2. In today‘s IT landscape communication is ubiquitous
and messaging becomes increasingly important.
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• Big corporates focus more and more on
messaging
• Messaging is the 2nd biggest revenue-
generating mobile service globally
• Different customer needs can be
combined in messaging
Messaging, core component of IT All about communication
Develop an infrastructure as a basic technology with
extensive features
• Communication is instant, direct and
across all channels:
• Within a company
• With customers
• With suppliers
• With stakeholders
• With „Machines“
• ....
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• Amongst others: Facebooks acquired WhatsApp for
$21b, Rakuten bought Viber for $900m
• How to leverage network effects and open up
communication channels between all services?
Tech titans invest more into
messaging apps
Mobile communication
becomes more and more
important
Infrastructure as a basic
technology
• Hyper successful applications exist for almost any
vertical and often include mobile communication
• Messaging could be the seamless interface.
• How to integrate messaging into existing
applications and set up a reliable infrastructure?
• No proprietary solutions, but leverage white-label
messaging infrastructure in enterprise environments
• MDK supplies the core infrastructure for context
orientated multi-channel messaging in the
enterprise world!
Corporates are trying to benefit from the messaging
trend in different ways.
4. Introducing MDK: a white label messaging infrastructure
for context rich applications.
Highly scalable infrastructure,
capable of absorbing any
growth needs and designed to
seamlessly integrate with third
party services.
Exclusively designed for large
organizations, covering a vast
feature bandwith while
providing an open platform.
High quality data throughput
and storage infrastructure,
minimizing data loss and
supplying on-the-go hosting
scenarios.
All communication and data is
encrypted and hosted using
industry security standards, to
prevent privacy and data breaches.
Emphasis on geolocation services
to allow unique application
scenarios in the geofencing
context.
System architecture designed for
low power consumption to
support computing heavy
applications.
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5. Our vision – providing the multi-channel messaging
infrastructure in the enterprise market.
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How to enable
communication
across all channels?
How to enhance
productivity through
mobile communication?
How to set up a reliable
infrastructure for integrated
messaging?
White Label Messenger
Highly
scalable
infrastructure
Built for
enterprises
Performance
by design
Secure,
scalable &
High quality
6. Large organizations can use the MDK technology to
leverage their context rich applications.
Needs Possible use-cases
Highly scalable messaging
infrastructure.
Designed for large
organizations.
High data quality
throughput.
Encrypted transactions &
data storage.
Rich text messaging
applications, providing
payment functionality.
Rich corporate mobile &
context aware applications,
yielding detailed user stats.
Low power consumption
Encryption
Safely store datasets in the
cloud
Highly secured user
authentication and validation
Compatibility with all relevant
platforms and operating
systems
Scalability
Features, such as:
VOIP
Payments
Videoconferencing
Third-Party Integration
Follower Chats
Context awareness
And More And many more…
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7. MDKs feature set is to provide opportunities to build
messaging platforms and allow third party integration.
Messaging
Send text, audio, picture and video
messages to single contacts or groups.
User Profiles
Provide complete user profiles,
including customisable themes and
third party social media integration.
Location Services
Share specific location data and geo-
tag messages by activating the
location services functionality.
Content & Data Storage
Securley upload, store & send content
within the MDK infrastructure or
through third party services.
Authentification & Verification
Secured user authentication via
validated phone numbers or social
media profiles.
Notifications
Push notifications for messages and
events to specific contacts or groups.
VOIP
Transmit voice data and set up
mailboxes for missed calls.
Third Party Services
Integrate third party content platforms,
such as YouTube and allow sharing of
internal data to outside web properties.
Events
Create and manage events for private
and public audiences.
Polls & Reminders
Allow the creation, sharing and
exporting of context based polls and
reminders.
Streaming & Conferencing
Stream video and voice live to follower
audiences or within a private and
secure environment.
Location Search & Discovery
Implement any number of location
based search and discovery features.
Payments
Send and receive money through third
party payment wallets, such as Google
Wallet or PayPal.
Content Platforms
Build a content platform and
marketplace, to allow the exchange of
user generated content.
Voice Recognition
Transform audio into text.
Follower Chats
Enhanced administrative capabilities
for VIPs, themes and events.
Analytics
Advanced user administration and
analytic capabilities.
Translation Services
Enhance your communication
capabilities with translation from
services such as Google Translate.
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8. MDK also ships with the ContextKit – a context-
awareness platform, enhancing the our core features.
Location-awareness
Gather insights through continuous geo
location data: “Where? When? and For
how long?”. User-based location history.
Geo-fencing
Provide and monitor entry & exit events
for geographic regions of any shape and
number.
Activity-awareness
Continuous activity monitoring providing
durative events containing, location, start
/ end times and activity-types.
Real-time distribution
Securely distribute contextual
information across multiple users,
devices, and sessions in real-time.
Context-based authentication
Secured user authentication via
contextual fingerprint. “Recognize
users by their behavior?”.
Proximity-awareness
Detect proximity among users and
leverage insights from “Who spends
time together?” or “Who visited the
same place at different times?”
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9. The MDK architecture – Providing a full stack
messaging solution.
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2. MESSAGING BACKEND
Highly available server cluster
3. SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE
Lightweight communication
protocol based on MQTT
1. MESSAGING PROTOCOL
Client integration via APIs
and cross platform SDKs
4. CLIENT INTEGRATION
Highly scalable messaging
application server
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10. The MDK architecture is flexible and designed to
integrate third-party sources and content providers.
MDK Services
Databases
Reminders
Third-Party Services & Content
Providers
Cloud based On-premise
Messaging
Follower
Chats
Polls Events ...
Analytics Administrative Services
MQTT / HTTP API
MQTT/HTTPAPI
MultiChannelMessaging
Organizations
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11. Unmatched enterprise focus and third-party integration,
allowing compatibility - even with perceived competitors.
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Enterprise
Consumer/
Small B2B
Stand alone /
As-a-Service
White Label /
Infrastructure
12. MDK Labs was launched with the help of its partners in
early 2015 and currently operates 3 offices in Russia,
Germany and the United States.
Technology Provider
Based in San Diego, CA, Tourmaline
Labs provides technical know-how and its
patented ContextKit technology.
Partners
Mastertel and 3data are Russia based
high-tech telecommunications and
hosting providers.
Incorporated in 2015 in Berlin and
currently ramping up the development
and sales activities, MDK Labs is set out
to enhance communication and
productivity on a global scale through its
technology.
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13. MDK Labs is run by a team of experts in the technology
and enterprise market.
Kilian Thalhammer
Kilian is the CEO of MDK.
He is an expert in the fields
of Online Payments,
eCommerce and TIME
industry with over 14 years
of industry experience; with
RatePAY, Paymill, Swiss
Post solutions, and Client
Vela.
Dr. Lukas Kuhn
Lukas is the Senior Advisor
of MDK. Previously, Lukas
served as a Senior System
Engineer for Qualcomm.
He earned a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from the
Technical University of
Munich. Since then he has
published 35 peer reviewed
research articles and he
holds 14 US patents.
Robin Cirannek
Robin is MDK’s Senior
System Designer. He
earned a Master degree in
Applied Computer Science
and has more then ten
years of experience as an
professional IT-Consultant
and Software Developer.
Bernhard Limberger
Bernhard has 10 years of
experience in business
management. He studied at
the University of Applied
Sciences Krems in Austria
where he obtained a
Master’s degree. He
speaks four languages and
is executing strategic
operating plans and
objectives for the long term
future of MDK globally.
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14. US Office
101 West Broadway, Suite 110,
9101 San Diego, California, USA
German Office
Borsigstraße 9
10115 Berlin, Germany
MDK Labs GmbH
Kilian Thalhammer
Email: kilian.thalhammer@mdk.io
Phone: +49 160 47 84995
Russian Office
Sheremetyevskaya 6 bld. 1
129594 Moscow, Russia
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