Facts at a Glance
Motive, Inc. (OTC: MOTV.PK) is a leading provider of broadband and mobile service management software. Motive’s software helps telco, wireless, cable and satellite operators worldwide deliver and manage a new generation of voice, video and data services for consumers, at home and on the go. The company was founded in 1997 and went public in June 2004.
Customers
More than sixty-five of the world’s leading communications providers use Motive software, including AT&T, Bell Canada, BT, Deutsche Telekom, EMOBILE Ltd., HUGHES, SingTel, Softbank BB, Swisscom, Telecom Italia, Telfonica Brazil, and Verizon. As a result, Motive products are used by more than 80 percent of DSL subscribers in North America, and more than 50 percent of DSL subscribers in Western Europe. Motive is the only vendor to supply service management solutions to cable, DSL, mobile and satellite operators worldwide.
Alliances
Motive’s partners represent the communications industry’s leading network infrastructure, application, customer premises equipment (CPE) and handset vendors, including Actiontec, Airvana, Alcatel-Lucent, Broadcom, Conexant, Convergys, Huawei, Motorola, NETGEAR, Nortel, Thomson, Ubiquisys, Westell, ZTE and ZyXEL. Motive is also an active participant in many industry organizations such as DSL Forum and Open Mobile Alliance.
Solutions
Motive’s solutions are used by communications providers to automate and remotely manage common tasks such as activation, configuration, upgrades and customer support across multiple services, networks and devices. Motive’s solutions include High-Speed Data, Home Networking, IPTV Service Assurance and Mobile Data Service Management.
Executive Officers
Alfred Mockett, Chairman & CEO
Richard Hanna, Chief Operating Officer
Mike Fitzpatrick, Chief Financial Officer
Jack Greenberg, General Counsel & Secretary
Aramis Alvarez, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Services
Key Milestones
| May 1997 | Company founded | |
| June 1997 | Series A funding | |
| July 1998 | Motive 1.0, first commercially available product | |
| December 1998 | First major customer, Hewlett-Packard | |
| January 2000 | Ventix Systems, Inc. acquired | |
| June 2000 | European operations established | |
| September 2000 | Software deployed on 12 million endpoints | |
| November 2000 | First of eight technology patents received | |
| October 2001 | Asia-Pacific operations established | |
| November 2001 | Question Technologies, Inc. acquired | |
| January 2003 | BroadJump, Inc. acquired | |
| September 2003 | Software deployed on 30 million endpoints | |
| December 2003 | Registration statement filed for initial public offering | |
| June 2004 | Initial public offering | |
| July 2005 | Software deployed on 45 million endpoints | |
| November 2005 | Motive's India Development Center opened | |
| January 2006 | Only broadband software company to serve DSL, cable and satellite markets | |
| February 2006 | Alfred Mockett named chairman and CEO | |
| December 2006 | Motive marks strategic triple-play interoperability milestone | |
| December 2006 | Software deployed on 60 million endpoints | |
| February 2007 | Motive achieves million-device milestone for home device management | |
| March 2007 | Motive announces expansion into mobile service management | |
| December 2007 | Motive achieves 5 million-device milestone for home device management |
US Locations
Corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas
International Locations
Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Switzerland and United Kingdom
