create, manage, and deploy their own web-based applications. The Coghead service enables the users closest to a business challenge to create customized solutions in hours or days at a fraction of the cost of large packaged applications or custom development projects. Founded in May 2003 and funded by American Capital, El Dorado Ventures, and SAP, Coghead is staffed by industry veterans, serial entrepreneurs, and some of the brightest minds in software. For more information, visit the company’s web site at http://www.coghead.com and the company’s blog at http://blog.coghead.com/.
About BT
BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services; local, national and international telecommunications services; higher-value broadband and Internet products and services; and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale. In the year ended 31 March 2007, BT Group plc’s revenue was £20,223 million with profit before taxation of £2,484 million. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt.
