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OneMediaHub is the leading white-label personal cloud solution for mobile providers such as operators, device manufacturers and internet portals that want to provide a digital locker for millions of users.

Advantages for Mobile Providers

OneMediaHub offers major advantages both to end users (see its features and benefits) and mobile providers:

White-label — go to market with your own brand not someone else's, to strengthen your relationship with customers and to generate more revenue.
Broadest device compatibility — OneMediaHub runs on more mobile phones, tablets and computers than other personal clouds, enabling mobile providers to support the vast majority, if not all, of their customer devices. This is made possible by OneMediaHub's basis on the SyncML (OMA DS) standard and Funambol open source that has been downloaded millions of times by tens of thousands of developers who actively help make the solution work on more mobile devices.
Ultimate flexibility — in contrast to one-size-fits-all solutions, OneMediaHub is highly flexible to accomodate the needs and market conditions of mobile providers around the globe. This is also enabled by its basis on Funambol open source as well as OneMediaHub's Cloud API (CAPI).
Deployment choice — OneMediaHub can be licensed for on-premises deployment or hosted by Funambol or a partner using a SaaS deployment model — the choice is yours.
Go-to-market your way. The personal cloud market is rapidly evolving. OneMediaHub offers several ways to provide personal cloud services to users to ensure it fits into your business plans.

Monetizing the Personal Cloud

Some mobile providers wonder how they can make money with a personal cloud, as giants in the industry offer it for free and use it as a 'loss leader' to sell other goods and services such as hardware (Apple), ads (Google), software (Microsoft) and commercial content (Amazon).

The dilemma facing mobile providers is that if they don't offer their own personal cloud, they risk losing their customers to companies that do. This is especially problematic as key mobile data that was once the province of mobile providers, such as mobile contacts, start being captured in other clouds, making users less dependent on their mobile provider. It has long been accepted that whomever owns the customer data, owns the customer. This is especially true in the personal cloud era.

The good news is that mobile providers have an unique opportunity to out-cloud the giants. They can offer a more open personal cloud that supports multiple vendor devices and content in a single cloud, which is vastly superior to uni-brand clouds with their user-unfriendly agendas.

So how can you monetize the personal cloud? Storage is becoming a commodity, making it difficult to differentiate based on storage alone. You must use a combination of methods, including storage, that are optimal for your market. Other methods include mobile ads, commercial content, related value-added services, and using the personal cloud to reduce churn to drive revenue of other services.

OneMediaHub is highly flexible to support these and other ways to monetize the personal cloud. To learn about the best ways to monetize your personal cloud for your market, contact the Funambol sales team.

Scalable, Modern Architecture

OneMediaHub includes a scalable personal cloud server for millions of users, apps for mobile phones, tablets and computers and an AJAX web portal. This architecture leverages the latest industry standard infrastructure to ensure it can be quickly deployed and easily managed.