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An Overview of IDEAL Group and its Six Subsidiary Companies… with a special focus on Apps4Android

An Overview of IDEAL Group and its Six Subsidiary Companies… with a special focus on Apps4Android By: Steve Jacobs, President IDEAL Group, Inc. and, CEO, Apps4Android, Inc. Phone: (614) 777-0660 TTY: (800) 750-0750 steve.jacobs@apps4android.org Steve Jacobs' Bio

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An Overview of IDEAL Group and its Six Subsidiary Companies… with a special focus on Apps4Android

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  1. An Overview of IDEAL Group and its Six Subsidiary Companies… with a special focus on Apps4Android By: Steve Jacobs, President IDEAL Group, Inc. and, CEO, Apps4Android, Inc. Phone: (614) 777-0660 TTY: (800) 750-0750 steve.jacobs@apps4android.org Steve Jacobs' Bio Updated on July 29, 2013

  2. About IDEAL Group, Inc. • IDEAL Group is a 2002 spin-off from IDEAL at NCR Corporation, a not-for-profit Business Resource Group, where Jacobs served as President until his retirement at the end of 2002. • IDEAL Group is the parent of six subsidiary companies (covered on the next slides) • Please click here for a detailed history of IDEAL Group, Inc.

  3. IDEAL Group Company Values • IDEAL Group, Inc. and its subsidiary companies are all Not Just For Profit (NJFP) corporations. • NJFP is a concept that embraces an expanded set of values for defining and evaluating a company's performance. One key value is the level of success in driving significant cost-effective benefits for customers while operating in a self-sustainable manner.

  4. IDEAL Group's Mission "to enhance the independence, quality-of-life, quality-of-education and employability of individuals with disabilities through the development of fully-accessible, high-quality, cost-effective, products and services"

  5. IDEAL Group Subsidiaries (1/6) 1. Online Conferencing Systems Group, Inc. Established in January, 2003, Online Conferencing Systems Group offers fully-accessible, 508-compliant, online conferencing and distance-learning services, systems and support. Every month thousands of people from every corner of the world use IDEAL Conference to meet, participate in, and deliver accessible webinars.

  6. IDEAL Group Subsidiaries (2/6) 2. InftyReader Group, Inc. Established in March, 2007, InftyReader Group offers a sophisticated optical character recognition application that is used by thousands of universities around the world to recognize, convert, and enable the editing of math documents into accessible formats in support of students with print disabilities. Converted formats include LaTeX, MathML, Human Readable TeX, and Word XML. You Tube Videos of InftyReader in Action!!

  7. IDEAL Group Subsidiaries (3/6) 3. EasyCC, Inc. Established in June, 2008, EasyCC is a telecom company that provides real-time text-streaming products, services, and infrastructures. EasyCC's cost-effective offerings are accessible on any platform, including mobile devices. EasyCC’s infrastructure provides the ability to generate captions using advanced speech recognition technology... while enabling the correction of misinterpreted and misspelled words in real-time. EasyCC Caption Correction System Explained

  8. IDEAL Group Subsidiaries (4/6) 4. Onymous Heroes, Inc. Acquired in July, 2010, Onymous Heroes develops Android utilities, browsers, application installers, image animation applications and much more. Onymous has over 1.5 million installations in 150 countries.

  9. IDEAL Group Subsidiaries (5/6) 5. Easy Access, Inc. Established in October, 2011, Easy Access is a joint venture company of Apps4Android and Accessible Systems of India. Easy Access provides accessible document conversion utilities, reading applications, and services that address the access needs of individuals with print disabilities.

  10. IDEAL Group Subsidiaries (6/6) 6. Apps4Android, Inc. Established in January, 2009, Apps4Android is the world’s largest developer of Android accessibility applications with more than 10 million installations in 150 countries. Apps4android apps are being used on 3,186 different devices made by 57 manufacturers distributed by 545 wireless service providers in 150 countries and U.S. territories. Here's a listing of 799,000 installations of apps designed exclusively for wireless service providers around the world.

  11. Apps4Android 2012 Revenue Breakdown (1/3) 1. Percentage of total revenue from contracts:   • Wireless service providers 20% • Wireless device manufacturers 40% 2. Percentage of total revenue from grants (25%): • Sampling of federal grants: 20% • Sampling of city, state, local and other grants: 5%

  12. Apps4Android Revenue Breakdown (2/3) 3. Development offsets (10% total)1 • Onymous Heroes, Inc.2% development offset, expandable to 5% if needed • Easy Access, Inc.No offsets at this time. • IDEAL Group, Inc.2% development offset, expandable to 5% if needed 1 These are development resources provided to Apps4Android, at no cost, by IDEAL Group sister companies.

  13. Apps4Android Revenue Breakdown (2/3) 3. Development offsets1 (continued): • Online Conferencing Systems Group, Inc.2% development offset, expandable to 5% if needed • InftyReader Group, Inc.2% development offset, expandable to 5% if needed • EasyCC, Inc.2% development offset, expandable to 5% if needed 4. Private Corporate Investments: 5% 1 Development resources provided to Apps4Android, at no cost, by sister companies

  14. Application Development Economies of Scale Apps4Android average development cost per installation is only 9¢. Note: Scroll to bottom right column.

  15. Apps4Android's 2013 Interns

  16. Sampling of Apps4Android You Tube Videos • Sampler 1: 25 videos • Sampler 2: 14 videos • Sampler 3: 12 videos

  17. We've only just begun! As Tom Brokaw once stated, "It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." Our goal to make a difference in the lives of millions of people with disabilities, one low/no-cost assistive technology application at a time. We invite you to keep an eye on our progress! >> Apps4Android RSS feed << Sincerely, Steve Jacobs, PresidentIDEAL Group, Inc. and,CEO, Apps4Android, Inc.

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