What is Push Notifications?
Push Notifications service enables you to send and manage mobile and web push notifications using an intuitive UI, client SDK's and simple REST API's to configure, monitor and send notifications.
Push Notifications features
Create a Notification service
Create the service instance that will manage and deliver the push notifications to mobile and web clients.
Monitor Notifications
The IBM Push Notifications service extends your ability to monitor push performance by generating graphs from your user data. List all the sent push notifications, or report on all registered devices and analyze information on a regular basis.
Integrate with Cloud Functions
Common use cases require push messages to be sent on events like transactions, delay in flight arrival, salary credit etc. Leverage the Push Notifications action in IBM Cloud functions to achieve this.
Receive webhook event alerts
With the Push Notifications service, choose to receive alerts on information that has changed. Changes to the enterprise information create events, for which you are notified by registering them as webhook events.
How customers use it
iOS Mobile Application with Push and Analytics
It's to quickly create iOS Swift applications with high-value mobile services such as Push Notifications and Mobile Analytics on IBM Cloud. This tutorial walks you through the creation of a mobile starter application, adding mobile services, setting up client SDKs, importing the code to Xcode and then further enhancing the application.
Android Native Mobile Application with Push and Analytics
It's easy to quickly create a native Android application with high-value mobile services like push notifications and mobile analytics on IBM Cloud. This tutorial walks you through the creation of a mobile starter application, adding mobile services, setting up client SDKs, importing the code to Android Studio and then further enhancing the application.
Mobile application with a serverless back end
No application architecture is complete without a clear understanding of the security risks and protection options. This tutorial walks you through key security services available in the IBM Cloud catalog and how to use them together.
Take action based on solicited feedback
Once the customer provides feedback, the feedback is analyzed using Watson Tone Analyzer service and a relevant message is delivered using the Push Notifications Service, offering a discount if the customer is disappointed as assessed by the tone.
Send broadcast message to all users
A news channel app owner want to send a broadcast alert to all users about an upcoming storm. The news channel app owner can quickly send notifications to all the users about the storm alert using a simple GUI interface with few clicks.
Push Notifications benefits
Engage with end users
With Push Notifications you get better engagement with targeted users and timely messages sent to only specific segments of users.
Segment your messages
Business users can send messages to all or a set of users with few clicks using the service GUI with no developer involvement required.
Your ecosystem on IBM Cloud
App developer can leverage the rich ecosystem of services on IBM Cloud to build innovative applications and extend their existing apps to make them more engaging.