The two companies have since integrated their technology and launched what Jeff Wolf, GenerationOne's chairman and chief executive, calls a "fully integrated mobile platform for health care" under the GenerationOne brand.
X.commerce will also be an open ecosystem, with outside partners also integrating their technologies for the developer community.
The companies will be challenged to integrate their technologies and sales forces, but with little customer overlap and North America's biggest telcos and ISPs already in its corner, this one looks like a winner.
The companies are already working so closely together to integrate their technologies, and both share a similar end user customer base: the enterprise market.
Consequently it can cost resellers and carriers that start at $250,000 to integrate their technologies with the telecommunications providers and take months to complete, requiring time-consuming integrations.
An example of this is a Kauffman demonstration project that is in its infancy where entrepreneurs are coming together and integrating their technologies (personal health record system, social media platform for patients, passive monitoring technology, mobile apps, custom user interfaces, etc).
They are working to integrate their technology with some of the industry's enterprise software platforms.
Experts say Powermat's low prices, broad availability and easy setup should give it an edge over companies like WiTricity and PureEnergy that are more focused on integrating their technology into furniture.
They are currently integrating their technology with various partners in tied to booking services such as conferences, expense reporting programs, and CRM applications.
Eyefluence is said to be working with big brands to integrate their technology into upcoming products, but they are reluctant to share where or when.
