Double Dutch HYVE

In 2010 Double Dutch was name Best Mobile Start-up at the Next Web/Paypal X Start up Rally. 
Their newest product Double Dutch HYVE was introduced at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.  HYVE was created to help an organization become more collaborative, data-driven and to help increase a company's productivity.  It was created for companies but modeled off of the consumer side of technology.  Harnessing the ability of Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare and creating something that allows the same type of social functioning for the work place, helping to solve work place issues. 

In order to introduce HYVE at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference Lawrence Coburn, CEO and Co Founder decided to create an app for the iPhone that conference attendees could use during the conference.  The objectives of Double Dutch was to demonstrate HYVE's capabilities, allow conference attendees to log their activities and connections throughout the conference and to portray Double Dutch as the conference guide for social and mobile purposes. 

Conference attendees could check in to places at the conference as well as people and actions.  They had the ability to log where their time was spent, who it was spent with and the ways in which their time was spent.  Attendees then had the option to upload automatically to Twitter. 

An example of using HYVE technology in the workplace would be to look at the activities of a sales representative.  A sales representative who is traveling will meet with a client and then go back to a hotel, log into laptop and record the meeting.  HYVE check in allows the sales rep to do this through a smartphone.  What would have taken 10 minutes to do has now been reduced to seconds. 

HYVE can be linked to most back end databases that a company already uses and works with most major operating systems.  Some of HYVE's client list includes companies such as Cisco, HP, Gannet, Adobe, Amdocs, TCD and Arizona State University. 

After reading a lot of information on the products on display at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference it is the mobility apps such as HYVE that stand out the most to me.  The world is going more and more mobile and companies that are creating apps to make businesses and employees lives easier seems to be the wave of the future.