Proximus, the largest of Belgium's three mobile operators has launched its new portal Proximus EnCo. The portal gives developers in Belgium and abroad easy access to the technologies of Proximus and its partners in order to create the solutions of tomorrow.
Proximus wants to help companies make the shift to digitization, to help startups develop, and to provide the necessary technologies to software vendors so that they can create new products. With EnCo, Proximus has a small, very agile structure for working with startups at their own pace.
The world is moving towards an open digital economy driven by applications, ecosystems and communities. EnCo offers a new way of collaborating with the ecosystem of digital companies by giving developers in Belgium and abroad easy access to the technologies of Proximus and its partners, thereby promoting the rapid creation of new services.
Initially, EnCo will focus on complementary technologies such as the Internet of Things, the Cloud, Big Data and telecom services such as SMS.
Proximus provides access to these technologies via APIs, or programming interfaces. With APIs, you can build an original IT solution by adding different blocks of familiar technologies.
On a "Freemium" model, the user can subscribe free of charge to one or several APIs in order to prototype a solution. During the production phase, the user pays only for what he uses. EnCo users can also choose to sell or make available the solutions they develop to other users.
An examples of API is the SeaaS (Sensor as a Service) API package that allows customers to integrate the Internet of Things into web or mobile applications.
