Talk:Vodafone live!

Article moved to "Vodafone live!" for correct capitalization -- Ferkelparade π 11:51, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Seeing as this redirects from Vizzavi, can someone who knows more about it than me put a brief summary of what Vizzavi was and how it transitioned to V-Live?194.217.93.82 (talk) 11:02, 18 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Vizzavi was the content provider for the Vodafone Live! Mobile proposition. They were bought out by Vodafone some time ago (around 2003), and then development was moved to Vodafone Group. Also, one correction to this page - didn't Vodafone move from the Strand a little while back for cost-cutting purposes? I hear that headquarters is in Newbury, and I thought they moved the Strand team back there... needs more research I guess —Preceding unsigned comment added by MagnificentMatthew (talk • contribs) 21:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The original V-Sky platform wasn't really based on the Docomo platform. It tried to deliver a cross-mobile device delivery platform based on the Cocoon web delivery framework. It failed largely because to achieve a true HTML like free-format platform the cost of the customisation work required per device would have been prohibitive. Instead Vodafone went with a simpler stack based on XML and XSLT technologies.

The core components of the Vodafone Live! 'Core Stack' were:

CRE - Content Rendering Engine (an device specific XSLT engine from [Drutt] Engineering, Sweden - based on the [Halebop] platform subsequently sold to Telia),
XMLA - an XML Aggregator which generated device neutral content from both internal CMS services and
3PI - Third Party Integration, a content partner gateway. 3PI was a federated content solution that allowed content partners to express content using 'PML' - Partner Markup Language that was distributed as a Vodafone XML standard. The team that delivered and supported PML went on to be part of the OneAPI initiative of the GSMA.

Vodafone Live! was a walled garden solution which provided a fixed set of mobile content page styles but was guaranteed to render on every supported device. The team which delivered Vodafone Live! originated from the Vizzavi team assembled in 2000. The J-Sky/V-Sky platform originated from the Vodafone Global Services team in Dusseldorf. Tension remained between the Vizzavi team in the Strand, London and the Global Services team in Dusseldorf (which had been subject to the Vodafone buyout of Mannesmann) throughout the history of the Vodafone Live! (and related Vodafone SDP - Service Delivery Platform) that covered the period 2001 - 2006.

Many of the delivery team behind Vodafone Live were made redundant from Vodafone in 2005. Some of the team continued after becoming Vodafone Global Services in 2006 and moved from the prestigious address of 80 Strand to new offices in Paddington. Members of the original team either remained with Vodafone, became independent consultants or went on to new careers at O2 and IBM. holmestm —Preceding comment added 21:22, 20 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What about the Vizzavi (a company under Vivendi Universal) part? I worked on this project, codename Orca, in 2001 and 2002 first in Sloterdijk, Amsterdam and then at the Shellmex building in Strand, London with an international team and am/was familiar with the entire project except what happened after 2002. Last thing I remember was that people that took the project over were trying to optimize / refactor the Java code. Never heard of `Japan's J-Phone under the J-Sky brand. Vodafone acquired J-Phone including J-Sky` mentioned in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deorder (talk • contribs) 07:51, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]